The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-23

Cork to eighteen months Imprisonment.
The ceremony that united in marriage
Miss Beebe and William III. Lawton, of thu
Boston Ideals, was performed by Rev.
Father Slattery, OF the cathedral, in Miss
Beebes flat in New York, only u few inti-
mate friends being present
The heirs at law of the late Mrs. A. T.
Stewart have decided to sell the entire con-
tents of her former residence at Fifth ave-
nue. and Twenty-second streets N. Y, at
auction in March. The collection OF pict
ures sculptures, bronzes, porcelains, silver
ware, bric-a brac and art works is much
larger and finer than is generally supposed.
Charles Winchester, the capitalist OF
Ashburnham, Mass, has suspended, chiefly
through Endorsements and unfortunate
Investments. The International Trust
company is reported to havs his paper to
q large amount. Mr.. Winchester has been
a heavy investor in Southern pine lands.
At Parown. Utah, Deputy Marshall Will
liam Thompson shot and killed Edward
Dalton, indicted for unlawful ohabitation
in March, 1885. Dalton had been arrest
ed and escaped. He frequently declared
he would never be taken alive. Thompson
and Deputy Orton saw him in Parown on
horseback and called on him to surrender.
Dalton turned his horse to run, when
Thompson shot, intending to fire over
him; but the ball took effect in Dalton s
body.
Gratiot Washburne, son OF Hon. E. B.
Washburne and secretary Qf the general
council OF the American London exhibition.
who arrived at Louisville, KY, in the in.
terest Of exhibitors, dropped dead at the
Gait house the same day of cerebral apo
| plexy He was buried at Galena, Ill. Mr..
Washburne was born May 6, 1S49. at Ga.
lena, Ill.,, and received his education at
Bloomington, graduating at the normal
school. For eight years he was assistant
| secretary OF the American legation in Par
is and was among those who remained
there when a Russian ordinance thundered
at its gates.
At Sidney, n. s. W., OF the nine youths
sentenced on Nov. 20 for criminally as
saulting a sixteen-year old servant girl, the
executive decided to commute the sentences
OF three to Imprisonment for life. The six
Others will be hanged.
The legislative council of the colony OF
Natal, South Africa, has by large ma ior
ity adopted a motion declaring that Sir
Arthur Havelock, the governor OF Natal,
has forfeited the confidence OF the colony
and prays the queen to appoint another
governor.
| At Atlanta, Ga, after midnight the
house OF John p. Swilling was burned
down. Inside were Mr.. Swilling. his wife
and three children, all OF whom were
burned to death. Francis Sanders was
arrested and confessed that he had crushed
in the skulls OF the sleepers, saturated the
bedclothes with coal oil, applied match
and left. Citizens seized the murderer and
carried him off to lynch him. Sanders
was tied to a tree and burned to death.
Miss Postle OF Detroit, who recently in
herited $3.50, 900 from an uncle in Austria
la, came with her father and brothers to
Detroit last July. The family didn'5 have
money enough to pay freight on their
household goods.
The supreme court decides that the
Northern Pacific must pay the state per
cent. on its gross earnings between Watab
and Minneapolis.
Shelter defeated Slosson in their Sec
ond game at st. Louis. !
| Tommy Warren and Tommy Danforth
arranged for mill. 1t will be fought under
QueensbuIry rules, within 100 miles OF New
| York, and inside Of one month from the
date OF signing the articles. The stakes
| will be 81, 600 a side.
conference, thought to be on the rela-
tions OF the Catholic church and the X. Of
L., is held between Cardinal Gibbons, Arch
bishop Corrigan and Archbishop Ryan at
Philadelphia.
As an engine was returning to Somerset,
KY, ,on the Cincinnati Southern road from
freight wreck near Sunbright, Tenn, the
axle OF cost $4,000. She had $1,000
worth OF stores on board, which were also
destroyed. Insurance $4,000. She was
to have left on a cruise in the South Pa
cifc, the tender broke in two, and the en-
CINE was thrown down an embankment
Christopher Toole engineer, and John
ohn1 f<>I do r h hn-
meath the engine.
The whaling bark Atlantic was driven
| ashore n mile and half below the Cliff
| house, San Francisco and went to pieces
| in d few minutes. The wreck was strewn
along the beach for three or four miles.
About twenty-five men are believed to be
| lost. The captain and mate, with eight or
| ten men, were saved. At the time OF the
| disaster dense fog and heavy sea pre-
vailed.
Sir John Lyster Keys, promoter OF the
Alberta & Assinaboine Land, Stock and
Coal company, has arranged to purchase
from the Canadian Pacific Railroad COM
pany immense farms in the Northwest and
other large tracts OF land from the donin-
ion government on which will be located
herds. brood mares, Clydesdale and thor
oughbred stations, 10000 head OF sheep
to be imported, Chevist and Lincester
| rams, and a large number Of pigs to be inn
proved with Yorkshire boars. The COM
pany contemplates establishing villages
| and farms and bringing settlers from Eng
| land. 1t has capital OF $4,000, O0O.
Operations will begin Immediately.
| Supplemental estimates were transmit
| ted to congress by the secretary OF the
| treasury requesting that, for the better ad-
ministration of the business of the land
Office, provision be made in the sundry
civil bill for one additional chief OF divi-
| sion OF the board OF review, at salary OF
| $4,000, and that new division, to be
/ known as the contest division, be created,
| to be composed OF one chief at salary OF
| 50, 500, and six members at salary of
| 81, 900 each. A letter of Commissioner
| Sparks is transmitted, in which he shows
the necessity OF both OF these divisions.
| He says that at the end OF the fiscal year
| 12,77O contests remained unacted upon
| by the Office, because of inadequate cleri-
cal force.
| Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Aver. formerly OF
Chicago but now living in New York, has in
stituted a suit for divorce against Herbert
| Aver, on the ground OF infidelity and
| desertion. Mr.. Aver was formerly d wealthy
merchant of Chicago, but failed some years
| ago.
The confession attributed by the pub
lished reports to Granda and his wife, who
| were captured at Kansas City for the MUIR
der OF Rev. George p. Haddock, is sweep
ingly denied by them.
| Sir r. D. Morier, British ambassador at
| st. Petersburg, has been summoned to
London to confer with the government
concerning fresh disputes which have aris-
en- concerning the Afghan frontier.
| The action Of Mrs. Adams against her
father, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, has
been settled privately.
The Suez Canal company and the Egyp-
tian government have agreed to the widen
ing OF the Suez canal.
Paris, Dec. 18.-Werlalti, the young Ital.
| Ian who has just finished fifty days fast
is doing big trade and constantly exhib
it's to large crowds. The price OF admis.
sion is a shilling and sixpence, and he sells
his photographs for four shillings and two
pence each. Doubts prevail as to the val.
ue OF his fasting experiment.
O. H. Hall, nephew OF Gov. Pierce o
| Dakota, has been appointed clerk OF the
district court, to fill the vacancy occasioned
| by the death of Emer N. Corey. The ap.