The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-10-11
Miscellaneous News Items.

tannery in st. Paul was burned, and the
| building, with its contents, Was entirely de-
| stroyed, entailing loss of about $4,000,
with only small amount of insurance.
small frame re- house adjoining the tannery'
owned by Theodore Erikson, was also do
| stroyed, with loss of about 5000 and no
insurance.
The administrators of the estate of the
| late Amos j. Smell, who was murdered in
| Chicago by burglar, alleged to be William
b. Tascott, on Feb. s. last and who have
offered reward of $4,000 for the appre
ditional reward of SIC ,000for the recovery of
| the papers and documents taken from the
Smell residence at that date. The offer is
made over the name of A. j. Stone
The Inman line Steamer City of New York,
which arrived at Queenstown. made the pas
sage from Sandy Hook in seven days and %
hours. Her circulation pumps were defective
and for four days only the starboard engine
could be worked. She met severe gales dur
| ing which two passengers were thrown to the
| floor and had several rigs broken. During
| the gales another passenger became insane
and it was found necessary to put him in q
straight jacket. :
An attachment against the property of
William r. Foster, Jr., the missing counsel of
the New York produce exchange gratuity
fund, has been obtained by the counsel of the
produce exchange in q suit to recover $20.-
600. The attachment was granted on afti-
davits of the officers of the fund. 1t is sup
posed that Foster has fed to Canada. The
Bayport which has been attacked it is
now claimed, does not belong to Foster but
his creditors are prepared to prove that it
was purchased with their money.
Within four days the Northern Pacific has
moved to ST. Paul and Chicago over thirty
trains of stock, over 600 cars. The boys
have had no end of sport over the error in
transmission which noted the beginning of
the movement, as eighteen cars when
trains were meant. At the beginning less
than twenty train loads were in sight. This
has been nearly doubled, making process
sion marketwards OF unprecedented size in
the same time. In the who lie movement, now
nearly past. there has not been an accident
nor unusual delay.
One of the evidences of civilization and eli.
fects of education upon the Indian is the fact
that as many of them as can afford it are
discarding the method of simply wrapping d
blanket around their dead when they bury
them. and are patronizing the undeitakers
They buy the cheapest cases they can get,
but prefer them to the blanket The marble
man at Black River Fails, Wis, has also
just completed neat marble slab bearing
the inscription, Mary. Daughter of Winnes-
helix. and wife of Stand Straight, Died Sept.
10. Aged 23 Years Some OF them are
staunch temperance advocates and will not
Hiram McChesnev was appointed receiver
of the Traders bank, corner Madison and
La Sale streets, Chicago, by Judge Shepard
under petition filed by Thomas p. Toliman,
the cashier. Mr.. McChesney gave a bond OF
$500, 900 and was ordered to take charge OF
all the effects that belong to the bank or are
held by it in trust. The news vas received
with a great deal of surprise and foated
around with the usual swftnass of a rumor
among the lawyers and caused more than
one to excuse himself from case and hurry
around to protect clients who were the banks
creditors. The liabilities are on the verge OF
81 100000. The capital stock is s200,000
divided into 1000 shares, of which MI Rut-
ter holds l 500 and Mr.. Tollman 500 There
we're no other shareholders. For six months,
he says, Mr.. Rutter. the president. has been
an invalid and incapable OF attending to the
affairs of the bank.
Bishop VIM. Taylor, the distinguished
African bishop of the Methodist church ex-
presses his views on the disappearance Of
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer. He
says: From his knowledge OF the conditions
of things in Africa it was highly probable
that Stanley had gone into the interior OF
the country where he could not be heard
from III a year or two, and that interested
persons were taking advantage of his absence
to create friendship for individual schemes
to organize searching parties, whose real
object was something else than the recovery
sensations, perhaps. prompted many of the
publications respecting the explorer. The
bishop did not beive there would be any
special cause for alarm if he was not heard
from for year or two vet:
The report was current that three persons
had died during the day, of yellow fever at
Gallpolis. a town on the Ohio river, $50
miles below Pittsburgh Those who died are
Capt. W. X. Hail, prominent citizen, who
was taken sick few days ago while visiting
at Catlettsburg, Ky; Mrs. Smeltzer aud
Miss Anna Robinson. A son of Capt Hall ia
also i'll. Physicians are reticent but say the
symptoms are those of yellow fever, Citizens
are terror stricken. DIR. Hutton, at Camn
Perry, has telegraphed 10 Surgeon General
Hamilton as follows: Over fifty worthy des-
titute people in camp, discharged and unable
to get away. l cannot turn women and
children into the woods to starve Please
divert some charitable funds here to aid them.
Shot gun quarantine will not allow them to
go South of Atlanta In response to this
telegram DR., Hutton was authorized to fur
nish transportation upon government vouch-
ers to all such persons as are unable to leave
the camp.