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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Living Without Food.

Josephine Bedard Is q pretty, dark-eyed,
vivacious French Canadian girl, who has
been on Christmas visit to her uncle and
cousins ut Lewiston, Maine, for the past
few days. Ifher story is true she has tasted
more than 1850 days, having neither eaten
nor desired to eat nor tasted foodin any form
for that length of time.
Her story, as told by herself was that she
was born on her fathers farm in Tingwyck,
q small agricultural town in Canada, in 1872.
Her mother was stricken with u disease
which terminated fatally when Josephine
was but three months old. AS q child she
grew robust and strong. She attended O
country school q short time, and afterward
assisted in the household duties at home.
On Christmas day. 1881, she was violently
attacked with diphtheria, and for three weeks
she was between life and death. From this
sickness begins the date of her prolonged and
curious fast, and today, as for years, her
means of substance is derived from water
only, which she drinks as people drink or
dinarily. No form of eata bles can arouse her
sleeping appetite, and the most delicious
fruits are no tempt alton to her.
Mr. Bedard said that when in Canada, in
order to remove the doubts of all skeptieal
persons, Josephine was locked in Il room for Is
days. as test, with no nourishment but
water, and that she came out at the end of
that time without experiencing the slightest
illness A leading Montreal physician
pronounced her n physical wonder,
and offered Josephine s father 500 for the
privilege OF taking her into custody with a
view to solving the cause OF her peculiar con-
dition. This Mr.. Bedard refused to do
Several other Inducements have been held
out to her to travel as q curiosity; but she
prefers to remain In her country home, where
she has the care of her fathers five children
by a second wife, and where the oneroUs du.
ties of farm house deyolye upon her.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
From Foreign Lands.

During the performance of "a Midsummer
Nights Dream" at the opera at Berlin,
Princess Adalbert of Bavaria was seized with
a violent attack of hysteria, and had to be
removed. She has since become worse. 1t Is
believed that she is insane. After the princess
had been taken from the theater the play was
resumed.
Some anxiety has been o ccasioned at Pan
anna by the crisis through which the Panama
Cana company has been passing recently.
Seri GUS alarm, however, has not been felt,
the faith in the ultimate successful issue OF
the enterprise being great. Work still con-
tinues steadily on the canal, the various con-
tractors have promptly paid off up to date
end everybody seems cheerful and unaffected.
Apart from the inevitable indulgence in talk
more or less wild by uniformed and ire
sponsible parsons, the only sign Of any crisis
is to be found in the money market, where
the premium on gold and foreign notes has
advanced from a to so per cent.
In La Nacional, the most representative
newspaper of Central America, which appears
in San Domingo is a letter from FL. c. Asst
wood, United States consul, to Sir Figuero,
minister of the interior in San Domingo.
The letter sounds SO incredible that only the
serious character of the paper and the docu-
ments printed therein are guarantees for its
truth The letter says in part: ''Mr. H. M.
Linnell, a citizen of the United States, has
requested me to ask the Dominican govern
ment whether the bones of the immortal
Christopher Columbus, the discoyerer OF
America and q permit for the exhibition of
them could he obtained of them from the
government. The interest which the people
in America take in their history is SO intense
that the presence of Columbus remains in
the larger cities would create enough curiosi-
ty to swell the treasury of the Dominican
republic to decree unprecedented in it's his
tory" to this letter Minister Figuero wrote
an indignant reply in which the offer was per.
emptoriIy declined. La Nacional and other
| Spanish-AHerican newspapers treat the affair
in the same indignant tenor, and ask that
Secretary Bayard recall Mr.. Astwood. ''''
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
The New Indian Bill.

