The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-04-12

way across certain Indian reservations,
| were agreed to and the bill will soon be.
| come n law.
Senator Daniel OF West Virginia, intro
| duced u bill to repeal the law which pro-
| vides; No person who has served in any
| capacity in the military, naval or civil
| service of the socalled confederate states
in insurrection during the ate rebellion,
shall be appointed to any position in the
army OF the United States.
The President sent the following nomna.
tons to the Sanate Brig. Gen. George
| Crook to be ma jor general. Col. John X.
| Brooks Of the 3D. infantry, to be brigadier
| general.
The House committee on manufacturing
| has begun an inquiry into the alleged
| Standard Oil trust, under the authority
| conferred upon the committee by the
House to investigate all trusts and COM
| binations.
| Kennedy Porter, son OF ex-Gov. Porter.
| OF Tennessee. was probably fatally sh OF at
| Pals, Tenn, by Will Edmunds. The origin
OF the difficulty is supposed to be the at
| tention OF young Porter to Edmunds' Sis
ter.
4 British cabinet council was held, the
absent members having been hastily sum
moned by telegraph. 1t is supposed that
| the subjects debated were the procia.
nation OF League meetings and the situa-
ton OF Germany anent the proposed mar
| rase of Princess Victoria and Prince
| Alexander.
| A French anarchist named Morelle has
! been arrested in Geneva on charge oil at
tempting to blow up with dynamite the
| Church OF the Sacred Heart, at Montmatre,
a suburb OF Paris.
! The Senate committee on education and
| labor gave u hearing to several c!ergymen
| from IL distance representing various sun
| day observance associations. They advo-
Gated an amen 1ment to the interstate law
looking to the stoppage OF Sunday trains.
| Represent ative Mcdonald has been in
! strueted by the House committee on pub
| lie lands to report favorably his bill to de.
| clare IL forfeiture OF the Hastings & Dakota
railroad land grant lying opposite that
| part OF the road not completed in the con-
| tract time.
An extensive diamond robbery IRON
J Burt & Hurlburt, Wholesale jewellery ut
| Detroit, Mich, has lust leaked out The
! diamonds taken are valued at $50, 600.
| No clue to the thieves.
Senator Sabn has been giving the Mime
sofa public bull iings pretty close atten-
| ton. Senator Spooner still has the st.
! Paul bill in his subcommittee. Senator
Sabin consented to cut OF $50, 900 in the
! amount for his Saltwater building
! not to endanger the other Minnesota bilts.
Information has been received at the
| department that two German convicts,
| Finsterwalter and Riperger, who were re-
| turned to Germany by the commissioner
| OF immigration at New York in February
| last, are about to renew the attempt to
| land in this country They are assisted
| by IL German benevolent socity. Their al
| legged plan is to sail from England to the
| United States under assumed names. In
formation has also been received that a
! female convict. assisted" by the same
benevolent society, has sailed from Brennan
| for this country Instructions have been
sent to the proper officers at all Atlantic
ports to prevent the landing OF these inn
migrants and Others Of their kind.
| An immense land slide near Lanesboro,
! Mimi. has blocked the Southern Minnesota
| division so that all trains are being sent
around by way of McGregor, and trains
are running west OF Fountain. The track
is said to be buried under seven feet OF
| earth.
| Four men were killed by dynamite
! mill explosion recently at Miler's station
| The shock shook buildings in Valparaiso.
| The President approved the act grant
| ing pension to Mary S. Logan, widow OF
| Gen. J ohm A. Logan; the act to increase
the pension OF Mrs. A. P. Blair; the act for
the relief OF William G. Galloway, late cap
| tain in the army; the act for the relief OF
| Frank Baker. and the act making an ap-
! preparation to construct a road and ap-
proaches from Pineville, La, to the ma
! tional military cemetery near that town.
George Schwartz, the defauting treasur-
er OF Crystal Falls, Mich, was arrested at
| Milwaukee. He was found under the as.
sumed name OF Howard. living with a
| young woman who accompanied him in
! his flight. Schwartz admits that he made
way with $4,000 or 1000 OF public
moneys. He is about % years OF age.
Mrs Mary Sharp, OF Wanemee, Pa, was
in the manufacture OF whisky, when the
pot containing the same toppled over in 81
! hot fire. The fluid blazed. setting fire to
| her clothing, and she was burned to death
! in a lew moments. Three OF her children,
who tried to save her. were also burned
| and will die. The husband and father,
| John Sharp who was at work at the time,
| is reported TO have become insane.
The Boston Herald states Frank Law
son, Il freight clerk of the Boston e Prov
| idence railroad in that city, has absconI-
ed and is So, 900 Or $4,000 short in his
| accounts,
| At Decatur, Ill.,. while shooting at
target with revolver. Willie. the 17-year-
old son OF DR.. Cass Chenoweth, accidental
| ly shot and killed George, the three year
| old son OF Thomas Weaver.
| Gen. Won Loe who was sent as a special
| envoy to England to announce to Queen
| Victoria the accession of Emperor Freder.
| lex to the throne OF Germany, has been
| decorated with the order of the Red Eagle.
Ex-senator Roscoe Conkling has been
confined to his home with an abcess in his
right ear. His physicians have ordered
complete rest and quiet.
Four hundred miners in the Bevies, No.
mines have quit work on account OF the
refusal OF the operators to pay them 81
cents per ton instead OF so cents.
sad sensational story is reported
from Moscow. The beautiful daughter Of
n Russian army officer rented a room in
that city, and directly she had taken pos
I session OF it the police appeared and fore
ed the door, whereupon the lady jumped
from the window and was mortally in.
ured Her trunk contained dynamite
bombs, which on investigation were intend.
ed for the purpose OF assassinating the
Czar.
A United States senator who has con-
ferred with the president on the vacant
chief justiceship says that the president
indicated these points That he would
promote no associate justice; that he
should not make the assignment from the
south; that he should not appoint any
one over sixty years OF age and preferred
to find one from fifty to fifty-five, ii pos.
sibe; and that he preferred {. Western
man.
Two thousand people witnessed an
event never before heard of in the history
| OF Clark county, Georgia. Rev. DR.. Pridges,
eighty four years old, preached his own
funeral sermon in a small country church
SIX miles from Athens. He had his grave
| dug and coffin made for the occasion. He
and his assistants sung the first song
Shall We Gladly Meet?" He then gave
| his text, Cor. H., 8, and gave the large
crowd short talk in his falterins manner.
Seven mules were found in the wrecked
coal mine ar Birch Hill, Mo-, all alive.
| They had access to an abundance OF grain
| and water, and were in fine condition. This
| explodes the theory that the explosion
| was caused by natural gas or by ioul vapor
| ofany kind as such an explosion is always
| followed by choke damp, which would
| have killed the mules.
| The wife OF N. Thiessen, OF Mason City,
! Iowa. a.committed suicide by hanging herself
| to rafter. The day before she visited
Il