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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
Literally Construed,

WASHINGTON. April 1O.-Assistant Secretary
Bussey is giving more liberal construction to
the pension laws than has heretofore been given
and each day number of former decisions Of
the pension office are overruled. Among other
recent reversals are the following: In the case
Of Henrietta Breckinridge, colored woman,
who applied for pension a dependent widow
of Olmstead Breckenridge, Company K, One Hun
dred and Twenty third United States Colored
troops, he revcrses the pension office decision.
Her application was first rejected on the ground
that she was not his wife, as they were both
slaves at the time of his enlistment and lived in
Kentucky where the law did not recognize
the legality of marriage among slaves.
Assistant Secretary Bussey holds that
:he point is not material and as they
cOhabited directs a pension to issue. John
Miller Company G, second battalion. Sixth ma
tional guard cavalry, has been allowed a pension
after the pension Office had rejected his claim
on the ground that disability did not develop
until after his discharge, and that disease was
not contracted in the line of service Sarah Jane
Morgan, mother OF William Morgan, Company
A, Fourth United States artillery, has been al
lowed a pension on new evidence adduced to
support her claim. Simeon B. Williams Com
pany A, Thirty-fifGh Ohio volunteers, has been
allowed a pension for the loss of two fingers by
the accidental discharge of his gun His claim
ground that there was no record of his being at
tached to the regiment at the time the accident
occurred, but Assistant Secretary Bussey holds
that the evidence Of the officers and comrades of
Williams is sufficient in the absence of the Of
fetal record.
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The Sio ux Commission.

WAsnNGToN, -spec:al Telegram. April TO-
Ttere issanother hitch in the appointment of
the 8iaIx Commission Two Of the persons
whom Secretary Noble had selected refused to
serve, and the matter has gone over for few
days. One Of these persons is Congressman
William Warner of Missouri, but it is under
stood by dint of considerable telegraphing to-
day, his objections have been overcome, and
that he will accept. He desired very much
to go upon the Cherokee commission, but
owing to the opposition Of the Cherokees them
selves, no was refused the place He was greatly
disappointed. The name of the remaining per-
son who declines appointment could not be
learned. but it is hoped that his place can be
d led in q day or two. It is reported that John
HI. King of Dakota, Charles Failr of Ohio. and
Gen. Crook, OF the army, are to be on the com
mission. The instructions to the commission
have been signed by the secretary. They are
almost Identical with those given to last years
commission, and conform TO the terms of this
wears act y4s4.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
Minor Casualties.

Redield, South Dakota had bad fire, half
a dozen buildings having been destroyed.
Thomas drake, an attorney, had sleeping
rooms over the postottice and was not
awakened until the building was well on fire
He dashed down the burning steps, and was
seriously burned about the face and the eX-
posed parts of his body. When leaving the
room he had Il beg of gold in his hand con
tanning $40, which he dropped as the flames
struck him \ Mr.. Billings was run over by
u hook and ladder wagon and seriously
hurt
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The President Shows No DispOsi
tiOn to Create a Cyclone of PO-
litical Removals.

WASHINGTON, April l0.-The long list OF
postmasters appointed yesterday inspired
tho office seekers with an hilarious appre-
hension that the hour of the long and
anxiously prayed for clean sweep had at last
struck. A careful analysis of the papers in
the various cases filed in the department
does not justify this sanguine concensus OF
Judgment Only minute fraction of the
appointments were of the clean-sweep sort
or forty-seven appointments to presidential
offices ten were TO fill vacancies made
by designations, ten were to va
cancies created by the expiration OF
terms, eleven were to offices that
have newly become presidential, and six
teen were to replace postmasters removed.
or the sixteen, three were removed fol
causes, and it is said several more might
have been, only the department was not dis
posed to send men out of Office with bad
record where it could be avoided. Others. ii
is explained, were editors of Democratic pa.
pers who challenged removal by bitter at.
tacks upon the administration since the 4tt
Of March. Offensive partisans, ambitious oi
martyrdom, whom it was thought best to
CRAFTY. 1t is known that there was much
sober consideration over this list OF post
masters Mr.. Wanamaker was closeted with
t. and the president for two hours, and it was
nearly night before the announcements were
made.
To-day the department was fortified with
justification for all the changes made, SC
there Is NO evidence yet of a departure from.
the rule laid down u month ago, that re
movals would not be general in presidential
postofices, and that most of Mr.. CleveIal:d's
appointments would be permitted to serve
out their terms OF the two Northwestern
appointments in the list, one, that at Living
ston, was to fill vacancy created by rcsig-
nation, and the other, at Madison, s. D., to
fill vacancy caused by the failure of the
senate to confirm one of Mr.. Cleveland's ap-
pointments. 1t may be that Wanamaker has
been warned by the fate that has overtaken
Secretary Noble Officials of the interior de-
partment say it was more crowded to-day
than it has been since the 4th of March, All
of the office seekers in town seem to have
deserted the other departments to flock
there, accepting as an invitation Mr.. Mobiles
recent declaration of policy. The reputa-
ton of moderate civil service reformer is
not only good thing in the abstract, but IL
is shield and a strong castle to protect
cabinet officers from the assaults of the mob
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18

