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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-22
IN GENERAL

/ The Republican State Convention OF Min
npsota is called to meet at st. Paul on
! Thursday, July "a.
Great anxiety is felt in financial circles in
1 Mex ca r. p"rtng the action which the Init
Ell stat = congress will take on the silver
question.
Heirs of Paul Srofferd, once millionaire
shipping merchant of New York. move for
the removal OF j. L. Spoford as executor. 1t
is said s., 100000 are unaccolted for.
new cotton corner is being formed in
Lancashire, Eng. A large quantity of Amer
lean cotton is already cornered, and prices
are advancing
A movement has been inaugurated in New
York to necuro ynilG0n signatures to a
memorial to be sent to tho czur Of Rnssia
asking that he look into and SEEK to anchor
ate the condition of the eXiles of Siberia
Charles Randolph, expresdent and ex-sec-
retary of the Chicago board of trade, who
mysteriously disappeared from Chicago April
%, has shown up in Portland, Or. A letter
with Portland postmark was received from
him by Il friend in Chicago, and this was the
first known regarding his whereabouts.
A Canadian land grant has been granted
to the Manitoba & Southwestern from Win
nipeg southeast to the Lake of the Woods, q
distance Of ] 10 miles, the subsidy being 64.-
900 acres per miles The promoters say the
line will be built to the Lake of the Woods as
q colonization railway, and the proba bilities
are that it will be constructed this year.
The women who were recently elected Off
GERS of Edgerton, Kan, have resigned, owing
to the ridicule and criticism to which their
official acts have been subjected by certain
of the male citizens. A special election for
Mayor and other offices thus left vacant
will be held May 10. 1t is believed that the
women, whose administration has ON the
whole given satisfaction, will be reelected.
The bleached bones of Il man apparently
about sixty years of age, and six feet tall,
were found near Fort Ripley, MINI. By the
side of log, u lew feet from the remains, his
tussock was found, which contained old
gloves, shirts and newspapers, The papers
we're st. Paul Daily Globe of June 8, 1888;
and Chicago Inter-Ocean, June 5, 1888. 1t
is supposed that his remains have been there
since about the date of the papers. On the
margin of the Globe, in good hand, was
written "Sauk Rapids" three times and
Little Falls once. One double tooth in the
lower jaw is filed with gold.
Capt. Owen J. Sweet, Twenty fifth infantry,
Who with his mpany, is setting the head
stones over the graves of Clusters men who
fell in the battle of the Little Big Horn, June
25, 1876, has discovered three bodies that
had never been buried. One ofthe skeletons
still had on parts Of United States uni "orm,
showing that he had been q private soldier.
The body vas found in clump of bushes
near where Custer first attempted to cross
the Little Big Horn, and no doubt is the re-
mains of one ofCalhoun's company. He had
probably been badly wounded, crawled into
| the brush and there died. The skulls of the
other two men had been broken in above the
eyes, as if done by q stone mallet.
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ON ITS MERITS.

Gengressmen Asked Not to Mix
Politics With the Subtreasuries
Bill.
WASHINGTON, Special. hearing of
the Farmers alliance representatives was
continued before the ways and means COM
mittee to-day, Mr. Livingston, the national
lecturer OF the organization, taking up the
argument. He quoted President Lincoln s
prophecy that corporations would be en-
throned; that the property of the country
would be concentrated aud that the reppb-
lie itself would be overthrown. Thank
God the last prediction had not been full
filled. But the others had been. One
owned three ftths Of the pro 6perty He ALSO
quoted Garfield, Jefferson and Calhoun,
and said that what they had recommended
was Just what the alliance asked. If CON
gress refused to approve the sub
treasury plan, then let it res
move the restrictions hedging in the
national banking system. It would be a
godsend to this country to pass the sub
treasury BILL for the reason, if for no other,
that there would not be bucket shop left
in the United States. The day of specula-
ton i'll crops would be done away with, and
the producer and consumer would be
brought together. Sixteen millions would
build III the warehouses the ALLIANCE wanted
What good were river and harbor improve
ments to the debt-ridden, oppressed farmer?
In conclusion, he said that if the commit
fee thought that the landed basis was the
best; if they could not accept the crop basis,
let them put it in the bill. Do something
to relieve the farmers. Report the bill TO
the house in some shape, sd that it could be
acted upon. Don't make it aquestion of
tariff Of Of politics, but let the bill stand on
Its merits.
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FIRE AND CYCLONE.
TOmsk, the Capital of West
ern Siberia. Visited by a
Fire and Cyclone.
Three-Quarters of the Build
ing Destroyed and Hundreds
of People Perish.

