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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-04

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The Bakerstown tunnel. ON the y.
and w. railroad. eavsd in recently juss
after q passenger train had passes
through Mrs. Baker, widow hvine
near. discovered The accsdent juss "a
aa5ther passenger train. rnnniaG .,
the rate Of thirty miles "a hour, ~ss
approaching The pIueisy litsls ~ssnsn
promptly r-slired the perslens posis'es.
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started on q rae tewsrs the aprfosea-
lag train. swinging IL n the ar. she
succeeded 10 stspsss6 The trsis thts
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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-04

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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-04

The YsGses CITY asliihs tssspsay hss
10 peer ~ TIE i~snet seizure o. hssfs
Ifg he LII WHtfk.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Catholic church at Prairie du Chen, WIS.,.
was entered by thieves who stole u gold vestry
service valued at 81, 800.
II is reported than in an encounter with the
rebels In Nor, eco yesterday. eighty OF the sui
wounded.
At Omaha yesterday George Foss. chop
house cook killed himself and Laura Day, his
mistress. in q quarrel over the possession of a
gold watch.
The failure Is announced OF Redfern, Alexander
d Co., Australian aud New Zealand merchants
and bankers of London. Their liabilities
amount to E250.O00.
Six men who were at Homestead on the 9th
OF July the day the Pinktrtons were forced to
surrender. were arrested yesterday charged with
conspiracy and aggravated assault.
Il. b. McWhirter a prominent lawyer and
politician was assassna;ed at Fresno, Cal,
early yesterday morning by unknown parties.
1t is believed that his political enemies put him
ont OF the way.
Anderson IL Co. of Port Huron, Mich, manu-
iacturers and dealers In carriages ana apricuI-
tural implements, have fled chattel mortgages
aggregat ng $230.O00 to secure creditors The
liabilities and assets are unknown.
An American petition in favor OF the felease
from prison OF Mrs. Maybrick which contain
the names of Mesdames Harrison and Bland,
has been presented TO Queen Victoria and re.
ferred to Secretary Asquith. 1t is stated that
an important witness in the case is said to have
died recently in Cape Town after having con
iessed to committing perjury ut the trial.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01

tato blight has appeared, The potato crop
has promised to be the best in years. ga
Owing to the intense heat which still pre-
walls throughout Austria, Emperor Francis
Joseph has countermanded the orders for
the holding of the military manmuvers
which We're fixed Tor Aug 90
1t is officially announced that Herbert
c. Gardener has been appointed president
OF the Board of Agriculture which office
| now carries seat i'll the cabinet. He is a
protege Of il w liam Harcourt.
The official cholera report issued at St.
Petersburg shows an increase of 38l new
cases and ifl increase of 236 deaths us COM
pared with recent figures. The total NUM-
Der ofnew cases reported was 6, 89l and the
deaths numbered 3,3l3
A most disastrous fire has swept through
the town of Sontra, short distance from
Cassel. One thousand and forty buildings
were'de troyed. 1t is imp lssible as yet to
state what the loss amounts to, but it is
very heavy.
The newspaper Paris announces that a
number ofparties of Jews en- route to
America from Russia, have recently ar:
rived in France. The paper describes these
people as disgustingly filthy and without
money; dwclls upon the danger Of an cpl
ueIhlC from tIllS source, anu uclllHIluS thaL
precautionary measures be taken.
A Winnipeg special says: A party of
prosp, ctors in the Battleford district made
a curious discovery. 1t was burning coal
mine emitting no smoke, but the heat of
the earth was so great in the vicinity that
the explorers were unable to walk on it.
An immense cave in the side of hill
shows where a large seam of coal has
taken fire and gradually penetrated the
earth,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
LABOR CIRCLE,

Telegraphcrs on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna e. Western may strike.
Miners and soldiers in Tennessee engage
in another battle. The bodies of tour SOL
diers and fifteen miners are found.
Striking switchmen derail a train on the
Erie road. A general strike of railroad
men may occur
Striking switchmen in Buffalo continue
to lose ground, Mr.. Sargent, of the Fire
mans Brotherhood, refuses to order q
strike.
The brewers employed in the three brew
cries in Troy, N. Y, struck because the
drivers on the delivery wagons refused to
organize. The strike was ordered by tue
National union and the Central Labor
Council.
The boycott instituted by Homestead
strikers against tradesmen who sold to the
Carnegie Steel company resulted in the
failure of Adolph Doerr, one of the princi-
pal provision dealers in that borough
Doerr furnished meat, milk and ice to Supt
Potter and the 1lon-unionists from the be-
ginning of the trouble. No AmaIgamated
association men have patronized him since
and his loss has been $4,000.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
THE RAILROADS.

