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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-15

This institution has for its object
the training of Young Ladies for
School Teachers, &C., and the Sisters
have made reduction in the usual
prices, SO as to enable young girls who
cannot afford the highest terms usually
charged in boarding schools, to have
the advantages they would have in
any other schools where double the
amount would have to be paid.
The School Year hast wo sessions
of five months each, commencing lst,
Monday in September. The End, lst,
Monday in February.
TERMS PER SESSION:
Board and Tuition in English Bran
ches, Bed and Bedding, $4,000 paid
in advance.
Charges for Languages, Music &c.,
Apply for Prospectus to
SISTERS OF MERCY,
39t2m Morris, MINI.
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Shocking Calamity.

A special from Pittshurg, Kan, says that
the most dreadful disaster in the history OF
Kansas occurred on Friday. Nov. 9th. When
the men were preparing to leave off Their
work at Shaft No. 2 at Frontenac, a suburb
of Pittsburg, q terrible explosion was heard
that shook the earth for a great distance
and completely shattered the shaft. Upon
investigation it was found that 160 men
were within the mine ut the time of the ex-
plosion. Being liz feet below the surface,
it ia almost certain that oil are dead.
The only exceptions were two men in a car
coming up, and being near the top of the
shaft, managed to escape. Pittsburg is in
center of the coal mines of Southern Kansas,
and is about one hundred miles south Of
Kansas City, on the Fort Scott & Gulf road
The violence of the shock was so
great as to hurl dishes from
shelves and demolish chimneys. Half an
hour after the explosion the villagers who
startled by q ragged, bleeding man, who, al.
most staggered INTO the arms of the search
ers. He said that Shaft No had been de-
stroyed by an explosion, and that all the
men in the mine at the time. except him
self and Dane whom he left bleeding at the
mouth of the pit, were undoubtedly
dead. Aorses were quickly harnessed
villagers we're hurrying througha fierce snow
and sleet storm which was raging. At the
mouth of the mine the tremendous force Of
the explosion was apparent. There were
huge seams in the earth and the timbers of
the hoisting apparatus were shivered and
burned. Foul gasses were escaping. The
Dane who escaped with the man who had
alarmed the villagers, lay in the mud with
his face covered with blood. For long
time it was thought he wns dead, but
he regained consciousness In a few hours and
is now at his home. He cannot speak and
does not know what cansed the explosion
His clothes are in ribbons, The man who
reached the village with the farst tidings Of
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WEST AND SOUTH.

\ FIEE at Alpcna. Mich, on the 18th
originating in a sawdust pile at H r
Morsc-s mill, rendered fifteen hundred
people homeless and destroyed two hundred
houses Loss. S3ol0O0.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows on the 18th: MINES Ota. First
district, Mark II. Dunnell Rep; Georgia,
Fifth district, J. ID. Stewart Dem }, renom-
mated; Missouri. Third district, A. NJ
Dockcry DEM. renominated-
A HAIL-SroRN on the 18th near North
Manchester. Ind. damaged all the crops
and pelted a number Of hogs 70 death
J. T. MoREHEAD was nominated for Con
greSs by the Democrats Of the Fifth North
Carolina district on the i2th.
All the principal county officers (all col
oredl az Marion. Tenn, were escorted to
trains by white men on the 18th, given
tickets and warned never to return
On the eth eight persons were killed
and twenty-five injured by a passenger
train on the Virginia Midland railway
breaking through = trestIe near Orange
Court House. Va.
Reports on the 18th from crops in the
Northwest gave indications OF good
Weld and a prosperous season for the
farmers
Governor MOREHoUsE. OF Missouri, on
the ls.h refused 10 commute the sentence
Of Hugh NJ Brooks, the murderer Of Arthur
Preller, but granted him a respite until
August Ia
G. NJ RIDER was hanged at Marshall No,
on the 18Th FOR the murder Of r p. Tallant
two years ago.
A RISE Of the Wabash river on the 18th
10 eighteen feet flooded hundreds Of acres
OF bottom land near Terre Haute, Ind, and
destroyed over half the corn croD.
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TO BE NON-PARTISAN.

