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Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1886-02-03
Miunefota.

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fisrt af ct Sernbanetren Minneapo
lis fibite Jrebag. Baabe 1renper
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bun bprte lite, tbi bun bapbe ct for
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pis inbuenbis @tabe, tbi FUN bar ale:
reoe bbb, oa man tos benbe Op, met
2emmerne bar lite brutne, iom ellerz
pleier bore 9ittalbet peb FABIAN Sci.
lisbeb. 9un par Gnte % bapbe Fere
uoffne Bsrn. !Seu6es Mapn bat
Carrie Bolion(?).
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fbite 5rebas, % beniuob $4,000
af garer % anoen Gienbon,
pbela9bes.
- 8. g. Drmsbp fra 8eluautee
bar foreret 2aurence l1niperfitp /
Gppleton, Bis., $23. 900.
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norite sti % 3opbuer oil ipiue en-
itor @olle 6oueotaben fra MI al %
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lfreg os foribste at reobe Barnet, men
bet lDttetes life, us ben fremmebe
ltuloe babe 1lnolluppet meo Sarnet,
ON lite 9unoeu baube 1prunset efter
os blot fig fait benbes &aabe. Ser
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flap Barnet os iprans fin 8ei. Man
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Nober.
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Zig 9ebe. N(le @lutniussapparater,
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os Branben pareoe fra SCI. s til Mib
nat. Eabet ct ooer ! M1illion Doll
lars. Ser ital baue peret 10 9uien
9ilifuere tiltebe peb bet itorortebe
Stueipil.
Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1886-02-03
&iplet6ier.

@i bat en- flor 9el 6tumper al
&ioletsier af forifiellist Msniter,
iom pil blipe uoiolst me9et billist.
Sen, iom tanfer at figbe, bpr fomme
inart, ba Salset lite pil bare lense
til be 8riier, hi MI bar lat paa @az
rerne.
gi er Nsenter for 8ntterids sat
terms, be bebite &erben.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27

miles from this city, is IN state OF great
excitement over u murder. Daniel Ellis,
well-to-do farmer, about forty years
OF age, and with his family and Invalid
wife lives near Loyal. Ellis has always
borne a good reputation and owns cons'd
cradle property. Two years ago Henry
Wright, well known resident OF Marsh
field, moved to Loyal and rented a farm OF
Ellis, living in one OF Ellis houses. Wright 8
wife is IL prepossessing woman OF about
thirty years OF age, and comes OF good
family. her parents living near west
Bend, Washington county. For several
months there have been suspicious among
the neighbors that Ellis and Mrs
Wright were criminally intimate, and their
liason had become noted. A few days
ago Wright returned and ate u hearty
supper prepared by the wife, and was sud-
denly taken with violent pains and cramps:
His agony was fearful and lasted until
morning, when he died during violent
spasm, his only attendants being Mrs.
Wright and Ellis. Ellis protests his inno-
cence, but Mrs. Wright has confessed. The
woman's statement is:
She and Ellis had been intimate for over
a year and AZ half. She was to kill her nus
band with poison, and after he was dead
and buried, Ellis was to murder his wife II,
the same way, and then. after IL sufficient
time the partners in the crime were to be
married She gave her husband dose,
but it was too large and he threw it up.
Then Ellis fixai dose for him that killed
him. He had been suffering two weeks
from the effects OF the first dose.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
The London of To-day,

