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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-21
ruIa MoRNINa.s FIRE.

A whole Block Threatened on MAIN
s,roct Noar tho Nashville Depot.
AZ $50 o'clock this morning fire
broke out NJ John palmcr's saloon, No. u
Main street. II spread IN the adjoining
house No. II, occupied by Mike Mcmahon
as clearinghouse. II then spread
10 the lighthouse occupied by an Italian
conlcctioncr. Both No. - AMI H.,
with their contents. were entirely
consumed. Palmer is insured. The
origin Of the fire Is unknown. As
Tur ArrEAL goes 10 press the whole
block i threatened. The loss could not
bc estimated. The high wind gave Nlgor
10 the flames. Tho whole department was
.,tt,I ont
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-21

Ono reliable merchant In every town trib'
utary TO Memphis TO knock out all oompe'
tition by taking tho agency OF the work.
renowned Straiton q Storms New YORK
cigars and Geo. L. l.ics & Co.'S celebrated
BuiIos. Your ncighbor can't get the goods
~ We will only sell 10 one merchant IN
each town. We solicit sample ordor
I. SANELaoS X Co,
Sole Distributing Agents,
Memphis, Tenn.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-21
A Revenue law yioinior.

Deputy United States Marshal Smith
arrived from Tiptonvillc, Tenn, at mid
night, bringing with him Dave Holt, a
farmer of that place, charged with yio-
lating the internal revenue laws by selling
LIQUOR without license aud intimidaiing
witnesses who had been summoned 70 lcs-
tiiy against him. The prisoner will have
q hearing before Commissioner Trczcvan,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-21

pnISK Malto. 25 cents q bottle.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-21
I,Iu,

N,uAVTY-N rc5lierro ~ parcnis, NO ~
Warrington street. M0Dda AugA. -, ~, ~
o'clock pm, LAWSON J. aEgl ~ N'' ~"
9niy ~ Of James 4 and lia Nahany
FUNERAL will tale plarf fr,m the iainly residence
ibis ITUEsDAyl morning 81, u O'Clock friends OF
the family are Invited " attend
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-21

" IT. IALLEfl IIVkVf Hk'H"
MIR. HARRY, Pass. Agt
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20

Judge James Greer, has addressed q letter
to the National Committee of the American
party declining the nomination for Vice.
President of the United States. He says:
feel constrained to resign. / am in favor
of restricting both immigration and natural
ization, but cannot go the extent of the
convention in believing it was to uncondi-
tionally repeal our naturalization laws.
The effect of this would be to prevent any
foreign born person from ever becoming an
American citizen. 1t cannot be healthy
thing for any nation to have largo part OF
can never hope to take any part In the max
ing of laws under which they must be taxed
and to which they must submit their per-
sonal liberty. I hold that the immigrant
who has renounced all allegiance to any for
eign power. who accepts the spirit Of our
constitution and laws. should have held out
to him the proud honor Of American citizen
ship, by keeping out al who do not furnish
evidences hefare they come ofProbably adopt
ing in heart and mind this mbiti0n and by
requiring them after they come and have re-
sided some years among us to make this
probability judicial certainty by proof in o
court of justice. We will keep America for
Americans. The convention leaves the pub
lie to infer it 10 immaterial whether we reduce
the tariff taxation to the basis Of the actual
need of the nation or whether we shall let the
principle remain of accumulating an
idle surplus in the treasury.
To this cannot subscribe l have been
taught that protection, rightly understood,
simply tsn v Of o bonus citizen. a
to engage In certain industrial pur-
suits. Under the name and guise Of pro-
tecting wOrkingmen, We are paying to their
employers premium and filing the treasury
with unused money without benefit to the
workingman or to the nation at large.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20