The G. A. X. Not to Take Any Integral
Part Whatever in PoIitics-Stringent and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Orders Looking to
l. PartisanShin Issued NV C.-~r ---ssader Re-
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, July 16.-Generai
order No. 9 has been issued from the Grand
Army headquarters, reading in substance
as follows:
I'm view Of the period of great political
excitement upon which the country is
aow entering, the Communicating Chief deems
II his duty to call the attention OF all
comrades to the following extract from
the rules and regulations: No officer
Or comrade of the Grand Army OF the Republic
Bhall, IN any manner, use this organizat on for
partisan purposes, a7d no scussion OF par
Hsan questions shall be permitted at any of its
meetings, nor shall any nomination for political
office be made ART. ri. chap. 5.
1.-THE continued prosperity and usefulness
Of our fraternity depends upon the avoidance
Of a suspicion that it can be
used by any person or in any locality
tor any partisan purpose whatever The mem
bers OF the organization, as citizens OF ihei
country, have all the rights and are sub
lect 10 all the duties of citizenship. They have,
and should have, their political cow ctiOus and
party Affiliations and their right 10 advocate
and proclaim them, and the right TO differ ia re-
gard TO them as they do is in no wise questioned;
but fidelity TO the prime Piles OF the organization,
and due regard for its efficiency and welfare,
urgently demand that any and every violation
Of the letter or spirit OF the above-cted rule
should be studiousy avoided and promptly
condemned. Comrades are reminded that the
uniform of the order should not be worn
at any political gathering, and they are
admonished to discountenance the use OF all
political badges or devices in any way calcu-
lated 70 associate the Grand Army of the Re
public with any political party or candidate.
ITO the end that the fraternal ties which
now unite us may no; be impaired by partisan
contentious this warning is promulgated and
commanders of departments and posts are
directed to supplement the same by all proper
methods.
by command OF John p. Rea, commander
in-ehief DANIEL FISH,
Al
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The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS-,


WEDNESDAY,, July LIN the Senate
the FortifcatiOns and Sea-coast Defense
bill was considered, and a bill was intro
duced TO appropriate 100000 for the cree
ton Of public building at Burlington. la
Several petitions were presented from
labor organizations praying for the passage
OF a oil TO regulate and restrict immigra-
ton. Ihe bill to prohibit the coming of
Chinese labOrers into the United States
WAS favOrably reported In the House a
conference on the Land grant Forfeiture
b u was ordered. The Senate amendment
20 the Agricultural Appropriation bill ap-
propriating $Ieo. go for sorghum sugar ex-
periments was agreed TO. The Tariff bill
was again considered, tie wool schedule
being reached before adjournment At the
evening session a bill to provide for tax
ing the eleventh census was passed.
THURSDAY, July PA motion made by
Senator Hawley in the Senate 70 have
eNtre copies printed Of the report made
by the Committee on Pensions on the
Presidents pension ve,oes led to an ami
mated discussion Senator George spoke
in favor Of ratifying the fisheries treaty
The bill to pay all the Government work
men for the excess Of WORK over eight
hours day since June p, 1858, was dis
cusset- II the House a resolution for the
appointment Of special committee TO in
vestigate alleged invasions of the Contract
Labor law was discussed. Discussion of
the wool schedule Of the Tariff bill Occu-
pied the remainder Of the session
FRIDAY. July 13-BilIs were passed in
the Senate 10 build a bridge across the
Mississippi river at Wabssha, Mimi, and
TO establish branch home for soldiers and
sailors in Indiana, TO cost s3O0OO0 The
fisheries treaty was further discussed.
Adjourned TO the 10th. In the House the
conference report on the Post ONCE Appro-
priatiOn bill was submitted. ami all the
amendments were agreed to except the one
known as the subsidy" A long debate
followed, but no action was taken At tho
evening session twenty -four private pen
sion bills were passed.
SATURDAY. July 1.-The senate was not
In session. In the House the wool para
graph OF the Tariff bill was discussed.
MOSDAT. July l6.-In the Senate the
Fisheries treaty was further discussed.
and the House joint resolution selecting
Colonel Harris. of Ohio, General Martin. Of
Kansas, and General Hartranft. of Penn
sylvania, managers of the National Sol
diers Home, TO fill vacancies. was passed
Two pension vetOes were received from the
President In the House the Tariff bill
was further considered, and by vote of
10 70 lJ2 the proposition TO strike wool off
the free list was rejected This completed
consideration of the essentially tariff feat
ures Of the bill. Speaker Carlisle ap-
pointed committee Of five to investigate
the causes and evils of excessive immigra-
tion. TO report at the next session of Con
gross.
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MAKING ADVANCES.
improvements That Have Been Made i'm
All branches Of Farm Work.