Messrs. Nelson, Peel and Perkins, the SUBJ
committee of the house committee on Indian
affairs having in charge the appropriation
BILL have finished their work and the bill is
in the handE Of the printer. Certain claims
which may be added to the bill after it is
placed in the hands of the full committee may
swell the present total of the bill, which is
about the same as last years act. Very few
changes in the existing condition of things
are made, the bill being closely confined to
appropriations for the support of theindians.
One Of the few changes provides
Indian school for the White Earth
agency in Minnesota by allowing the school
one hundred Indian pupils at $50 per year
each. Heretofore this school has been sup
ported in part by contributions from the gen.
eral fund which is supplied the commissioner
Of Indian affairs each year. Provision is al
SO made for the support OF Indian pupils at
st. Johns school and st. Vincent academy
as last year. Changes are made in the adj
ministrative features OF the indian bureau on
" by authorizing the commissioner Of In
dian affairs to have made samples of cloth
ing and blankets which will be used as the
department standard for this work. 0rdin-
arily it in the habit Of q bidder to send in a
sample of his goods with an agreement to
make such O garment for such price. This
compels the Indian authorities to go through
all Of the samples and select such as they de-
sire, and the cry OF voTitiHm" has been
freqently raised. The new plan proposes tn
have bidders make their proposals. upon the
department standards. This action would
prevent such difficulties as the Indian bureau
has been lately having with Dobson & Co. of
PhiladeIphiaov over some /, 800 pairs of blank.
cts and which the board Of Indian commits.
sionegs has been compelled to step in and
settle. The claims which the committee are
considering before insertion in the bill are
simply Cherokee, Chiekasaw and ChoctaW
claims which have been pending before con.
gress for some time.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Suppressing Mexican Priests.

Herald dispatch from FL Paso, Tex,
says: ''El Paso is greatly excited over the
details of the news that has just been received
of the great clerical rising in the City of
Mexico, and the utter and bloody
defeat of the ciericals. 1t seems,
Father Jose Casper, a well known priest,
hurried to the national place and asked i'm
mediate and secret conference with President
Diaz. What he disclosed is not known, but
a few minutes afterward warrants of arrest
were made out for large number of promi-
nent people, but when the officers went after
them not one of them could be found At
IL O'Clock that night an immense mob at
tackled the national palace joined and REIN
forced by the garrison of at least three
barracks and some parks of artillery. The
conflict was fierce and bloody, but the gov
eminent held its own and gained the victory.
Three generals and several high officers were
killed. The government took over two thou
sand prisoners at the fighting. Seventy-two
priests were among the slain, which numbered
during the first onslaught $50 Next day
200 priests were arrested and ordered shot,
among them the archbishop. A number of
women got petitions TO have them reprieved,
but it is not thought that they met with sue
cess. Great excitement prevails in chihuahua,
where Gov. Laura Garlic called ut once the
state Legislature together and all priests TO
be arrested. 1t seems to have been the last
effort of the clerical party against the govern
ment
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10

A letter has been received from Arkansas
City, Kan, from Springer, Pottawatomie
county, Oklahoma, stating that the town
was laid out Dec 81, and Indian Territory
cattlcmen elected town officers. Dec. 16, Id
Oklahoma boomers were captured by Lieut..
Macomb and posse of 90 Indian scouts,
but two days later the boomers were released
on orders from some superior authority, and
they are now in the promised land" and
have taken up claims. The band was headed
by Capt. Summers, government freight agent
at Oklahoma Station, and he and his follow
ers propose to hold Springer at all odds.
Dec. 13 the population of the place was not
more than so, but Dec. 81 twas at least
5000.
AC. Roberts, a tough citizen of Genoa,
Nebraska, was given a dose of reform at the
hands of Nebraska regulators, which will
probably make a lasting impression on his
mind. He has been in the habit Of insulting
ladies on the street, and one night entered
the apartment of two ladies, who were COM
PEELED to flee in order to escape him. He was
arrested and put in jail About midnight q
body of masked men took him to the woods
near town, put rope around his neck, and,
throwing one end over stout limb, pulled
him up five times. He was still breathing
when lowered the fifth time, and the regula-
tors decided to spare his life They left him
lying on the ground with d note pinned on
his clothes, telling him to leave the country
as soon as he came to. He has not been seen
since.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Brief Chapter ON Relishes.

