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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-11-26
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

SEVERAL large retail establishments in st.
Louis are burned, the loss being 1000, OOO.
JOHN R1NDELL, & Sons planning mill was
destroyed by fire at Newark, n. Y, Lose
100000.
FIRE in the Virginian office at Nor
folk Va, destroyed the stock and material
of the office as we'll as most OF the files.
The loss by the fire in Griggs, Cooper &
who eSale houses is placed $3.50, 600 and the
insurance $125 900 less.
The whaling schooner Nicollene, Capt.
Herndon, has arrived at San Francisco, after
an absence of over two years in the Arctic
ocean. The ship has several times been re-
ported as lost.
In a collision between freight and pass
enger train near Cadillac, Mich, Fireman
Pickel and Brakemen Howard were killed,
Engineer James Smith was fatally injured
and a large amount of rolling stock des-
strOyed. No passengers were injured.
A FAST freight train of perishable goods
ran into a runaway freight near Burgetts-
town, Pa, on the Pan Handle road, and
% cars were totally demolished. The cars
took fire and an unknown brakeman was
burned up with the wreck. Engineer
WhiteSides and Fireman Mcfarland jump
ed and were seriously hurt. The loss is esti-
mated at $150000
A COLLISION occurred at Bards Siding,
near Jersey Shore on the Philadelphia &
Erie railroad between two passenger trains,
by which Engineer Christopher G. Ray, of
Harrisburg, lost leg, and three ladies be-
longing to the Irish Visitors Dramatic
Company, Miss May Nugent, Miss Kate
Rooney and Helena Murray, were also in
jured.
A TORNADO in the Argentine Republic
wipes out a town and kills forty people.
FIRE destroyed several tenement houses
in Brooklyn recently. A number of peo-
pie were rescued from death by the heroic
tiremen. Wild rum0Fs were circulated OF
whole families being lostin the fire, but the
rumor proved groundless The loss is not
great.
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MISCELLANEOUS,

CHICAGO is seriously threatened with q
soft coal famine.
The st. Paul chamber of commerce
adopts report favoring celebration in
the form Of q winter carnival.
JUDGE CASE appointed C. W. Rand re-
ceiver of the McCosh Iron and Steel Com
pany of Burlington, Iowa, in compliance
with application OF trustees.
THE Chicago grain blockade has caused q
big blockade on the Iowa and Western
roads Thirteen hundred cars of grain are
sde-tracked in Iowa.
SIXTEEN heirs of Charles Durkee, at one
time governor of Utah, have begun suit in
the United States circuit court at Chicago
to recover over $500 600 of Durkee's estate.
AT Greenwood, Miss, s. H. Hellinger,
wholesale merchant and cotton factor, was
attached by M. Levy & Son, of New Or
leans, for $4,000. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets, $55, 200.
THE Choctaw council has passed an act,
which will have the effect of making ne
groes from the states, who seek promised
land, 60 to some other country besides
that nation.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, there is bitter fight
in the congregation of the Grant Street Syn
the orthodox custom of separating the sex
es during services.
THE great Mormon church choir, 800
strong, which takes part in the services at
the Temple in Salt Lake City, will visit
Chicago during the Worlds Fair and COM
pete for the first prize in the Eisteddfod.
THE Wholesale Saddlery Association oil
America elected the following officers: Ow-
ell Galright, Jr., president; B. w. Camp
bell, vice-president; ]. b. Denver, secre-
tary; J. ]. Krech, treasurer.
THE skeleton of large man encased in
copper armor, is unearthed near Chilli
Gothic. Ohio. He is supposed to have been
the king of the mound builders and buried
six hundred years ago.
G. HENRY STRATToN, one OF the dozen
men who forty -four days ago began fast
ing contest in New York museum, and
who optfasted all the rest and was taken to
Bellevue hospital in On exhausted condi-
ton, is dead,
THE ninth annual convention of the In
ternaHonal Fair and Exposition Officials
Association closed recently. A resolution
favoring the closing of the Worlds Fair on
Sundays was, after heated discussion,
voted down. The election of officers
resulted as follows: President, Hon, r.. w.
Furnas, ex-governor of Nebraska; secretary
and treasurer, III. j. Hill, Canada; execu-
tive committee, I. A. Browne, Ontario; g..
W. Sadlier, Quebec; George M. Savage,
Michigan; J. |. Pierce, Chicago, T. L.
Nawton- Wisconsin: r. B. Crane Ohio.
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FOREIGN FLASHES.