Chicago scalpers continue their, fight
against the Milwaukee road.
Chairman Caldwell receives a no asst from
the passenger agent of the Chicago & AL
ton.
G. X. Lord, of the Baltimore & Ohio,
has been selected as the third arbitrator to
act with f. c. Donald and W. B. Shattuc
in deciding the Atchison's appeal from one
of Chairman CaldwelPs decisions.
The Milwaukee has appealed to the
Western Traffic association against a decis-
ion of the freight association establishing
certain rates from La Crosse and Onalaska
to points on the Milwaukee west of Mason
City, Iowa. The appeal will be considered
at the next meeting.
The earnings OF the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railway for the third week in
August were s602,615 against $506, 963 lo1
the corresponding week last year; an in.
crease of 500, ,662. The earnings of the Mil.
waukee & Northern during the same week
were $35, 923 an increase OF 500.
The Omaha and Northern Pacific have
decided to increase the salaries of their
telegraph operators as the result of long
and persistent solicitation on the part o.
the brotherhood. Tn most cases the in:
ereases are quite material, running as high
as $50 per month on the Western division
OF the Northern Pacific
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O.-The difficulties
encountered hy the department officers in
constituting the provisions o! the cight-hour
law continue. In response to a request
from the war department Attorney General
Miller has rendered decision stating that
in view of the previous legislation on this
subject and the evils sought to be remedied
he was constrained o declare the law in re-
gard to Iaborers and mechanics in the enl-
ploy OF the government in the District al
Columbia as re- ards public works applies
to such persons as are i'll the employ OF COLI
tractors and surcontractorS. As to special
cases, he SAYS they depend on matters oi
fact not stated and are not witnln his cog
niZancc.
Several days ago. Gen. G. ant, acting sec.
retary of war, submitted TO Attorney Gen
eral Miller or his opinion the question as
TO whether the eiglt-hour law applied to
the work the Mississippi leyees. The
attorney general, in replying to the re.
quest, says in letter to GEN Grant that
over anu oyer again it has been held by his
predecessors rs we'll as ly himself, that it is
not permis ib.e or the attorney general 10
give all opinion except upon a case actually
arising inthe admin. .sIration OF a depart
lNent.
ut is neither his duty nor has he the right, u
continues the attorney general, "to give an Of
fcial opnIO with view to the guidance oi
persons who propose to enter into contract re.
lation with the United States under the circum
presidents am constrained 10 decline giving al
y Onlniou I"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
PERSONAL.

It is thought in London that Mrs. May
brick will soon be released from prison.
Minnie Seligman, the actress marries
Millionaire Cuttings son, in New York.
Ex-Gov. Myron II. Clark died at his home
in Canadaigua, N. Y.
John f. Miller, bank clerk at Columbia,
Pa, ran away with $4,000 of the banks
M oney and girl.
Thomas Young wife murderer o.
Owensburg, KY, has been sentenced to
hinety-nine years Imprisonment.
Patti has thrown aside her auburn hail
and now reappears in black, having run the
gamut OF all the colors.
J. d. Washburn, United States minister
to Switzerland, will sail from Havre fol
New York Sept. 10. 1t is reported.that he
will not return to Switzerland.
NJ. Rechay ct Mattzotf, the Russian
czars chamberlain, whois very wealthy
man, has ordered $4,000 piano from
Paris.
Hubert Howe Bancroft, the California
historian, modestly offers to sell his IL
brary to the United States for the sum Of
$50000
Cardinal Friedrich Won Fuerstenberg
archbishop of Olmutz, died at Kreimser,
Austria. He was born in 1912 and was
created cardinal in 1879
Lizzie White and Dodie Burgundy o.
New Brunswick, N. j., amused themselve:
by rocking boat was thrown out and
drowned.
Mrs. Hannah Harmon of Brockton,
Mass, can boast OF having lived under the
administration of every president of the
United States.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
SPORTING MATTERS.

