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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
LOST AT SEA.
Steamer Earnmore Abandoned and
Nineteen of the Crew Lost.

steamer Earnmore Abandoned ana
Nineteen of the Crew Lost.
BALTIMORE, Specialize steamship Earn
more, Capt r. ]. Gray, which sailed from
here for Rio Janeiro, Aug. %, with n cargo
of wheat, foundered at sea in a gale Sept 5,
and 1t is feared that nineteen of her crew
were lost. small boat belonging to the
Earnmore with seven men in it survived the
gale. The men made their way to Nassau.
The storm which prevailed early in SepGem-
ber struck her when she was off the West In
dies. She labored several days in the heavy
sea and then began to fill The men gave
up hope, and on Sept. determined to aban-
don the ship. The boats were launched. In one
of them were the first officer, Mr.. Painter,
Second Engineer Medrum and five seamen.
In the long boat were Capt Gray, the first
engineer, second officer and sixteen others
of the crew of twenty-six men. The long
boat containing nineteen men, has not been
heard from. Joseph r. Ford & Co., the
Barnshaw company's agents. received q
cablegram dated to-day from st. Jago say
ing that First officer Painter and Second
Engineer Meldrum have arrived at Nassau in
a boat with five of the crew. A later cable
says that the five sailors are dying. Capt
Gray and the others in the long boat may
have been picked up by another vessel.
Among the missing are Second Mate Stone
and First Engineer Soudar. The storm that
wrecked the Earnmore was the great cyclone
from the West Indies which played such
havoc along the Jersey coast in the middle
of September. So far as learned the crew
are all Englshmen.
The Earnmore left here Aug 20 for Rio
Jaueiro with cargo consisting of So, 600
bushels of wheat and miscellaneous mer-
chandise, valued ati70.000; insured The
vessel was valued at $135, 900 ard insured
for $l20, 900.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
DEEP WATER PORT.
The Northwest Coast of the Gulf of
Mexico Favored.

The Northwest Coast of the Gulf OF
Mexico Favored.
TOPEKA, KAN, Specialize committee on
resolutions of the deep harbor aconvent1on
have made their report as follows:
Whereas, The general welfare # our country,
in far 1t relates to navgable rivers, harbOrs
and commerce. Is committed by the constitution
of the United States to the exclusive charge OF
the congress: and whereas, the cheap transpoIta-
tion of our commercial products constitutes one
of the most important elements Of the general
welfare: and whereas, the congress has donated
to private corporations more than $780, OOOOOOO
of money and upwards of 200, ,000, 900 acres OF
our national land with which to construct arti-
ftclal and therefore much more expensive high
ways, owned by private individuals, while 1t
has neglected to make adequate appropriation
for even one possible harbOr on the northwest
coast of the Cult of Mexico, which would not
only afford very much cheaper transportation.
but which, by our organic law. Is under
the exclusive care and control of congress; and
whereas the vast and rapidly developing area
lying west of the Mississippi river, comprising
more than three-f -fifths of the national domain,
and Welding more than one-half of the agrtcult-
ural, meat and mineral products or the entire
country. is by this neglect forced to transport
it's commerce across the continent by way OF
| these artificial and expensive highways, subject
amounts always to a serious burden and some
times total Introduction to both consumer and
producer, and whereas there can be no justitica-
tion of this discrimination in favor OF private
highways, which, during the last year. cost the
commerce of the West an enormous loss in
transportation expenses, estimated at more than
$12O.O0O, 900, or upwards of $lU.OOO,O0 pei
month: therefore.
Resolved, That, in reaffirmance of the action
| of the Denver convention and of the committees
organized Hereunder, it is the sense of this con-
| ventiOn that it is the duty of congress- to ap-
prOpriate permanently end for immediate use
whatever amount Is necessary to secure deep
water port on !he northwest coast of the gulf OF
Mexico, west of the 93d degree. west longitude,
| capable of admitting the largest vessels, and
| at which the best and most accessible harbO1
| can be secured and maintained in the shortest
| possible time, and at the least cost, the time,
! place and cost to be ascertained from the board
| Of engineers appointed under an act of congress
passed at its last session.
| Resolved further That this convention, in be-
half of the people it represents, thanks the con-
| gress of the United States for the prompt and
satisfactory action heretofore taken in recOgni-
tion of the request of the Denver Deep Harbor
convention.
minority report was presented by Watt
of Louisiana. favoring the establishment OF
| three gulf harbors, one of them to be on the
coast of Louisiana. After considerable dis
| cussion the majority report was adopted and
| the convention adj journed sine Gle.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
Married in q Boat.