The Howard association of Charleston,
sent $500 to Jacksonville. All the mercan-
tile bodies have opened subscriptions An
extra meeting of the city council will be held
to take action in the same direction. Ex-
perienced nurses are volunteering in large
numbers.
Harry Parker, champion light wrestler Of
Pennsylvania, and Lucien Marie Christol,
the French wrestler, met in q twO-point
catch as-catch-can match at Erie. The
Frenchman had his splendid record broken,
and Parker won two straight falls in 3 and
minutes respectively.
Ignatius Donnelly candidate for governor
of Minnesota on the Labor ticket has an
nounced his state central committee. They
are as follows: Eric Olson of Martin county,
chairman; James A. Johnson. of Ramsey
county; e. A. S. Highly of Hennepin county;
Prof C. Fl. Roberts of Olmstead county, G. C.
Chamberlain of Rice county, Ole johnson OF
Meeker county, and F. A. Porter OF Chisago
county.
A curious story is told ut Oshkosh, Wis, oi
the miraculous recovery of Miss Emma Ben
nett, q young lady whoresides with her broth
er, William Bennett, a farmer near that
is now 80 years old, has been q bedridden
invalid. During her nine years of cOnfne-
ment she has not uttered q loud word. Ere
quently she was thought to be dead. One
day full round voice was heard in her room
singing: "He rose he rose, he rose from the
dead" The sick girl was found sittingin the
bed singing the words quoted. She asked to
be helped to her feet, saying she felt that she
could walk, and she did walk across the floor.
She said she felt % though she had risen
from the dead.
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man was standing upon the Catherine
market corner ut Hone and Erie streets,
little after midnight, eating corn bought
from q hot corn woman. He had his back
turned toward the northwest corner, where
two men were approaching each other.
cigar store diagonally across tho corners
from these two, and the saloons in the neigh
borhood were full. The two men met and it
il said that words passed. The man eating
corn did not turn around until the sound Of
q blow was heard followed bya cry and
a fall. Then he turned, and saw ly-
ing on the crosswalk, leading from
Barnum's store to the corner, q man in dark
blue overcoat, dark striped trousers. The
man was writhing and holding his hands to
his face. Between his fingers blood oozed
upon his clothes and the stones. Somebody
raised the fallen mans head and tried to
make him speak, others ran this way and
that for policeman. and it began to be won
dered who the assailant was and where he
had gone. One of the spectators recollected
seeing q man w0lk down Catherine street
with ON umbrella under his arm. Others
said they had seen q man hand an umbrella
to another man, who disappeared with it.
over the moaning victim started back with
the exclamation: "He has the point of an
umbrella sticking in his eye" Many got
down on their knees in the wet to see. At
the lower corner of the right eye, just escap-
ing the eye and pressing it till it bulged out,
was the broken shaft of an umbrella tip of
yellow painted wood with the metal collar
which holds the cloth still about it and
broken off with it. Up to the collar the tip
had been driven through the frontal bone
into the mans brain. The blow had been
struck from one side, and the shaft ran in at
considerable slant. The ferrule entered
the mans brain. He is still unconscious and
cannot live longer than a day or two. The
victim was James Fosarty, a peddler, OF -
Oliver street. The assailant has not yet
been caught nor even identified.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20
Minnesota Editors.

The Minnesota Editorial Association in
session at Minneapolis finished their busi-
ness. Resolutions were passed in memory Of
Louis E. Fisher, who died a year ago. The
election of officers for the ensuing year re-
suited rs follows:
President, Joel Heatwole, Minneapolis Tri-
bune; second vice president, Frank A. Day,
Farimont Sentinel; third vice president, H.
0. Bassford, Austin Registrar; secretary, 6. 8.
Pease, AnOka Union; recording secretary, I.
M. NewsOn, st. Paul; treasurer, ID. Ramaley;
executive committee. H. r. Hall, st. Paul; f.
H. Dearth, LIE Sueur News; G. w. McGrew,
Crookston Chronicle.
The committee on prizes reported the
awards which seemed rs much as anything
to go by contraries. H. P. Hall, of st. Paul,
carried off the prize as the handsomest man;
Joel p. Heathwole was awarded the prize as
the homeliest. l.. P. Hunt, of the Mankato
Press, in the opinion of the committee, was
the talest man present j. W. Todd, of the
Hastings Gazette, took the prize as the
shortest; ]. w. Glass, of the Waconia News,
was tho fattest, and Samuel 8. Lambert, of
the Otter Tail County Farmer, drew q prize
as the man with the biggest head. E. H.
Dearth, of the LIE Sueur News, was the
youngest; NJ. L. Vought, Of the Wadena
Tribune, the thinnesti DR.. R. Manley the old
eat, and Hon. H. p. Hoard, Of the Aontevideo
Leader, the man with the biggest feet.
At 2 O'Clock in the afternoon of the 7th the
the $500" railroad. for their three days out
ing. "Bill' Nye did not go, but Secretary
Byron, of the Exposition, acted as his sub
stitute. The night of the banquet Mr. Byron,
It seems, let his old capabilities as a comedi-
an have full swing and in consequence the
editors were heartily amused; they therefore
insisted upon his company on the excursion
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20

