The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-03
Other News JOttingS.

The ducking tub and hanging by the wrists.
modes of punishment long in vogue at the
Ohio penitentiary, have been abolished by
Warden Coffin as too severe and inhuman,
and the dark dungeon will be substitue ed for
them.
\ section of iron pipe, 6 inches long and
212 inches in diameter, containing three
heavy dynamite cartridges, and with Il fuse
attached, was found under n stairway on the
tenement 81 East Thirty-eighth street, New
\ Ork The police is trying to find out who
placed it there.
Another S25, 900 libel suit against the Chi
CagO Times, growing out of its recent imam
tiCide Investigations, was begun in the cir
cult court by Dr. Walter F. Knoll. The al
legged EbelOus article printed under heading
which announced that the doctor was a ply
sican who would perform q criminal opera
tiOn 'Out Of sympathy DR.. Knoll claims
that the interview with him did not bear out
the allegations ofthe headline, but that he
wHs mis-reprPsented most grossly.
The work on the Panama canal continues,
although on some sections labor has been re-
duceQ. Altogether some 3, 900 men have been
discharged during the past two months, ow-
ing to disputes between the canal company
and contractors. 1t is not expected that any
more wOrkmen will be dispensed with. The
highest authorities consider total suspen-
sion of work as very improbable. Such u
suspension could only he occasioned by the
complete failure of the reorganization scheme
now under consideration in Paris. There are
now about 9,000labOrers actually engaged
on the works. There is no foundation for the
reports recently circulated that 75 per cent OF
the men now in the employ of the company
would be discharged at end of one year.
The legislature of Idaho Territory. now in
session, is considering measures looking to
the overthrow of the influence of the Mormon
church in territorial politics. The present
election law requires voters when casting
their ballots to take oath that they are not
members Of the Mormon church. The object
! of this law was evaded at the late election by
MOrmOns permitting themselves to be ex-
communicated from the church with the un-
derstanding that they would be reinstatPd
after the election. 1t is now proposed to pass
a law requiring each voter to make affidavit
that he has not been member of the. Nor
mon church within two years preceding the
election.
There was a sad sequel at Chicago to q
! case resembling that of lost Charlie Ross
The missing child in this instance was little
TessiP Redmond. the pretty goldcn-haircd
f0ur-ycar-Old daughter of sturdy looking
John Redmond, a blacksmith. The father
driven crazy by the worry and anxiety OF
his little ones disappearance and his fruit
less effort to recover her. was at last ad
Judged insane in the county court and com
mitted to private asylum. May %, last
Tessie gstplaying in front of her father
! house on State Street. That was the las
! ever seen of her. Ter disappearance was o.
! complete as it was mysterious. Rewards
were offered, but all that the strictest in
! qury ever revealed was the testimony o
some playmates who said that they saw {
woman in black approach Tessie and proffe1
! her sweetmeats When they turned arount
! again the mysterious woman and her sup
posed victim hal gone.