Quite romantic marriage took
place at West point Ga, recently. the
contracting parties being DR.. f. Hill
and Mss Matte Pratt Tho ceremony
too place on the yellow waters of the
swift rolling Chattahoochee. The bride
and groom were seated in light yawl
boat and the latter deftly piled the
oars. bearing his lady to the rocks
half mile above the landing. The
hour was splendidly suited to the oc-
casion. The sun was just hiding its
glorious outlines below the horizon
when the Rev. w. r Briscoe pronoun-
ced the solemn words that bound them
together jrrcvocably. The river was
dotted here aud there with boats of the
Chattahoochee Club. Tiled with joyous
friends of DIR. and Mrs. Hill. All re-
paired TO Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. jennings.
where q bounteous supper and hearty
congratulations awaited them. AtLdR-
tn Constitution.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
General News Notes,

The Maryland White Lead company of
Baltimore has been absorbed by the Nation
al Lead Trust, which now controls at least
90 per cent of the corroders of the country.
The Great Falls & Canada Railroad com
pany was Incorporated at Helena, NJ. T..
with $4,000, 900 capital. The company will
build a railroad from Great Falls to the Can
adian line, whence the same parties will
build to the coal mines at Leth Bridge, Can,
which is connected with the Canadian Pacific
by railroad 40 miles long. The principal
incorporation is Donald Grant the we'll known
railroad builder The principal purpose Of
the road is to provide an outlet for the coal
fields at Lethburg. The new road will pass west
Ofthe sweet grass regiOnin Chateau county,
and will be used to distribute coal from Great
Falls over points reached by the Manitoba,
Montana Central and the Northern Pacific
The work will he commenced as speedily as
the season will admit.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
HIS FIRST DECISION.
Commissioners Croft Decides a Case in
the BentsOn District.

the Bentson District.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Special Telegram
Commissioner Croft, the new commissioner
of the general land office, is apparently IA
vorably disposed toward the honest settlers
of the West. He rendered decision to-day
in Minnesota case which indicates that good
faith shown Oh the part of the settler is suf-
icient proof to give the settler his claim
The case was Johannis Frederick against
Fred Hauselin, in the old Benson (Minn.) dis
tricL The contest was hled and the entry
recommended for cancellation on the ground
of failure to make settlement during the first
six months of thehomestead period. The tes-
timony showed that Hauselin, an unmarried
man, had made every effort to build his
house. He had broken and improved the
land and the second season had planted
crop. He continued his improvements, and
finally built his house, but not within the
first six months. Commissioner Croft, in his
decision says:
The rule requiring the maker of a homestead
entry to establish actual residence upon the
land within six months from the date of his
entry, like all rules, has its exceptions, and is
not insisted upon where the extrymans good
shown. or where his acts are not inconsistent
with an honest purpose to comply with the
laws.
The commissioner says Hauselin's efforts
to comply with the law shows good faith,
and he reverses the decision of the register
and receiver and dismsses the contest. This
decision is regarded as important as lndicat-
ing the policy of the general land Office with
respect to this class OF claims.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
Fan Your Boots. Sir"

The uptown bootblacks have adopted
a new wrinkle. A reporter was STROLL
ing along Sixth Avenue. when he wit
messed the novelty, and us soon as the
chair was vacant slipped into it to try
the experiment The manipulation of
the brushes soon had glossy shine on
the feathers. and when his laborS in
this direction were finished grasped
the fan-a Panama leaf affair-and
gave perfect illustration of the new
scheme.
whats the meaning of this new
racket?'
That? Why, that's to cool the
Shoes" replied the bootblack, You
see," he continued. "a man shoes are
briskly rubbed the leather becomes
heated and in five minutes the shine is
likely to disappear to some extent [
experimental good deal before l
struck this scheme, aud now l find that
by wav ng the fan br skly the feathers
are cooled and the gloss IS better re-
tanned. "-NeW York EU,ning SttH.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
How United States Senators are Elected.