very reticent a. to what limo Of action bis
government will follow, prefsrring to hold
back and watch developments before declar-
ing his policy for hefuture. Several members
Of the cabinet favor submitting the question
in dispute between the United States and the
dominion to neutral tribunal for settlement.
Your correspondent was the first to convey
the news of the passing OF the retaliation
bill in congress to the government here. Sir
Hector Langeyin express no surprise at the
result, which turned out as he had expected.
The government holds to the opinion that
President Cleveland will enforce the retalia-
tiOn bill in 50 far as it affects the transmits
sion Of goods in bond from Canada to foreign
countries through the United States terri
tories, or vice versa, as provided by the
Washington treaty, without breaking the
treaty existing between the United States
nnd Great Britain. Your correspondent was
informed by q prominent politician, and one
who knows whereof he speaks, that any at
tempt to enforce this part of the retaliatory
bill will lead to formal remonstrance from
Great Britain at once. 81 have no fear, how
ever, he continued, "that the bill will be car
ried into effect, as the dominion govern
ment will keep q sharp lookout now
that no initiative to American citizens
which might call for it's enforcement, is given.
Under the modus vivendi American fishing
vessels secure all the privileges" Eitner oif
John Macdonald or Sir John Thompson,
minister Of justice, will proceed to England
shortly to confer personally with the British
government AZ q more direct and satisfactory
way of discussing the situation than through
correspondence, as at present.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20

The official announcement from St. Peters.
burg that previous to the departure of the
ear for Southern Russia he gave an audience
to Q number of Abyssinian priests in indis-
putable evidence of the close relations exist-
ing between France and Russia, and is re-
garded in diplomatic circles as an answer to
the recent sharp reply of Signor Crispi, the
Italian premier, to the French note
respecting the capitulations at Mas
sowah. Those European states
men who contended that the net result ofthe
correspondence between France and Italy in
relation to Aassowah was to establish more
completely than ever the isolation of France
in Europe have had their confidence in the
maintenance Of peace through these means
rudely shaken by the action of the car,
which evidently means that Russia will en-
courage Abyssinia to maintain her claims
over Massowah, as well as to Zula, another
Red seq port, which Italy has taken possess
sion Of. The relations of France and Italy
have never been cordial since
the frst Indications Of q
French movement eastward from
Algeria. Italy regarded Tunis as port of
her own future sphere ofinfuence, and France
has all along disliked the growth in the
Mediterranean Of Q navy which, with the as
sistance of q single ally, would be able to
seal up all the French ports. The entry Of
Italy into the German alliance, and perhaps
still more, the understanding which, Of late,
has 80 often and SO loudly been declared to
exist between Italy, Austria and England,
naturally enough aroused French ssnsihiltiss-
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20
RESUME OF THE NEWS
The Latest Telegraphic News Con-
densed.
Doings at Washington.