Ted Pritchard the English champion, is
defeated by Jim Hall, the Australian, in
four rounds.
Police interfere in the Goddard Smith
fight in San Francisco, and is declared a
draw at the end OF the eighth round.
A Hammond, Ind. correspondent is in
formed that Westmont. with running
mate, paced mile in Chicago, on July 10,
1884, in 2:014 and that&is record.
Billy Dacey has cha 'lenged Dick Burge,
the English light weight champion, to
fight for LOCO side and the best purse of.
tered at 1873 pounds. Should Burge decline
the def is open to any puglist in Ameri-
ca.
Ithas been definitely decided that the in=
ternational double scull race between Ham
lon and Q'Donnor and Hosmer and Gau-
duar will take place at Ontario beach,
Rochester, n. Y. The date is fixed as Sept.
5. Hanlon and Q'Connor are expected to
arrive here and go into training. The race
will be over a short course three-fourths oil
mile in length with three turns,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
CAUSE A PAN.C.

Residents of Town IN THrkestan Ex-
cited eyer the Appearance OF Cholera.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 30.-Cholera has
reached Mer>, ir Turkestan, and panic
prevails among the inhabitants, particular
ly the Armenian III merchahts, who wanted to
close their shops Immediately they became
aware oil the presence of the disease. The
governor however, obj cted TO this course,
and threatened TO eXpel the merch nts
from the country il they d d not contin, Q
business, Should the Arnenians be allowed
to ose their shops it would cause great
distre s. A dispatch from Vladikavkas, de.
plItment the government o. Torres, says
that tvery town and yilla-c in the Cover :.
ment is afflicted with the cholera. ~The
government ex; ends from the crest of the
Caucasus and north TO the Caspian sea, and
contains over " COO squaFe miles. The
population is over 450, 0O0 souls. The Off
ciai cholera rcluf..s from all the injected
districts show that on Friday 4,T67 new
cases and 2, 22l dta hs were reported. In
ST. Petersburg yesterday l25 new cases were
reported, while the deaths numbered %.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
OTHER SHORES.

Dreaded Asiatic cholera reach Belgium
in its march of death, and is now present in
three of the great northern European ports
All arrivals at Antwerp from Hamburg,
Havre and the Rhine will be subj ect to one
weeks quarantine.
At Berne, Switzerland, the International
Peace Congress opened, with over 800 dele
gates present, including Bclva Lockwood
OF the United States.
Mr.. Stuart, GladStonian. M. p, as chair
| man of the Welsh party, will introduce in
parliament q bill regulating Welsh dioct ses
This nieasnre is a forerunner to bill dis
establishing the CHURCH in Wales.
Eighteen deaths were caused by heat III
| Vienna in one day. While regiment was
1 marching from Kaschua to Borsod $50 SOL
| diers were prostrated by the heat aud three
died.
The London Chronicle says that there is
a strange rumor afloat that Mr.. Gladstone
| will retire from Office in the spring; olso
| that a Hareoqrt party and Roseberry.
| spencer pa ty already exists lords larty
versus commnRs party.
A dispatch from Zanz bar. says it is re
ported on good authority that Baron Pau
and four leading members Of the German
| expedition sent to punish the natigcs have
been murdered at Kilanljorie:'
Severe weather in the south of Ireland
| has caused great damage to the crops. Tic
| hay crop has been destroyed and the po
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