As the United States laws governing the
er been published in the new States we give
them herewith in full for the information O.
the legislators. Section 16 is the one specially
applicable to new states. Chapter l, title ?
of the United States Revised Statutes thus
regulates their election:
Sec. IA. The legislature of each state
which is chosen next preceding the expira-
tion of the time for which any senator was
elected to represent such state in congress
shall on the second Tuesday after the meet
ing and organization Thereof, proceed to elect
q senator in congress.
Sec. 15. Such election shall be conducted
in the following manner: Each house shall
openly by a viva vOce vote of each member
present name one person for senator in con-
greSS from such state. and the name of the
person so voted for who receives majority
of the whole number of votes cast in each
house shall be entered on the journal of that
house by the clerk or secretary thereof; or, if
either house fails to give such majority to
any person on that day the fact shall be en-
tered on the journal. At II O'Clock meridian
OF the day following that on which proceed
ings are required to take place as O ores aid
the members of the two houses shall convene
in joint assembly and the journal O each house
shall then be read. and if the same person
has received a majority of all the votes in
each house, he shall be declared duly elected
senator. But if the sa me person has not re.
ceived a majority of the votes in each house
or if either house has allied to take proceed.
ings as required by this section, the joint as
sembly shall then proceed to choose by viva
voce vote of each member present person
for senator, and the person who receives q
majority of all the votes of the joint Assem-.
bly,, majority OF all the members elected to
both houses being present and voting, shall
be declared duly elected. If no person receives
such a majority on the first day, the joint as,
sembIy shall meet at IL o'clock meridian OF
each succeeding day during the session of the
Legislature, and shall take at least one vote
until senator is elected.
Sec. 16. Whenever on the meeting of the
legislature of any state q vacancy exists in
the representation Of such state in the SEN
ate, the legislature shall proceed, on the sec,
ond Tuesday after meeting and organization
| to elect a person to fill such vacancy in the
| manner prescribed in the preceding section
| for the election of a senator for full term
| Sec II. Whenever during the session ofthe
| legislature of any state q vacancy occurs ir
| the representation of such state in the senate
| similar proceedings to fill such vacancy shall
| be had on the second Tuesnay after the leg
islature has organized and has notice of such
vacancy.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
PITH OF THE NEWS.
Being a Short Concise Collection OF
the Latest Associated Press
TelegramS.
In Washington.

1t is shown by the files in the pension Office
that less than five hundred cases have been
made special during the new administration.
Most of these were made special during the
early days OF Tanners official days. BEFORE
the corporal resigned Secretary Noble ISSUED
an order that no cases should be madespecini
unless the claimant was i'll actual want and
suffering. Cases are made special ut the rate
OF two or three day.
. James II. Smith, commercial agent of the
United States at Mayence, reports to the
state department regarding the European
grain crops, and says that the European
grain crops of the present year have not
turned out very satisfactorily, and the
United States will have to be looked to to
make up the deficiency. The average wheat
crop of Europe from 1881 to 1886 is put ut
l,2ll ,OT2, 1872 bushels In 1886 the crop
amounted to 1,24O.37O 925 bushels. This
year tits estimated to be about Is per cent
less
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
ARRIVAL OF THE RUSH.
Her ComR ander Tells the Story OF
Her Cruise.

der COmTtanuer 1elIS the story or
Her Cruise.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Special Telegram,
The United States steamer Rush arrived
from Sitka. Her commander l. G.
Shepherd, reports that out OF feet of thirty
FIVE sealing vessels in Benrlng sea the Rush
intercepted twenty-on and seized six, five of
which were British schOoners from Victoria
and one American and Indian schooner of
this port. All of the seized vessels were or
dered to SItka. Each British vessel was
placed in charge Of one seaman, al! of which
vessels, Notwithstanding the protests of
the officer in charge, proceede ed to Vic
torla, and in some instances even
killed seals in Behring sea while
bound south The American schooner with
out prize crew, came to this port and sur
rendered to the customs. When tine Rush ar
rived at SiJka, Sept IL, and learned of the
supposed loss of the schooner Alpha near
Yukulat, she proceeded 20 that place and
found the owners captain and crew from the
wrecked Alpha on a small island preparing
to winter. All of them were returned to
Sitka. While cruising in Behring sea seal
iEg boat belonging to the British schooner
Beatrice of Victoria was picked up contain
ing six Indians They had been adrift for
ten days with very little food and water,
and were so emaciated that they were unable
TO walk They were provided for and landed
at Barclay Sound. b. g. The Rush leaves
for Seattle tomorrow
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
CHEWING DECREASING.
Reasons why Dealers DO Not Sell az
Much "PIug'' as Formerly.