The relishes are of two classes.
First those which depend mainly on
one or more piquantsubstances, such
as pepper, mustard, ginger, horse
radish, cinnamon and the various
spices. These are combined with
some one or more-generally with
several of the following vegetables as
base: tomatoes, usually green;
onions, cabbage, cucumbers, pears
peaches, currants. berries, grapes.
Secondly, those which depend
mainly on sugar, combined with the
juices of various fruits, or with the
pulp, as in the case OF marmalade.
Now the question arises, are these
and similar relishes conducive to
health?
A normal, vigorous appetite needs
no such aid. 1t is sufficient of itself
The lower animals need nothing Of
the kind. The cows green grass, the
horses dry hay, and the dogs bone
with a little meat on it, are doubtless
eaten with relish that our pamper-
ed stomachs know little of.
Unfortunately, all people have not
high health. Some are in a feeble
condition, with little or no ap-
petite. A sensitive appetite
and yet their recovery depends mainly
ON the food they take In such cases
some simple relish is not merely
greately desirable; it is necessary.
Many persons in this driving age,
cometo their meals with little appetite.
quickens and increases the castle
secretions. In such cases, therefore,
some piquant relish is really helpful.
Probably even the strongest is not
injurious, if used with moderation;
but relishes are ereately pernicious,
if used to encourage over-eating, or
to cause one to eat when the stoma-
che is already exhausted from previ-
Gus repletion.-Youths Companion.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Warned by White Cans.

1t isrcported that the White Caps have
again appeared at New Rochelle, N. Y. Ac-
cording to the latest story, Henry Seabright
was returning from party. He was driving
in buggy with young lady. Shortly
after IL o'clock three men appeared in the
road. One of them grasped the horses bril-
die, while the second, it is alleged, presented
a revolver, and the third spoke as follows:
1--WE hereby warn both of you to stay in the
house evenings and not go into society SO
much. Do this or beware of the White Caps
andtheir vengeance" When the White Cap had
finished speaking the horse was released, and
the young people in the carriage continued
on their way home. Mr.. Seabright, it is
said, has already had two experiences with
these so-ealled regulators. The only reason
for stopping him and the young lady js that
the White Caps (if they are such) think that
he is wasting his time in the evenings by at
tending parties and other like entertain
ments. Before the White Caps allowed Mr..
Seabright to proceed on his way both he and
theyoung lady were made to promise that
they would go less into society. They made
this promise fearing personal violence in case
they should refuse. The name of the young
lady who accompanied Mr.. Seabright is
withheld by request. Since the White Caps
first made their appearance the young ladies'
in New Rochelle have really been afraid to go
about in the evening. 1t is not probable
the New Rochelle authorities will undertake
any decisive measures until they have COM
mitted other outrages like those in Ohio.
White Caps have begun business in Chica-
go. They have not also yet had time to car
ry out their threats, but the following letter
has been received by every alderman who has
cast vote for an elevated road: Chicago
and Cook county White Caps. For purity in
in politics, an honest government, suppress
sion of vice, death to anarchy, death to con-
spirators. death to boodlers. First Notice
Sir: Beware You remember the boodlers'
punishment. The doors of Joliet are not yet
closed. You are spotted. Your course in
the council has been closely watched. Take
warming; therefore, ere it be too late, how
you vote in future, or the grand jury will call
for you: fnot, we shall attend to your case.
Chicago and Cook County White Caps"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Two Muscular PreIates.
From America.