Ex-K1XG MILAN has signed renuncia-
ton of all his Legal and constitutional
rights in Servia.
THE Republicans were badly defeated in
municipal elections in Spain. Last year
they swept everything before them.
The Victorian parliament has provided
for loan of Fl, ,OOO, 900, which sum will be
used in constructing productive works.
BIO JANE1Ro is in state of seige, the city
being ia the hands of Dictator Fonseca's
troops.
THE situation in Samoa is strained At
King Malietoa's request the faipule had
agreed to issue a proclamation declaring
that Mataafa is a rebel.
THE Russian ministry of finance is con-
tempIating a proposal for monopoly by
the government OF the production ofspirits
and tobacco.
The Cara invasion of Mexico is assum-
ing more serious phase. The Mexican
authorities say they have had fight with
him in which he was defeated, bat could
neither capture him nor any of his men.
THE North German Lloyd steamer Elder
Capt. Bauer, which left New York Nov. 7,
bound for Bremen, has not yet arrived at
Southampton, her port of call in England
ana some OF I1OS6 ndNlnS lTICIluS Oh DOaTu
of her are becoming anxious.
COUNSEL for Louis Clovering Bonaparte
presented petition in London in the high
court of Justice asking that Rosalie Bona
parte Cloyiss' petition for divorce be dis
missed with costs. Justice Jeune refused
to grant the application.
THE Conservative Association of BOTHER
hite, one of the suburbs of London, held a
= ;o1,G G;rL n No.
the solicitor general, intimated that the
government would appeal to the country
next November.
In the German reichstag bill was pre-
sented by the government nulifying that
article of the constitution relative to the
immunities enjoyed by the members of the
reichstag whenever the adjournment OF
that body extends over period exceeding
30 days.
A TERRIBLE tornado passed over the
province of Sante Fe, thirty miles from
Rosario, causing great destruction to
property and loss of life. The town OF
Arroyo SEGA was entirely destroyed The
number of deaths is reported to be forty
and of wounded thirty.
THE Grand Duke Alexis and the duke oil
Leuchtenberg have paid visit Of several
days to the Due De Chartres at Chantily,
France. 1t is supposed their object is to
show that the cars family maintains So
cial rel ations with the royal house oi
France,
THE st. Petersburg Noyotsi declares that
the financial crisis IN Berlin has developed
a political crisis; that the war party has
gained the upper hand and that the prp-
dent Bismarckian policy has been forgotten
in the frantic desire to strike Russia In the
moment of weakness.
PRINCE GEORGE of Wales is seriously Ill
with enteric fever at Marlboro house,
London. He was seized with a
chill few days ago, and came
from Sandringham, accompanied by his
father The fever developed rapidly, but
according to the latest bulletin the princes
condition ar present is favorable
THERE can be no longer any doubt that
Caterino Cara has opened the revolution
aTy ball IN Mexico in earnest. As stated
tha Mexieap troons had n brush with the
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IOWA,

Gov. Boies has issued a proclamation
offering reward of $500 for the recovery of
the body of Peter Larson, who is supposed
to have been murdered.
c. B. Hansen dry goods dealer of Clin-
on, made an assignment tor the benefit OF
his creditors. Liabilities about $4,000 with
assets equal or nearly so.
Theodore Lensing, ofNorth Washington,
was killed while blasting boulders on w.
Waddel's farm, 10 miles east of Charles
City. His brother Joseph's thigh was also
broken.
A dispatch received at Cedar Falls states
Chat the free delivery system has been oil
lowed that city. Three letter carriers will
be appointed, one of whom is to be mount
ed to carry mail to the State Normal
School, about mile from the city.
An extensive land deal has just been con-
sumnlated by which !, ,9s7 acres of land in
Butler county was decided to J. G. Lusch.
of Ackley, Iowa. The tract is known as
the Central Stock Farm and is situated near
Allison. The price paid was $31 per acre.
The McCosh Iron and Steel Company, of
Burlington, have filed an objection to the
appointment of G. w. Rand as receiver in
the company, charging that he is unfamil-
lar with the business, extremely partisan
to the plaintiff and has used his position as
temporary receiver to unnecessarily denre.
cate and discredit the trust property.
The second annual state convention OF
the Epworth league OF Iowa convened in
Waterloo. Between two and three hundred
delegates, representing the four hundred
leagues in Iowa were in attendance. Bishop
Fitzgerald Of Minneapolis delivered an ad-
dress before the convention.
In the United States court Des Moines
the demurrer In the case of the United
States VS., John @. Newton and NJ. +. OK.
ford was overruled aud the case will now
60 to trial. Newton Is the president OF the
Des Moines q Kansas City railway and he
and Oxford were indicted on charges OF
conspiracy to defraud the government by
overlooking the mails during the weighing
time when the government determined the
compensation for the year.
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AROUND THE GLOBE.
A Record of the Weeks Happenings
That are Now Part of the Worlds
History.
The More Important Foreign and
Domestic Events Arranged for
Rapid Reading.
WASHINGTON.

