The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-04-10


The supreme court, in an opinion
fled by Judge Vanderburg, sustains the
lower court in the suit for damages
brought by Howard Taylor Smith
against the st. Paul City Railway Com
pany. Street railway companies, the
court holds, are carriers Of passengers
for hire, are bound to exercise the high
est degree of care and diligence, and are
responsible for the slightest neglect.
This rule extends to the management OF
the cars and track, and to all the ar
rangements necessary for the safety OF
passengers, as respects accidents.
Articles Of incorporation were fled
with the secretary Of state Of the Min
nesota Shot and Lead company, whose
business is to be the purchase. manufac-
ture and sale of leaden shots, balls,
pipe and sheet and bar lead, with man.
ufactory and principal place OF business
in the county Of Ramsey. The incor-
porators are. Caleb II. B. Carter OF
Omaha, Nebraska, Frederick G. Ripley,
and Joshua d. Carter Of Dubuque.
Col. g. B. Penrose, chief commissary
of subsistence at Fort Smelling, Mimi,
has made the following awards for -four,
pork and bacon: Flour-Washburn,
Crosby & Co., Minneapolis, Mimi. 49,
6O9 pounds superlative family -four in
double sacks Of 100 pounds at So per
sack, and IS barrels Of same at rs per
barrel; G. M. Broadwater, Helena, NJ
r., 60 sacks of 1876 pounds each, family
-four in double sacks, at $4.31, Fort AS
siniboin, M. T. Pork and Bacon-Wm.
r. Merriam, st. Paul, Mimi, $50 bar
rels pork at $18 per barrel; P. H. Kelly
70, 900 pounds bacon at SCALA.
Gen. Averill OF st. Paul was inter-
viewed by Washington correspondent
under the impression that he was the
celebrated cavalry leader; and credited
with desire to be reinstated in the
army on the retired list. Gen. Averill
gave up his views regarding the Cincin-
natl riot.
Louis Nordquist, a saloonkeeper OF
Dassel, held in 81, 900 bonds on charge
Of bastardy, has left the county and Lis
bondsmen.
The house Of j. B. Holms, in Kintire,
ten miles northwest of Redwood Falls,
was destroyed by fire recently, caused
by defective fiie. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, 1900.
The committee of Moorhead farmers
report that they deem it inadvisable to
undertake the expense of building an
elevator at Duluth. as the facilities
there are at present ample.
A fight occurred at the Nelson house in
Hallock, Kittson county between the
bartender, Burt Biggerstaff, and man
named Dennis Stack, in which the lat
ter came out with fractured skull.
Jack, it is reported, went into the Nell
son house, and, being intoxicated, be-
gan to abuse the bartender, who finally
laid his abuser out by hitting him over
the head with beer mallet. He was
taken to his home, some distance fir ON
Hallock, where he was attended by q
physician. who has pronounced his in
juries serious, if not fatal. He is a
farmer having four children, the young
est being thirteen years old. His wife
has not lived with him for some time,
having left him, owing to domestic
troubles.
An italian living at Rice's Point,
Duluth, was /. arrested fer taking a
countryman's letter from the postoffice
and opening it.
Tho O. N1orJ Uyo%or Do1,,or o,,1 T,p
provement company has elected the fol-
lowing officers to continue until the first
annual election in June; President, III.
G. Waite; vice president, J.. G. Smith;
secretary W. F. Street; treasurer, D.
FL. Freeman; manager, j. E. West.
The president was authorized to pur
chase the rights, franchises and material
Of the Mississippi River Navigation and
Improvement company. At a meeting
of the st. Cloud Land Improvement
company the president was instructed
to subscribe for $1O1, 900 of the capital
stock of the White Water and Mill COM
pany. The principal delay now is in
placing stock of the land improvement
company. The citizens have so far tax
en- about $37 900 of the whole amount,
500 900, and President Hill. of the
Manitoba, on Monday subscribed for
$4,000.
J. P. Wilson of East st. Cloud
offered the Benton county commits
sioners to donate suitable grounds for
o court house and county buildings and
IS, 900 toward their cost, if the board
would locate these buildings in East
st. Cloud. It was decided to build in
Sank Rapids, the village contributing
81 800.
Brainerd's Board of Education have
accepted plans for new school build
ing the cost of which is stated at $4O,-
600.
One town in Douglas county voted
that $25 be allowed to purchase poison
for the purpose of destroyong black
birds the coming spring.
A Brainerd dispatch says: The most
remarkable of all the auroral displays
in this region, remarkable for such ex-
hbitions, began soon after dark Friday
evening. The first was sharp pointed
strokes Of white light from quarter be-
ginning about east northeast and in
clining to the south perhaps 20 deg,
and all seemingly started 8 to 10 deg.
above the horizon, the streaks gradual
ly lengthening until they reached the
zenith. Bright and dull flashes COW
cred the whole northwestern sky.
Finally, toward 8 o'clock, a band of light
SO dense cs to quite hide the stars
beneath it sprang up from the beginning
point, and in few seconds SPAWNED the
entire heavens, passing through the
zenith and down to the horizon at
point directly opposite the beginning,
that is, from east to west. The band
appeared couple of degrees in width,