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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-02
BILLS THAT HAVE PASSED
The Work of the Twenty-Sixth Session
OF the Minnesota Legislature Com
pieted Last Night.
The State Is Reapportioned-A Full
List Of All Appropriations For
Various Purposes.

The Minnesota legislature has adjourned
1t has been u long and in many ways
Q tedious session. Much time has undoubt-
edly been wasted, and the wisdom of the
lengthening of the session has been often
questioned. The number of bills introduced
has reached the enormous total of nearly
two thousand, as against about 800 for
the last session. which in turn showed
the largest number up to that time. or
these large proportion, some good and
some bad, were lost; but nearly thousand
of them survived the scrutiny of commit
tees of house and senate. and have become
engrafted into the body of the laws of the
state. AS a whole, the poor bills passed are
less in number than the good bills killed 1t
has been session of small bills The un-
usually large number of lawyers in the
lower house has led to mass of curative
acts, which have only perfected the laws
which now stand on the statute books At
the same time large number of important
laws have been made which will ever stand
to the credit of those who made them.
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Foreign Briehets.

The Pope summoned Father Agostino and
reproved him for his recent sermon in which
he invoked divine blessing upon King Hum
bert and the Italian army.
Capt Murrell, of the steamer Missouri, has
been appointed a knight of the Order OF the
Dannebrog by King Christian of Denmark in
recognition of his services in rescuing the
passengers and crew of the Danish steamer
Danmark.
The Swiss government has invited Euro
pean manufacturing states to send represen-
tatives to a congress in the interest OF the
working classes to be held at Berne next
September. The subjects for consideration
will be: Prohibition of Sunday work; limita-
tions upon the age and hours of employment
of factory children; limitation of night work
and prohibition of the employment OF minor
children in peculiarly dangerous and un.
healthy industries.
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The Man with a Big Head.

Senator Sawyer tells a good
story on himself. There was
a man up in the Oshkosh country
of the name of Hutchinson, who was
a great boaster. If he cut one log OF
wood he would be sure to report a
hundred, and if he saw a dozen black
birds sitting on a stump they would
be q thousand before he told about
them in the nearest saloon. One sea-
son he did some logging for Mr.. Saw
yer, and for his pay received check
on the Northwestern National bank
for $120, payable to his order. Mr..
Hutchinson had never had such an
experience before, and he showed the
check to his friends with a great deal
of pride before he took it to the bank
to get it cashed. When he did so the
teller, of course, made him write his
name on the back of the paper, and
that was an incident of still greater
Importance in Mr.. Hutchinson's life.
Then he went to his home in the
woods, and said to everybody whom
he met on the way:
"Old Sawyer can brag as much as
he's a mind to about his money, but
the bank made me indorse his check
before they would cash it for him. -
Washington Cor. New York Tribune.
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cohercntly OF claims and town lots, aud i'm.
plored those near him not to rob him o. his
little piece of ground. The sight was pitt
ful one. Evans was taken to Winfield and
placed in hospital for the insane. Another
man went crazy the previous night and was
placed on a north-bound train. At Alfred he
broke away and tried to assault Lieut.. Waite
of the infantry company stationed there,
but was overpowered. II want cl aim,
want claim" was his incessant cry. He
was put aboard the train again and will
probably be treated in the Winfield hospital.
\ Kansas man named Stevens was shot and
killed in the presence Ofhs wife four children by
two men on a claim near Alfred on Wednes-
day. The murderers fed and the un. .ortu-
nate widow walked to Alfred with the news
The dead man was buried by the settlers,
and small subscription was raised to send
the family home The rude funeral was in
progress as the train passed.
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M'KinleV'S RPotherS