The president left Washington recently
for Beugies Md, where he will spend two
or three days i'll duck hunting.
The controller of the currency has au-
thoriZed the First National Bank of Platte
vile, Wis, to begin business with capital
of $500
Hon. Albert G.. Porter, United States
minister to Italy, denies that his visit to
Washington is in connection with the Ma
fla affair in New Orleans.
UNDER a decision ofthe supreme court OF
the District of Columbia, political assess
ments in government buildings will, it is
thought, be completely stopped.
THE minister of Denmark has informed
the secretary of state that c. F. SOlberg,
vice consul of Denmark at Milwaukee, has
been recalled and he therefore asked that
the exeQuator issued to him by the United
States government be withdrawn.
THE Latin-American department of the
World Columbian Exposition has been in
formed by Capt. Rodgers, United States
commissioner to Brazil that the COrcovady
Railway Company of Rio de Janeiro pro-
poses making an exhibit of their railways
in miniature at the Chicago exposition.
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THE WICKED WORLD.


KATE DAVIS is indicted on the charge of
numbering Sam Blackstone.
A murder and suicide occurred at Carvern
Mimi.
The trial of G. w. Brandborg, charged
with murder, is begun at Fergus Falls.
THERE is a prospect for the recovery OF
Capt. Hattie Smith, of the Salvation Army,
who was shot by Nellie Biedler in Omaha
JOHN H. ORR, gass blower of Jeannet-
te. Pa, died from the effects of injuries re-
ceiVed at the hands of four Italians recent
ly.
AT Durango, Colo, Maggie Montgomery
stabbed John Gross in the heart. Gross
died instantly. He was to have been mar
ried, and this caused Maggie's jealousy.
This is her second victim.
B. c.. WELLER, postmaster at Glasgow,
Mo-, was compelled by three robbers, at
the point of revolvers, to turn over all val
uables in his possession, amounting TO
So, 600. The robbers escaped.
SHERIFF HARTMAN arrived at Blair, Neb.,
with Arthur Sloan who killed his steptather
near Fontanelle, Neb., in October. Sloan
was captured near Slater, Iowa, where he
was working on farm.
NEAR Louisville Deputy Sheriff John W,
Artrlp was shot and killed, and Adolphus
Artrip and Reuben Morgan seriously
wounded, Sherman Martin who was drunk
did the shooting.
Howard Cooling, who killed his wife at
Wilmington, Del, Sept. 20 by striking her
on the head with a mustard bottle, and
who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, has
been sentenced to four years imprison-
ment.
THE papers in the case of Maj. Charles B.
Throckmorton, second artillery, charged
with duplicating pay accounts, have, been
| reviewed at the war department. and tor
| warded to Gen. Howard who will order a
court martial to try the officer.
William Knox of Celina, Ohio, went
suddenly insane, and attacking his mother
with knife wounded her so that she died
soon after. He then commenced to slash
imself, and was only prevented from kill
ing himself by the interference oftriends.
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SPORTING MATTERS,

The Law and Order League of Camden,
N. j., has taken up the cudgel against the
Gloucester race-track, and if the place is
not closed within forty-eight hours force
of men will be sent there sufficient to arrest
all attaches of the track. "Billy" Thomp-
son, the proprietor of the track, declares
that he will not close until Nov. % and
thus the matter stands.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

REV ZAcARIAH EDDY, the well known
Congregationalist, died at Detroit, Mich,
aged seyenty-siX years.
GEORGE w. CHILDs DRExEL, the son otthe
Philadelphia banker, was welded to Miss
Mary Stretch Trick, daughter of Mrs. Charles
Keen, at VincetoWn, n. J.
A SON has been born to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, Jr. 1t will bear the
now famous name John Jacob. The in
fant belongs to the fifth generation which
has borne that name in America and will in
herit $3.50, 10000
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SOUTH DAKOTA.