Reasons why Dealers DO Not Sell as
Much "PIug' as Formerly.
When the elder Charles Dickens was
in this country on his first visit there
was no one of the American habits
which called forth from the great
novelist more condemnation than the
one of chewing tobacco. says the New
York Pres& But times change.
National as we'll as personal habits
change with them - America is no
longer a nation of tobacco chewers,
and that manner of using tobacco is
gradually, but surely, passing away.
Every tobacconist recogn zes the
great change that is taking place in
what in one sense may be termed the
public taste. A tobacco dealer, whose
trade is not almost exclusively among
sailors, say that he does not sell one
half as much chewing tobacco to-day
as he did ten years ago, and not more
than one third as much as twenty years
ago. Said one of them few days
ago:
The falling off in the use of chewing
tobacco is Il great deal more apparent
here in the east than in the south an
west, but it is noticeable everywhere.
One cause for the decadence of the
habit s undoubtedly due to the growth
of public opinion that it is an unclean-
ly habit 1t is hard also for a man adj
dicled to the habit to keep from show
ing ev .dences of it ON his clothes and
person.
But the principal causes are right
here. There is a great deal more dys-
pepsia and stomach trouble now than
| there used to be, and no person with
weak stomach can chew tobacco. The
action of the tobacco juice. which
tr ckles down the throat of a chewer is
to paralyze the act on of the stomach.
1t Will accomplish that long before to-
bacco smoke will leave any perceptible
effect upon the lungs. Then, again, the
cigarette has done Il great deal 10 put
an end to the chewing habit.
1.-The growth of the cigarette prac-
tice in this country is and has been
phenomenal The consumption of
cigarettes has multiplied many times
during the last fifteen years. About
seven out of every ten boys now grow
ing up smoke cigarettes. After boy
has smoaked cigarettes for few ears
he has not only no taste for tobacco
in any other form, but he has no
stomach or constitution left 10 stand
chewing tobacco.
The suffering which an inVeterate
tobacco chewer endures when he first
deprives himself of his accustomed
weed are popularly supposed to be all
most intolerable. Some ex-chewers
say they are, while others MAINTAIN that
they are nothing which a resolute will
and clear head cannot easily master.
All agree, however. that they have TO
use some substitute at first, be it only
match or a wooden toothpick.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
If the territory CONFIRM the impression Gre

Of the territory confirm the impression Gre
ated by the earliest returns last night
Wilson (Rep) for representative in congress,
and Ferry (Rep) for governor. are
certainly elected, with indications
strongly in favor of the whole Repub-
lcan state ticket The Legislature is still in
doubt, and must remain SO for several days,
as the struggle has been very warm and
close. At this hours p. m.-the returns
are not completed in either Pierce or King
counties. and the latter is still In the shadow
Of doubt, but the Republicans are in the
lead go far as the count goes, and the leaders
claim that the districts outside
of the city of Seattle are
certain for the Republicans Spokane Falls,
Walla WalIa, Port Townsend, Ellensburg.
North Yakima and Olympia are all Republi-
can by small maiorties, and, as the country
districts are Republican, victory is assured.
The city of Tacoma gives q Republican ma
jority SO far as counted, to both the local
and state tickets, with perhaps the single ex-
ception Of superior judge.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
Foreign Mention.

The London dockmens strike committee
has paid the "blackegs" 81 each, and all
have Joined the union and will go to work.
1t is estimated that the loan to be propos-
Ell i'm the German reichstag during the COM
ing session will amount to 25O.OOO,0 900
marks
The cotton mills of Lancashire, Eng, con-
tinue to run on hal,-time. The operatives
society has expended e2O, 900 Tor the relief OF
those who are suffering through the partial
stoppage OF the mills.
W. 5. Motfitt and his sister, Mrs. George
Middleton, OF Tennessee, H., have received
notification that they are heirs to the ceIe-
brated Mottitt estate in Ireland and entitled
to Il one-titth share in the estate worth s46,'
100000.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
Learned Mattresses in Hotels.

