The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-04

building at Minneapolis, and Isaac Hodgson
received like notification Of his removal from
the same position. DO far hs these sehtlernon
are euheefned, the question is considered Set
Edward Rnpuais lost, .hss, l,fs,in passing, be-
Tween two phlleys which run rthe gang saw in
Walkers mill at Crookston He fell upon the
lower layer: Of twenty four inch belt, and was
carried around the pulley being crushed to
death instantly The deceased was a French
man, forty eight years old, and had been mar
ried but two days. .
Elisha Beshaw, a Frenchman, il the person
who slept whole week, AT. Northfeld. After
being awake short time he remembered of
having some money when going to sleep, and
upon investigation he found his handkerchief
with $435 rolled in Il In the etrawIbed tick. The
patient is doing We'll, and the only trouble now
is TO get Vim plenty of beefsteak and potatoes.
State Auditor Braden has received from Au-
ditor Mcdonald of Hennepin county the follow
ing statement of Minneapolis tax collections:
For year ending May 81, 1884, $739, 1862. 05; for
year ending May Al, 1885, $1721. ". Re
ports from other counties furnish similar close
comparisons, showing that the new tax law,
which deferred the sales from September to
May, does not materially affect the collections.
The Grant county people ars enthusiastic
and in earnest over the southern railroad pro-
ject The most prominent men OF the towns
of Lien, Pomme de Terre, Stony Brook and
Elbow Lake have been interviewed and ex-
press it as their opinion that reasonable
amount Of bonds could be voted from the
towns along the proposed route without diff
Guilty.
Father McGolrick, Catholic of Minneapolis
made complaint against indecent show pictures
ON bill boards. The case was submitted to the
jury, who, after viewing the bill boards on
which the objectiOnal posters were hung and
verdict of not guilty, the proposition TO i'm
pose fine having been favored but by two of
the twelve.
The contract for the new building at the
deaf and dumb institution at Faribault has
been gwen to l. M. Emery and William
O'Neil jointly their bid($6 775) being the lowest
The building is to be of stone 65x4o, and two
stories high, with basement The basement
will be fitted up as a gymnasium, and the sec
ond and third stories used for shops and hos
pital. An addition is also to be made to the
laundry building.
A. l. Thornton, county recorder at Fonda
died recently. Deceased came to Hous-
ton, Mimi, in 1858; he then went into the
surveyor generals Office in St Paul, where he
was engaged in government surveying, and
then followed civil engineering. Mr. Thornton
made the first sectional map of the State of
Minnesota, and has followed the business with
slight interniissions, up to within the past
four years.
The annual meeting OF the Winona inference
of Congregational churches began at Wabasha,
Tuesday evening, continuing Wednesday and
do IF 1aot "a knr
were Rev. Mr.. Crum and Mrs. Thomas Wilson
of Winona; Rev. J. H. Morley of St Paul;
Miss Evans, preceptress Of Carleton college,
and Mrs. Chase of Minneapolis, president of
the woman's board of home missions for tile
Northwest
Mary Jane Charms, aged seventeen, of Park
er's Prairie, Otter Tail county, indicted by the
grand jury, was arrested and arrangements
ma lie to bring her into the city. She did not
appear, but her brother handed the following
letter to her attorneys. Clapp, Woodland &
Clarns is dead. [Signed] A. E. Henderson, NJ.
D." 1t is presumed that the girl committed
suicide rather than endure public trial
The corner stone of the new Young Mems
Christian Association building was laid at North.
field. An address was made by Frank Cutler,
secretary of the association, in which he said;
eorner stone of the first Y. NJ G. A. building
gVer erected In Minnesota The building is
to cost, when completed, about $4,000, $1,000
of which has already been pledged, and it is
expected to be completed the LIST of August
Andrew Nelson and his team were found dead
in slough recently three miles north of
Hawley Nelson, who was Swede, twenty
six years old and married. went to Hawley, and
after purchasing a load of lumber got drunk
and started home about dark He LETT the road
when near small slough, drove across, miss
ing the bridge circled around the slough and
came back and tried to drive up the grade on
the bridge and was upset in fifteen inches of
water, under the load of lumber. The team
were mired and drowned.
Philadelphia Record: Russian -four. equal
id qi1alitt to that made from choice Minnesota
spring wheat, is offered for delivery In New
York at sc per barrel This attack upon our
grain is as bold as the snubbing OF John Bull
In Central Asia. 1t must be admitted that the
Muscov1te has his strong points in traffic as
we'll as diplomacy A nation that can send its
flour 3. 600 miles; from the point of manufac-
ture and sell it in New York at competitive
prices will surely command its share of bust
ness.
The following changes have been made in
the postal clerk service: R. L. Mason. vice D.
Warning, OH the route from st. Paul to Sioux
City; NJ B. Miller, vice Joseph zois, removed,
on the route from St. Paul to Bismarck, Oak.
Thomas Clarkins, vice J. s. Murray, appoint
ment expired, route, st. Paul to Elroy; G. M.
Brown vice G. s. Armstrong, transferred, route,
Watertown, Oak, to Minneapolis; G. W. Flack
of Redfeli, Oak. vice G. A. Chamberlain, ap-
pointment expired route, St. Paul and Brock
enridge; Henry Fink vice W. A. Mccain, route,
| st Paul to Bismarck.
The insurance commissioner has ruled, TN
| der the CO. operative life. association law,
passed last winter, that no Iowa co-8peratlfe
association shall be permitted to do business
in this state without paid-up capital of $780,
ooo. This is the application imposed under
the law of the state of Iowa on Minnesota as
sociations of this kind, under ruling of the
| Iowa attorney general, and under a reciprocal
provision contained IN the law passed here
| last winter our insurance commissioner applies
the same to test Iowa. This will shut them all
out.
| Further details of the homicide at Marietta
Lac qui Parle county, shows that Olaf A. Sun
din, the victim, was shot by John Hammergrec'
hardware merchant, during general quarrel
The two men, with others, had been drink
| ing, and uuarreled. Mrs. Hammergren tried
to get her husband to go home, when Sundin
assaulted her, and when her husband interfered
Sundin chased him some distance with an up
lifted washboard Hammergren halted and
fired to brighten Sundn, who continued to
advance, when Hammergren fired again, shoot
ing Sundin through the body, killing him in
stantly. Hammergren was arrested.
Minnesota produces large quantities of gin
seng and seneca, and some very choice grades
of both of these roots are dug from the soil of
the state This fact has attracted the atten-
ton of Cincinnati business house, which
handles about half of the product in these ar
ticles of the entire country, and the concern
has just opened branch house in St Paul.
The firm is engaged in an exporting business
entirely, and in the United States only makes
purchases. 1t has resident agent in China,
which is the great market of the world for
ginseng, in connection with which the Chinese
have various snperstitions and which they
also value on account of supposed medicinal
properties The St Paul house is the only
branch house maintained by the Cincinnati
| firm.
Lists prepared for the next volume of Brad
streets, contain the names of ,09l additional
individuals and firms who have entered upon
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