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, April 29-
One of the duties Of the al uinstration
seems to be to take care of the brothers of
Ohio congressman. Grosvenor got his
brother into the treasury department last
week us the chief of division from which
Fairchild discharged him as a clerk. Nc
Klnlev has brother who wants to to te
minister to the Sandwich islands, and curl
Gus complication has arisen out of the mat
ter The brother, David Mckinley. is now a
consul of the Hawaiian government in San
Francisco He was consul at Honolulu f, r
three years, and when recalled by the last
administration came as the accredIted
consul of the Hawaiian govern
ment at San Francisco. There
is now in Washington in the
hands of q gentleman who is fighting this
appointment letter from one OF the pr.vy
counselozs of the Hawaiian king, which saws
that by the law of thai kingdom no one can
act as its consul without taking the oath of
allegiance to that government The thrift
of Mckinley in managing to hold office alter
nately under two different governments au-
but his competitors for the place are making
a convenient handle of the fact that ne must
now be Hawaiian subject. They claim that
the Endorsements of McKinley's application
were obtained by his brother, and on that
account threaten to carry the war into the
speakership fight, as we'll as to oppose the
confirmation of the senate. Maj. Mckinley
has not seen his brother in twenty-five years.
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Onions Versus QIuinine.

One day was taken with chills and
headache, signs that my old enemy.
malaria, was on hand. My quinine
box was empty, and ! was looking for
ward to restless, sleepless night. In
desperation l peeled a raw onion and
slowly ate it, then went to bed, with
warm feet and an extra comfortable,
when, prestoi l was asleep in five
minutes and awaked in the morning
free from malaria and ready for the
days duties. Our homely but strong
friend will be appreciated in time
as a medicine. and if agriculturists
would turn their attention to raising
a model onion, with the strong
scent taken out that taints tho
breath so unpleasantly, families will be
putting their pills" in the cellar by
the barrel. and the doctors would take
to onion farming. The onion acts as q
cathartic and diuretic, and may help
to break up cold or lesson the bad
symptoms. Said doctor: 81 always
store a barrel of onions in my cellar
in the fall. We have them cooked
twice a week, and whoever OF the fami-
ly is threatened with cold eats some
onion raw. If this vegetable were
generally eaten, there would be no
diphtheria. rheumatism, goSt, kidney
or stomach troubles. But bless you!
the young men and women are afraid
to eat them. One young man went so
far as to say to me: "If my wife ate
onions I would get bin of
divorce. Sister Gracious, in American
Garden.
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Miscellaneous Items.

Fifty counterfeit $40 bills were presented
and stopped at the banks at ST. Louis The
counterfeit is a dangerous one of the series OF
1888. Several of the bills were passed on
grocers and saloon men. 1t is supposed that
at least 200 of these bills are now in cir
Culation.
man named Ellis Worth was taken down
at Arkansas City with smallpox The
physician in attendance says there is no
doubt its being that dreaded disease and
refuses to allow the mother and vile of the
sick man to see him, for fear OF spreading
the contagion. The inhabitants of Guthrie
and Oklahoma City arc almost in a state of
pane fearing the scourge may break out in
their midst. An epidemic of such a kind
might depopulate either place and terrify the
residence of nearly every town in this West
ern country.
The champion hungry man lives in Essex,
Mass. and his name is Samuel Morse He
is afflicted with n most peculiar disease,
being constantly hungry, and will eat raven.
ously nearly every hour in the "a, getting up
several times during the night to appease his
appetite. He has been examined by many
| prominent physicians, none ofwhom can give
| any reason for this abnormal appetite, or
prescribe any medicine which will afford re-
lief He is not at all particular what it is
only something to eat. He will bake aquart
OF beans. eat the most of them at sitting,
| and in ten minutes be hungry for more He
| recently purchased Az pounds of lamb and
made II broth of it, and ate the whole
| in the course of two hours Such a
free partaking of food causes considerable
uneasiness and depression, but there is no
| getting away from it. The constant hunger
| bed, hungry he rises in the morning, and the
vast quantities of food which he partakes of
| do not seem to benefit him, He has been
afflicted in this way for 10 years
| A sensational incident occurred in Chicago
in connection with series of articles being
| published in the Times exposing the bar.
barities practiced by the attendants in the
Cook county insane asylum. The articles are
| written by Charles w. Beck Times reporter
who disguised himself, and by feigning in.
sanity was committed to the asylum Beck's
| room mate at the institution was lunatic
named Burns, brawny laborer, whose
malady was excessive timidity. According
| to the Times, the mans two attendants
Richardson and Grogan, took a dislike tc
Burns for some petty reason. Time and
again the two causelessly pounded the de
fenseless maniac in the presence of scores Of
| other lunatic. Often n silnpleton named
| BILLY was called to aid in the cruelty
Burns case was but a sample of Others HI
died of his injuries which the asylum reports
say were due to falls received by him acciden
tally. Reporter Becks release has been Sc
cured just i'll season to allow the Times tc
print with The story of Burns death, a his
tory of the horrors of the asylum
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Minor Casualties.

