The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-03-20
Crookston, and each was identified with
the building up and developing Of that

Crookston, and each was identified with
the building up and developing Of that
city.
At Vermillion, on the Iron Range
road, "Black jack" and hispal, Brown.
went into camp where there were seven
or eight men, and robbed the whole outfit
of $187, and one of them dare not say q
word for fear his life would pay the
penalty.
Dr.. Van PAIL of Chaska has been ar
rested and held in 81 900 bonds, on a
charge of ravishing a simple minded
thirteen year old girl who boarded in
his family.
At Moorhead, William Owens house
was burned.
At Moorhead rumor is afloat that w.
H. Lewis, county physician; has left the
city for good. He was well liked ap-
parently by all, and had fair practice
here. He married about fourteen
months ago young lady who had been
q waitress in one of the hotels, and 1t is
said that the welded life Of the pair has
not been the most felicitous. His wife
and child are still in the city.
George s. Dale of Minneapolis lost
his wallet with s67, 900 in notes in New
York.
Swan and Corlson are in Jail in Duluth,
charged with the murder of Sam Wilson
at Vermillion, and number of others
have been arrested as accessories.
Conrad Boettcher, pioneer of LIE
Sueur, died at the residence of his son,
Rev. Henry Boettcher, in that town,
aged eighty-four years.
The Lake house in Alexandria was
burned with its contents. Loss, 81 900 ;
insurance, $500.
The house committee on public build
ings and grounds agreed to recommend
the erection of public building at
Duluth, Mimi, to cost 800, 900.
A meeting of the Minnesota Repub-
ican state central committee is called
at st. Paul March 28th.
At Langhai, Pope county, several
days ago, while digging a we'll on land
of Gunder Tharaldson, silver, looking
as if the outcropping of a vein, was
found.
William Lyons, an old and respected
citizen of Alexandria, died on Sunday,
aged seventy-two years, from the result
of wounds received during the late war.
The large price that has been paid in
Rochester for few years past for gin
seng has resulted in extirpating the
plant from Olmsted county, and as the
root is of very slow growth, there can
be no more to dig for number of years
to come.
Mr.. G. H. Voorhis died very sudden
1y at Faribault of heart disease. He
was formerly resident of Philadelphia,
and came to Faribault about year ago
and entered Seabury Divinity school,
with the intention Of taking orders in
the ministry.
The woman who died under mys-
ferrous circumstances in Motley, the
dead body of an infant being found in
her trunk, proves to have been the wife
of Myron Fuller of Reynolds. They
had not lived together for four years.
The roof of stable containing forty
head Of valuable cattle upon the Moor
land farm, near Moorhead, fell in from
the weight of snow upon. Fourteen OF
the cattle were killed.
Nels Ash, Swede, was fatally in.
jured by falling from pile driver be-
tween Anoka and Champlin, and died
soon after.
Scanlan & Wall are to start bank
in Lanesboro called the "Home Elk.
change"
Harper & Gillispie and the St. Croix
Lumber company of Saltwater have
fled claims to the amount of $1,000
and the laborers to the amount of Sc, OO0
against A. S. Bliss, a lumberman OF
Barnum. The sheriff is now in posses
sion.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
Hedge Helgeson, killed by snow pillow
men were wounded, returned verdict
that deceased came to his death "by
being run down by Engine No. 166,
with snowplow attachment, driven by
James P. Haines, of the st. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba railroad; and we
further find that the said engine was
run at an unjustiiable rate of speed,
and without the caution necessary for
the safety of the section men at work
on the track"
In drunken row at Beaver Bay an
Indian named Yellow Bird was killed in
attempting to prevent trouble. Domin-
lex and Smith fled, but were arrested and
examined on the following Monday and
discharged by justice of the Peace
Salisbury, although they did not deny
that they committed the murder, simply
swearing that they were too drunk to
remember who did it. The constable,
so it is reported by those there, furn-
ished the liquor, which he sold openly
to any Indian who would pay for it in
money, flour, calico OF anything else.
The house of Stephen Hewson, an
old settler of Oxford, burned Monday,
his sick daughter and two children
being removed in safety. The post
office, kept in the same building, was
also destroyed; some deeds, mortgages
and notes were saved, but his library,
valued at $500, was total loss.
The directors of the Minnesota Iron
company held their annual meeting at
their Office in st. Paul, for the election
of officers. The resignation of T. l..
Blood, aa secretary of the company
dated Dec. 81, 1883, was read: The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year; G. Tower, Philadelphia,
Pa, president; George G.. Stone, st.
Paul, Mimi, vice president and general
manager; C. Tower, Jr. Duluth, Mimi,
treasurer; l. P. Beck, Duluth, MINI.
secretary.
Wadena expended $6S $50 in build
ing improvements last year.
The report of the Minnesota state sta.