The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-04-19

The Republicans have carried Rhode Isl.
and by about fifteen hundred majority,
the following officers having been elected:
Governor. Royal C. Taft; lieutenant gov.
ernor Enos Lapham; secretary OF state,
Samuel l.. Gross; attorney general, Gen.
Horatio Rogers: treasurer, Samuel Clark.
Wilhelm Meissel, section officer OF the
steamship Werra. Of the North German
Lloyd, has invented an oil rocket that
throws Oil over u very large area. lie
claims that by the use of this vessels can
sail safely in the most tempestuous wealth.
er, the oil calming the most dangerous sea.
John A. Logan, Jr, has had n hearing at
Newcastle, Pa, on the charge OF shooting
Angelo Nocerio, an Italian. with intent to
kill during the riot at Carbon Quarries.
large number OF witnesses were examined.
Alderman Leslie decided that Logan was
obeying an order from the sheriff and he
was discharged.
The amnesty decree for Alsace Lorraine
is published in Strasburg, together with
the ministerial rescript relating to the de.
cree. 1t is Il duplicate OF the amnesty
proclamation recently issued in Prussia.
and also announces the pardon OF persons
sentenced for uttering seditious cries, dis
playing seditious emblems or infringing
French press laws still in force.
The Amalgamated Association OF Iron
and Steel Workers is growing in numbers,
and at the next meeting OF the national
convention between 30 and 40 new lodges
will he represented. Heretofore none bat
skilled workmen were elegible to member
ship, but after the last convention it was
decided to admit Others.
General Master Workman Powderly has
written II letter to the Knights OF La.
Dor throughout the country in regard to
hours OF labor. He advises the Knights
to discuss the eight hour plan dispasSion-
ately with their employers. He says that
an immediate change cannot be insisted
on, but that practical plan should be
perfected.
The house committee on military affairs
instructed Mr.. Ford to report favorably
the senate bill increasing the number OF
officers which may be detailed from the
army as instructors at academies, agricul.
tural and other colleges and universities,
from forty to fifty. This bill is the out
growth OF the continued agitation made
by the governor and other state officers OF
Minnesota to secure from the secretary OF
war detail for the Minnesota State Uni
versity.
Chief Arthur has returned to Chicago
from Cleveland. He held n conference with
Chief Sargent and Chairman Hoge. He
said after the conference that the attitude
OF the strikers was unchanged. The exact
date when the brakemen employed on the
Burlington railroad are to strike has not
yet been determined. it is said, but they
will go out very shortly, unless some ar
rangement is made between the company
and the striking engineers.
The statement is published in San
Francisco that the Oceanic Steamship
Company (Spreckel's line) has signed
4 contract by the term OF which it becomes
the representative OF the Canadian Pacific
railroad in San Francisco. 1t is claimed
that the contract is one OF unusual signiti-
canoe and that in accordance with its prop
ostion the Canadian Pacific line of
steamships now plying between Vancouver
and Hong Kong will make San Francisco
their terminal point.
Miss Nina Alcan, the young lady who
created n sensation by leaving a good
home in Beloit Wis, to unite with the
Salvation Army, has returned from New
York, where she has been spending five
months in the headquarters training
school. She says she has given up her
labor with the Army for the reason that
she feels that she has filled her mission in
that direction. She says her sacrifices
have more than been compensated for in
her observations while with the army, and
she is a spiritually stronger woman be-
cause OF her stay with it. She was not
elevated to high office. as has been re.
ported, but devoted herself to the work at
the training school.