August Faver, Il Louisville militiaman,
while on his way to New York put his arm
out of u car window to see whether it was
raining. The arm came in contact with u
bridge near Albany and was broken. 1t was
amputated in Bellevue hospital New York.
At Chelsea Park, a summer resort across
the Kansas line near Kansas City, a bridge
across an artificial lake gave way and pre-
cpltated about seventy five persons INTO
seven feet of water Most o. them scramO Oed
out or were assisted to the shore, more frigh-
tened than hurt but fl teen were injured,
four OF them seriously.
The Catholic convent building at Belle
Prairie, four miles west of Little Falls Mnn.,
burned to the ground. Ii is thought to be
the work ofincendiary. Nothing in the way
of clothing or furniture was saved. Loss,
$4,000. Thirty children were taken from
the building a fter the fire was discovered,
some narrowly escaping. As the building
was insured for a small sum, ii will no doubt
be replaced soon with Il more substantial
structure. Mr. Payette lost 5000 in cash
and some valuable wearing apparel.
Bladensburg near Washington. has been
partially submerged for the past two days,
and the residents there have been living in
Ine upper stores OF their houses. ana plu-
ding about the streets of the village in
boats. The terrific storm of the last three
days caused a freshet at the little town and
vicinity such as has not been experienced i'll
years. Some of the negroes and the poorer
people of the village, who resided in one
story houses, were driven from their dwell
ings to the hills near by, and spent the
night i'll the rain. The waters have receded,
and the streets are now nearly clear.
A collision occurred in the Willamette riv-
er, few miles below Portland Oregon. be-
tween the British Steamship Danube
and the American steamship Alliance. The
Danube struck the Alliance on the starboard
bow, cutting fearful cash and ripping the
hull below the water line. The Alliance be-
gan rapidly SINKING but was quickly beach
ed All the passengers from the Alliance
were safely transferred to the steamer Lur-
line, which happened to be near. The dam
age to the Alliance is not heavy. The vessel
is valued at 100000, and is insured for
100000. Most of her cargo will prove a
total loss. The steamer will he raised and
repaired. The damage to the Danube is
light. A misunderstanding of the signals
and lights was the cause OF the collision.
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Anril 30 . National HOLIDAY.

Postmaster General Wanamaker issued
the following order The president having
recommended that, as q part of the order OF
observance OF the centennial OF the inaugural
ton of the first president, portion OF the
thirtieth day Of April 1889, be set aside for
prayer and thanksgiving. In conformity
thereto it is ordered.
First-post matters are authorized to ob.
serve the usual holiday hours on that day.
Second-where it is possible to do SO with.
out detriment to the public service their
postoffices should be closed at or before 0
o'clock a. m. in order that theempIoyes may
have an opportunity to comply with the
proclamation of the president issued on The
4th inst.
Third-Postmasters must arrange for tho
receipt and dispatch of mail that arrives
and departs during the time the postoffice ia
closed
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Diplomatic ROmances.

These modern romances of
American girls and foreignnoble-
men cannot match the alliance
of forty years ago-the famous mar
riage of the old Count de Bodisco,
the Russian minister, and Miss Har-
riet Williams, the Georgetown beau
ty. He was old and decrepit. 1t is
said that he wore "plummers" in his
checks and dressed his poor, broken
old form so that he looked like a
man of 40 after he saw the beautiful
school girl at her fathers house in
Georgetown. For she was school
girl-only 14-when he married her.
He sent her to Europe to finish her
education and when she came back
she was the most beautiful woman
in America. A magnificent, fair wom-
an, with golden hair and brown eyes,
was this young wife of the old Count
de Bodisco. After leaving here her
husband returned to Russia and she
became the reigning belle of St Pet
ersburg.
More pathetic than this story, for
it was surely pathetic for a girl of Ii
to marry a man of 20, was the story
of her sister, Miss Fannie Williams.
At the time Count de Bodisco was
minister he had with him as attaches
two nephews of the same name, who
in his last hours he acknowledged as
his illegitimate sons. One of these
nephews loved the sister of his in
| comparable aunt. The Count de
Bodisco claimed that the Russian
law forbade such ON intermarriage,
and the two were separated. She
went to st. Petersburg with her
beautiful sister, became engaged to
q Russian nobleman. and on the eve
of her marriage was found dead, with
the ivory miniature of her first low
er in her hand. The tales of the old
days are best.-Chicago Tribune.
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Gamblers Must Go.

