The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-09-25
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The Northern Pacific Railway, it is said,
will soon control the st. Paul and Duluth,
deal to that end being in progress.
The population of the State of Connecti-
cut is given by the census bureau as 745, ,S61;
an increase of 1913, ,161.
Cholera is prevalent in Shanghai and also
in the Northern districts OF China. Several
Europeans have succumbed to it.
The Rio Grande is higher than it has been
for ten years The lower parts of Eagle
Pass, Tex, were inundated and consider
property was destroyed,
Miners at Spring Valley, ILL.,, charge that
the coal company, OF which W. L. Scott, is
president, issystema aticalIv prosecuting hem
and they threaten to STIR. again.
At Elensburg, WASH, Samuel Kreide deal.
er in dry goods and clothing, has made an
assignment Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
$4,000.
The Anchor Beef Packing company of st.
Joseph, Mo, whose house was opened at the
stockyards year ago last spring, has per-
manently retired from business.
The officers of the Delaware county, Iowa,
fair are under arrest and will be placed under
heavy bonds for permitting gambling on
their fair grounds.
The official population of New York city
shows an increase of25.47 per cent. T he
total for 1880 was ], ,206, ,299 and for 1890
1,513,501.
The Dominion government will shortly an
nounce the abolition of the export duty on
pine logs in order to meet the alternative
provision in the Mckinley bill regarding
Canadian sawed lumber.
committee of the Duluth chamber of
commerce, in report, attacks the county
official fee system in most drastic fashion,
and the chamber takes measures t o have the
system abolished by the legislat ure.
Chicago officials are making crusade
against the moke nu sance. Many million
aire merchants, including j. V. Far well & Co,
Marshall Field & Co. have been fined $50
ach.
Neil Mcneil, contractor, has brought sui t
for $40,0 900 against the Boston chamber of
commerce, that being the profit he claim he
would have made if he had been awarded
the contract for the new chamber of COM
merce building, his bid for which was the
lowest.
A dinner was given by the city of Sto OK
| holm to the officers attach ed to the United
States steamer Baltimore, which conveyed
the body of the distinguished inventor, John
| Ericsson, from the United States to Sweden.
Two hundred guests, including the ministers
| of state, military and naval officers and
leading civilians, were present.
| telegram to the executive com mittee of
the Native Sons fro m Charles A. Vogelsang,
of Los Angeles, announces the fact that the
| family of the late Maj Gen. } ohm c. Fremont
/ is absolutely destitute. The committee has
| no funds available for the relief ofthe family,
although aid is imperatively needed. The
retired pension granted to the general was
not continued to his widow.
At the Toledo session of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland. Columbus was
chosen as the place of the meeting next year,
and the date Sept. % and a. The follow
| ing officers for the ensuing year were elected
President, Gen. w. s. Rosecrans, and one vice
| president from each state. representing in it's
membership; corresponding secretary, Gen.
| Henry M. Cist; recording secretary, Col. j. II.
Steele; treasurer, Gen. j. s. Fullerton.
An epidemic has been raging in the eastern
part of Carroll county, Ohio, and many
deaths have resulted. The other day 81 K
deaths occurred: it was claimed by some to
be typhoid lever. DR.. Williams of Ca rrolton
was called to the home of John To oil. He
died of cholera after intense spasms end
frequent fits of vom iting, purging and
other symptoms of that dreaded disease
DIR. Williams pronounces it genuine case o
Asiatic cholera.
Reports received from reliable citizens
in the nei ghborhood of Bee Tree brook, &
tributary of the Sewanee river, in Nortf
Carolina, state that for the third time since
the Charleston earthquake vast voIu mes O
black smoke, running to height OF soc
feet, having for some days been regula rly
emitted from the seven mountain peaks o
the Blue Ridge chain. An effort is being
made to have Prof c. ID. Smith, the geologisi
OF Monon county, and Gen. T. L. Clingmnr
to investigate the matter, as many Of tn,
people have become SO alarmed that they
say they will leave, the neighborhood.
recent announcement by Fred Dupree
the Cheyenne river squaw man, who is re
ported to be worth 500, 600 that h,
would give some young business mar
$4,000 to take In marriage hi
half-blood daughter 'Swift-as-the. Wind.
has brought food of letters from
every section Of the country from those whit
desire the dusky maiden aud the $40, 600
Ten years ago Douglas +. Carin. a son OF ri
ex-governor of Illinois, married Dupree /
Oldest daughter, and the old man made him
Independently rich. Swift-as-the- Wind il
said to be the finest looking hnlEbreed pir
In the great reservation, but old man Dupre,
must alone be consulted in bargaining fo,
her hand in marriage He says he selected ,
model husband for his eldest daughter. ans
the man who weds Swift assthe- Wind mus
! be OF the same makeup as tsariin.