The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-20

The contract for three and one-half mile
of elevated railway in Chicago was let tt
Carnegie, Phipps 4 Co. of Pittsburg. Tn,
price will be between $4,000 900 and 81 900,
900.
L. Edwin Dudley, secretary of the Citizens
Law and Order League of the United States
announces that tho eighth animal meeting
of the league viii be held in Toronto, Can.
on the AID, 2Sd and Oath instant.
The Hekla Fire Insurance stockholders, al
Madison, Wis, ratified the sale of that com
/ pany' 8 stock to the German Insurance Com
pany, of st. Paul. The total amount of stock
is $500, 000 for which the purchaser paws
$31S, 900. All Hekla risks win at once be
reinsured in the St Paul organization.
The New York, Sun prints iye-commn
article on Rev. t. De Witt Talmage, entitled
rs Talmage humbug?" 1t dwells upon
the preachers advertising methods and de.
seribes his peculiar efforts to secure publicity
for all his movements and sayings. 1t SAYS
he has acquired a large fortune by pursuing
methods not hitherto considered proper in a
clergyman, and accuses him of profaning
sacred places for the selfish purposes.
A number of old soldiers are to leave
Eldora, Iowa, in few days for the Sioux res
ervation to take up some new land. They
are all hired by Mitchell Is. d. capitalist.
who will pay them a certain salary per
month, and at the end of q year, or the time
they have stayed ON the land, will take tho
claim off their hands and allow them $500
for it. 1t is a very good chance for number
of these men, who are able to do much man
ual labor,
James MeKeen Arnold was released from
the insane asylum, in California having de;
veloped no signs Of insanity. Arnold is .
young man who created scene on the Union
Pacific train near Pendleton, Ore, Dec. 3, and
was arrested by the sheriff there on a tele-
graphic request of the railway conductor.
When arrested he had a revolver and knife
in his hands, but did not use them. Arnold is a
member of q well known Philadelphia family,
and contends that he has been prosecuted by
Eastern relatives, who had tried to incareer-
ate him in an insane asylum. He claims that
the influence of his relatives caused him to lie
taken out of Oregon without q trial to San
Frantisco where he was examined before a
commissioner of insanity and incarcerated
without any evidence in open court, and that
until within the past week he has not been
permitted to notify his friends of his where
abouts.
The story of a plucky 4-year-old baby
comes from 0skaloosa, Iowa. 1t is the child
OF Mrs. Wilson, and while playing about q
deep well covered by loose boards, fell in.
The well is 80 feet deep, and contained 10
feet of water. The mother saw the child fall
and frantically grabbing q clothes line, low
cred it into the well. The child grasped the
hne but of course, could not hold on tight
enough to be drawn out so the mother tied
her end above, Twill Pet hold on tight till
mamma runs for papa?" tremblingly cried
the mother to her little one. "Ess" came a
brave little sob from below. The mother
hurried away and soon returned with the
father and several other men, who, after
much difficulty, rescued the the child from its
chilly bath. The child was almost IN
conscious from cold when taken out, but had
bravely chung to the clothes line, all the time
holding its head above water