A general fight occurs at political
meeting in South Carolina.
The trial of Miss Lizzie Borden for MUIR
der begins at Fall River Mass.
. w. w. Blackwell of Kentucky is elected
supreme chancellor of the knights of Pvth-
ias.
Mr.. Gladstone has been reelected in Mid
lothian on taking Office. He had no OPP
position.
Miss Ella Reid, neice of Whitelaw Reid,
will soon be married at Ophir fam to
Robert G. Harrison, judge of the supreme
court at California. He is seventy years
old.
A report touching upon the recent lynch
ing Of Italians in New Orleans is presented
at the meeting of the American Bar asso-
c!ation.
Two deaths occurred at Snobomish City,
Wash, of smallpox. The health officer is
investigating. The spread of the disease
was due TO the carelessness of the health Of
ficers.
Gommander-in-C Chief Palmer, of the G..
a. r.. has issued general order in which,
among other things, he denounces cam
paign badge modelled after the insignia oil
The order.
AT the FIRST parish Unitarian church al
Gloucester, Mass, services were held com.
.memoratiye OF the fifty years existence oil
that church. Rev. Daniel Munroe Wilson,
o. Quincy, delivered all historical address
This church has had sixteen pastors since
tS42.
A letter from Archbishop Ryan has been
read in all the Roman Catholic churches al
Philadelphia requiring all Catholics pos
Srssing writings ofthe late John N. New.
man formerly of Philadelphia, to deliver
them 10 the church authorities TO be for.
wardcd to Rone, as q condition prcesdent
having the late bishop eananized as /
aint. The congregation Of the Redeelner
], WHICH he was o member for several
years, has been collecting evidence Of hi:
extraordinary sanctity;
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
THE WICKED WORLD.

Charles Vincent and Thomas Welsh, two
convicts, attempted to escape from the state
prison at Sing Sing. and as a result were
shot and killed. Convict Welsh was SER
iously wounded by keepers.
Mrs, FRANCES Mccarthy, who shot James
Bryant in Scuylerville, N. Y, recently died
in Jail in childbirth. Her victim, who has
been hoy ering between life and death since
the shooting died.
George c. Stockbridge, aged twenty -four,
has, it is said, in the past few years embez-
zled 81, 600 from his employers, c. E. Wood.
& Co., druggists, of Boston. The money
went for gambling an high living. Stock
bridge has lett Boston, Having behind his
wife and a young child.
A defalcation, which it is said will reach
800, 900 and has been discovered in the of
flee of Street & Smith. publishers of the
New York Weekly, and the crime, the po-
lice say, has been fastened upon Alfred J.
PRICE cashier and bookkeeper OF the firm,
who has fled.
At New Haven, Conn.,, Harry Brooks, q
man of good family and social standing,
has been arrested for burglary. He con-
tessed to four burglaries, among the M three
committed recently: The thelts aggregate
| several thousand dollars.
W, A. Daball, the well-known acto~, COM
mitted suicide at Hollston, Ma s., by taking
poison at the residence of g. w. slocum,
where he has been residing with his vile q
good portion of the season. He was under
engagement to appear at the fremont thea
ter in "Puritania," and had been in Bos-
ton rehearsing. his part for the past few
weeks:
Conductor Reams of the M. X. & T., re.
ports that a hunting party, composed of
four young men. had been found murdered
OH the banks of Cany creek in Indian Ter
ritory. Papers found on one of the men in
dicated that, his name was Cherrie and that
| he travelled for the Willimantic Thread
| Company oil Connecticut. There was moth
! ing to tell who committed the deed, but
| the purpose evidently was robbery as all o
| theVaiuables weresmissing.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
CA ASUALTIES.

A Michigan man is accidentally shot in
st. Paul, gun store.
Fire in the furniture house of Shiverck
& Co. al. Omaha, did an immense amount
of damage to the stock. The fire started
in the basement. The building was flood
ed and the fire was gotten under control.
The greater amount of damage was done
by smoke and water, and the exact loss is
not knUwn, but Is estimated at about 500, :
600.
Frederick Smith, an employe of the
United States Fire Escape company at
Pittsburg was shocked to death while
at work on the tin roof of Joseph Horn &
Co.'S. store. He took an electric light in
his hands and was unable to let go. A
companion pushed him from the wire but
he died in few minutes.
While train was running at the usual
rate of speed near Tupyrke N. Y, on the
Adirondack & st. Lawrence road, the bed
OF the road caved, letting down the entire
train. Three cars were entirely buried be-
meath the groind. It is miraculous that q
large number of the passengers were not
killed Fortunately, only few were Sc
riously niured.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
The Lottery Obeys the Law.