WASHINGTON, April lott is authoritatively
stated mt the department Of state to-day that
the three treats powers concerned in Samoan
affairs-England, Germany and the United
States, have reached an understanding, by the
terms of which they will each keep but one war
vessel at Samoa pending the termination of the
Berlin conference. The vessel to be SEM there
by the United States will be the Alert l,0OO-
ton ship now at Honolulu. The German cor
vette Sophie. now on her way out from Zanzibar
will represent German interests, while England
will doubtless order the Calliope to return TO
Samoa from Sydney, or will replace her IL she is
materially damaged by the hurricane.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
A story Discounted.

WASHINGTON, Special TELEGRAM, April TO-
The story will probably be telegraphed TO many
papers Tonight that H. M. Duffield OF Detroit.
Mich, has been selected for solicitor general and
viii be appointed in few days. Thh may be
true, but Attorney General Miller stated posi-
lively last Saturday that no person had been
thought of for solicitor general anu that no ap-
pointment W. uld be made i'll after the end of
the present term of the supreme court, In which
MIR jerks is conducting some very important
cases for the government, including the tele-
Nkune casea
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
Postal Clsrlshfps FOR Dakota people.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram. April TO-
Delegate Mathews to-day secured the appoint-
ment of William H. GrinnelI as a postal clerk
between Tracy and Pierre ON the Northwestern
road. He has also sorecommended w. E. Whiting,
editor OF the Brookings Sentinel, for a similar
position to run between Oakes and Hawarden.
and 0. u. Smell of Norfolk as postal agent, Sully
onunty, o. run between Redheld and Gettys-
burg Mrs. Mathews Is sttIl quite III and hardly
able to travel The delegaie expects to leave for
home aboutlthe last of tho week Mr.. Mathews
the application OF Mcdowell OF Hlghmorc for the
Hnron land office, and says his atrongestsnp-
port came from outside The territory. Mcdowell
himself says he IL under great obligation To the
senator's from Illinois and Mlnnesota
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
on for Montana.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, April TO-
Having finally given his ultimatum to ex-Gov
Crosby. Russell Harrison will leave for Montana
tomorrow evening. as 1t is necessary for him to
be present at meeting of stockmen with whom
he is associated. "Olly business would draw
me away from Washington at this time, said
Mr. Harrison" but I will leave my family here
to represent me until return from the West
will probably finish up my business affairs in
Montana SO as to be able TO take in the centen-
nial celebration at New York, and in addition to
that, it is important that I should be iu New
York about the first of May. At that time
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper will be
formally transferred to its new owners, and we
want to talk over the future policy OF the paper
Montana people who want to have something to
say about local patronage themselves will not
be heart-broken it Mr.. Harrison stays In the
West.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
ALAS. IT Is THE REVERSE.

Where snow drifts lay is seen the grass, :
The Boreal breeze no longer blows, L
The mecury's rising in the grass,
And men are wearing thinner hose,
The heavy ulster's put aside,
Light overcoats are taken out,s
The gentle maiden in the pride
or new spring garments goes about.
The early robin blitherly sings
So would the poet sing to-day
If 'twere not for the fact that things,
Alasl ore all the other way!
Boston Courier.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18

To remove iron rust or ink spots,
moisten' the spots, and apply salts
of lemon until they disappear, and
then rinse well. Salts of lemon are
made of equal parts of oxalic acid
and tartaric acid. Another way is
TO moisten with lemon juice, sprinkle
well with salt, and lay inthe sun.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
ROulangeF on Trial.

