The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-04-05

The mob fred six shots at King, who
gamely turned and returned the fire. In a
| short time King. now pressed by his
| wrathful pursuers, turned and sought ref
| uge in pump house OF the water works.
| Tho negroes swarmed through the water
works building, searching with dark Ian.
terms in every nook and cor
urged them on. In the mean
time the entire police force OF the city had
arrived and aided in the search for King.
| A squad OF policemen finally found him
crouched under an obscure stairway. They
| ordered him to surrender and he respond
! ed by leaping out with cooked revolver
ready to shoot. Policeman Street then
| shot him in the arm. The excited crowd
was told that King was shot dead while re.
sisting arrest. Cheers went up from the
mob, and it quickly dispersed. King was
kept secreted in the building until late
hour, when company OF cavalry arrived
| from Fort Leavenworth, and he was TAX
en- to the fort TO prevent lynching
| Fire broke out in the offices OF the Ho.
| mer Lee Bank Note company, on the
| eighth floor OF the Tribune building and
| despite the supposed fire proof fioors ate
| it's way to the floor above. On this floor
| are located the rooms of the reporters
anu city etllCOr Oi Cne new 1Ork 1riDune.
| The fire destroyed files. manuscript and
valuable papers in the Tribune office which
| cannot well be replaced.
A depIorable domestic tragedy occurred
in Kansas City which will result in The
| death OF a young married couple. Els
| worth Setter, q teamster, who has been
| having trouble with his wife, Moilie. met
her in the hall of the building in which
their rooms are located and kissing her al
/ fectionately asked to speak to her in her
room. They went into the room
and a few minutes later the neigh
bors were startled by pistol shot, follow
ed by woman's scream, and a moment
later by two more shots. When the door
was forced open the wife was found on the
| floor with bullet wound in her abdomen
| and the husband was leaning against the
bed with two bullets in his abdomen.
Both wounds are necessarily fatal.
Information has been received at Wa sh-
ington that registers and receivers of land
Minnesota have been re :eiving filings upon
lands lying within the indem nifty limits OF
that road, although no order has been is-
| sued at the interior departm ment yet de-
declaring these indemnity lands open to
settlement. The secretary OF the interior
viii issue at All early day an order direct
ing the land officers to receive no filings
| upon indemnity lands. The decision of
the attorney general in the matter of these
indemnity lands may be delayed 30 me
months yet.
A call has been issued for a convention
OF farmers to be held at Topeka. Kansas
May l, for the purp ose OF organizing a
farmers trust. Circu lars have been sent
to the governors OF all the states west Of
the Mississippi and to Illinois and Wiscon.
sin to send delegated to the convention.
The steamer City OF Rio de Janeiro
brings China advices to the effect that the
British steamer Swallow struck On some
rocks off Naoma islands Feb. % and sank.
! and that 81 persons who put Off from the
vessel in small boats are supposed to be
lost. The captain and number of the
crew and passengers saved themselves by
ctinging to the rigging. The body OF the
engineer who was aboard one OF the miss.
ing boats, was recovered.
There is much speculation in the Ameri-
can colony in London over a press dis
patch from Gibraltar announcing the de
parture from that place for Tangiers of q
detachment OF British engineers. No one
is able to say why they are going and it is
feared that in the event OF an attack up.
on Tangiers by American war vessels that
the presence OF the English engineers will!
still further complicate matters. Ameri-
cans there do not expect that the issue of
the Morocco affair will be very serious
They derida the quarrel and it's origin, but
are unanimous in the belief that the only
course left open to the Uuited States au.
thorities in the circumstances has been
taken,
Directory estimates place the popula.
tion OF ST. Louis at 449, 100, an increase
OF 200 in the past year.
T. J. Cunningham, the editor OF the
Times OF Chippewa Falls, Wis, who was
connected with the Indian Pine scandal,
and who is charged by Agent Gregory with
having offered him 81, 500 to allow tie
Calligan Bros. to continue operations on
the reservation, has been summoned to
Washington to appear before the commit
tee to explain his position. There are
number OF Others who have been connected
with the scandal who will probably be
summoned before the investiga ton loses.
Thomas Hill. OF Cadett, Wisconsin. COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself with
years old, blacksmith by trade,
and had been separated from his wife two
years. Domestic trouble is supposed to be
the cause.
Johnny Curtin, famous American thiei,
has been arrested in Manchester, England,
for swindling bank out Of $4,000. Cur
tin has served time in New York, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and French prisons for dia-
mond thefts. He was one of the thieves
who accompanied ex-Ald. Jaehne, the con.
yicted boodler to Europe, where they
did" the continent. substituting paste for
genuine diam onds, Jaehne disposing ofthe
proceeds OF the robberies for the other two
Benjamin Hopkins, late assistant cash.
ier OF the Fidelity National bank OF Gin.
cinnati, convicted of violation OF the ma.
tional banking law, was sentenced to the
penitentIary for seven years and two
months. He appeared broken down from
illness.
Bridge watchman Edward Brislan was
killed at Crookston, Minn., by an engine
that ran him down. His head was severed
and the body horribly mangled.
The mystery surrounding the identity OF
the insane poetess suicide, Miss Bull, who
died in New ork, has been solved. She is
q second cousin to Gen. w. T. Sherman.
She was thirty-six years old. Her father,
Platt Bull married an own cousin to Gen.
Sherman.
Mime. Diss De Bar, the alleged medium,
comes from Harrods burg, Ky. Her maid
en- name was Ann Odelia Solomon. J. Sea-
yer Page OF New York, has given her a fair
challenge to test her powers. He proposes
to furnish a marked canvas on which
spirit picture is to be produced by her in
fiuence before disinterested wit nesses. Nine.
Diss De Bar has not signified any willing
ness to accept the challenge. The relatives
OF Luther Il. Marsh. who has unhoundcd
faith in the woman's powers are taking
steps to prevent the woman from securing
any moro OF the old mans property.
The latest reports from Rich Hill, No.,
place the total number OF deaths from the
coal mine explosion at twenty.iour. 1t IL
now reasonably certain that no more
bodies are in the ruins.
Judge Stephen g. Sharp, Of Lexington,
KY. chairman Of the state Democratic ex.
ecutive committee, has been appointed
treasurer by the Governor to succeed tho
deiaulting treasurer, Tate. The nom;na.
tion was confirmed by the senate.
Numerous Socialists have been arrested
in Berlin, Hamburg. Leipsic and Madze.
burg for circulating a pamphlet to the peo.
pie in response TO the Empcror's procla.