We speak of the rapid changes in
our American cities, but nothing like
the changes of London can exist with
us. Growth is not a change of this
kind. Paris alone, in certain respects.
can show such metamorphoses as
London. But on the whole, Paris, as
! saw it at this first visit to the Old
World, was more like the Paris one
sees now than was London of 1920
like the London OF to-day, The mere
question OF growth is a minor matter
London was not the metropolis ofthe
world in 1850, and now it is. Then
it was only a huger provincial town.
The Londoner in general measured
nothing but himself, and nobody
came to London for anything but
hardware, good walking boots, sad
dies, etc; now it is the entreaot of the
civilized world. The worlds fair of
1851 and succeeding similar displays
of what cosmopolite Industry can do,
the common arrival of ocean steam.
ers, rare at the time / am writing of.
have changed the entire character of
London life and business and the tone
OF its society. 1t is not merely in the
fact that $4,000 houses were built in
the capital In the last year, or that
you find colonies of French, Italians.
Russians, Greeks in it, but that the
houses are no longer what they w
inside or out, and thus the forei
an assimilated ingredient in it,.
osophy.. All this has come since $50.
Atlantic Monthly.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
an old lady, who mad in her girIhood

an old lady, who mad in her girlhood
well-known the town in which spend
the summer. She told me that many
years bfore, my house had had the
reputation of being haunted, but that
the rumor had been hushed up by the
landlord, and forgotten. And she
told me this story;
The house was occupied by young
husband and wife. They loved each
other devotedly, but the husband was
unreasonably Jealous OF his brother.
One evening he accused his wife of de-
ceiving him as to her love; she was too
wounded to answer his bitter words,
and he vert out. Two hours later he
had drowned himself and his dead
body was brought into the house, into
the very room where his young wife
was playing while waiting for his re-
turn. She lost her senses from that
day, and during the rest of her merci-
fully short life her music was her only
apparent consolation.
And" added the landlady, 'she is
said to play there still; those who love
music can sometimes hear her"
For myself the thought OF the poor
girls bitterly sad story will only give
an added interest to the face | never
shall forget, and her music both my
wife and have listened to and loved
for long-for my wife heard it first
when she was Ethel Mayne.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
The Irresistible COachman.

Society in Tarrytown, N. j., was thrown
into tlutter OF excitement by the public
announ cement that Miss Grace Morse,
eldest daughter OF Rev. j. P. Morse, and Il
niece OF the late Commodore Vanderbilt,
had eloped with the family coachman,
George Winter Mr.. Morse is a
missionary preacher attached to the
Blackwel's Island penitentiary. The
family has one OF the most spa
cious and elegant residences in larry
town. Miss Morse. now Mrs. Winter. is
twenty two years. highly educated and at
tractive, and has been much courted. Win
ter is twenty-thrse years OF age. During
the absence of the family they drove to
North Tarrytown, and were married. re-
turning to the house intending to keep the
matter secret. 1t became noised about,
they fled. and are now supposed to be in
hiding in the town. The family are very
much angered and Inundated over the
matter.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
Why Sherman Left Washington,

Gen. Shermans departure to St.
Louis while general OF the army was
due, as he explains in his memoirs, to
his dispute with Secretary Belknap as
to their respective functions. He dis
closes that after the death ofGen Raw
Inns, President Grant applied to hiLl
to suggest some names OF Western Vol
unteer Generals from whom q good
successor as secretary OF war could be
taken. He named in writing Gems.
Belknap, Dodge, Fairchild and
Sprague, and Belknap was chosen. At
that date Gen. Belknap had las fair
fame as any officer of my personal
acquaintance but he took the same
position that Rawlins had held as to
the rights of the war department over
the staff corps, departments, md
bureaus, and on one occasion ,7,eat
ed Colonel Audenreid, who mad car
ried him a message from General Sher-
man, with what the aide considered
extraordinary ''rudeness and discour-
tesy, causing him to request never to
be sent to Gen. Belknap again. Gen.
Sherman was glad, under such circum-
stances, to make trip to Europe;
and on his return, still finding the sec
rotary with power undiminished, he
removed to st. Louis, whence he re-
turned to Washington after Belknap's
resignation. AS to his retirement Tor
age, under the compulsory statute. in
1884, Gen. Sherman implies that this
did not at all trouble him. chad al
ways intended" he says, ito divide
time with my natural successor, Gen.
P. H. Sheridan, and early notified him
that should, about the year 1884,
retire from the command of the army.
leaving him about an equal period OF
time for the highest office in the army"
Hence, when congress gave him full
pay, by exceptional legislation, as a
retired officer he was more than salts
fed.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
Mrs. Geo. H. PendIeton Killed

