The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-06-07

the murderers name was Max
Hoppa, IL Pole, about twenty-s seven years
| OF age, well known at Mcleod and along
| the Canadian Pacific. He is q ieweler, has
| worked at Helena and Butte during the
past year, and is evidently crank, AS he
has several times said he had lost papers
that would some day make him king of
| Poland. The murdered mans brother at
Fort Benton and father at Painted Wood,
Oak, have been telegra phed for. A party
is in hot pursuit. and ii Hoppa is caught it
is not improbable that justice will be de-
layed by the legal course.
An accident occurred near Bordeaux, S4
miles from Cheyenne, Wyoming. A wash
| out on the road six miles north OF Bor-
deaux was being repaired by a work train
when the north bound passenger arrived
| at Bordeaux. Its crew received orders to
| rush to the scene OF the wash out with an
| empty engine to learn whether the road
could be used by the passenger train.
| While making this run the engine collided
with the work train which had finished re-
pairs sooner than was expected, and was
returning to Bordeaux at full speed. Both
engines were completely wrecked. The
bodies OF the three killed were brought to
Cheyenne and four OF the injured were
sent to the Union Pacific hospital at Dem
| yer.
| The secretary OF the interior holds that
! the first section of the act OF June 10,
| 1850, does not authorize the purchase
and entry OF unofiered public lands
| by trespassers. and that the purchase
| OF such lands does not condone trespass
| committed upon them. The secretary
has requested the attorney general to be-
gin suit for trespass, and to cancel patents
| for lands which Coe Il Carter were wrong
fully allowed to purchase and enter along
the line OF the Union Pacific railroad in
! Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska,
Advices from Shanghai state that Rus.
sian intrigue has been renewed in Corea to
! induce the king to sever his connection
with China. The king resents the reten-
| ton OF the Chinese resident minister at
Seoul as interfering with his administra.
| ton.
Jay Gould, General Manager Clark and
other officials of the Missouri Pacific ar
rived at Omaha on u special train, which
was halted at n suburban station. Alter
remaining a few hours they departed for
the south. They are making IL complete
tour OF the Missouri Pacific system.
| The reduction OF the public debt during
the month OF May amounts to $4,000
900. Twelve million dollars were paid for
| pensions.
| An inquest on the body of William
| Thompson. woodsman, who died sudden.
| ly. was held at Chippewa Falls, Wis. The
| jury brought IN the following verdict:
From testimony given we are unable to
determine the cause OF DEATH" Consider
able comment is made on account of the
burial taking place without post NOR
tenn examination.
Commissioner Black has been advised of
the arrest OF Alice Johnson. OF Maine, OF
ter Tail county, Minnesota, on the charge
OF perjury committed in her claim for pen.
sion as the widow of Nels b. johnson. 1t
is understood at the pension office that
this case excited suspicion more than IL
year ago, and the secret service officers
have been trailing it at intervals ever
since. Commissioner Black thinks no ar.
arrest would have been made without
strong grounds for so doing, and sufficient
evidence to insure an indictment.
An interesting transaction is announced
in Chicago as completed. The parties are
the American Cattle trust on one side and
Nelsoa Morris, the Chicago live stock
magnate on the other. Instead OF a COB
bling-up process by the trust, the exact op.
poste is the case. Mr.. Morris has bought
back from the cattle trust the Fairbanks
Canning company. and has satisfactorily
dissolved all relations with the trust. The
consideration paid in the purchase was
S2.OOO.OOO.
The st. Paul Knitting Works, including
buildings and machinery were burned.
The loss was 10000 but Insurance will
enable the company to rebuild at once,
About one quarter OF the rank and file
OF the United States army will be on the
move. April 13 the adjutant general is-
sued orders for ten regiments to exchange
stations, the movements to commence not
later than June J.. Nearly all the reg
ments affected are in the depart tments OF
Dakota, Platte, Arizona, Missouri, Cali
fornia and Texas. The expenses OF the
migration will be about 5000, 900.
The anarchists at Chicago went through
the farce OF decorating the graves OF their
dead. The slab at the head of their graves
which the little group surrounded bore the
names OF Spies, Parsons. Engle, Fischer,
Lingg. Underneath these names was the
line uttered by Spies just before his execu
tom "Our silence will yet be more power
full than our words" A photograph Of
Spies rested upon Il basket OF flowers, up
on his grave and his Sister Gretchen wept
silently over the sod. Mrs. Fischer placed
flowers bpon the grave OF her late husband,
and each in turn deposited wreaths, OF
flowers wrought in other FORMS upon the
five graves.
The senate committee on the judiciary
held two meetings and iurther considered
the nomination OF NJ. w. Fuller to be chief
Justice, but did not reach conclusion.
There seems to be no doubt that the COM
mites will report favorable on the nomina.
ton. A Chicago man has been writing
persistently, asking for delay to give him
time to put certain things in shape for the
presentation to the committee, and he has
been accorded the time.
James Sheets, well.known young farm
er, living near Muncil, Ind, while looking
through cupboard drawer for some cop.
per rivets to do some mending W ith, found
Il package of dynamite cartridges. Sheets,
not knowing what they were, handed
them to his hired man, James Adams who
was standing near by. Adams began pick
ing them with a pin, when suddenly one
exploded shattering his hand. His index
finger and thumb were completely torn off.
His face was also badly burned and bruis-
ed. Mr.. Sheets's fve-year. old daughter
was standing near by with cartridge in
her hand, hut received no injury.
A young actress at Milwaukee, Wis,
compl aimed to Inspector Reimer that she
was afraid OF Frank Dewey, who had come
from Minneapolis and threatened to kill
her if she did not marry him, and said
that she was afraid he would attempt to
carry out his threat. Dewey was arrested
and taken to the station, where q loaded
revolver, a wicked dagger and bottle of
poison were found on his person. He is
good-looking man about thirty five years
old and claims to have been in business at
Minneapolis with man named Tufts. He
refuses to talk about the lady or say why
he was equipped with SO many instru.
ments OF death, and he will probably bo
prosecuted for carrying concealed wea.
pons.
Edward Hussopey. one of the proprie.
tors of the Nelsonian Nebraska Weekly
newspaper. was fatally shot in the thigh
by an unknown person while returning
from the G. A. K. camp fire. The motive
is supposed to have been robbery.
The general synod OF the Reformed Pres.
byterian church adopted q resolution,
reaffirming the conviction that the con-
stitution OF the United States is a virtual
agreement or compact to administer
the government without reference to
- L. I, -. ro1s so,1