improvements That Have Been Made IN
All Branches Of Farm Work.
Progress in agricultural science at
best is slow. As rule naturally COM
sentative farmers do not take hold and
use advantages so often afforded by the
experience of others. Changes in
methods of planting and cultivating as
well as in fee ding or managing stock.
Yet there is no question but that great
improvements have been made and are
still being made in all J anches OF
farm work.
The use of improved machinery, the
keeping of better stock, better feeding,
better water, better crops, better gem
eral appearance OF farms, all bear evil
dences that farmers are making adj
yances.
At the same time there is plenty OF
room for greater improvement, and In
no section are the possibilities greater
than in the South and Southwest. Acres
of land not yet in cultivation, much
that is not yielding what under proper
management the soil is capable of, al
ford plenty of room for better advance
ment.
Too often we get into rut and stay
there. Repeatedly following one plan
we fall into a habit that in many cases
is difficult TO get out of, and often,
when from the experience of others,
we might make changes that would be
for the better. yet we fail to improve
Much of this is the result OF careless
ness more than any thing else Let a
newcomer make start in the neigh
borhood. If he is a man of energy, and
go to work evidently with the inten-
ton of doing something, his move
aients win be watched closely- If he
fails ne must expect to bear some
ridicule but If he succeeds, in short
time he will have some followers, and
some improvement at least is made.
This is one phase of improvement.
Gradually farmers are learning to
read more. End this naturally excites
thought and thinking begets improved
action, so that slow but surely a
steady advance is made OF course in
some localities this is greater than
others. This is in accordance with
circumstances. Yet It's better TO re-
cord the fact that advances are being
made than to feel like the class TO
which you belong are standing still
n. j. Shepherd, ia tirsrt SoiiiA
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE police of Berlin on the 18th arrested
five Socialists for FASTING seditious pla-
cards over copies of the speech from the
throne
HEAVY gales prevailed in the English
channel on the 18th, and a number of small
vessels were wrecked along the French
coast.
DISPATCHES of the 18th from Cape Tom,
Africa, say that the Debers 600. mine at
Kimberley has hsea.-Idrned, and that five
nv. s-,.,ss persons lost their lives.
Ok the 18th General Bonlanger resigned
his seat in the French Chamber Of Depu
ties.
A BILL passed the Italian Chamber of
Deputies on the 18th giving electoral rights
to every enc who is able to read and write
and who pays the minimum taxes.
NEWS reached Paris on the 18th that an
instruction had occurred at Port au
Prince, and that the insurgents had burned
five hundred houses, including most of the
public buildings.
HEAVY earthquake shocks were felt
throughout Greece on the 18th.
The question of granting the ballot to
women was defeated by a narrow ma
jority in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
on the 18th.
On the coast of Spanish Honduras a
hurricane was reported on the 18th to have
destroyed a number of fruit plantations,
creating heavy losses.
NJ FLoQUET and General Boulanger
fought duel with swords near Paris on
the 18th. The battle was fiercely con
tested, and in the second round BoulangeT
received thrust in the neck which might
prove fatal Premier Floquet escaped with
a few scratches
The business portion of the town of
Ripley, Ont, was nearly destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Twenty-six buildings were
burned
A DISPATCH of the 18th announces the
death of Sir John Henry Brand, President
Of the Orange Free State, aged sixty five
years.
THE harvests in Hungary had on the 14th
been ruined and much other property had
been damaged by heavy storms. Numbers
of people were killed by hail-stOnes.
a FIRE destroyed the La Frenciere's i'm.
mense saw mills at Louisville, Can, on the
18th Loss, 100000
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LATER.