When the French senate met on Friday the
president read che decree constituting that
body tribunal for the trial of Gen. Boulan-
ger, Count Dillon and NJ. Roehefort. The
procureur general, Quesnay de Beaurrenair,
then read statement setting forth the
grounds upon which the constitution OF the
accused is based. When the reading was cen
cluded, the senate went into executive ses-
sion and the public withdrew. The trial of
Gen. Boulanger and his associates was then
formally begun. The senator's had been re-
quested to appear in evening dress for he
occasion, The request vas ignored by
the members of the right, all of whom
the left were attired In evening
dress and wore white cravats. The following
commission has been appointed to conduct
the trial of Gen. Boulanger and the other ac-
cused persons: Senator Merlin, Cazot, Cor
delet, Trarieux, Munier, De Marcere Demole,
LAvertujon, Merellet and Humbert. Assist
ant commissioners have also been appointed,
who will replace their colleagues on the leg-
ular eommissionif II necessary The assistant
commissioners are: Senators Garrigat,
Dusolier, Develle, De Roziere and Testelin.
Senator Delbreil will not attend the trial
He holds that a political body like the senate
has no right to try q delegate of the people.
He declares that the trial is revolutionary
measure and a defiance OF universal suffrage.
Senator Leon Renault will also abstain from
participation in the trial. motion from the
Right. declaring that there was no ground for
ajudicial inquiry info theeenduct of Boulan-
ger, was rejected by vote OF 200 to 56. The
Senate then resolved, by q vote of 210 to
50, to proceed immediately with his trial
Thereupon the doors were reopcned and the
public was resumed. M. Leroyer read the
decree authorizing the senate to set as O
court and directed that the trial proceed
Several members OF the Right refused to ac-
cept o seat on the senate commission.
Marshal Conrobert in an excited speech said
he would never be a party to the prosecu.
tion on such frivolous grounds of general
who had well served his country The sit
| ting was a stormy one. The spectators
were apathetfc.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
THE MARKETS,
NEW YORK.