New York Special:-A shocking accident
resulting in the death OF Mrs. Alice Pendle-
ton. wife Of George H. Pendleton, United
States minister to Germany, occurred in
Central Park New York. Mrs. Pendleton
returned 70 this city about two months
ago after the death OF her sons wife. She
order ed a carriage to take her for drive
through the park. Hugh Reilly, coach
man of long experience. acted as driver
The horse showed some disposition to be
unruly all along the drive OF the park,
and when passing under the elevated
railroad became unmanageable ana
ran away. The ladies-Mrs. Pendleton
and her daughter, Miss Jane-iumped
out OF either side of the carriage.
Miss Pendleton landed on IL grass plot
and tumbled over on the ground. Mrs.
Pendleton was less Fortunate forsh struck
on the hard pavement and fell heavily
against the pebbled gutter. receiving a com
pound fracture OF the skull and conclusion
of the brain. When help reached the old
lady she was dead. Miss Pendletou was
picked up unconscious and taken to the
Presbyterian hospital.
Mrs. Peudleton was siXty-one years old.
She was daughter OF Francis Scott Key,
the author OF The Star Spangled Banner, -
a sister of Philip Barton Key, who was
killed by Gen. Sickles, and niece OF Roger
B. fancy once chief Justice OF the United
States She was married to Mr.. Pendle.
ton in 1880, and was the mother OF three
child rem
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27

My feet are wearied, and my hands are tied,
My soul oppressed
And desire, what have long desired
Rest-only rest.
IT'S hard to toll, when toll is almost vain
In barren ways;
IT'S hard to SOW, and never garner grain,
In harvest days.
The burden OF my days is hard to bear,
But God knows best;
And l have prayed, but vain has been my
prayer,
For rest-sweet rest.
'Tis hard to plant in spring and never reap
The autumn yield;
IT'S hard to till, and when tbs titled to weep
Der fruitless field.
And SO l cry weak and human cry,
So heart oppressed;
And SO | sigh u weak and human sigh,
For rest-for rest.
My way has wound across the desert years,
And cares infest
My path, and through the flowing OF hot
tears
pine for rest.
And | am restless still; twill soon be DER;
For, down the west
Lies sun is setting, and | see the shore
Where | shall rest.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
Condensed General News.
Maxwell Confesses that He Killed Prells

The following statement was made oy II.
NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell, now on trial al
st. Louis for the murder OF e. arthur
Preller which will constitute his only tie
Tense:
Mr. Preller was suffering from private
disease for which | had previously pre-
scribed, mixing the medicines myself from
the bottles i'll the medicine chest carried
with me; but his ailment had reached a
stage when it was necessary for me to make
certain Investigations. | was Obliged TO use
a catheter and in using catheter when the
parts are intiamed | had previously
applied chloroiorm in order to produce a
condition OF narcatism. | explained the
process to Preller and told HIM what l
should have to do. He was very anxious
for HE to treat him in this manner. About
.. N. we began the operation. | admin
istered the chloroform in the usual way,
holding IL saturated cloth to the nose. Mr.
Preller passed through the first stage all
right. 1t took several seconds. Then he
entered the second stage, and here the ter
ribe result came. | discovered too late
that he was dying. | was wild with fright,
but had presence OF mind enough to cut
the shirt and undershirt from the body,
and getting a wet towel, l beat him around
the neck and shoulders for Al hall hour
or more. did not give up until l was
ready to drop from exhaustion, and my
efforts were not rela xed until he had been
dead some time All the clothes he had on
at the time were his shirt and undershirt.
He had stripped for the operation. When
saw my friend was dead | did not know
what to do except to drink. | drank Tree
ly. l drank everything | could get-wine,
whisky. everything. All l remember is
that drew on Il pair Of drawers. the first
that fell into my hands. and put the body
into my trunk, from which had removed
everything. put it in the trunk an hour
after Preller's death. What was done be-
sides this have no recollection of. Liquor
and CONSERVATION had possession OF
me. and l only know that my feel
ings were those OF the utmost hor-
ror | remained III my room that
night. the same room in which the remains
were. did not sleep, and l was glad when
morning came. He says he supposed the
post mortem, when the body was found,
would disclose the nature OF the operation
and the cause OF death. According to his
own story, the cutting off OF Preller 8 mus
tache, the inscription about traitor
found in the trunk and all the other queer
incidents connected with the tragedy, are
to be attributed to his liquor and fear
crazed condition after the fatality. He de-
clares he has always wanted to tell the
facts. and only refrained by the advice OF
his ATTORNEYS.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
A Doctors Fright.