GUTHRIE, Okla, April 28.-Col d. p Dyer CT
Kansas City. a Republican in politics and for
merly an Indian agent under President Arthur,
has been elected mayor of Guthrie. One OF his
first acts was to give the gamblers twenty -four
hours to leave, and the next train north took
away good many of them. Two big wall
tents have been erected and are called the ci y
BUILDINGS Police Judge Il. M. Clark of Kansas
holds his court there, and the city council and
other city officers inhabit them. Several good
buildings have been put up and improvements
OF all kinds are in rapid progress. w ". Haran-
court, special artist for Harper's Weekly dropped
dead in front of his tent in Guthrie Yesterday
morning. The remains have been sent to his
home in Dubuque, Iowa.
THE FIRST NATURAL, DEATH
w. v. Herancourt, special artist for Harper g
Weekly in oklahoms. dropped dad here in
front Of his tent yesterday of heart disease.
This was the first natural de lth In Guthrie.
The deceased was thirty years old. He had
been doing considerable work here, and was gem
orally esteemed. He was secretary of the first
Guthrie mass meeting, and the new council
passed resolutions regarding his death to-day.
The body was sent TO Herancourt's home at Du.
buque Iowa.
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A Young Girl Buried Alive.

Edward Rath, o German laborer, lives
alone in half tumble down shanty at Syra
cuse. n 7. Up to March %, he had as an
only companion q seventeen year old daugh.
ter, Emma, q pretty and intelligent girl.
About the middle of March Emma caught d
cold which settled on her lungs. Her two
sisters came home to assist the neighbors to
care for the dying girl. On Friday, March,
%, at about O'Clock in the morning, she
ceased to breathe. The body was left for
about fourhOurs, when Mrs Francis Zeahler
and another neighbor dressed it for burial.
They were surprised to find that the bodv
was warm. Later in the day an undertaken
took charge of the remains. The funeral
took place the next Sunday afternoon and
the body was buried in the Geddes cemetery.
Mr.. Rath, WHO'S employed Us laborer by Alon-
20 +. Vrooman, mason, and who also is
Sexton of Geddes cemetery, dug the grave
himself. Alter the funeral the old mans
children went to their various homes and he
remained alone in the shanty The loss of
his daughter bore heavily upon the old mans
mind. and he spent much of his leisure time
with his neighbors, where the fact of the
girls body being warm several hours after
her breathing her last seemed to have never
ceased to be talked over.
The possibility of the girl being buried alive
preyed upon his mind SO that, without
speaking of his intention. he uncovered the
grave last week. The rough box containing
his daughters body was opened, and the lid
taken from the coffin. No sooner was the
glass uncovered than the grief-etricken father
was Mortified to see the body of the young
girl lying over on one side. He says that
her hands were clasped over her face, and
her brown hair was tangled up over her eyes
as though she had torn it in terrible agony.
Mr.. Rath says there were finger marks upon
her face. He says that he was nearly paral-
yzed with terror, and hastily replaced the
cover, shoveIed the dirt back into the grave,
and ran frcm the place.
The experience has made him nearly insane
The doctor who attended the girl says that
he last saw her the evening before death was
supposed to have occurred, He then left
morphine for her to take. and did not expect
her to die so soon. The undert aker who had
charge of the funeral says he is positive that
the young girl was dead, but the woman who
robed her for the grave admits that the body
was warm when she performed that service.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest News Cleaned From ASSO-
ciated Press kilograms.
WASHINGTON JOttingS.