GEORGE A. Macbeth a. Co, of Pit,sburg,
Pa, chimney ass manufacturers, have
about decided TO remove their works t. Bel
GUM. Macbeth & Co. lave the largest
chimney glass house in the United States,
aud probably in the world. Mr.. Macbeth
saws that they will be able to manufacture
chimney glasses in Belgium, bring them in
TO the United States, and pay - per cent.
duty on tn m. all for less than they can
manufacture them here for.
A PLOT was discovered in Chicago the
18th to avenge the death of Spies, Parsons
ct al by Blowing up the principal public
buildings Of Chicago and 10 murder Judge
GRAY. Judge Grinncll and Police Inspec tor
Bonfield. The means to be used was dyna-
m .te, and enough was captured to blow up
half of the city. The plot would probably
have succeeded had not one of the conspira-
tors weaken d and informed. Three Bohe-
mians, Frank Hronk, Frank Chappek and
Frank Chelbow were arrested, one of them
was arrested as suspect soon after the
Haymarket riot.
TuE senate ON the l5ti by vote of % to
81 has passed the bill placing John e. Ere
mont on the re ire ! ST % the army as
maj or general The bill II provide for the
adjustment % the claims of government
worknen un Ter the Gig t-hour law Of l,6S
was also pissed
ANOTHER arrest was made in connection
with the 2" strike on the l5lh at Gales
burg, IN.
TIE Democratic Natio al Executive
Committee, IN session at New York on the
18th, elected Calvin ;. Brice chairman.
THz Secretary OF the Treasury on the
18th sent 1t er 10 speaker Carlisle in
viting the attention Of Congress II the ne
oesSity Of further legis alton forthe letter
enforcement Of the alien contract labor
law.
JACK LEwEs, a co'orel man, shot and
killed his mistress, Alice jackson, at New
York on the nth
THs President on the 15.h pardoned ex-
Fostmy ster S-i-ey. of Warner, Ark. serv-
ing sentence Of tiir:oea motifs in the
peniten iary for arson.
EDITOR Moore. under bonds at Topeka,
Kan, or adultery with Mrs. Norton, disap-
pearei on the 18th.
THE United Labor party Of Minnesota
held its state convention at Minneapolis on
the 18th. A platform was adopted favoring
the single tax idea, advocating safe own
ership o. railroads and such legislation as
viii end 20 shorten the hours OF labor and
put an end 70 the abuse OF conspiracy laws.
A motion to are a ticket in the field was
lost ~ a vote Of - to y.
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SABLE ISLANDS FATE.
One of Nova Scotia's Landmarks Swal-
lowed Up by the Sea.

One of Nova Scotia's Landmarks Swal-
lowed Up by the Sea.
The strange disappearance of the re-
markable strip of terra firma, Sable
Island, near Nova Scotia, is one of the
marvels of the Atlantic Ocean, and
proves that, though mans power has
chained the lightning, and with it
bound together two great worlds, he
can not chain the ocean nor stop its
ravages, and, using the words of the
immortal Byron, his control stops with
the shore. This island has been grad
TALLY disappearing for years, and with
out doubt in a few more years it will
be totally submerged, and there will
soon be nothing left to prove the exist
ence of one of Nova Scotia oldest land
m arks. In theyear 1775, according to
the earliest charts, the island was 10
miles long and q miles wide.
The rcxt survey was ordered in 1903
by General Sir George Provost, the
Governor of Nova Scotia, and from his
report we learn that the island is 80
miles in length and , miles in
breadth. with hills $50 to POO feet high.
In 1850 the island was visited by the
late Hon. Joseph Howe, for the pur-
pose of making himself acquainted
with the condition of tie place, and by
actual measurement ne found that the
island had decreased at the west end
IL miles in the last 80 years, and for
the safety of navigation and for pre-
vention of disasters new chart was
compiled. During 1850 and 1881 there
was little change in the west side of
the island; but the winter OF 1881 was
remarkable for its many storms, gale
following gale in rapid succession, AMI
during one gale 40 feet by a quarter Of
a mile departed. A short time after
ward 80 feet of the whole width disap-
peared IN few hours
In the winter of 1887, 347 feet were
swept away, and the altitude of the hill.
which, when the first survey was made
was from $50 TO 200 feet. was only so feet.
The ear n has been washed from beneath
three lighthouses. the first being placed
sve miles from the shore. the next four,
and new operations for the third one
have commenced. The island is now
only 191 miles long and less than one
mile wide. Should the breakers con-
.inue their work now in operation. the
day is not far distant when the sea will
smile and sparkle over the place as
calmly and cruelty a. only the sea
knows how.-B0StoN IrGCeitr.
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ANOTHER CYCLONE REPORTED.
New stories About the storms Ravages
in West Virginia.