An incendiary fire destroyed barn and
Its contents belonging to w. II. Waters Of
Mullen,
Lewis jewelry store as Huron, was burg
larized Of $500 worth Of jewelry and $50 in
cash.
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revolutionists that day near Guerrero, and
was reported that Garza's forces were rout-
ed. A dispatch was received here stating
that CARA made an attack on Guerrero
recently and was only driven off after stub
born resistance on the part OF the Mexican
garrison.
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Mexican
Mustang
Lininnent.

A Cure for the Ailments Of Man and Beast
A long-tested pain reever.
Its use is almost universal by the Housewife the Farmer the
stock Raiser and by every requiring effective
lnment
No other application compares with it in efficacy.
This weknown remedy has stood the years. almost
generations.
No medicine chest is complete without bottle of MUSTANG
LINIMENT.
Occasions arise for its almost every day.
All druggists and dealers have it.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-04
AN IMMIGRATION Law POINT.
1t Operates in One Case Like the Chinese
Exclusion Act.

Exclusion Act.
New YORK, Dec. "A case which arose
at the barge office brings to light some
points about the present immigration
law which legislation could improve. The
case is that of Benjamin Hollowell, who
was one of the Aurania's streerage passen-
gers He was accompanied by his wife
and two children, and when the trio ar
rived and were examined it was discov-
cred that the head of the family was in
sane. Flrther inquiry elicted the fact
that Hollowell and his wife have been in
the country eighteen years. He is a loom
worker by trade. and when he first came
to the country settled in Paterson, y. J.
Went Across the Water for Health.
By thrift and industry the family &C
cumuated a snug little sum, which was
invested IN real estate According TO AN
affidavit filed "Wednesday this property
was valued at Sc, 0o0 Last January Hol-
lowelPs health became very bad, and his
mind being also unsettled, a visit to his
native land was advised. The family
sailed away and returned by the Aurauia
When landed at the barge Office Hollo-
well had in his possession a declaration in
writing to become an American citizen
Will Go to a Civil Court.
General O'Brien, who conducted the
investigation, decided TO debar on the
ground that he is an insane person. As
there was no reason for OBTAINING the 9TH
ers the wife and children were told that
they were free TO 90. The wife refused to
desert her husband, and remained with
him at the barge office. The case was re-
ferred to Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Nettleton, who sustained the decision
of General O'Brien. No one claimed that
this decision was perfectly just one, but
according to the rules of the treasury
department it is In accordance with law.
The case will be tested in civil court.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-04

most likely to be taken up if McMillin,
springer, and Hatch are dropped by their
supporters. No break in their lines was
effected yesterday, though several efforts
IN that direction were made, especially
Emong the Springer forces.
Tried to Gobble the badgers.
The attempt was made to draw from
Springer his Wisconsin contingent. and
cx Secretary Villas was credited with en-
glneering the movement. His friends,
however, deny that he is interfering in
the speakership fight. He was at Spring
er's headquarters several hours last night.
The headquarters of the different aspir-
ants were crowded last night and the ut
most good feeling prevailed. Judge Hol-
man, of Indiana, the caucus chairman, ar
rived last night, but did not visit any of
the headquarters. He refused to express
his preference, stating that the Indiana
delegation would meet today to discuss
the situation.
The Call for the Caucus.
At the request of all the candidates he
issued the following official call last night
for the meeting of the caucus:
Ihere viii be a meeting of the Democratic
members OF the house of representatives at
the hall of the house on Saturday. Dec. !. 1871,
at p m. for the purpose of nominating cam
didates tor the Offices of the house of repre-
SentatIvcs for the Fifty-secOnd congress.
lSignedl w. =. HOLMAN. Chairman.
Somebody Figuring too Heavily.
1t is said that 20 members were in the
city last night. 1t is expected that not
more than .25 members will be present at
the caucus. The total Democratic men,
bership is placed at 233; but as matter OF
course candidates will not be preseLt,
and voting The claims of the several
candidates on the first ballot are: Crisp
IS: Mills 81; Springer 50; McMillin %;
Hatch l3. This total gives more votes
than there are Democratic members, so
that somebody is over-estimating his
strength.
Crisp Men Claiming the Earth.
The Crisp men claim that they cannot
be beaten. and with the other candidates,
except Mills, out of the race. the vote will
stand-Crisp, 1872; Mills, 80 The Crisp
people explain that the uinety-nine votes
that are here given Mills are all that
Crisp is not sure of, and that Mills will
not get more than seventy-fve They are
absolutely certain, they say. of 1872 votes
in this contingency, and will probably
add some twenty votes that in this calru
latiou are given to Mills
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-04
SECRETARY FOSTERS ILLNESS.
He Will Not BE Able to Do Duty 10,
Several Weeks.

