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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-19
Evictions i'm New York.
Howard in Bosto Globe.

Howard in Boston Globe.
The fact that the evictions in New
York each year are nearly eleven
times as many as in Ireland shows
that there is something decidedly
wrong in the condition of things in
that great metropolis. In twelve
months there were turned out of their
homes in Ireland 2,OSs families, ag-
gregating 8,S17 persons. In similar
period in this city there were evIcted
22,sO4 families or 124,02 persons,
estimating five to family. The evic-
tions in Ireland are for years rent
al, while here they are for a week, Or
month at the most.
Perhaps more misery is caused in
Individual cases in Ireland, but there
is no question that the condition of
the evicted in New York fails to at
tract the pity which it deserves. 1t is
often the result of drink and shiftless-
ness, but this is by no means always
the case. Men out of work are evict-
ed in New York by the hundred. They
drift about, and If they fail to get
work generally drift into the aims
house or work house, while their chill
dren are sent to a charitable institu.
tion. This accounts in part for the
enormous yearly increase in the de-
mands on the taxpayers Tor the main
tenance of paurer children.
In ten years there has been an in
crease from 100000 to nearly ST.
s.~ e.. -
purpose. The people of New York
fail to comprehend the significance of
these figures. Home life is giving place
to that of institutions, where children
are brought up by rote, as it were.
The result OF this on the future OF the
State remains to be seen, but it looks
as though the communistic theory
that children should be brought up by
the State was rapidly being put in
practice here.
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" An official bulletin announces that EN-
peror Williaml catarrhal affection con-
tinues to trouble him, but states that
there is nothing alarming in his symptoms.
Trouble occurred among crofters Of the
Aigash district in Ivernesshire, Scotland.
Landless crofters to the number OF 1000
drove sheep off OF farms and offered deter
mined resistance to the police and troops
sent to the scene. numbers were wounded
on both sides and many crofters arrested.
The pope said mass at st. Peters for
the benefit of the pilgrims remaining in the
city. Thirty-four cardinals and 1S9 arch
bishops and bishops were in attendance,
while the congregation consisted of co.
900 persons. The pope looked well, but
at the conclusion Of the mass appeared
much fatigued.
The remains Of Napoleon Ill. and his
son, the prince imperial, were removed
from Chislehurst to Farnborough, Eng,
where they will be deposited in the nauso-
leum erected by the ex-Empress Eugene.
After religious services at Chislehurst the
bodies were conveyed in solemn state to
the railway station.
The correspondent Of the Daily News at
Constantjnople says: "The porte learns
that Lord Salisbury has informed the Ger
man government that il war shall be occa-
stoned by an attempt Of Russia to occupy
Bulgaria, England will send two squadrons
I. to the Black sea, but that il the occnpa-
tion Of Bulgaria be Abstained from, Eng
land will remain entirely neutral"
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plTn OF tine NEWS.


The number OF republican senator's who
are expected to vote for Lamar's contirma-
tlon are reduced to three.
Congressman FELTON, OF California is
worth $40, 10000 and pays S4oo a
month for apartments in a Washington
hotel.
The following postmasters were nomi-
mated by the president: Iowa: j. b. Stnls-
man. Harlan. Montana: c. ". Price,
Fort Benton; C. A. Mustum, Billings. Da-
kota: G. T. Proper, Wahpeton.
The house committee on territories
adopted a rule providing that hereafter
all delegations desiring to appear before
the committee shall submit their views
and claims in writing and not orally, as
has been the practice heretofore.
Delegate Toole's bill, offered regarding
the Assinaboine and Gros Nentres tribes
does not, as stated, provide for the ratifi-
cation OF the agreement made between the
Northwest Indian commission and those
Indians for reduction OF their reserva-
tion.
c. C. Brooks. Sparta. Wis; j. w. Nc
MILAN, Milwaukee: G. w. Hubbard and A.
j. Tibbits, Doudsville, Wis; j. A. Collins,
Duluth; T. w. Stiles, Patterson, Iowa; ID.
P. Bliss, Sioux City; c. p. Bowman, Dam
bury, Iowa. and F. H. Crocker, Cedar
hapluS. nave Deen admltteo TO practlce
before the interior department..
Among the bills introduced in the house
were the following: Mr.. Taulbee OF Ken
tueky, repeating the civil service law. Mr..
ODonnell to repeal the duty on sugar and
to provide for the payment of a bounty OF
$4,000, 900 a year for two years for the
cultivation OF sugar in the United States.
Mr.. Hatch, for the importation of salt
free of duty.
One OF the last official acts OF Mr.. Lamar
as secretary OF the interior was to remove
John w. lie Barnes, one OF the two law
clerks in the general land office, and APP
point in his place John V. Wright OF Ten
nessee. who was last summer a member OF
the commission to conduct negotiations
with the Northwestern Indians, and who
has recently been chief of the miners di-
vision in the land office.
Representative Anderson OF Iowa offered
the Pacific railroad companies have per-
sistentIy refused to comply with the acts
OF congress passed for their regulation,
and that the act OF 1878 pl divided that ii
the companies failed to perform all the re-
quirements OF that and previous acts, the
attorney general should take steps for a
forfeiture of all grants, ETC., derived by
them from the United States, and
directing the attorney general to report to
the house what steps have been taken by
him to secure judicial enforcement OF the
forfeiture and if none have been taken, his
reason for not proceeding as directed by
law.
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Crimes and Criminals.