DR.. Charles Harvey, Macon, Ca, told
a reporter of the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat: "When | was a young man
had an experience that implanted a
degree OF care IN me that has proba-
bly, been worth thousands OF dollars
In after life. | was clerk IN drug store
at Grand Rapids, Mich, and my du-
ties kept me there from in the even
ing until about in the morning One
night just at dark, woman with
shawl over her head came in, and Civ
ing me a prescription,t told me to put it
up quick. I hurried it through and
she paid me and went out. About half
an hour later a well-known physician
OF the place came rushing in, and
said: did you put up prescrip-
ton for woman bit ago." "Yes,
SIR | said. Did you do it in
hurry" Yes" I answered again,
with pang of fear. "Give me some
tartar emetic, quick" he exclaimed;
''the man it is for is dying" l got
the drug mechanically, and he tore
out, leaving me in an agony OF doubt
and fear perfectly indescribable 4
man poisoned through mistake, a
coroner's inquest, jail, trial, pen
ltentiary, a ruined reputation, my
wife and children beggars, all passed
in galloping defile before my whirl-
ing brain. l thought OF suicide or
fight; paced up and down the store
and gnawed at my nails A couple OF
hours elasped and the doctor came in
again. "How is that man." l gasped.
"Oh, he's dead" he replied inditfer-
entity. My Cod l felt my heart
stand still, He walked back TO-
ward the stove while | stood dazed by
the door, Presently he stroled uD
and said: "You put up that prescrip-
ton, | believe?' Yes" the cold
sweat breaking out all over me. "Dld
the woman give you SO bill?"
YES We'll, he went on, "shenever
came back with the medicine or the
change either" The world suddenly
grew bright again. began to breathe
at my normal rate of respiration. I
thought that doctor was the loveliest
human being l mad ever looked upon.
But do you see this hair watch-guard
| wear? When | looked at it next
day found that in thsse two awful
hours my hair had turned white as the
driven snow.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
Ex.PresidentA rthuR's Decline.

The New York Times says: Elk President
Arthur has been steadily growing worse
during the past week. but has not re'apsed
so far as to have lost all the ground gained
during his unexpected rally OF ten days
ago Some of the more enthusiastic OF his
friends believed that the turn for the better
had come. but the steady decline since has
dampened this enthusiasm, and there are
few if any, who now believe that the ex'
president will ever again leave his house
alive Sudden and unexpected rallies. FOL
lowed by gradual but steady declines, are
peculiarities of Mr.. Arthur's disease, well
known to physicians, and watched by them
with grave fears. The danger is ever pres
emit that the poisoned blood OF the patient
will suftuse the brain, and when that hap
pens the victim OF Bright's disease feels the
last OF his sufferings. Mr.. Arthur bears his
confinement patiently and bravely.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
Geo. H. Buffers Secret Marriage.