ST. PETERSBURG, Special scenes
are reported as having occurred during the
burning of Tomsk, the capital of Western
Siberia. Tho place was visited simulta-
neouSly by confagration and a cyclone,
the result of the combined disasters being
the destruction of thrce-quarters OF the
buildings which were of wood, and the
loss of hundreds of lives. The cathedral.
situated in High Town, is in ashes. The
walls of the edifice in falling crushed an
adjacent hospital, burying the inmates, who
were subsequently roasted alive. The gar
rison brutally refused to render the least
assistance in saving lives and property, on
the plea that they had enough to
do to protect the barracks and other
government buildings. They also added
that they had no time to assist worthless
eXilcs.' The panic-stricken mob of suffer
ers huddled together in the streets, and,
firmly believing that the end of the world
had come, abandoned themselves to stolid
despair Much of the suffering might have
been averted had there been the slightest
attempt at organized relief. AS if fire and
water were not capable of inticting misery
enough to the unfortunate outcasts the
storm was followed by q sudden fall in the
temperature, and soon the devastated city
was buried beneath a mantle of snow that
added stinging cold to the sutferings of the
thousands of shelterless men, women and
children.
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YOU'RE LIKE A sINGED CAT"

Irish wit is enjoyable because the
Irish character is natural, and this is
precisely the case with the American
rustic humor of the stage. There is
nothing strained or artificial about it.
1t isn't buffoonery, which belongs to
comic opera exclusively and cuts no fig
ure in refined comedy, except possibly
in farce-comedy, which is simply an ad-
vance on the variety stage.
l never played before an audience that
wouldn't warm up to q good joke.
Some people talk about cold audiences.
Well, all have to say is that you can't
warm your hands over spainted fire;
you've got to have the real article. An
audience will never be cold when it's hu-
manity is touched. Your humor may
deal with the tramp, the old man, the
young man, the lover, the swell, the
hayseed, or any of the other thousand
different forms it sometimes takes; it
will catch on all the same if it is based
on the right notion OF human nature.
Denndn Thompson, In Chicago Times.
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ex-secretary of the Chicago board of trade
who nysteriously disappeared from home
April %, has shown up in Portland. A
letter with Portland postmark
was received from him by a friend
i'll Chicago, and this was the
first known regarding his whereabouts.
an article in the Oregonian this morning
stating tdat he was suspected of being in
the city, sailing under an alias, had the eff
feet o! smoking him out. He strolled into
the office this afternoon and give an account
of himself. He said he had been in Port
land several weeks, and did not know anv
one was worried about him.
How did happen to leave Chicago 80 sud
denly? he said, and a vague, far away express
sion came over his face. "Well, l don't know.
Thef3 js no need of asking, for you know as we'll
as l. IEe circumstances of leaving is a
blank to l,a Know | was sick and
must have left on the impulse of the moment I
viii never know how. ] know was sick tired
and worn out. have been under the harrow
forty years and the old machinery shows signs
OF wear. came here, engaged a room and pro-
pose to remain several weeks for my health.
shall not send for my family.
AS Randolph was secretary ofthe Chicago
board of trade fifteen years, once its presi-
dent, also secretary of the National board of
trade and president of the American Fire
Proof Steel Car company, his mysterious
disappearance gave rise to fears of foul play.
Dispatches were sent all along the coast
lie Is slXty-two years of age.
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LOCAL TAXATION.
The Bill Passes It's Second Reading
in the House of Commons

