The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-05-04
General News.

Illinois miners demand an increase Ia
pay.
The English budget shows deficit OF
$7,S70,OO0.
Seventy-five people were killed by the
Oklahoma cyclone.
The Reading Railroad company will
probably issue $50, 100000 of bonds at .
per cent.
Gen. Grants birthday is celebrated at
his old home, Galena, Ill.,, where GOV.
Mckinley gives an address.
O. E: Mink is the new vice president
of the Uuion Pacific. A. f.. Orr is CHAIR
man of the board of directors.
A Chinese woman at st. Louis, Mo-,
Is circulating a petition addressed to
President Cleveland asking for picture
of Baby Ruth.
Emanuel Lasker won the chess tourna-
ment prize of 81 900 and the champion
ship of America in the contest with Sho-
walter at Kokomo, Ind. ~ea.-s~.~ -~-.e
THE Sioux City 4 Northern road and
the Pacific Short Line have been sold to
the Great Northern and will form link
in it's new route to Denver.
The great naval review at New York
is a success, despite constant rain. The
Columbian ball follows and is pronounced
the most magnificent affair ever seen in
the new world.
The rise in prices in the corn markets
of Vienna and Buda Pesth has resulted
from the severe drought. Rain has
fallen in several districts of the empire,
but not in large quantities.
It transpires that the delegates from
twenty or twenty-five unions in London
and the provinces, who met in this city
recently, resolved that general strike OF
waterside workers in Great Britain
would be inadvisable at present.
A man named Alumni, his wife and two
sons were murdered as they slept in
their house in Pieve di. Peteraia, near
Perugia. One of the sons recently gave
the police information as to the haunts
of the brigands in the surrounding re-
gion.
An order of the court at London has
been made for the winding up of the
English, Scottish, and Australian char
tered banks, the failure of which, with
liabilities amounting 10 ES,0Q00 900, was
announced on April 13 The oEdeI was
issued on the petition of the company.
The Norwegian storthing -63 to 81
has decided to suspend its sittings sine
iesowing to King Oscars attitude of op-
position to the storthing of the consular
question. The Norwegian newspapers at
tack the monarchy apd are agitating for
the elision of the badge or union of Swe-
den and Norway from the Norwegian
flag.
Word has reached Livingston, Mont,
from Cooke City that In the Alice u,
mine a four-foot vein Of gold ore haS
been struck which assays from $500 to
$500 ton in the yellow metal. One OF
the banks of this city to-day forwards to
the East a gold brick from the same
property as the result of twenty-three
days run, containing $4,000 of metal.
The old Illinois Central depot at Chi
cago, which graeed the lake front from
1856 to 1871 and has disgFaoed 1t ever
since, has been pulled down. Its walls
until yesterday stood as they were left
by the great fire of 1871, and it was the
last ruin that told of the sweep of the
con1agration. All the other structures
were rebuilt many years ago.
4 peasant was buried alive recently
In the village of Maruerten, government
of Kalooga. The discovery of the fact
was through peasants, who, hearing
sounds coming from the grave, notified
the authorities. When the body was ex-
humed a. horrible sight was revealed.
The shroud was torn to pieces, the face
of the corpse was badly lecerated, one
of the eyes was torn out, and some of the
fingers were bitten off.
The anniversary of Shakespeare's BIRTH
day was celebrated at Stratford-on-Avon
The grammar school In which the eyer.
cises were held, was decorated with flow
ers, flags and Shakespeare's portraits.
The masters and pupils marched to
Shakespeare's tomb In the afternoon and
covered it with lilies After all other
ceremonies the mayor of the town deliv-
AIRED a memorial address. At its close
the audience remained perfectly silent for
ten minutes and then dispersed.