WHEELING, W. Va, July IA. - AS the
ravages of the storm are repaired addi-
tiOnal advices as to the extent % the de-
struCtion are received from sections not
before open TO communication. A dis
patch from Berea, Richie County, bring
the first advices from the Hughes river, a
small streaR flowing through DOdd-
ridge and Richie counties. On its banks
the destruction is complete. Hundreds of
farmers in these two counties, as well as
Calhoun, Giimer and Lewis, are absolutely
ruined. Near Berea, at o'clock Monday
evening, there was a cloud burst that in
few minutes brought the waters higher
than ever known j. r. Bakers store, ten
feet above ordinary high water, was car
ricd away from its foundation and every
thing below was swept clean. Every
bridge on the stream is gone. Houses,
barns, granaries, hay-stacks and grow
ing crops disappeared entirely, and
piles of drift and debris were left ten or
twelve feet deep in the valley. For miles
the soil was washed off as clean as floor,
leaving hard, smooth clay surface. The
loss on Hughes river is placed at S500,000.
On Wednesday Terra Alta, Preston
County was visited by cyclone, OF which
no news reached here owing TO the lack
of mail or telegraph facilities. The track
of the cyclone lay right through the heart
Of the town and twisted houses from their
foundations and carried roofs hundreds of
feet from the buildings. No one was in
iurad
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the encounter. The wound is a severe one,
but on account of hemorrhaige the doctors
are unable TO decide whether il is
likely to prove serious. Tie duel was
tiercely fought General Boulanger sried
hard e. R'll III. Floquet, and threw himself
upon him again affs again. When NJ Flo
quet received the wound ~ the hand and it
began to bleed, the seconds PROPOSED that
the fight be discontinued, but both thS
eombatants refused TO stop 1t is now be-
lieved that the wound in General Boulang-
er's throat is serious one. NJ. FlOquet
received scratches on his hand, chest and
foot The seconds have made formal re-
port in which they state thst General BOu-
LANCER received a serious wound in the
neck.
DIR. Monod, who is attending General
Boulanger, has issued bulletin regarding
his condition. II says there is deep
wound in the right side of the Generals
neck, and that it causes marked difficulty
In his respiration. At present the doctor
is unable to give an opinion as to what
turn the case NAV take.
At o'clock p. m General Roulanger's
physicians said there was a marked i'm
provement in his condition, but they de-
clined 10 make a prognosis. There is a
deep wound in the Generals neck, which
seriously interferes with respiration. Sew
eral Journals assert that NJ. Floquet's
sword penetrated General Boulanger's
neck six centimetefs al point between
the jugular vein and the carotid artery.
The Soir says that the condition Of the
General is serious, that high fever sue
ceeded extreme prostratiOn, and that his
respiration is rapid and sometimes very
difficult.
NJ. Maquet, in the absence of General
Boulanger, presided at banquet He an
nounced that the Generals condition was
as favorable asp5ssible
NJ Rocheftrt on learning the result Of
the duel, exclaimed: How Wonderful the
youngest General in the army let himself
be pinked by a barrister nearly 90 years
DID,
NJ. Flouduet presided at the Unwilling
of Statue TO Gambetta. In his speech he
extolled the patriotic firmness which Gam
BETA had shown during the war with Ger
many, and the invinciblc energy with
which he afterwards foiled the seastiOnary
coalition against the Rar Ifblic
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ST. Louis, July 14-Mrs. Brooks and her
daughter visited Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias
Maxwell, in the Jail A fearful interview
was held in whispers, after which the
ladies sorrowfully departed. Maxwell said
in conversation afterwards that he still
had hope and limited at a possible inter
ference in his behalf by the President. His
mother and sister, when all means for
mercy have been tried, will leave the
country before August 10. Maxwell looks
forward to a visit from his father and
brother, now in England. It is said that
Martin and Fauntleroy will ask President
Cleveland to interfere in the case, and pro
fess to still have hopes Of saving MaxWelrs
life
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THE results Of excessive Italian i'm
migration into this country are now
seriously felt, and the Italian Immigra-
tiOn Society Is having a severe strug-
gle TO keep large number Of Italians
who are in this country without work
from starving. The president of the
society estimates that at least eight
thousand Italians are in New York and
neighbOring cities in actual want for
food. But requests for a number of
men have been received from Virginia
and other States for railroad and farm
work. and the society hopes 10 get rid
of many of Ii I'm.