The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-12-18
IN GENER

John Burns, the noted Engl1sn socl6nsb
states that on May next. there will be
general strike of trades for eight hours.
The special session of the New Hampshire
legislature has closed. The regular session,
at which successor to Senator Blair will be
chosen, will begin on the 31st inst.
There are possibilities OF the passage of q
free coinage bill now on account of the
stringency of money that did not exist
short time ago.
Chicago is about to declare herself ready
for the worlds fair, thus enabling the presi-
dent to issue the necessary proclamation to
foreign nations.
The Oklahoma council passed the correct
ed bill locating the capital at Kingfsher.
Two legislators engaged in a fstic encounter
in the chamber over the BILL
Complete returns for mayor of Boston give
Matthews, Democrat, 80 ,3O7; Merrill Repub-
lican and Citizens, 1888; Shapleigh, Prohi-
bitionist, 1887.
Chicago police have information that
Millionaire Campbell is alive, and that he
was seen few days ago in Detroit. Mich,
on his way to Canada.
There is great suffering among the striking
miners families at Monogan, W. Va, Unless
the strikers surrender, 1900 persons will be
evicted from the company's houses
The United States supreme court decides
against Clifton Holden, the Minnesota muir
durer now Dnder sentence of death, and
holds the Minnesota law regarding capital
punishment to be constitutional
Washington and San Francisco dispatches
both deny and confirm the report sent out
from the latter city that King Kalakaua
had come to the United States to secure the
annexation of Hawaii.
W. j. Mcconnell, W. H. Claggett, ex-Dele-
gate Fred T. Dubois and Gov. G. L. Shoup
are the candidates for the United States Sen.
ator from Idaho. A lively contest is expect
ed.
V. & A. Meyer & Co., the splendid cotton
dealers OF New Orleans, in a circular to cred
itors ask an extension of time and say they
can pay every dollar Of their indebtedness,
which amounts to $1,750,O00.
The liabilities in the Chicago Safe and
Lock company's assignment are roughly es-
timated at 100000, chiefly money ad-
vanced by the missing millionaire, B. 81.
Campbell.
"Sketchy" Scott, one of the most noted
and desperate criminals in the west, died in
the penitentiary at jefferson City, Mo. The
remains were taken to Peoria, ILL.,, and
buried after dark.
1t is announced that capitalists of Chicago
have obtained control of the latest invention
in the way ofhigh explosives and will soon con-
troll the markets of the entire country, doing
away with the manufacture of dynamite.
The representatives of the barb wire man.
ufacturers of the United States, who have
been in secret session in Chicago, have ad-
journed sine die without completing the pro-
posed trust.
Advices received by the Canadian govern
ment indicate that the Cree Indians are be.
coming disaffected and are showing a strong
disposition to join the Sioux on the Ameri-
can side in the Messiah craze In fact it is
said that some have already crossed over.
Mr.. Ammidown, of the firm of Ammidown
& Smith, extensive dry goods merchants of
New York, has made personal assignment
to save the firm. He had endorsed $3.50, 900
OF paper for the Rittenhouse Manufacturing
| company.
Before the congressional committee on
immigration in San Francisco, Collector
Phelps stated that the duty on opium from
July, 1888, to November 1890, was about
81, ,760, 900, and half that amount more had
been smuggled in.
| The indictment against Mrs. r. A. Hamil-
ton, Joshua Mann and Mrs. Annie Swinton,
| charging them with conspiring to defraud
the late Robert Ray Hamilton by passing off
q waif as his child, has been dismissed owing
to Hamilton's death.
The total population of the country, in
cluding Indians, will reach GO, ,00O, 900. Al.
ready the census Office has actually returned,
/ in round figures, 315. 900 Indians and whites
in the Indian territory. These, with the
population OF Alaska. estimated ut 3s, 900,
| will bring up the total population OF the
J country to 63, 900, 900, numerical gain OF
/ 13,000,000 for the decade.
Mrs. Adams, widow of the late DR., W. II.
Adams, for many years president of the
Illinois Wesleyan university, has recovered
a Judgment against the Mutual Life Reserve
! Fund association oI New York for 81 @. .26O.
| The defendant resisted the payment OF the
! policy on the ground that the installments
due five days before the deceased died were
not paid.
1t is understood that the Republican mem.
bers of the census committee have reached
/ an agreement upon O reapportionment bill
| based upon representation of 356 members
| of the house consists of S32 members. This
understanding has been arrived at after
mature consideration and consultation with
their party associates upon the floor. The
ratio of representation is one member to each
173,S01 OF the population.
While preaching to a large congregation
ut the East Milestone Reformed church atNev
Brunswick, N. Y, the pastor Rev. DIR. Strong
said: man may fall as easy as q star
from heaven" The next instant his face
turned ashy pale, he clutched wildly at the
! pulpit for support, and dropped on the floor
IN fit Of appolexy. He was taken home aud
died the next morning He was about sixty
years of age.