The Bill Passes its Second Reading
In the House OF Commons.
LONDON, Special. Sir Wilfred Lawson,
resuming the debate on the local taxation
Dill In the house of commons this evening,
denounced the compensation scheme,
which, he said, would lead to
an immensity of evils, involving
iurther public degradation, corruption
ana bribery. Home Secretary Matthews
defended the compensation clause on the
ground of expediency and legality. Mr..
GLADSTONE said he gave Mr. !Goschen credit
ior sincerity in his attempt to- lessen
the evils Of the - liquor trade,
but the means proposed were
utterly futile and dangerous as we'll. The
scheme might be described as bill for the
endoWnrent of public houses. IT was
argued that theimoney for the purchase of
public houses would be derived from drink
itself: Eyer since he had known ANYTHING
about the copntry's finances ii had
been a recognized principle that a
duty which would most limit the con-
sumption should be imposed upon spirits
Therefore the highest duty that could be
levied was pre-engaged by the public funds
already. AT the most, the bull would pro-
duce but trifling restriction upon the NUM-
ber of public houses without correspond
ing reduction OF the actual traffic, The
measure was so framed that 1t would para
lyze every valuable principle embodied in
the existing law and throw back the tenn
perance cause indefinitely. Mr.. Gaines
motion to reject the bill was lost, and the
bill passed its second reading;
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WROTE AN IMPUDENT LETTER.
The Grandson of a Former Mexican
Emperor Gets Himself Into Trou-
BILE,

The Grandson of a Former Mexican
Emperor Gets Himself Into Trou-
BILE.
CITY OF MEXICO, Special. papers
are giving undue importance to the Ytur-
bide incident. Yturbide is young man,
grandson of the emperor of the same name,
and is now a second lieutenant in cavalry
regiment, with no official standing, though
he has some money, which enables him to
make frequent trips TO the United States.
During the last trip he IS reported
to have said that he represented
the Conservative party. The local. press
took up the matter, when he, boy like to
set matters straight, rushed into print, pub
fishing letter in which he criticised the
government the liberal party and also
President Diaz, who is commander-in-chie
Of the army, and for this he was arrested
and sent to the, ,Tlaltalolco military prison,
where he is on trial for complaining
against a superior officer. The author
tiles attach little Importance to the
affair, though they are inqdiring to ascer-
tain whether he was instigated by others.
So far, however it appears that he wrote
the impudent letter without consulting any
one, and therefore tbs government is in
cllned to deal leniently with him, particu-
larly as he claims that his ideas are purely
republican and that he never dreamed of a
monarchy. His attorney, Mr.. Nerdugo,
claims that even if he is found guilty he
can be sentenced to only one or two months
imprisonment.
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LABOR TROUBLES.
Strike in the Building Trades Ex-
pected in ST. Louis.

A Strike in the Building Trades Ex-
pected in ST. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Special.-A big strike in the
building trades is expected, here. The
stonemasons' union has become dissatisfied
with the way the proprietors of quarries
have been replacing strikers with cheap
lakorers, and it is reported that all masons
will be called out. A strike of the stone
masOns will force the carpenters and the
allied trades to quit work.
CHICAGO, Spcieal-Thes striking iron mold
ers at the Malleable iron works claim that
the statements made by the management as
to the resumption of work by several hun.
dred men arc false. The chairman of the
strike committee declares that only twelve
men went to work Tuesday, and most of
them quit again yesterday. The strike of
the timers has been successful in every
shop except one.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Special.-Fifty con-
ductors and brakemen employed in the
yards of the Valley Railway company in
this city have struck for increased wages,
and all freight business is at standstill.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Speoial-All the news
gurated here to-day among the stone and
brick maSons for eight hours and ten hours
pay. One contractor granted the demand,
but Others are trying to get non-union men.
JOLIET, ILL.,, Special. A strike was inau-
papers Of this city to-day granted the de-
mands of the typographical union for an
increase IN the price Of composition.
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THE BUREAUS REVIEW.
Low Temperature Most Marko
thn Nnrthwocf