Washington Special: The death OF George
H. Butler reveals the fact that there was IL
secret marriage when only a romantic at
tachment was supposed to exist, and ex-
plains why a well known lady has shown
so much interest in his welfare and reform
alton While he has been an inmate of
st. Elizabeth, the Providence hospital, and
other institutions here, his most frequent
visitor was Miss Josephine Chesney, and
from her hands he received many atten-
tons that caused surprise and gossip. The
day after his death there appeared in q
local paper announcement that in 1850
the marriage was performed by the Rev.
DR.. Byron Sunderland at the residence of ii
friend in Maryland. He preserved the
secret with the understanding that it was
not to be announced until Butler had re-
formed permanently. Gen. Butler was in
formed OF the marriage and gave it his APP
prevail,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
Arrest of the Murderous Anarchist.

The following additional particulars OF
t., capture in Chicago OF Louis Lingg, the
young German who Is supposed to have
thrown the bomb at the Haymarket are
learned: Officers Lowenstein and Schutler
went in civilians dress to Gustav klines
cottage, on Ambrose street, one going to
the front door the other to the rear.
Schulter advanced toward the young man,
but before he had advanced half a dozen
steps the latter drew ponderous Colts
navy revolver from his breast, and cock
ing the Misunderstanding weapon leveled
thirteen inches Of barrel at the officer. If
| have to die, you'll die, too" he shrieked
in German, as he placed his finger on the
trigger and took deliberate aim at the
officer. Schutler seeing his peril, rushed
upon his would-be murderer, and a
life and death struggle ensued.
Lingg fought with the fury OF a wild
beast, and made repeated efforts to dis
charge the weapon, the barrel OF which was
held byt he officer. The men rolled over
and over. upsetting tables and chairs, and
rafting the window panes i'll the room.
While the fight was tiercest there was
crash at the front end OF the cottage, and
Officer Lowenstein. who had heard the
struggle within and burst open the door,
tum bled in out OF the rain, and hurried to
his mrade's assistance. The appearance
OF the second officer made Lingg delirious
with rage. He shrieked and cursed in his
native tongue, and refused to relax his
grip on the revolver until Lowenstein
seized him by the throat and choked him
until his face grew purple and red. The
weapon, with its cylinder filled with huge
bullets was then taken away from him.
lie was then handcuffed and taken to the
central station. On the way he said:
Wouldn't care what they did with me
il had only killed those two officers. l
tried to shoot them, and l am sorry l
didn't succeed.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-27
Another Ohio Hurricane.

most fearful storm occurred at Forest,
Ohio last Friday night the 14th inst. 1t
came up suddenly about 10 o'clock, the
inky black clouds being livid with a brill
liant light which made the atmosphere
bright as day. A roaring noise accompan-
led the storm. In that vicinity it swept
clean a track half mile in width and miles
in length, not striking the town to any ex-
tent William McElree, wife and two chill
dren and mother-in-law, Mrs. Higgins, were
buried in the ruins OF i, large brick house
and the first named killed. The rest were
injured, the last named fatally. Mrs. Rufus
Lease was killed in her ouse. Isaac Lam
bert. eighty years OF age, was buried under
the house and fatally injured. A. l.. Pack
ert was fatally hurt by falling timbers.
Thomas Moore was buried under the ruins
of large frame house and badly hurt.
The Union Bethel and Methodist Protes-
tant churches were destroyed. Two brick
school houses were destroyed. Trees were
uprooted by the acre, and hundreds OF or
chards are completely gone.
The storm went in a northeasterly di-
rection in Wyandotte county, doing great
damage also. The village of level is re-
ported destroyed. Great damage is report
ed in Seneca county. One man says the
air was filled with balls OF fire, and he saw
strange light. Others corroborated this
story The light under the dark cloud
looked like that from a large gas we'll. A
great member OF people are without homes.
Some farms are made almost worthless.
The loss is about $3.50, 900 or $500, 900.