At Anthony, Kan, Walter E. Treadwell,
the cattle king, shot Charles G. Clark, his
old partner, wounding him badly.
w. C Bondurant, travelling agent for
A. L. Dean, q Milwaukee safe man, was ar
raigned in Chicago before Commissioner
Hoyne and held in $500 bail to answer a
charge OF using the mails for immoral pur-
poses.
Tillman c. Justice, a moonshiner in
Towns County, Ga, who was hanged for
the murder OF John B. Goddard some
months ago. is said to be alive. He was
still breathing when cut down and i'm
mediately resuscitated.
At Chicago, the case of the notorious
Mrs. Cassidy, charged with abducting
Blanche Bonneville for the purpose oflead-
ing a life OF shame in a Wisconsin dive,
came up in the armory court, ard Mrs.
.. Cassidy was held in 81, 500 bonds.
Lew Owens, one OF the largest capitalists
in Chattanooga. was shot three times by
j. d. Barnes, formerly OF the shoe firm Of
Barnes & Nix. Owens will die. They
quarreled on business matters. Owens
cut Barnes badly with q knife during the
quarrel.
Rev. John Lowther, q rector at Bolton,
near Wigton, Eng, has committed suicide
by shooting Previous to the act he had re-
indecent assault upon servant girl. De-
ceased was 81 cousin OF Lord Lonsdale, and
relative OF the Right Hon. James Low
ther.
At Cumberland Mills, burglars entered
the residence Of Mr.. Stack, and being dis
covered beat Mrs. Stack SO horribly that
she died. The husband fred five shots at
the thieves, but they escaped. Blood
stains were found on the doorstep. The
-G,,o
her husband seventy-fve.
At Anthony. Kan, Charles c. Clark
who was shot by his partner. w. F. Tread
well, the cattle king, died. Clark's body
will be shipped to his old home at Sig
ourny. Iowa, for interment. Treadwe,l is
said to be in very critical condition,
his reason is entirely dethroned. The
cause OF the difficulty was jealousy on the
part of Treadwell who fancied that Clark
was too intimate with his (TreadwelPs)
divorced wife.
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Death Of Col. Alex. Chambers.

Col. Alexander Chambers, colonel CON-
manding the Fourth infantry ut Fort
Smelling, Minn., died in San Antonio, Tex,
of pneumonia. He went there for the
benefit of his health. His remains were
taken to Owatonna, Minn., for interment.
Col. Chambers was born in New York
State in 1882, and entered West Point
July 1, 1849, where he was a classmate OF
Adjt. Gen. Vincent.
He served in the Florida Indian war and
was in the civil war. Among other public
service he was appointed military attache
OF the United States legation at Constan-
tinople in 1877 to watch the movements
OF the Turkish troops. He witnessed the
battle of Shipka Pass. He was frequent
ly on duty in Dakota and the other terri.
tories and always served with credit to
himself and country. The deceased was
brother OF Col. Clark Chambers OF Owa-
tonna, Minn.
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HANGED INIoWA.
Henry Schmidt Hanged at West
Union for the Murder of lucretia
Peek-He Recites His Story Upon
the CalloWs.