- the Northwest.
Washington, Special.-Tne deficiency in
temperature has been most marked in the
states of the upper Mississippi valley and
the Dakotas, where the temperature has
ranged from to deg. lower than usual, and
wheTe the cool weather continued to-day
witl1 local SHOWS.
Light showers have occurred in the Miss
ouri valley and in the Northwest. Very
slight showers occurred over the great por-
ton of the Dakotas and Minnesota. There
is a large deficiency in seasonal rainfall from
central Minnesota westward to the Miss
ouri valley and lower west Dakota
Over this section less than 40 per
cent of the usual rainfall has occurred,
although showers were reported in this sec
ton this morning. The weather during
the past week in the Northwest, including
the states of the Missouri and upper Missis-
sippi valleys and upper lake region, was gen.
orally untayorable Tor growing crops owing
to low temperature, which was accompanied
by frosts, causing somo injury to fruit and
retarding growth of crops. Drouth con-
tinues over portions of Minnesota and
North Dakota where high winds have rem,
dered some replanting necessary. con-
tinuation of dry weather in Oregon will re-
suit in some injury to the grain crops.
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haa Gnoeked the cushion out or one of
these chairs" said /. at venture, kicking
it again. A general laugh told me that,
no matter what nay embarrassment
might be, tha audience thought the epi-
sode mighty funny one, and 40 1t went
into the business.
Country huMor always goes best, for
the reason that it touches the right spot,
the heart, No amount of gags, or play
upon words, or localisms will do that.
The gag has been left as legacy to the
music halls and variety shoWsa 1t isn't
recognized any more On stage, 1t is an
Interpolation. as the best, and good
deal OF an impertinence, and besides 1t
doesn't really belong in the domain of
humor at ALL Country humor is not
sectional by any means. There 10 the
broad. vivid western style. the cute Yam
kee variety, and tho Ahe-drawn, pictur-
esque hpgnor 1f'the south, all of which
eau be Olassed as rustic, and which have
their proper places upon the stage.
These three are the distinctiys types Of
native American hpnor. from which q
dozen othey varieties spring, soMe Of
'em by the way,"of pEecieNs little ae'
70 ay way Of thinking all true humor
ID kindly, and rustic humor most of all.
II never has anything personal or vim
dictive In and Is always acceptable to an
audience. Your countryman never fails
to make q hit, because he goes under
the veneer and talka straight to you, in
oR:hand. innocent way. that makes
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and, on capturing them, tied them to trees
and, after stripping them, iogged them.
They then loosened them and began firing
on them. The Mormons ran into the swamps
and have not been seen since. The young
women were returned home.
The Indian police on the Sisseton Indian
reservation have been informed that Mrs.
Thomas had been murdered, and that an
Indian buck with whom she was living was
also shot at the same time. Mrs. Thomas
was full blooded Indian and the wife of u
negro soldier whose term of enlistment had
just expired. About ten days ago he came
home from Fort Missoula, Mont, to find his
vie living with the Indian who was shot.
Mr.. Thomas not wishing any partnership in
his married relations, concluded to return
to the army, and left that place on the night
of the murder. Rumor says that he is i'm
picated, but suspicion points more directly
to an Indian woman, the wife of the Indian
who was shot.
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RECORD OF CASUALTIES


The tremendous rains of the past few days
have done great damage in the outlying part
of Chicago.
Reports from different parts OF North Mis-
souri, state that large amount of property
has been destroyed and several persons
killed by the violent storms which have pre-
vailed In Harrison county the house OF
William Wilson was blown away, Wilson
and his two children killed and several per-
sons injured. Twenty buildings were de-
strOyPd in Gentry county and Mrs. \. Green
was killed. Near Memphis No, six dwellings,
were blown down, but nobody was killed or
seriously injured.
4 few miles east Of Burlington, Iowa, a
passenger attempted to jump O the train
while it was in tuli speed. He was instantly
killed by striking a mile post
Disregard OF orders caused q collision on
the Louisville 4 Nashville road south of
Birmingham. Ale. miner stealing de
was killed, Harry Turner a civil engineer of
the road .utally and three trainmen slightly
injured
While number of children were playing in
an excavation for a cellar in Brooklyn the
embankment ravej in upon hem, and Arthur
Taylor, aged eight years, his brother John,
aged three, and Percy Weaver, aged eight,
were smothered to death.
A Acyrlone struck Cedar Valley, Wilson coun-
ty, Kansas Joseph Wiltseys house was
demolished, his youngest son killed, and two
other children injured. Next the dwelling Of
Frank Gldden WAS destroyed, his wife killed,
and two other children injured. The dwell
ings of Peter Pierson, Aleck Russell and the
Widow Starr were eveled to the ground, and
Mr., Pierson and wife so badly injured that
they are not expected to survive.
The Winona Mill company's -four mill at
Winona was destroyed by fire. The total
loss on the property is estimated at $780,
900, and may exceed that; insured for $780,
600 mostly in mutual companies There
were about twenty five thousand bushels OF
wheat in the elevator and mill. The mill
was built in 1888 by Wnona capital entire
", and is a severe loss to the city. The COM
pany employ about 100 men.
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ENTOMBEDIN A MINE.
Fatal and Destructive Cavern in a
Mine Near Wilkesbarre, Pa.

