The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-12-03
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covers an emissary of the Vatican in his
household.
SEVERAL successive trials were made to
produce rain by artificial means i'll India
but have failed.
FRANCE and Russia conclude definite
agreement for an exclusively defensive al
lance.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta says that sew
eral successive trials were made to produce
rain in India, but have failed.
THE Catholic archbishop of AK, France,
is fined 5000 for disobeying government or
ders.
DICTATOR FoNsECA of Brazil resigns in ia
vor of Floriano Pelxotto, vice president of
the republic. A formidable revolution at
Rio Janeiro caused Fonsecas abdication.
A DISPATCH to the London Times from vi
emma says that Russian cereals are overstim-
ulated, and Russia will be compelled to
buy grain from America.
DR.. ERICK has announced to the synod
of Berlin that the revision of the Bible had
been completed, and would be published
i'll January next.
ADvICEs from Guatemala are to the effect
that official figures show that over 10000
McXicans are engaged i'll business in that
country.
In a gambling quarrel on Turkish man.
o!-war conveying troops to Constantinople
several soldiers were killed before order
was restored.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIVI, in speech be-
fore the reichstag denies that he intends
to resign, and further says that the peace OF
Europe is not threatened
TIE French ministry of justice has Or
dered report on the spread of the NOR
phine habit, preparatory to the introduce
tiOn in the chambers of a bill to regulate
the sale of the drug.
THE Chinese government is said to have
decreed that the printing and publishing
of anti foreign placards is a capital offense,
and has ordered those already convicted OF
this otfense to be beheaded forthwith.
THE Russian government orders eighteen
million soldiers biscuits to be delivered by
Jan. Ian order unparalleled since the
RussO-Turkish war. Naturally, speculation
as to the why and wherefore is rife.
ATLondon, Charles Grande, alias dozen
other names, who has been on trial on
charges of blackmailing was recently found
guilty and sentenced to 20 years penal serv-
itude.
Francisco C. CoNCHA, one of Balmaceda's
ministers of justice, was shot by govern
M ent pickets in COrdilleras Pass while he
was endeavoring to escape into the Argen-
tine Republic.
HERR GERMUTh, German commissioner
to the worlds Columbian exposition has
filed his report of his visit to the United
States. He strongly recommends that Ger
mans do all they can to secure good rep
resentation at the fair.
A COMMITTEE from the French chamber
has rejected bill for the prosecution of
men living on the earnings of dissolute
women. The reason for rejecting the bill
is that in France the course of life pur-
sued by such women is not criminal.
The archbishop of Annecy has written a
letter similar to the one which caused the
prosecution of the archbishop of AK. 1t
is expected that the government will take
notice of the letter and cause its author to
be prosecuted
Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur J. Balfour, first lord
of the treasury, who scme time ago was
elected to the rectorship of the University
of Glasgow, was installed in the office re-
Gently with all the honors attendant upon
that ceremony,