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

The contract for three and one-half miles
of elevated railway in Chicago was let tC
Carnegie, Phipps L Co. of Pittsburg. The
price will be between SS00,000 and 81 ,0O0,,
900.
l.. Edwin Dudley, secretary Of the Citizens
Law and Order League of the United States,
| announces that the eighth animal meeting
OF the league will be held in Toronto Can,
on the 22d, 23d and oath instant
The Hekla Fire Insurance stockholders, at
Madison, Wis, ratified the sale Of that com.
pany s stock to the German Insurance Com,
pany, of st. Paul. The total amount of stock
is $3OO,O0O tor which the purchaser pays
S3lS, 600. All Hekla risks will at once be
rensured in the st. Paul organization.
The New York. Sun prints a five-column
article on Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, entitled,
lis Talmage a humbug?" 1t dwells upon
the preachers advertising methods and de-
sCribes his peculiar efforts to secure publicity
for all his movements and sayings. 1t says
| he has acquired q 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
Il
who will pay them d certain salary per
month"; and at the end of a 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 Mckeen Arnold was released from
the insane asylum, in California having de
yelOped no signs of insanity. Arnold isl
young man who created a scene on the Union
Pacific train near Pendleton, Ore, Dec 3, and
was arrested by the sheriff there on tele-
graphic request of the railway conductor.
When arrested he had a revolver and II knife
in his hands, but did notuSe them. Arnold is a
member OF Il we'll known Philadelphia family,
and contends that he has been prosecuted Ivy
Eastern relatives, who had tried to incarcer
ate him i'll an insane asylum. He claims that
the influence OF his relatives caused him to e
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 Oskaloosa, Iowa. 1t is the child
OF Mrs. Wilson, and while playing about
deep we'll covered by loose boards, fell in.
The we'll is 30 feet deep, and contained 10
feet of water. The mother saw the child fall,
and frantically grabbing clothes line, low
cred it into the well. The child grasped the
line, but of course, could not hold on tight
enough to be drawn out, so the mother tied
her end above, "WiU 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 un-
conscious from cold when taken out. but had
bravely clung to the clothes line, all the time
holding its head above water