The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-09-18
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The American Powder company, formed
| to buy up small plants througho out the coun-
try, has been Incorporated at Springfield, ILL.,
The island of Schnett. at Pressburg. has
been inundated. The bodies of TWEEN ty-oRe
persons who were drowned during the food
have been ound floating in the Elbe.
Judge Holmes. OF the Supreme court of
Massachus ct ts, has decided that state court
cannot enioin a national bank. The decision
was the outcome o Il case connected with
the Potter-LoveIl failure.
| During a shower, quite a number of live
| fish fell in Cairo, Ill, of the sun perch and
buffalo species. They were stunned by con-
| tact with the earth, but many were revived
by placing in water and are still alive.
The English syndicate which purchased
the Philadelphia brewery or So, 900. 900 has
failed to make the payments due. Unless
the money is paid by Sept. Is, the deposit
o. $1,000 will be tor cited.
TIE labor congress in session ut Ottawa,
Ont, adopted a resolution that we demand
on behalf o the people OF this country the
| right to hereafter elect our governor in
| stead OF having one appointment by the
| British government
The National Swedish Mission union, in
session at GaPsburg, ILL.,, has postponed
| dcIlOu lot Two years on u feSOIuGlOn lOORl II e
! 10 closer rpla tions with COngregationlists.
| The next annual meeting will be held at
Phelps Center, Neb.
Many petitions asking for the speedy pas
sage of the anti-lottery bill by the senate
are received every day by members of the
comm ttae which has the bill in charge. 9th
| err communications asking why the bill has
not been passed are received from all parts
| OF the country.
Black diphtheria is epidemic at Peoria, iii,
and in consequence of the disease two pub
! lie and two parochal schools have been
closed. Eleven families i'll one vicinity are
suffering rom the disease. The board OF
health have taken steps to prevent a spread
of the disease
Two Of the largest natural gas wells ever
developed in the Pittsburg district have been
struck. One of the wells is located near
Bellevernon and is owned by the Philadelphia
company. The other is the property o the
Brihgewater Gas company, and is in the
Wildwood field.
A convention to take from the constitu-
ton of Kentucky several obnoxious features
placed there by the proslavery convention
of 1S49 and to make it conform to modern
ideas has convened at Frank ort. Ex-Gov.
Proctor Knott is the most prominent am ong
IHe ndI-uOZeH cduuiudteS LOT pFeSluenG OF Une
| convention.
AMortgage on the lines of the Great North
ern railway has been filed in the coluty au.
ditors Office at Seattle, Wash. The mortgage
is made to the Central Trust company un.
der date of July /. The amount OF the mort
gage il 100000, 900. The purpose of the
loan is stated to be for the Pacific extension
oil the Great Northern from Assinaboine to
Puget sound. The extension, it is said, will
cost 100000.
A. ]. Menocal and several other gentlemen
of the engineering staff ofthe Nicaragua ca.
nal construction corps have just reached
Washington from Greytown on a short leave
of absence. They report commendable pro
gress already on the engineering process
Several million dollars have already beer
spent, and tie active work of canal con
struction is now we'll under way, and so vel
started and under such favorable financial
auspices that the success OF the scheme. they
say, is assured. ..-..-a
Thirteen Cinnamon passed through Mon
treal in bond on theirwa to Yokohama via
Vancouver. They came from New York and
are going home for holiday, having made
considerable money in the tea and laundry
business. One of the Cinnamon who could
speak English said in forcible language that
China would soon retaliate on Englishmen
and Americans by preventing Thorn from en-.
terinG China except under certain conditions
The Cinnamon felt very angry at being con
veyed in bond like freight.