There some dozen of public school
teachers who went from New York and
Brooklyn TO wait in summer hotels
last year. There is always q small
contigent of Boston teachers who 60.
There is hardly one of the co-educa-
tional colleges VIII CHI has not sent out
its girl walters. Vassar, Smith and
Wellesley have furnished mattresses.
though never so many rs the co-educa-
tional schools. Boston University has
quite number of pretty walters at
seashore resorts this summer. 1t is
not a business at VIII ch fortunes arc
made, for only the smaller hotels en-
uloy women. Twenty dollars a month
is large wages, larger than the average.
but even that goes long way towards
liling the aching void in students
purse - Ne0 lorS Cor SdVGHnGb
NeWS. v
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
A DESPERATE CRIMINAL.
Reimund HoIzhay Contrives a Fiend.
ish Plot to Murder His Jailer.


ish Plot to Murder His JaiIer.
ASHLAND, Wisconsin, Special Telegram,
--Highwayman Reimund Hoizhay, the
terror of railway passengers and stage coach
travellers, has again been detected in q dar-
ing and bloodthirsty attempt to escape from
the Gogebic county Jail at Bessemer. Three
or four davs ago, when two fine steel saws
were found in the cage of the robber, he
told Sheriff Foley that he would not be in
the Jail ten days Yesterday prisoner con-
fined in the same cell with Holzhay notified
the sheriff of devillsI:y ingenious plot con-
ceived by his rnurderous cellmate to obtain
freedom for every prisoner in the Jail. John
Ryan, the jailer, was to have been killed
when he appeared at the aperture through
which meals are passed to the prisoners.
HolZhay had detached a heavy plank from
the table in the cell, with which he would
have knocked Ryan into inseusibility, after
wards crawling through the opening in the
cage and completing the job of murderirg G
the lailor with knife he had secured That
the plan would have been successful there is
scarcely any doubt. Holzhay was locked in
close cell when the plot was discovered
and heavy iron ball attached TO his ankles.
He broke the chain and smashed everything
in the CELL He refused to give up the knife
and deties the officers. A strong guard has
been placed upon him.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
CAUSED BY WHISKY.
Thomas Kelly Shoots Sam Christie
at Grand Rapids, Minn.

at Uranu Rapids, Mimi.
ATTK1N, Mimi, Special Telegram
Christie, a noted character of the upper
Mississippi river region, was shot by
Thomas Kelly at Grand Rapids
on Tuesday last The particulars of the af-
fair, as received from Deputy Sheriff James
Allen of Grand Rapids, are as follows Chris
tie, who is considered bully, has been
on drunken spree for the past week
and has been in a number of rows. de-
manded whisky from Kelly, who il bar
tender ut one of the saloons at Grand Rapids,
and was refused, whereupon Christie left
the place, swearing vengeance on Kelley
In short time Christie was seen returning
to the saloon to do Kelly mp Kelly
saw him coming, and procuring
Winchester rifle. forty-four caliber, point
ed ib at Christie and fired, the ball
taking effect just above the heart Christie
was brought to Aitken to-day and is under
the treatment of DIR. Graves, who thinks the
wound will prove fatal. Kelly arrived
on the steamer Fawn in custody of Deputy
Sheriff James Allen of Ilasca county and is
now lodged in Jail. He would make NO
statements in regard to the matter.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
Markets,
CHICAGO.

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
firm: winter wheat patents, $4.25@4 40:
spring do. $45O@5: bakers 80 90@3. SO.
No. spring wheat, SOH@SOAc: No. spring
wheat, 6S@72c; No. red, SOA@S0Ac: No.
corn, 31Ac; No. 2 oats, 1880; No. rye.
41Ac; No. 2 barley, nominal No. fax
seed, 81 %; prime timothy seed, $1.21; mess
pork, per Dbl, $11: lard, per 100 lbs,
sc. .12206. Is.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
A Capital Idea.

Mr.. Levy (who had just sold suit
of cloths TO countryman)-I tole you.
Repecca. dot vas goot idea TO gf n
sthanding collar NIT effers suit of
clothes. Dey cant look down and see
'em schrink up oil de vile. 7e1as
Stttnys,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-10
PeOpIe OfNOte.

William B. Flanders of Kandiyohi county,
Mimi, was appointed a cadet at the West
Point academy upon the recommendation o.
Congressman Hall. Edward Percy Gilchrist,
Fort Madison was appointed cadet for the
First district of Iowa.