Henry Schmidt, convicted of the mur-
der of Mrs. Lucretia Peek, was executed
at West Union, Iowa. Since the arrival OF
the prisoner from the penitentiary he passed
most OF his time chatting with acquaintan-
ces. He exhibited cool courage in the face
OF his impeding doom. He declared he
would not die as Chester Bellows died,
cravenly begging for pity, but that he
would walk to his death like O. man who
feared it not. Schmidt is Bavarian and
is about twenty year old.
Company G OF the state militia was
called out to guard the Jail yard and
none but those holding tickets were ad-
mitted. About forty persons witnessed d
the execution. Schmidt ate his last meal
on earth with keen relish. He was escort.
ed to the scaffold by Sheriff O Neil precisely
at 1892, the sheriff announcing that
Schmidt had few words to say.
The doomed boy stood upon
the trap enveloped in his
white shroud. His face betrayed no emo.
tion. Only once did he shiver from the in
tense cold. In a clear voice he recited his
story which was substantially that below.
At 1896 the drop was sprung, and at pre-
cisely 10:45 pulsation ceased. His neck
was broken by the fall and death was pain.
less. Three sons OF Mrs. Peek were present
at the execution, two OF them coming from
Albert Lea, Minn., and one Of them coming
from the southern part OF Iowa for the
purpose.
The crime for which Schmidt was hanged
was the murder OF Lucretia Peek on the
night OF the 4th nj September, 1886. The
Peeks lived about six miles west OF West
Union. and on the night Of the tragedy
a neighbor named Leonard stayed
with them. Some time in the
night Leonard was shot by Schmidt,
who had entered the house. The bullet
struck rib and glanced. The shock awoke
Mr.. and Mrs. Peek, and they spranz up and
found that the house was on fire. Mrs.
Peek proposed to get out OF the window,
and as she placed her hands on the win
dow sill she was shot in the face
by some one outside, she became semi.un-
conscious and remained in that condition
the balance Of the night. Mr.. Peek then
got up and went to work to extinguish the
fire. He was shot at twice, but not hurt.
Nothing further was known positively as
to wkat happened to him. In the
morning his body was found few
rods from the house with his head
pounded to q Jelly. Schmidt was rec
oRnized by Mrs. Peck, who lived until Sept.
rs. He was tried, and on Oct. 20 convict
cd sof murder. and sentenced to be hanged.
Eleven days later he mads confession in
which he charged that Ellison T. Smith,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-19
A Tragedy at Sioux Falls, Oak.

Thomas Murray OF Sioux City has just
served term in Jail in that city for keep
ing ''hole-in. the WALL" On being released
from Jail he came to Sioux Falls q few days
ago. Ten days ago while her husband was
incarcerated at Sioux City, Mrs. Murray, o
very handsome young woman, came to
Sioux Falls and entered Mad
anne Doyle's bagnio. When Murray
reached Sioux Falls he immediately went to
Madame Doyle's place and remained there
until the tragedy occurred. While his wife
was sewing button on his overcoat,
Murray, without word Of warning, drew
q revolver and fired twice at his wife, both
bsllsts entering her breast and causing in
stant death. The murderer Immediately
turned the revolver upon himself and sent
q ball into his forehead. He ID still alive,
but !. irrational and his recovery IL Inn
possible.
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swkErEsr THING ABOUT THEE.

The sweetest thing about thee, dear?
All! thou wouldst never, never guess.
'Tis not thine eyes, tender and clear,
And it is not thy daintiHess;
'Tis not the soft bloom on thy cheek,
Nor yet thy figure perfect grace;
'Tis not thy look, high souled yet meek,
Which sometimes glorifies thy face.
'Tis not thy nature. high and fine,
Which makes thee see all that is best,
And find something OF the divine
In all things, active or at rest.
Thou hast u radiant womanhood
Which is all winsomeness and light;
To see thee only is good
Which charms away cares darkest
blight.
Yet none OF these do deem best;
I'll tell thee, dear-take 10 alarm:
It is thy faults-be not distressed
Thy faults, they are thy chieiest charm;
They make thee woman through and
through,
And not a dead periectionist.
How could you love me leal and true
If you an angel stood confessed?
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-19
The Wife's First Bank Ac-
count.

