The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-12-31
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A TRAINING school for nurses opens in st.
Paul.
Coal has been discovered in the straits OF
Magellan.
AN agreement for the purchase ofthe
Cherokee outlet is finally reached.
Plans are adopted for St. Paul's great
auditorium, c. A. Reed is the architect.
TIE Federation of Labor convention
adjourns to meet in Philadelphia next
year.
THE Davis will contest at Butte, Mont,
involving s8,o0OOOo, is to be settled out OF
court.
OUT of "a population of 10000 persons at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, fully $4,000 have Ia
grippe.
SENATOR SHERMAN declares tl.,,, he will
not be a candidate ion the presidential
nomination.
THE Republican state central committee
meet in St. Paul. Congressional commit
tees are appointed.
- THE Pacific mail steamship City of Pekin
arrived at San Francisco with smallpox and
$1,000 coo worth ofsilks aboard.
A SUCCESSFUL test of the government
bureau of animal industry's method of in
ocu. lating swine is made in Illinois.
CHARLES UNCLEs, the first colored man
ever raised to the Catholic priesthood. was
ordained by Cardinal Gibbons i'll Balti-
more.
JUDGE WOODS nomination as circuit
Judge will be opposed by all the Democrat
senators because ofthe part he played in the
"blocks of five" episode.
UNITED STATES soldiers in Texas have two
fights with three times their number of
Mexican reyolutionists, worsting them on
both occasions.
JUDGE BLoDGETT of the federal district
court for Northern Illinois. will resign to
accept the presidency of the Illinois in
surance company.
THE bottom of Gaylord mine, located at
Plymouth, caved in. The Gaylord is one
of the largest mines in the anthracite re-
gion. The damage incurred by the cave-in
willexceed $50, 600. Two thousand nell are
thrown out of work.
SUIT arising over the improvement of
the Fox and Wisconsin rivers is decided by
the United States supreme court This liti-
CATION has lasted nearly thrty-lline years.
JOHN TEBoU, marble cutter of Branden-
burg, KY, has received notice that he has
inherited from his grandfather in France,
recently deceased, property valued at $685.
600.
FOLLOWING his custom of the past five
years, Gen. r. A. Alger has taken steps to
give to six hundred deserving Detroit news
boys each Christmas gift In the shape of
new suit of clothes and and ove-coat.
THE Western Stone Company, Chicago,
has purchased the stock and quarIies Of the
Joliet Stone company and the Crescent
company. The. consolidation makes the
largest concern of the kind In the United
States. 20.
ALL the lines in the Chicago and Ohio
River Traffic association have decided to
continue in effect their switching tariff and
drayage charges in Chicago, notwithstand-
ing the action of some OF the Eastern roads
in abolishing these charges.
THE creditors of the Chicago branch oil
s. v. White & Co. have compromised their
claims with the firm, and the suit for re-
ceivef has been dismissed by argument.
1t is understood that the settlements were
made at fifty cents on the dollar.
Gov. HILL says that he will return to the
treasury the salary received as senator
while filling the gubernatorfal chair, and
that his object in holding on to the COVER
nor ship is to prevent Lieut.. Gov. Jones from
holding the office for even half an hour.
THE Kentucky association track was sold
at public auction. Three factions were or
ganized to purchase it. and the bidding
was lively. The first bid was $65 600, but Il
was not long increasing. The last bid made
was that OF Milton Young to theamount oil
$50, ,005. The furniture was sold to the same
syndicate for 81 200.