He viii Not Be Able to Do Duty for
Several Weeks.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Am unfounded
rumor was put in circulation yesterday
that Secretary Fosters illness had taken
dangerous turn, and that DR.. ]. b.
Hamilton, formerly surgeon general of
the marine hospital service, had been sent
for from Chicago to take charge OF the
case. DIR. Hamilton is in charge of the
case but he has not been sent for from
Chicago. He CHANGED to be here when the
secretary returned from New York and
became i'll, and as he had previously at
tended the secretary he was summoned.
This was nearly two weeks ago.
Out of Danger but Very Weak.
He considers the secretary out of dan
ger, but insists that re be kept perfectly
quiet as he is still weak, and that re-
lapse might come from over-exertion. He
thinks that the secretary may be able to
drive out on Saturday or Sunday if the
weather keeps fine, and if the patient
keeps on improving the doctor may let
him start south by the latter part of next
week. 1t is stated that Secretary Foster
will not be able TO return to duty at the
treasury for several weeks.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-04

daues VIII enLer the caucus Inc support
ers of Hatch assert that he is unfriendly
to none of the principal candidates, and
they look upon his chances as a compro-
mise candidate as even better than Nc
Miliin's or Spainger's.
Endorsed Kerr for Clerk.
At meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Democratic state central com
mittee of Pennsylvania, held here last
night, Mr.. Kerr was unanimously en-
dorsed for the position of clerk Of tht
house of representatives, and committee
was designated to represent Pennsylvania
at the meeting of the national Democratic
executive committee to be held in this
city Dec 5.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-04
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

Mrs. Anthony, the mother of Judge An.
thony, of Chicago, died at Sterling Ills.
Ed. Feeback fell down the shaft of the
Porter mine at Carthage, Mo-, and was
killed
Mrs. Elizabeth Dodge died at Damaris-
Gotta, Me-, aged over 100 years. Her sister
lived to be 1O2
David &c Butler, dry goods, Nashville.
have assigned. Liabilities, S3s 100; assets,
goods, value not stated.
Mrs. Schultz, of Hardin county, Iow9,
is suspected of having poisoned her hus.
band, William Schultz.
Prince Bismarck took part in the debate
in the kreistag of Ratzeburg Wednesday,
and was cordially received.
loss of $4,000 was caused by fire
started by dust explosion in the drug
mill OF Murray & Nickel, Chicago.
d. j. Boyce's coal and lumber yard and
other property at Planfield, n j., was
DESTROYED by fire. Loss, $3.50, 0O0 insur-
ance, $4,000.
The budget committee of tie German
reichstag has voted 900, 900 marks to be
devoted to providing German exhibit at
the Worlds fair in Chicago in 1893.
The chief of the ordnance bureau wants
81, ,S0, 29l for the next years work on big
guns, etc, all but about 5000, 600 being Tor
the armament of vessels now authorized
The negotiations for the redemption of
duties on United States imports to the
British West Indian colonies show there
is great discrimination in favor of other
countries.
\ conference of the state officials of the
Farmers Alliance and many local organ
izers, was held at Eau Claire, with the OBJ
lect of extending the organization
throughout Wisconsin.
DR. O. w. Owen, of Detroit has dug
out story from Shakespeare by which
he finds that Lord Bacon was the son of
Queen Elizabeth and Earl of Leicester
Come again Brother Ignatius.
Two widows are claiming the estate OF
Joel X. Carter, of San Francisco, and
have wisely agreed to settle the matter
without going to law about it, They and
their children are all living in the same
house. st.
Nine children, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
underwent the operation of excision #
part of their cuticle for the benefit of
young friend whose arm had been badly
scalded. The skin was grated and the
operation will probably be successful.