Well-knOWn banker, VINO naQ De-
come tired of the irksome habit of
fumbling in his vest pocket every
morning that his wife asked him to
pay the necessary household expenses,
and who was smarting from the sting
of recent heavy raid against Read
ing, said to her not long ago at the
breakfast table: edith, I can't be
pestered with these trifles. You must
open a bank account. will make
cash deposit, against which you can
draw at you leisure, and SO not har-
poon me just as am about to put on
my overcoat for $40 here and $50
there"
The young wife, to whom the vision
of a personal bank account seemed to
be on par with a private view of Par
disc, readily, accompanied her hus-
band forthwith to a fashionable bank
on Fifth avenue, where her signature
was enrolled for Identification, and a
pass book, with $4,000 to her credit,
handed to her, together with q pretty
pocket check-book, containing fifty
bank checks, and interviewer at regu-
lar intervals with convenient sheets OF
blotting paper.
Everything went on smoothly in the
bankers household for some ten DAYS
until, returning home one evening he
started to upbraid his wife in the fol-
lowing terms:
"Why, Edith, how could you be 50
extravaganza? You must have been
getting an entire winters wardrobe
for your poor relatives, in addition to
paying our household expenses. Your
account is overdrawn. / have a let
ter from the cashier of your bank,
stating that you are indebted to the
bank S1O6. so, and requested me, at
my earliest convenience, to make
good the amount"
"No such thing" she replied, 81 still
have plenty of money in the bank, and
I will prove it to your satisfaction to-
morrow"
A visit was made to the bank, and
the lady was confronted with for
midable array of figures and vouchers
confirming the cashiers estimate of
her indebt edness. Sne demonstrated
that gross injustice had been done
her, and offered in evidence ten blank
cheeks which remained in her check
book, and argued that her balance
could not be exhausted until those
blank cheeks had been used. 1t was
in vain that the cashier tried to con-
vince her that one check was all that
was necessary at any time to draw
out her balance. The banker, how
ever who had retailed the joke at his
wife's expense, in the corridors of the
Windsor hotel, is going to return to
old principles. The bank account has
been closed, and the bankers wife will
have to be satisfied with meekly
pleading every morning for $40 or
$50 as heretofore, which will begrant-
ed according to her husbands credu-
lity in the legitimacy of her demands,
and provided the session at POKER the
previous night does not compel him
for that particular day to be harshly
economical.
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Result of the Division Vote.

Gov. Church OF Dakota issued proca-
nation as to the result OF the November
election on division. The law authorizing
the vote required each country to make a
certificate OF the returns to the governor.
These returns were not all received till the
10th inst. which explains the delay Of
the governors action. The proclama-
tion shows 37,7S4 votes cast for di-
vision and 80, ,913 against. The dis
crepancy between these returns and those
made to the secretary is explained par
TALLY by errors made in tho certificates Of
the county clerks to the governor. and the
fact that in Ward county two distinct sets
of returns were received, one in which
the three disputed precincts in Minot were
counted over with these omitted.
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nal nerve, but the deputies were hardly
prepared for the terrible speech he made
while en- route to the Jail, after he had
'betn sentenced. He was in the custody oi
Deputies Luckor, Eaton and Bader. As
they approached the Jail from which Bar
rett may never emerge unless with hang
man for an escort, the prisoner said:
=, hang and bs damned. | don't
give damn. Ha, ha. Hung by the neck
until dead!' Amt that good? l came
near telling the Judge that would rather
hang than be sentenced to saltwater for
liie.n
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-19

The following pensions have been grant
ed: Wisconsin-Widow of j. Murphy,
Waunakee, widow OF HI. Nettleton, Desh-
kora; mother OF w. Thompson. Mauston.
Original: T. Wilcox. Knowlton; C. T..
Beaumont, Emerald Grove; j. Parker. Fisk;
T. B. Kinnamon, Ironton; A. Ahrens, Two
Rivers; c. Bradbury, West Bloomfield; l..
Carter, Darien; l.. Z. Mcintosh, Rice Lake;
C. w. Baldwin, Ahnapee; j. w. Garner,
j. w. Potter, Sparta; D. Russell, Chetek;
E. Gray. Deshkora. Dakota-R Ellis
worth, Castalia; Minnesotn-Widow OF
s. Sweatland, Detroit; j. Thompson, St.
Paul; s. w. Lent, Minneapolis; G. Wallace,
Blue Earth City.
The schooner William Parsons, which
sailed for Georges banks Nov. %. with
twelve men, and the schooner Peter D..
Smith. which sailed Nov. Is with u crew OF
twelve, have been given up for lost. Many
OF the men had families, and five widows
and nineteen children are left.
Rev. DR.. Alfred s. Patton, the editor
and proprietor OF the Baptist Weekly, died
in Brooklyn, N. Vat the house OF his son.
in-iaw. w. 8. Abbey. DIR. Patton was the
author OF several books, among them,
"Kincaid, the Hero Missionary" 'The
Losing and Taking OF Man Soul" Live
for jesus" and many pamphlets published
by the American Tract Society.
At Kansas City, John Hinson, said to be
a nephew OF Gen. Gillhall OF New Orleans,
was stopped by two highwaymen on the
street and on his attempting to resist
them he was shot in the stomach The
pistol shot aroused the neighborhood, and
Hinson was carried to the Ohio Home,
only a few doors distant. A doctor pro-
nounced his wound mortal.
permanent organization Of the wool
conference in Washington was effected by
the election Of the following officers:
President, George L. Converse. Ohio; vice
presidents, e. II. Ammidown, Utica, n. Y;
John Mcdowell, Theodore Justice, w. p.
Cowdin, F. D. Wright, a. C. Miller, John
Phillips. Jr., and w. q. Benedict; aacre.
tary, H. =. James; assistant secretary,
William Batteso1.
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place of her he loved-is grave con-
spicuous from any other by the state
" granite pillar which his townspeople
have erected to the memory of Pierre
the Hero, their countryman, who by
his courage twice saved the day for
France.
"Those are his medals which he
managed to conceal and preserve
through all his wanderings. He left
them in my charge, for the child OF
Marguerite"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-19
Visits of the Grand Commander.

