The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-10-13
ELECTRICAL E1cHINos.
briefly Told.


Hugh Kinder was arrested In Providence
for bigamy committed there fifteen years
ago.
The chief engineer of Altoona, Prussia, has
been arrested for the misuse of public
funds.
John Cavanaugh and B. +. Pereto, fire.
men, We're killed at a fire In New Orleans
yesterday,
Mrs. Henry White, wife Of the secretary
of legation at London, had the honor of din
ing with the queen recently.
The Georgia factory In Clark county, Ga,
was burned yesterday. Loss, $130,0O0. The
factory employed 300 operatives.
The steamer Idaho, supposed to have
been lost on Lake Superior In Friday
ctorm, is safe in port at Bayfield,, Wis.
Myriads Of grasshoppers have appeared in
Buchanau and adjoining counties in Kan
sas, and are rapidly destroying the winter
wheat
furious gale is prevailing on the Ian
cashire England) coast, and it is feared
much damage to shipping and loss of life
may result.
Mr. Gladstone yesterday attended service
at Eawarden church-a fact which gives
strength TO the denial of Saturdays report
of his illness.
Important concessions have been granted
to the New York & Honduras Steamship
company of New York city by the govern
ment of Honduras.
Quarantine against the United States has
been re-established at Rio Janeiro on ac-
count of the reported temperance of chol-
era in New York.
The secretary of the treasury has awarded
the contract for the construction of the rev.
enue steamer Calumet to David Bell of Buff
falO, N. Y, for $3S, 500.
At the recommendation of the athletic ex-
ecutive committee of Princeton, a mass
meeting was held, at which it was voted to
abolish tie annual cane rush.
Charles e. Wheeler, q Narragansett In
dian, having murdered his wife in Norwich
is reported as running wild through the
southern part of Rhode Island.
Twenty-Five new cases of cholera were re-
ported in Hamburg yesterday and four
deaths from the disease. There are 742
cases of cholera in the hospitals.
Tha Russian cruisers operating in the
Bering sea have captured ten Canadian
sealing schooners, valued at $4,000, and
1900 seal skins worth $40 each
The annual convention of the National
Association of Fire Chiefs at Louisville
closed yesterday. Maj. Edward Hughes of
Louisville was elected president
The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
(coloreD in America closed its sixth biennial
session i'll Washington last evening. Will
lam n. Forester of Richmond, Va, was
elected grand master.
Judge e. S. Sampson, eX-congressman
from the Sixth Iowa district, died al OF
tumwa, Iowa, yesterday. He had been q
long time ill from complications following a
severe attack of the grip.
Anna Matilda Maulsby provided in her
will, which has just been presented for pro-
bate in Washington, for the erection and
maintenance of q home for destitute women,
as memorial for her mother.
A consolidation of steel brake-beam man
ufactur1ng industries has just been effect
ed. There are but three companies engaged
in the business, and they are located in
Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburg.
At Coatsville, Ind, the insane wife of
William Sharp poured coal Oil on his bed
clothing while he was sleeping and then
applied a match to it, buring him to death.
She was badly burned while holding him in
bed.
Prof. Pickering, of the Harvard observa-
tory at Arequipa, Chile, says that he has
discovered forty small lakes in Mars. He
also confirms Prof Holders observations on
the limits and measured altitude of the
planet.
There was O heavy electric and wind
storm at Cape May, N. J., Saturday night
Trees were uprooted, roofs blown off, the
ocean pier badly damaged and the fishery
fleet sustained a loss Of several thousand
dollars.
The presidential election will take place
one month from yesterday, and the state
ment is made at the executive mansion that
the president will not in the interim make
any appointments not absolutely essential
to the smooth running of the government
It is reported that a decisive battle has
been fought in DahOmey, in which the re-
bellious natives were defeated and 1000 of
their warriors killed. The loss to the
French troops is given as sixteen killed and
seventeen wounded.
handsome badge commemorative Of the
recent G. A. r. encampment in Washington
was presented to President Harrison yes
terday. 1t is an exact fac simile of the
badges issued to all other members of the
G. A. r., except that it was made from
captured cannon metal.
The matrimonial intentions of Prince
George of England are still furnishing un-
limited food for gossip for the society pa
pers. The ladies in question are Princess
Victoria Mary Of Teck and Princess Vic
toria Of Schleswig- -Holstein.
The yard switchmen on all the railroads
entering Columbus, Ohio, have decided to
make formal demand on Tuesday for the
same wages paid at Pittsburg and Cincin-
natl. The men expect the advance will be
g1anted by the company without trouble.
Sixteen mules which have been at the bot
tom Of the Twin Shaft at Pittston, Pa, for
four weeks, have been found They were
alive and in fairly good condition. There
was fire at the mouth Of the shaft and
falling timbers choked it up, leaving the
mules confined in the mine.
Nearly every member of the Boston Cloth
ing Contractors association has declared O
lockout against his employees. The con-
tractors give as a reason for their action
that the garment workers union has been
unjust and arbitrary and made it impossible
for man to conduct business with a chance
for fair profit.