The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-05-03
General News Items.

The committee to select a place for the
annual convention OF the German Baptists
of the United States, has decided on Har-
risburg, Va. The convention will be held
the first Tuesday after Whit Sunday in
1889.
4 Jury in the city court at Mobile re-
turned a verdict giving $50, 900 damages
in favor OF G. Hall, a brakeman, against
the Louisville & Nashville Railway Com
pany. Hall was knocked IRON a freight
train by low bridge on the Mobile &
Montgomery division OF that road, and
had to have his foot amputated.
The Montana democratic territorial cou.
vention elected Martin Maginnis and Thorn.
as Marshall delegates to the st. Louis
convention. W. A. Clark was chairman OF
the convention. Messrs. Davidson and
Savage were chosen as aluernates. The
delegates were not instructed, but are pre-
sumed to be for Cleveland The admins
tration was endorsed by the convention.
The committee OF five appointed by the
anti-administration Knights of Labor
convention held in Chicago last October,
have issued circular to the order declar-
ing that it had dwindled in numbers from
7O2, 600 to 240, 200: that Powderly's spe-
cial call to get funds for lecturers was in
reality to get funds to keep the order out
bankruptcy till the next convention, and
calling on all true Knights to join the op-
position and help reorganize the order.
st. Paul and Central New York parties
have filed at Yakima, and Olympia, w. T.,
articles OF association with capital of
S50O,OO0 for an irrigation ditch sixty
miles long, from the canyon oil Yakima
river. which will water over 200, 900 acres
OF valuable land in the valley. The sur
veys are made and the work will begin this
season, and will be finished in time for
next seasons irrigation. Twenty six
thousand acres are already entered under
the desert land act.
In 1886 the National Bank OF Albion.
n. Y, failed and was placed in the hands
of A. Anderson, receiver. The president,
George H. Warner, had gone to Canada
after having lost S225,OOO of the bank s
money in stock specuiations through kis-
sam, Whitney Il Co., stock brokers OF New
York. The receiver brought suit against
the firm, claiming that they had guilty
knowledge of Warmers speculations and
knew that he was using the banks money
in specuiating. The jury brought in ver-
dict for the bank for $149,0oo.
The situation at the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works near Pittsburg, is viewed with
much apprehension. A mob of several
hundred Hungarians and Poles gathered
dU u E)idcc ClOSe W tu6 b
ty and laid in wait for party ofHungari-
an operatives that had refused to join the
strikers. The men had been engaged for
the night turn. AS soon as the workmen
came near where the strikers were gather.
ed, the latter assaulted them with clubs
stones and bricks. The workmen broke
and fled in every direction. the strikers
chasing them with the vilest imprecatons
and threats if they attempted to return to
work.
One OF the largest real estate transac.
tions that has ever taken place in st. Paul
has just been completed. The amount
iny olved is not made public, but it is un.
derstood that the sum is $4S5.OOO. The
property sold was portions OF the David
son estate, and includes l i 5 feet on Fourth
street, between the new Pioneer Press
building and the First National bank, six
ty-hve feet on Robert street next the new
Pioneer Press building 135 feet on Fifth
street, between Robert and Jackson
streets, and 200 feet on the corner OF
Sixth and Cedar streets. All the proper.
ty was sold to Henry Endicott, OF Boston,
a relative OF Secretary Endicott.