The secretary of war and Maj. Schofeld
nave in contemplation an extended trip ia
the military posts in the Western states. The
secretary desires to MORN himself of the
condition of these places, and he will prob
ably make the tour at the first opportunity
War veterans who areentitled to commuta-
ton for the loss of the use of their limbs by
disease or injury are now fling their claims
in vast numbers. 1t is stated at the office OF
the surgeon general OF the army that con-
siderable percentage o: the money which con
gress intended for those disabled soldiers is
unnecessarily wasted in attorneys fees. No
Uice is given that all such claims can he set
tied by letter TO the surgeon general of the
army without mourning any expense to the
claimant
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CrOp PrOspectS

CHICAGO. April 2s.-The following will appear
In the Farmers Review: The prospects for the
winter wheat crop still continue favorable, as
rnle Correspondents in Ohio, Illinois, Kansas
Missouri, Michigan and Wisconsin report condi-
tion improved since our last report. In
Indiana the average condition remains about the
same; Kentucky reports are not quite as favor
able. Relative to grains sown this spring re-
ports indicate an increase over the average acre
age usually sown to spring wheat in Illinois,
Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, but less than the
average In Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota In
regard to the rainfall. more than half our re-
ports from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana. Kentucky,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota mention of
the need Of rain, Missouri, Kansas and Ne
braska have been abundanty supplied in this re-
spect, and many counties in Iowa and Michigan
report heavy showers. We summariz, the re-
port as follows: Condition of wiuter wheat:
Illinois. 100 per cent: Ohio, 95 per cent; /;
Ireiana, 9S Slo per cent: KenGucky. 80 per cent: !:
Missouri l01 per cent; Kansas. 1l6 pes cent; /;
Michigan. 03 per cent; Wisconsin, 92 per cent.
Acrea1e sown TO spring wheat as compared with
an average: Illinois, 95 per cent: Iowa, 80 per
cent; Kansas. lob per cent: Nebraska. 105 per
cent; Wisconsin, 09 per cent; Minnesota, 94
per cent: Dakota. 1O7 per cent.
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70 rescue them. The only way in which 1t
could be ascertained that from sixteen to
eighteen bodies had been taken out was
from the fact that legs and arms correspond
ing to about that number were found. An
inquest will be held tomorrow. 1t will In
all probability be days before the dead are
identified.
Malcolm Mckay, of Boston on his way from
Chicago to New York in the employ
Of N. l. Munroe, of. New York, was an
other OF the injured. Malvin Crum, OF
Alvaston, Ohio, who was on his way t.
Buffalo with love stock escaped with severe
outs anu bruises. He wore his right foot in
q moccasin, having had 1t badly hurt while
releasing it from car wheel Another says
that he saw the body of W. ]. Ferguson OF
Brooklyn headless after he himself was
rescued.
BALL PLAYER PROBABLY KILLED
1t is feared that big Bill Phillips of Chi
cago, first baseman of the Hamilton team,
was among the killed. He was expected to
report to- day. The majority of The passen-
gers who were killed were in the smoking
Car and the coach following it These were
telescoped and the first to catch fire
The rescuers were under the impression
bn06 all OF Jne passengers were removed
from the cars, and they were Mortified when
the bodies were discovered. There was a
dead body shipped from the West in the Sec
ond baggage Cal. 1t was also burned.
BROUGHT TO BUFFALO
BUFFALO, N Y April 29-The evening
train on the Grand Trunk brought many sur
vivors of the disaster to Buffalo. Some,
bruised and bandaged, stopped off to rest,
while others in haste continued Gheir journey.
few interviews were obtained with some
of the passengers on the l-fated train. Oae
man from Brooklyn, who refused TO give his
name, said:
The wreck occurred about two miles out of
Hamilton 1t was on a curve and where the
road branched, one track going to Hamilton and
| the other to Toronto. just below the track en-
| in the "" a water tank, which was
the thing that really caused the
terrible disaster sitting
in the smoking car and had just lit cigar and
leaned back in my seat. The car was nearry full,
and l should judge the train must have be en-
running at forty miles an hour The first thing ]
knew felt terrific jarring Of the car and kne w
| something was going to happen. Then l was
| hurled headlong into the aisle. After that
| only have a vague recollection of feeling tie
| floor sink from beneath my feet the roof of
| the car seemed to press down uoou US, and re-
| member nothing more until some one pick
ing me up from the track, where was crawling
about after the cars had taken fire.