Commander in Chief Rea, OF the g. A. R.,
is on an extended tour of the Eastern
states. His programme, SO far as mapped
out, is as follows:
Pittsburgh Jan. 16, Lancaster the 18th,
Washington the 18th and 18th, New York
the goth. Philadelphia the Oath,
'25th and 26th. Upon the 31st he will
visit st. Johnsbury, vt. On the
1st and I'd OF February he will
be at Concord. N. H. On the Sd he will be
in Rhode Island. He will be in Water
bury, Conn.,, Feb. and 8. Boston the 8th
and 9th, and on the 10th he will visit
Portland, Me. The programme for his re.
turn trip has not been definitely fixed. He
will be gone some six weeks and after his
return he will visit some OF the Western
states, Kansas, Michigan and Illinois.
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for whom he was working at the time. had
persuaded him to do the deed and promis-
ed him $500 for il. He also charged that
Smith killed Mr.. Peek. Smith was tried
and acquitted.
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dead
"Pierre's gaze fell upon my face,
which was working convulsively spite
of all my efforts at control, and q
vague fear seemed to spring into his
mind. Rising hurriedly, he put her
from him.
"I must 60 now-I feel stronger,
he said-though his looks belied his
words / must not stay longer from
the side of my loved ones
"'Oh, Pierre, stay-do not gor I
cried.
Ellis eyes dilated with an express
sion of terror.
Tell me truly he exclaimed, how
is it with my Marguerite?'
II could not answer. He read the
truth in my face. With a cry he sank
hack and covered his eyes with his
hands. Then quietly as I could l told
him everything that had happened
Withholding rothing-for it was best.
sAs I spoke, the little one, awed by
the strange scene, had again drawn
near. With q convulsive motion he
caught her to him, and bowed his
face upon her shining hair. And this
is her child Marguerite's childp
"It was a piteous sight, and will
not dilate upon it longer, Pierre stay
ed at the parsonage; and after while
II let him take his own time-he told
me how he had been left for dead up
on the field, and had recovered con-
sciousness to find himself q prisoner
in the enemy's hands; how he had
been confined ever since, until ct last
escaping, he had .journeyed on foot
over mountains and through forests,
buoyed up by the hope Of reaching
his native village, and there, amid the
ministrations OF his dear ones, regain-
ing his strength and passing In happi-
ness the rest Of his life.
Gas you have surmised, the poor
fellow did not live long to bear his
great disappointment. In the village
oemetery-not far from the resting
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-22
oice of the People
EYANoELIs1IC sKRVICEa.

E5sg OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES HxC.6S.
The public, we believe, will be deeply
interested in the evanRelistic services
which will be held here, commencing
Sunday, Jan. 6, 1850 All churches
will unite, rs far as possible. Rev. q.
W. Merrill, Of Minneapolis, will be the.
special leader. He is q man OF devout,
Christian spirit, q logical, forcible and
wise extempore preacher. Hymns
New and Old'' is the song book to be
used. This has been proved of great
value in such work. We desire indiyi-
duals to own these books which cost
but 80 cents apiece. They can be had
of the Music Committee, Messrs.
Moore, LANCE and IT. Lewis, or Of the
pastors. The joint committee of the
churches raise by private subscription
sufficient to pay for heating and light
ing the church, and for Mr.. Merrill's
board. At the close of the meetings a
collection will be taken of the free
will offerings of the people. Each
shall feel free to give or not as he
chooses. We invite all people of all
classes to join in these services. We
want all and, especially christians, to
prepare for them. Plan your work, if
possible, so as to give much time to
this special work for God. BY song,
by prayer, 10y meditation, by christian
converse let us help each other. The
services will be held for two weeks, at
least. in the Congregational church, as
that house is best adapted to the needs
of the case. Plan for blessing.
JOINT Con-. OF THE CLUTCHES.