Mine Near WilkeSbarre, Pa.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Special. A cave-in
occurred 20, day near Ashley in No. 6 mine,
operated by the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal
company, by which twenty-five men were
entombed in the mine The cave-in extends
over a halfmile square, and includes a
portion of the thckly settled village called
Lafett's Patch. A large number Of houses
went down with the surface, but only few
of them were badly damaged. The follow
ing is list of men who are known to be
imprisoned:
Ellis D. Williams, Harry Parry, Owen Parry,
Michael Henry, Thomas c. Davis, John Scally,
Michael Scally, David Sullivan, John Hanson,
John Allen, taken out seriously burned; Rob-
ert W. Roberts, taken out fatally burned;
Harry Jones, Robert Prichard, Charles James,
Anthony Froyne. rescued fatally burned; John
Williams, Jonathan Williams, Richard Jones,
William Edwards, Thomas J. Williams, Thomas
Clauss, Owen Williams, John Hempsey, Frank
Gallagher, John Renning and two Hungarians
named Butts.
Rescuing parties went to work and sue
ceeded in breaking through one of the
chambers beneath the cave, and the charfad
the tirsk S-ctinl, was hoisted to tie surface:
still alive, but his injuries are
asred fatal. When the -;
spie&d that Froyne was bGfnea
a feeling of gloom came over the
old miners present, for they realized that
there was little hope of his companions
having escaped death. The rescuing party
penetrated to within sight of two dead
bodies, but gas was SO thick that they were
driven back to the surface The
place is full of black damp and
further approach in the direction of
the victims is impossible, even with safety
lamp. AS it looks now very little hope is
entertained that any of tile men will be
rescued alive. The men entombed are
nearly all married and have large families
all dependent on them for support, and the
scene aaound the mouth Of the pit is a
heartrending one.
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The General and the Private.

A veteran who served in the ranks
in recent letter calls attention to a
very amusing incident of an imposing
field review. Previous TO the cam,
paign into Georgia Gen. Rosecrans was
reviewing that portion of his splendid
army that lay about Winchester and
Dechard. There had been a sharp
saving of rations to get ready for the
long advance. AS the General com
manding came riding along the line il
man in the Second Minnesota crietG
out: LESS review and more to eat"
Gen. Rosecrans reined ia, and, touch
ing his hat to tho soldier, replied. A
lean dog for hong race"
On reading this letter to Gen. Rose
Grams he added another almost as good.
He was riding with Mr.. Dana the As
sistant Secretary of War; along the
lines of new and formidable works ia
process of construction at Chattanooga
just after the occupation of the works.
Stopping at Fort Wood, Mr.. Dana was
adIHin1n gs;'bs--stasssfth, and Saying that
it compared faEoIably with the sSe0n e
est at Vicksburg, Gen. Rosecrans.
turning to the working party, said.
BOYS, 90 you think you can hold this
worllP" One of them promptly re-
piled: General, We'll hold this line
if you will open the cracker line"
A few days ago this soldier walked in
to Gen, Rosecrans Office in the Treas
Ury Department and asked him if he
remembered the incident. The caller
was delighted to find that it was stil!
fresh in the Generals memory, and
that he also remembered some other
features of the day and scene. The
visitor then introduced himself as the
author of the cracker-line observation.
Aside from their amusing features
the stories illustrate relation between
the volunteer in the ranks and the
higher officer that was one Of the main
bonds of union and which contributed
largely to the strength OF our armies,
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