The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-09

| Llnnen, another agent badly hurt. Much
| mail matter was destroyed.
| The personal friends of the late ex Presi.
! dent Arthur have already contributed
| about $50, 900 towards the erection OF II
500, 900 monument to his memory, ana
they are determined that no appeal shall
be made to the public in this behalf.
| A Washington Special 20 the Helena In
| dependent says Hon. Sam Wood, attorney
| OF the Union Pacific in Montana, has been
engaged by the department OF justice to AS
| ist District Attorney Smith OF Montana III
| the timber trespasslng cases in that terri
| tory. These cases involve more than II
| million dollars, and inv olive the Montana
| Improvement company and other concerns
| that have been cutting timber of the puo-
| lie domain.
There is much opposition on the part
| OF Mississippi river men to the blll tor
| low bridge across the Mississippi at st.
Louis. Iowa and Wisconsin lumbermenare
especially opposed to it, and j. III. Stout
| OF Dubuque has arrived here 10 interest
| Western congressman in opposition.
| The second trial of John w. Lauer, for
| the murder OF his wife, whom he shot by
mistake for a burglar, as he maintains, be-
! gan at Omaha but was postponed TIL the
next term of court in March, atfdavits
| being filed dy the prosecution that an I'M
|
| cago at the bedside OF her sick father.
Official returns from the two disputed
counties in Washington Territory are re-
ceived, and make the legislature Republi-
can on Joint ballot by two majority. The
| official vote on delegate gives Charles ).
Voorhees, DEM plurality OF 2,192.
Belva Lockwood has law practice
worth from SIS, 600 TO $40, 200 year. In
| 1878 she was teaching school at $40 Il
month.
! The treasury statement shows the No
vember decrease in the public debt to be
1 S3,0O5 249.
United Ireland, of Dublin publishes q
legal opinion given by Hugh Holmes, at
torney general for Ireland, to the govern
ment as to the right TO suppress the new
/ movement OF the Irish National league
| which aims to beat the landlords by hav-
ing tenants deposit with Il trustee FOR ten
| der such sums below the demanded rents
as the tenants believe fair and are able to
! pay. Holmes says men have legal rights
| TO act as trustees for tenants as proposed
bv the league and the government has no
! right to arrest them for acting. Holmes
/ also advises the landlords TO seek some
method of getting their money from ten
| ants which will not involve government
| assistance.
At Mason, Neb. Mackendorf's store was
! burned The second floor was used for
sleeping rooms. Mr.. Mackendorf broke
his leg in jumping to the ground. His son
and J. j. Hoagland and Malcolm Miller
were burned to death.
Mr.. Parry, civil engineer in the Ameri-
| can navy who during the past summer was
exploring the inland ice of Greenland, PEN
etrated 1870 English miles into the Interior
! 7 ,,Al hI, Nnr Il Il
Dane. They were out three weeks, sledg-
ing in ice fields all the time.
DR.. w r. Summers OF New York, mis-
sionery in Africa, has been naturalIzed as
a Portuguese that he may continue his mis-
sion work and explorations under Portu-
guese protection.
L. B. Frank & Co., the oldest mining
stock firm in Nevada, failed. Liabilities,
1915, GOO. The creditors include many OF
the most prominent shareholders in the
Comstock mines. The following are the
| heaviest losses: L. Jones, superintendent
OF Crown Point and Belcher, s2o5. 600;
Gen. Heating, superintendent OF Savage
and Norcross mine, $50, 900; E. D. Berle,
ofthe Alta mine, $40, 600.
Alice Hughes, aged twelve years, living in
Franklin township, Gloucester county, New
Jersey, became mother recently OF a fe-
male infant weighing eight pounds the
father OF which is the girls own father, a
laboring man. Investigation reveals that
the father committed the same crime upon
an older daughter three years ago.
Charles Carter, a notorious land swlnder,
was arrested at Birmingham, Ala. He
swindled parties out of $50, 900 worth of
, land. He is wanted in several Southern
cities for similar crimes.
There was tremendous financial furry
in San Francisco. a short time ago. not
equalled since 1878. Consolidated bust
ness reached nearly fifty, and lots OF oper-
atOrs failed.
The president has appointed the follow
ing postmasters: Alexander Charles at &c
dar Rapids, vice William Smith, suspend
ed James P Carlton at Iowa Falls, vice
T. B. Knapp, sus pended; G. c. Scrimgon at
Belle Plaine, Iowa, vice r. w. Hunter, re-
signed; g. w. Carlton at Deer Lodge,
Mont, vice Z. S. Stackpole, suspended. q
, ". Carlton, appointed postmaster at Deer
Lodge, Mont, is a resident OF that city,
about forty years old, and prominent
local politician.
William Hicks, wife and two sons of Bos
ton, Ellsworth Brown of Miamisburg, Ohio
Daniel Williams OF Irondale, Canada; d. D.
Reed, Manson, Iowa; Henry Wright OF Sill
yer City, n. NJ; the seven Methodist mis-
sionaries bound for the Congo sailed on
the Adriatic from New York.
The Lewis Walter property forty eight
acres. on what lie known as the Finger
: board road at Southtied. Staten island
has been sold to A. b. Stickney, OF the Min
nesota & Northwestern. The property is
to be used in connection with the stoci
yards scheme OF the Northwestern cattle
syndicate. The price paid for the property
, was S45,OO0
Mary Shakespeare Caldwell, who gave
$500, 900 as the nucleus OF the proposed
Roman Catholic university, is residing il
Washington this winter.
Chicago recently had the most fashion
able wedding of the season-that Of +. NJ
| Fox, Philadelphia stock broker, ant
8 Miss Mary, daughter OF w. M. Hoyt o
, Chicago.
DR.. Carl T. Leibold, one Of the bes
; known homeopathic specialists in New Ycrl
' city, died recently OF apopexy.
; David Harris, of Indianapolis aged forty
two, living with his fifth wife, with whom
, he quarreled frequently, began divorce
proceedings but afterward the action wal
withdrawn. At the supper table, Harris
suddenly rose from his chair and takin
q his wife by her hair, which was hangin
! loose, pulled her head back, placed a re
volver to her forhead and fired, the bal
passing through her head. He then turned
= the weapon to his own head and fired, tn
u ball infiicting a fatal wound.
Ex.Mayor George 1nnss OF Poughkeepsie
> N. Y, was arrested on complaint OF Will
lam s. Williams, broker, charged wit
stealing five railroad bonds worth 81 ,OO
:, each. Innes was released on bail.
= f. A. Hill & Co., who for some time hav
d cut quite figure on the board OF trade
Chicago, have failed.
l. Senator Stanford of California has NOR
money invested in Eorsef1esh than an
q other man in the world. His last year
a sales amounted to over 100000. Hi
. carriage horses are worth $4,000 each.
: DR.. SCHNEIDER, the Jewish rabbi who ha
d to leave Germany for denouncing Biz
marck, will take charge OF u leading Phils
y delphia synagogue.
t Mail and Express London Cable: TIL
l. British government has decided to pre-