From America.
Bishops Potter of New York and
[ udley ofkentucky are both disciples
O fmuscular Christianity. The f,,rmar
knocked down two or three cowboys
in Nebraska several years ago, and
prevented tx and their followers
from lynching a fellow who had COM
mitted an offense too trivial too JUS
tify such severe punishment as Judge
Lynch metes out.
Bishop Dudley, while on a tour
through his diocese, arrived one
Sunday morning at settlement OF
the toughest backwoodsmen. He
went to corner grocery to ask for
the use of the school house. The
spokesman for the crowd there as
sembled, through occasional trips to
town, had become enlightened con-
corning Episcopal ways.
eve will let you have the school if
you will agree not to wearthem petit
coats OF yourR," he said,
The bishop refused to agree to this
condition. Il intend to wear my
gown this morning, and if you OBJ
iect will preach to you in my shirt
sleeves tonight"
Both sides showed fight, but the
pluck of the bishop impressed a rough
blacksmith, who insisted that they
should give the person a show, and
they did,
After the morning service the same
horny hand was held out to the bis
hop with, "Parson, jest cali on me If
them fellows tries to stop your carry
ings-on tonight" That evening and
always thereafter he wore his gown
in that place, and could have COM
manded its inhabitants to march into
a burning furnace II he had wished.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
A High Climber.

The champion steepfejack is prob
ably William 6reea, London. He
has repaired no fewer than % towers
and spires, including that of Sails
bury Cathedral, 4O4 feet high; Louth
Lincolnshire, $50 feet, Grantham,
$40 feet, and Whittlesea Cambridge
shire, $50 feet, He has also built or
repaired over $50 chimney stacks.
the highest being $40 feet, He has
been in the employment of the gov
government as a driver. After the
Tay Bridge disaster he recovered ten
bodies of the Inflated passengers, and
helped to raise the engine and tender
One of the hardest pieces of work he
ever had was on a big chimney at
Seeley's -four min, Lincoln. This
chimney was ESQ feet high, with u
diameter of 90 feet at the base and
Sat tha summit. It was three feet
ak inches out of the perpendicular,
but in nine days Green and three as
sistants had set it to rights by using
screw-iacks,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10

Police Officer Henry Fehe died horrible
death at st. Louis from hydrophobia. Last
September while walking his beat he was Bit
ten on the right leg by dog, but thought
nothing of the wound, recently the leg began
TO swell, and Fehle was taken down with
violent symptoms of hydrophobia. He
passed from one CONFUSION into another, and
finally died in great agony. DIR. Bernays,
who attended him, says, the case was genuine
hydrophobia.
Mrs. Turner and her little daughter also y
daughter of George Cloyd, three Brooks
brothers and q man whose name is unknown,
all colored, attempted to cross the river from
Kentucky to Ohio in a small iat-bottomed
boat. At some distance from the shore
waves from two passing steamboats, upset
their little craft and all seven occupants
we're drowned. Their cries for help we're
heard by persons on the steamboats,, but
darkness prevented the rendering of any
assistance. All Of those who persisted lived
in Kentucky. Not one of the bodies has yet
been recovered.
A three-year-old child OF +. p. Olson OF
East Sioux Falls died from dropsy and prep
arations were made 10 bury the child, but as
the ground was very slippery from the recent
sleet storm it was postponed until the next
day. That night the body showed evidence
OF returning life. Color frequently came into
different parts of the body and entirely dis
appeared. There were also other evida YES OF
life. The funeral was indefinitely post, We'd
until 1t 10 decided whether or not the CHI. u
dead. Dozens of doctors have examined l., h
body but none win authorize the burial Of
the child
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Death offs Desperate.