NEW 1Ohh.
Wheat-No. 2 red, S5a4@S6c. in store; S7h
@S712 at1oat; No. 3 red. 79@80c., No. red
9Sc. No ! white 90c., Barley quiet and steady.
Corn, No > 42A@421s; No 2 white Ace; No.
3, 4219@48Ac.; ungraded, mixed 41Q44c;
steamer mixed 4215@43Ac. Oats, No.2 white,
331a@34c. mixed western, 30@33c.; white
western, ,34@391ac.; No. 2 Chicago, 32he.
Hay, shipping 65c.; good to choice SO@95c.
Eggs, western, 10@11Ac. Butter, western
dairy, 10000; do creamery 1926; Eig1ns,
27h@2Sc. Cheese, dull and unsettled, west
ern S@@1O1Ec. Lard, western steam, $7.25.
CHICAGO.
Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady and unchanged. No. 2 spring
wheat, S5A@S6c.; No. 3 spring wheat, 75@-
soc; No. 2 red, S5A@S6c. No. 8 corn,
34s@34Ac. No. 2 oats, 25Mc. No. 2 rye,
43c No. 2 barley, nominal. No. fax
seed, $1.53@1.54. Prime timothy seed,
$1.30@1. 30. Mess pork (per bbD $11:S5@-
rib sides Qoose), So 9O@6 Dry salted
shoulders (boxed), $6.371aGD6.5O Short
clear sides (boxed), $6.37h@6.5O. Eggs,
9h@10c.
Wheat-No. l hard, April, S1.01; May,
$1.Olh; July, $1.O2; Track, $1.O3; No. /,
Northern, April, 9Oc.; May, soc; July, 99se.;
Track 90@9lc.; No, 2, Northern, April,
19c.; May, I've; July SOc.; Track SOWS2.
Flour Patents, sacks, to local dealer,
$5.70@6.20; patents to ship, sacks, car lots,
$5.50@6; in barrels, $5.70@6.15 delivered
at New England points, $6.35@6.S5; New
York points, $625@675; delivered at Phlla.
delphia and Baltimore, $6.20@6.70; bakers
here $3.75@4.7 10; superfine, $2@3.5O; red
dog, sacks, $1.35@1.50; red dog, bbls,
$1.60@1.7O. Bran and shorts, $7.25@7 so;
Corn, fair, No. 2, 3O@32c Oats, 20@2Sc.
Barley, 20@4Oc Hay wild, $3@3.50;
timothy, $5.5O@7. Flax $L47, Chicago
$1.53. Feed, $11@12.
ST. PAUL.
Prices on incoming trains only: Wheat
No. l hard, 1.03 bid: No. Northern, Gle
bid; No. 2 Northern Sic bid. Corn-No. 2,
31@33c; No. sample, Sic bid. Oats-No.
2 mixed, 22c bid; No. white, 26@27c; May,
29c; No. 8. 21@23c. Rye-No. 2, 41@43e
Barley-No. 2, soc bid; No. 3, 35@45c; No. A.,
35@4Oc. Ground Feed-$1 l .50@12 so; No.
3, $13;25: Corn Meal-Unbolted, $12:5o.
Bran-$7.5O Hay-No. 1 upland prairie,
$4.5O@5; No. l, $3.5O@4.5O; timothy, 81.
Flax Seed-$144 bid. Eggs-$2. 85@3 per
case; ice house 81. Flour-Patents, $500
6; straights. $5.2O@5.4O; bakers $3.50
4.25; rye, 3.50@4; buckwheat, SO. Butter
choice creamery. 2O@22c; extra dairy 100
1sc; roll and print choice, 1O@l3c; fair to
medium, 10@12c; packing stock, 7@9c;
grease, 3@4c. Cheese-fancy, 1O@12; fine
lie; skim, 6@712c.
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SENSATIONAL REPORTS, F,
4 AGE I 4

DEs MONIES, April 10. rThses report haA
been sent out from Fort Dode e'that a posse
of twenty men n-had gone from here to assist
the United States marshal iIf=<maling evic.
tions on the river lands There is no truth
In the report, no one having gone from here
recently3for that purpose, :. Careful inquiry
at the different sources of information leads
to the belief that the reports from the river
land country have been. greatly magnified
for sensational purposes, and, that. no such
excited feeling and no intention of Joining
battle with the marshal, as have been'res
ported exist
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18

james e. Mcdowell was appointed register
of the land Office at Huron, Dakota. He is
one of the Dakota colony that fought the
battle of statehood last winter. he was rec
commended by Moody, Matthews, Mellette,
and almost everybody for that matter He
stayed in Washington after the rest were.
gone and did not allow the secretary to for.
get his application. He has his reward In
the fEst land Office appointment made i1l
Dakota,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18

These committees will visit the different
barns this morning, as 1t is expected the
company will make an effort to start out
some cars
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-16
THE Nd.JORiTY RULES.