In view of the contradictory rumors cir,
cnlated regarding the intentions of the
l. .uisiana State Lo terry Company and in
order to accurately answer numerous in
Guiries q. representative OF the Times
Democrat yesterday interviewed Mr. Paul
Conrad, the president ofthc company, with
the result expressed below.
Reporter-Mr Conrad. it was serted
some weeks ago in the Northern newspa-
pers, and the statement has since been re-
vived recently, that the company is about
to remove to Nicaragua, ands there, under
a government franchise, open up the busi-
ness on = ander scale than ever
President Conrad-I have heard some
thing OF this, but there is no foundation
Tor 1t. The company has officially stated
that IL bows TO the decision oil the Su-
premc Court and will respect the laws
Reporter Then have you no plans oil
iuturt action.
President Conrad.-I cannot state the case
more strongly than was done at the time
lhc company decided not to attempt to oh.
tain renewed of its charter. can only
repeat that the company viii continue in
business until the expiration ofits present
charterand then cease to exist i cannot
understand, after oil that has been said, why
there should be any confusion in the public
mIntl about the matter.
Keportcr-Haye you any objection to my
stati g his as finally for the satisfaction
o. The public?
President Conrad-None whatever
Reporter-Some of the Eastern papers,
Mr. Conrad, persistently assert that the
lottery company continues to use The
United States mails. in the prosecutions OF
its business; will you kindly tell me il that
is true?
President Conrad--It Is utterly untrue.
We are obt ying tho law In Its letter and
spirit, and our agents everywhere are in
slrncted to obey it We are using the cx-
IN all pp circulars ase nfinted in .trnctions
81 all persons dealing W Ia us to avoid the
A.alls.-Emes Democrat. New Orleans
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
I1HENEWSSUMMARY
The Latest News of the World Con
densed and Arranged in COnvon-
lent Form.
Washington, Personal, Foreign, Grim
mal, Casualty and Other
Important News.
THE CAPITAL:

Additional correspondence regarding
the Canadian canal tolls is made public.
The government of China will appeal to
the United States supreme court from the
2 Chinese exclusion law.
The controller of the currency has re-
ceived an application from Fred Pabst and
associates of Milwaukee to organize the
Wisconsin National bank of Milwaukee
with q capital of 81, 100000.
In reply to the complaint made to the
department. of justice by the Knights of
Labor that the imprisoned miners at Wal
lace, Idaho, were not being properly treat
ed, the attorney general has received a
telegram from Examiner Crostwaite saying
he finds absolutely no grounds for The
charges.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
I'm slow Tina

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Special, About 1900
people were p. esent at the third day the
Columbus Driving Park. Hal Pointer and
Direct were the star attractions, though the
latter had sore feet and was in no form.
Span could not handle Hal Pointer. In
the third heat he broke 100 yards from the
wire and had to be pulled to standstill,
losing eight lengths and letting Direct in.
in the lou th heat it was expected good
time Woul lie made, md there was coilsids
cradle d.sappaintment oyer the allure,
The hor es were given another chance or
tip $4,000 purse Tomorrow. Each took
two heats, The time being Gilt, 2l0 2lla
and 2is4
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
Extens,xe Custom Frnuds.

New YoRK. Aug. 30.-Thc CUSTOM house
officers have succeeded in unearthing somS
old fruds by which the government had
b,pn cheated ont of thousands oil
dollar They have found expensive and
systematic unde:- weighing OF sugar. From
Aus. /, 1851, to March /, 1892 over four
milllom pounds o. sugar were imported
which were not accounted ior to the Gus
tom house. L ght,in.portcrs a'e involved
IN the auds.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
POLITICAL ECHOES.

Gen. Bidwe, Prohibition candidate for
president, writes his letter of acceptance.
Ex-Secretary Blaine. decides to make polit-
ical speeches in Maine.
Gov. BOYD declines denomination. He
promises to work hard for the party this
fall, and predicts success with the state
ticket if good men are nominated.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-01
Information for Veterans.

WAsHINGToN. Special, Aug. 30.-John T.
Heck, secrctary oil the committee on<eceI,-
ton OF the Minnesota G. A. r. veterans,
has prepared cal Sip 10 be used by Min.
ncsota applicants or pensions who desire
to know jast what condition their cases are
i'll. This slip viii have the sanction o. the
officers Of the easion bure and the
secretary OF the interior, 80 that when it Ii
presented the status OF the c.st will be i'm
mediatcly asccrtained and the applicant
will be able 10 know where the difficulty
1t is anticil,ated tn / u great many of the
old soldiers who comc here will be anxi Gus
to learn the condition OF their pension
cases and Mr.. COX is determined that the
Minncsota soldiers shall ha e cv<ry facility
for obtaininy all there il to be learned