Detectives who have been limiting Tom Wal
lace, q member of the Hatfield gang of muir
derers, upon q requisition from Gov. Buckner
of Kentucky, found him at Flat Top mCun-
tain. When the detectives ordered him to
halt he drew a large revolver and opened fire.
The detectives returned the fire. and Wallace
fell to the ground mortallv wou nded. While
the dying desperate breathed his last he
confessed that he and Cap. Hatfield, the
mountain demon, was paid $50 each by a
deputy sheriff of Buchanan county Va, for
killing Capt. Mccoy about two years ago.
The murder money was placed in the hands
of Devil Ance' Hatfield, the father of Cap.
and was paid to them after the bloody work
was completed. Wallace was captured once
before, but knocked the jailer down and es-
capped. His crime was a peculiarly horrible
one. About two years ago Tom Wallace
stole away Miss Daniels, niece of JEFF Mccoy,
one of the sons of Herman Mccoy, slain dur
ing the war. When the girl learned that
she had been made the victim of q mock mar
rage, she left Wallace in Virginia and hid
with her friends in Kentucky. Wallace gave
Cap Hatfield $50 to help him recover the
girl. The two men crossed the Tug and went
to Mr.. Daniels cabin. The old man was
sleeping in bed while his sick wife and one of
her daughters slept in another. Failing to
discover the hiding place of the fuGative, Cap
Hatfield wrapped the hairy part of cows
tail about his fist and beat the invalid wOm-
an with the heavy stump until she was al
most dead Soon after JEFF Meow was in
Virginia, when he was seized near the mouth
of ThackeF creek, by Capt. Hatfield and Tom
Wallace, Wha took him to the woods and
prepared to kill him. McCoy's mother waded
across the river and begged on her knees for
the life of her son. She was kicked and sent
back. Jeff struggled free from the cords
that bound him, and leaping in the river,
swan for his life. Wallace and Hatfield
stood on the West Virginia bank and kept
up q fire on their victim. Mccoy had reached
the shore and was struggling up the bank.
The young fellow had just taken the last up.
ward bound when bullet went through his
head, and he fell on tree stump below stone
dead
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Stlll Point or Two or

In the primary departments of one
of the city schools the other day a
patient teacher was endeavoring to
impress on the minds of the young
sters the principal products of Ohio.
The teacher had in view the corn
crop of the Buckeye state, but the
little ones were rather dull of COM
prehension. When the question:
"What do the Ohio farmers raise?''
had been asked many times and in
many ways, one of the brightest re-
piled at a venture. AThey raise
hogs" s'Yes,o the patient peda-
gogue rejained with an encouraging
smile, land what do they raise TO
feed the hogs7a ssSwillp' exclaimed
one of the young Americans, whose
ather keeps a pig. Albany Journal.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10

confederate whom he refuses. to name nired
a room near the factory and
made preparations, for flight. lie
blackened up as a negro, and seeretlng the
money in old stockings threw them under
some old clothes in the bottom OF one OF the
biggest trunks that his accomplice could per-
chase At night, when he thought tue Wig
ilance of the police was somewhat relaxed
under q belief that he was already out OF the
city, Vines confederate sent an expressman
to their room, and Vines, in his negro dis
guise, helped the expressman load the trunk
on the wagon. Five holes to give air for
breathing had been bored by the embezzler
in the back of the trunk near the lid, where
openings would not he noticed. On the
way to the depot Vines told the ex-
pressmHn that he intended to beat his way
to st: Louis by going in the trunk, being too
poor to pay his railroad fare. The express
man thought it risky, but did not interfere
when Vines opened the trunk, jumped in, and
snapped the lid shut with spring lock. The
trunk was put in the baggage room by the
expressman, the check for the trunk was in
the possession of Vines accomplish. Vines
and the trunk went on hoard the train, and
the embezzler and his $4,000 were treated
as very common baggage for distance OF
over u hundred miles. That was as long as
the embezzler could stand it. The air was
sitting and he had been tumbled over and
over until he was sore in every joint. On
making an cutlery he was released by the
baggage man. They did not put him off the
train, but disappointing with his plea of pow
erty, allowed him to travel the remainder of
the journey in passenger car. The trunk
was carelessly closed by the trainmcn, and
it's contents left undisturbed. At st. Louis
the trunk could not be obtained by Vines
without the check, and his confederate did
not put in all appearance. Considerable pity
was expressed by the depot men for Vines,
and a small collection was taken up to buy
him q dinner and supper. His strange story
reached the ears of the police and aroused
their suspicious. Vines description had been
received rom the Chicago authorities and q
reading of it resulted in the dispatch of an
officer to arrest the fugitive. Vines was tax
en- into custody while begging the baggage
master to disregard the usual regulation
about checks and give up the trunk.