Assistant Secretary of State Rives said
that he saw no reason to disbelieve the state
ment that there has been a riot in Canton,
China, growing out of the treaty trouble.
Chief Bell, of the United States secret SER
vice ut Washington received a telegram dated
ut Chicago, from Agent Porter, stating that
he captured at Mount Carroll, ILL.,, two conn-
terfeiters, Kench and Mclaughlin, together
with a large quantity of counterfeit money
and complete outfit.
The House committee on postoffices and
roads decided to report on u bill authorizing
new lock for registered mail pouches, the
pOstmaster-genera having represented that
the locks now used for registered mails are
not adequate to prevent depredations OF
this class of mail matter.
Speaker Carlisle has decided to appoint
Messrs. Rice, of Minnesota; Catchings, of Mis-
sissippi; Hayes of Iowa; f. B. Taylor, of
Ohio, and Perkins, Of Kansas, a committee
to investigate the charges made by Archi-
tect Smithmyers alleging that member Of
the house had endcavOred to "infiuence"
him in the awarding of the contract for ma
terial for the construction of the new con-
gressional library building.
The department of state has received in
formation in regard to his excelency Hadji
Hassein Koull Khan Vesare, the
Persian ambassador to this country, who
was supposed to have lost his way on the
journey to Washington. The information is
to the effect that the ministers left Teheran
Aug. 4,intending to proceed toAmerica by the
Caucasus, Consannople and Paris. Though
the United States has been in treaty rela-
tions with Persia since December, 1856, the
new minister will be the first Persian repre-
sentative ever accredited to this government.
The acting secretary OF war has issued the
following circular: 1t is hereby directed that,
hereafter chiefs of bureaus of the war de-
;partment shall cause to be stated in all ad-
vertisements for proposals forfurnishing sup
plies needed by or under the war department,
that preference will be given to articles OF
domestic production or manufacture, condi-
tions of quality and price being equal, and
that no contracts shall be awarded for the
furnishing of articles of foreign production or
manufacture when the article, of suitable
quality, of domestic production or manufac-
ture can be obtained.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20
Stricken Jaekaolyilla. .

Each succeeding day has seen day Of
gloom and death, and what is worse, the
outlook for the immediate future is gloomier
still. Twenty-seven new cases were reported
to the board of health for the last twenty
four hours. There were eight deaths from
Yellow fever during the same period. Among
the prostrations by fever are Hon. H. A.
Lenkle, cashier of the State Bank Of Florida,
chairman of the committee on sanitation OF
the citizens association, who has worked In.
def, tigably since the outbreak Of the fever.
Total new cases to date, GIL; total deaths,
90.
The committee on depopulation completed
the census of the city to-day, and reported
the total population remaininGat at 1851
whites, 3,045; colored, 9,812; unwilling to
leave. 1O.375, mostly colored people; with
means for sek-support, 1866; without
means, 8,495; refused to answsr ~ to
means, 1880. It il expected that 1000
or 5000 will leave in ten
or twelve days. The complete
depopulatiOn Of the city is impossible,
and those without means can hardly be pro-
vided for in the refugees camps under q
month or six weeks, during which time it is
feared the epidemic will have done it's work
aud hundreds Of lives sacrificed. The negroes
are 10th to leave, being told by politicians
that they will lose their vots by change Of
residence.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20
The Record of Casualties.