BENJAMIN Harrison has been duly elected
President and Levi p. Morton Vice-PreSident,
and Z" The Newly orII Herald" remarks =" Cleve-
land and Thurman received a popular majority
of more than 90 900 votes. Curious, isn't il ?'
II would be curious if il were true. but ii is not
Messrs. Cleveland and Thurman were in pop
Mar minority by more than 80 1000 votes. They
received about $500. 52i votes. but 5,S53,4i6
were east for other candidates. by men who
did not want Cleveland and Thurman. Thus
il is not curious that they were not elected
There were among these other voters about
q quarter Of million Prohibitionists, who
sturdiIy protest that they did not mean to vote
directly or indirectly for the continuance Of
Mr.. Cleveland in Office, and most of them would
undoubtedly have voted directly for MeSsrs
Harrison and Morton if they had been com
nelled to choose between the leading can
didates. Thus the outcome OF the electoral
system is once more in substantial accord with
the wishes Of the people expressed in the votes
actually recorded.
That is = noint of interest, also; the votes
recorded were not exactly the votes cast. For
there were ballot-boXeS stolen, as IN that pre-
cinct in Arkansas in which John NJ. Clayton
was assassinated for trying to discover the per-
petrators of the crime. Nor was the vote cast
a true expression Of the free choice of all the
qualified voters. For in great many local
tiles and some entire States the result proved
beyond reasonable question that there had
been a wholesale suppression OF the Republican
vote. If "The Herald" means to be accurate
it will not only take back the careless assertion
that Mossrs. Cleveland and Thurman had q
majority. but will explain that it does not even
assert that they had plurality of $4,000 or
90 900 votes. 1t will frankly admit, in
stead, that Democratic stealing OF ballot-boXes
and forgery Of false returns have made 1t not
possible to decide which candidate had pu-
rality of the votes actually cast, while the
wholesale suppression of the votes OF one party
bv the other in extensive districts at the
South makes it meaSuraby certain that Har-
rison and Morton were the deliberate choice of
a plurality of nearly one million of the legally
qualified voters in November last, and Of a
large majority.
1t would be well for Democratic statesmen
or newspapers if they wish to hear less dis
cussion about the misconduct of their party at
the South. to stop short this habitual untruth
that Cleveland and Thurman were the choice
of the people. Every time that untruth is re-
peated it brings to mind the aSSassins and the
mobs by which free government has been de-
MED to certain regions, the forgers and thieves
who have stolen the votes Of many thousand
citizens and the obvious fact that the plurality
of more than - 0. 600 voters who were recorded
as not wanting Mr.. Cleveland elected was not
a plurality in his favor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-16
4 BE4UTIFUL N4RE,S NEST

That new building which " The World is to
erect Will have to bc uncommonly roomy il il is
going to hold the large collection Of mares nests
which that paper is now engaged in making
The latest of these interesting specimens takes
the shape of the statement that General Harri-
sons Administration is predestined to he fail
ure'-the authority for the mournful prediction
being many prominent Republicans at Wash
ington. Nor is that the whole OF this able
mares nest. 1t has details The many promi
nent Republicans at Washington also assert
that the Presdent-elcct does not want Blaine
in his Cabinet, and will try TO freeze him out
Blaine will fight back, and the Cabinet may
be split The pedigree OF the mare which is
the proprietor Of this nest can be easily guessed
She was got by Sensation out of Mendacity.
The phrase many Republicans is hardly cal
culated TO deceive. 1t doubtless is merely the
odd pseudonyme of that prominent young Utica
lawyer who was -" The Worlds mares nest OF
two or three weeks ago. 1t may be remembered
that our ultra-imaginatve neighb0r at that time
represented this prominent young Utica lawyer
as using language we'll calculated to curdle all
the milk Of the Mohawk Valley. lie wanted
The World 10 understand, in effect, that If
President llarrison's Cabinet was not perfectly
satisfactory to him and those with whom he WAS
allied the flag of manifest destiny would hang
at hall-mast for four years from the Attn day
of March next. There's knowing what
took this prominent-and singularly inter
esting-young Utica lawyer TO Washington.
The World must have telegraphed him to
come on. Oneida County will feel lonesome while
he is absent. The important point revealed by
his Washington dispatch is that he has not
softencd not BIT, toward the coming AdmlniStra-
ton since he was first exhibited. lie is the same
gloomy portcnt. Mother" screamed the child,
nurse won't pacify me- The prominent young
Utica mares nest will not be paciiied. General
Harrisons Administration is predcstined to be n
faiurc7 Dear! Dear The Presidentelect
does not want Blaine in the Cabinet, and will try
10 freeze him out" Great Scott Blaine will
fight back and the Cabinet may be split" le
gods and little fishes!
According to the Woodworking affidavit editor
of The World" good many people read that
think that most of these people were far gone in
what is known in the Southwest as blanIkety blank
foolishnesS. And get, if they are not of this
feeble sort, why is this promising young Utica
lawyer allowed to run first the Utica and the n the
Washington bureau of " The World However,
there is this ono thing to be said in his favor
Whether he appears in the modest character of a
promising young Utica lawyer, or thinly wells his
personality under the name Of Many Repub-
leans" his observations are self-destructive.
Shakespeare never said anything truer than his
declaration that vaulting mares nest sometimes
overbups itself