The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

At Lincoln, Neb.. the large clothing estab-
lishment of George w. Simmons was closed
by the sheriff, Liabilities, $115. 900; assets,
| $4,000.
The new one-cent daily paper, the Evening
Graphic, has appeared in New York. The
editors and publishers are Western journal
lists. 1t is Republican.
The large nail mills and iron factories-the
Waugh Nail Company of Belleville, ILL.,, the
| Valley Steel works of the same place and the
| Tudor Iron Works of East St. Louis-have
been consolidated.
The Michigan supreme court has de cided
Michigan liquor license law unconstitutional al
on the ground that the bill as passed by the
| Legislature was different in wording and prOvi-
sions rom the bill as signed by the governor.
Girard assembly, Knights of Labor, of
Powderly Ala, has withdrawn from the or
der. They claim that the executive board of
the X. OF L. is corrupt and used the most
dishOnorable means to drive out OF the order
| all honest workers.
| A project is on foot among leading Demo
cratic politicians of Detroit, Mich, to secure
the Democratic national convention in 1892
for that city. l. NJ Weston of Grand Rapids,
chairman of the Democratic state central
committee, is chief mover in the matter and
Don NJ. Dickinson's aid is also being counted
on.
1t is reported that Judge Hilton of New
York has taken steps to prosecute the Worl d
for it's publication of articles referring in an
offensive way to him in connection with the
Stewart property. The World contained an
other article of the serious, the su bstance be-
ing that A. T Stewards sister, Mrs. Hugh
Scully. was allowed to live and die in power
ty in New York and her children received but
pittance from the estate.
The Farmers alliance of st. Joseph, Mo-,
has undertaken a gigantic scheme to advance
the price of wheat \ large elevator is to be
built for the farmers who are members of the
alliance and the wheat is to remain stored
until it can be sold at 81 a bushel. In order
to tide over the farmers who have their wheat
thus stored, new bank is to be esta blished
at St Joseph with capital of $50, 900, and
the money will be loaned to members at u
very low rate of interest.
In the McCala trial at New York Lieut..
IngersoN testified that he never heard the
articles of war read aboard the Enterprise
The Walker episode was the most remark
able one he ever witnessed in his twenty-six
years experience in the navy. Commander
| McCalla with his own hands threw bucket
| fulls OF water in Walkers face and struck him
with his sword while the man was gagged,
|
! Walker has begun q civil suit against the
| commander for $15,O 900 damages.
The federal irrigation committee at Huron,
S. D., examined the artesian well that fur
nishes water to the city, and which has an
estimated flow of 1 500 gallons per minute.
| The examination OF the well on the Day
| Harrison farm indicated flow of 600 gal
Ions per minute, with 120 pounds pressure
to the square inch. The fire department
gave an exhibition of the power of the city
well for fire purposes, throwing an inch and
! a half stream into the air. The commission
pronounces the well the grandest yet exam
ined by tn EN-.
Frederick Wismer. of Newark, N. j. cashier
of the water commiss toner's, and son of the
chairman of the board, has resigned his po
sition, and it is said, that his father has made
good a deficiency OF 50, 500 in his accounts
About month ago there was a rumor o
O defalCationin the board but Mayor Hanet
and all the other members of the board de
MED the story. 1t is stated that he was oil
lowed o remain in the office alter the deficeE
cy was revealed in order to prevent scandal
and will now be permitted to go withou
prosecution on account OF the high esteem il
which his family is held.
The supreme court of the United States
rendered decision in the case of Leicy, bee
manufacturer of PEORIA ILL.,, against Marsha
Hardin, OF Keokuk, To-, who had seized bee
imported from Illinois to Keokuk, advers
so the constitutionality of state laws provid
ing for the seizure o. liquor brought into tn
state in original packages. Such laws tn
court holds, are an interference with interstat
commerce. After the liquor becomes the prop
erty of the importer the state may under it
police powers regulate or prohibit sale, bu
It has no power - the absence cfexprsss con
gressional authority to prohibit the traBF
. portation of the article from another stat
and it's delivery to the importer.