A dispatch from East Tawas, Mich, says
heavy forest fires north and east of that
point are doing great damage.
A telegram from Port Huron Mich, states
that the schooner Cheney Ames has founder
ed in Lake Huron and that all hands went to
the bottom with her.
Rev. Father T. F. Richardson of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, fell from a window of his room
on the fourth floor of the Lorimer house
and was 80 badly injured that he died.
The total loss by the fire in San
Francisco is placed by the latest estimates
at $1,000. 900, with an insurance of 5000, 900.
Some 1000 men are thrown out of employ
ment. One man was burned to death.
A destructive fire destroyed the entire bust
ness portion of Harper, Iowa. except one store
and an implement house. The loss is vari-
6csly estimated at from $1S,O 900 to $780,
900. The insurance does not exceed 5000
Parties just arrived from the upper Tenton
country in Montana, report disastrous
prairie fires in that section. Ranges have
been burned off for an area ofsixty-fve miles
and the fire has assumed such dimensions as
to battle all attempts to keep it under con-
troll.
Advices from Orizaba Mexico state that
Houses have been torn down and several
lives lost. Streams from the City of Mexico
to Vera Cruz are rising. In the state of Hid
algo, rivers are overfowing and causing
great damage. Railroad traffic has been
suspended.
The elegant summer residence of John
Johnston, the well known banker, and all
the farm buildings and crops at Bracken
Brae, his country seat, few miles southwest
of Milwaukee, were burned. Loss, $40, 900;
insurance, $1,000. The fire was started by
SO me children playing with matches. Ahigh
wind rendered the attempt to check the flames
futile.
Hank Farris, well-kn own character at
Greenwood, KY. who runs a saloon at that
place, shot and instantly killed Thomas
Young. Young went to Farris' saloon to
get friend to go with him to Beaver Creek.
Ferris was drunk when Young came in, and
accused him of taking his customer away
from his house. He would not allow Young
to explain, but shot him down without
provocation.
A young man named J ohm Cummings com.
mitted suicide at Sauk Centre, MINI. &c
had hired out to work for S. Beidle man and
was found in Beidleman's barn hanging from
one of the rafters, dead. No motive can be
assigned other than insanity. He has been
subject to temporary periods of derange
ment, and it is thought that he committed
the act during one of these. Several years
ago he was sent to St, Peter insane asylum
and was afterward sent home as cured, and
has since shown none of the symptoms o1
his malady.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-20
Criminal DOings.

Jacob Halgason, On Icelandic ia rmer, com
mitted suicide at Glenboro, Manitoba, by
cutting his throat md stabbing himself with
q small penknife.
The postofice at Wyoming, o., O suburb
to Cincinnati, IL miles from the city. on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad was
entered by burglars and the safe blown open.
stamps.
Willie Fischer, aged five, son of o farmer
living near Aberdeen, d. T., strayed or was
carried away from his fathers wagon, and
has not been seen since. The city has been
searched in vain, and his parents entertain
fears that the boy has been kidnapped.
The Hatfield trial has just come to a close
at the Pipeville, KY, all the prisoners being
acquitted. They have returned to West Vir-
ginia. Thus ends the famous case that threat
ened interstate complication between West
Virginia and Kentucky.
A shooting affray occurred at Lookout, q
mining camp thirty-fve miles vest of Rapid
City, N. Y Chris Lane and E. P. Purcell
quarrelled in q saloon over cards, Purcell
left. Lane followed with Winchester. Pur-
cell finally secured q revolver and stood at
bay, firing three shots, one of which took
effect, killing Lane instantly. Purcell gave
himself up and is now in Jail.
At Hudson, Wis, o burglar entered the
residence of DR.. King through back window
and took IS in money and a fine gold watch
from the doctors sleeping room. No clew to
the perpetrator. Officer Carroll has q close
eye on several suspicious-looking characters
in town, as several other attempts at burg
larry have been made during the week. Fred
Crarys bed room was entered early in the
week and his pants pockets rifled,
The murderer of John ROmbaugh by two
Nez Perce Indians has just been reported at
Helena, Mont. Rombaugh, with Frank D.
Jacquette, Corvallis on Aug. 25. for Mineral
Point, where they were employed in o mine
The two men had reached billiard creek, in
Missoula county, when they met the two In
dams. Rombaugh and Jacquette, after
camping for the night, went to sleep, when
Jacquette was aroused by a shot. He leaped
to his feet and saw the Indians standing over
Rombaugh's body. After wandering through
the mountains several days, Jacquette
reached the mining camp where he organized
a posse who are now pursuing the Indians.
A sensation has been caused in Edwards
vile, ILL.,, by the arrest of q combination of q
counterfeiters who have been successfully
posing as respectable family About
six wesks ago this family came here from
Kimmswick, Mo. They gave their name as
Russell, and there were three daughters, two
sons, and Mrs. Russell. They rented house
and settled down apparently to housekeep-
ing. Officers searched the honse and found O
counterfeiting outfit. There were molds, o
photograph camera, metals, dies and a buck
ct full Of IS gold pieces in process Of manu-.
facture. Boehling said 45 gold pieces was
their speciality. Counterfeit bills were also
captured,