The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-06

At Warren, Mimi, two grain warehouses
were blown twelvefee off their foundations.
One is owned by Palmer and the other by
A. II. Gilbert. The skating rink is almost
a wreck.
The fifteenth annual fair of the Dodge
County Agricultural and Mechanical associ-
| alton will be held on the grounds of the
Kasson Driving Park association Sept 22,
%, "a and 25.
Full and complete returns of the census
/ OF Duluth make the population 1S Ola
against 8, 473 in 1SSO-a gain OF IA ,541,
or about 40 per cent in five years, or over
| 80 per cent year.
| The position to which Mrs. Donovan OF
Winona was elected at Saratoga, was that
Of vice president OF the Froebel Institute OF
North America, in recognition of her ability
in kindergarten work.
At Austin, Frank Langum, the nine-year-
| old son Of Conductor Langum. was taken
with violent attack of hydrophobia. He
was bitten last winter while on the way to
school by Mr.. Ellis dog
Luzon Skinner one OF the oldest settlers
in Goodhue county, died at Florence, re-
| Gently, OF consumption, aged seventy-one
years. He came to Florence in 1855. He
leaves a wife and four children.
| Hon. Alexander Fiddes OF Jackson re-
ports that the barley and oats in his Sec
| ton OF the country is nearly all cut, and
| that neither the bad weather nor the re-
cent storms have in any way affected the
| crops.
Mrs. R. H. Powell was struck by passen-
ger train on the Southern Minnesota div;sS
ion at Winnebago City while crossing the
railroad bridge, and fell forty feet, breaking
both legs in two places. Her condition is
critical
| The recent storm at Audubon, was quite
severe and the damage considerable. At
Winona the lightning was appalling and
did considerable damage about the city.
Joseph Curley, son of Mr.. B. A. Curley
was killed by lightning.
Notice is given by the lighthouse board
| that on and after Aug. 6, 1885, fixed
| white light OF the fifth order will be shown
from the lighthouse recently erected at the
outer end of the north pier at the mouth OF
the st. Louis river Lake Superior,
writ OF prohibition has been applied for
| to the supreme court, to lilo against the
| court martial assembled to try Col. Bend
The grounds of application are those set
forth at length by j. n. Castle, counsel for
the accused, at the sessions OF the court al
| ready held.
bold robbery was committed in the
| town of Cottonwood nine miles from New
Ulm, on Monday, July 90, at the residence
OF Henry Pfisterer, by August Broocha, a
peddler, He took from a bureau drawer
notes amounting to So POO, watch valued
| at $50 and some cash.
Near Troy, this county, says the Win
Ona Republican, Will and Jake Cole at
tempted to kill their father, Jacob Cole
Will knocked the old man down with a club
and Jake shot at him twice with revolver
but the shots failed to take effect. Officers
from st. Charles arrested them.
The terrific wind storm which accornpan.
| ibd the rain Monday morning, 9th inst
| left in and about Minneapolis numerous
evidences OF its destructive nature, and
some very remarkable experiences and es-
capes from death, or atleast serious injury.
are heard from nearly all directions.
Jim Wall, the bad man from Montana,
who was lodged III the Ramsey county Jail
for sale keeping that night, tried to commit
suicide by hanging himself to the bars ofhis
cell with a handkerchief. He was blue ii.
the face when cut down. He left ST. Paul.
Wednesday with his eaptors for Wyoming.
George Borden of Veindale vas arreste9
at Muskada. by 4. Whaley, Jr., marsha. of
Hawlar, GA . charge OF stealing clerk on
the Northern Pacific railroad, Cor SIT so
from Henry Staekelewhous an employe of
| the Company. On a sesrch. the check was
| found on borden. hidden in the lining of his
| vest.
] H. E. Hayden, local agent of the Omaha
| railroad at Saltwater, had been arrested
upon warrant charging him with the EN-
| beZZlefnent OF So, 400 of the company's
| money on the 9Th day of June last. Mr..
! Hayden protests his innocence, and saws
he viii be able to make everything right
| or rather to show that he is an innocent
| man.
| There was quite a large attendance at
Red Wing recently. un the occasion of the
| sale of the pror-erty of the Minnesota Eie-
vator Company. The elevator sand ware
| houses, some twenty mine in number To-
| Gated on the river, the Chippewa and the
| Midland divisions oftheChicaso Milwaukee
| & St. Paul railroad, were bought by III. J.
| O'Neili Of Winona, who has been operating
| them the past year unaer lease. Tha
property doubtless cost originally about
| $4,000,
Articles of Incorporation have been pre-
| pared for the Ada, Duluth & Northern Da-
kota Railway company. The line is to ex-
tend from some point within the town linn
its OF Ada, Normal county, east by the
| most feasible route To Duluth, or connect
| with some line of railway running direct to
Duluth, and west by the nearest feasible :
route to point on the Red River of TIL
North, at or near Caledonia, Oak; thence
west or northwest through the Territory Of
Dakota, to sQine point not as yet decided
upon, The principal place of business vii
be Ada.
At Granite Fails, Mrs. John Purvis has
been arrested ON the charge of poisonin,
her husband. Her husband who had beer
aflfRg for some days. died rather suddenly,
and the body was recently buried over in
Chippewa county. 1t was afterwards ex
humed, and large quantities of quicksilver
were found. 1t was further learned that
she had purchased a quantity of the drug
of c. H. Mare, druggist, the day after she
got the arsenic at Johnsan's. Mrs. Purvis
was remanded to jail until Aug 3 to await
the result OF an analysis of the contents OF
the atomach, which will be made at the
state university.
Testimony is being taken in the United
States district court room, at the govern
ment building. st. Paul, by +. NJ Watson,
representing the department. of justice ofthe
United States, and c. +. Larrabee, repre-
senting the interior department, relative to
the claims Of the traders who furnished sup
pllcS and provisions to the Sioux in Mime
sota prior TO the outbreak Of 1850, for tht
payment of which congress appropriated
$1oO,0 at its last session, The claims
foot up Slia. 900 the claimants being
Nathan Myrick, ST. Paul, SOS, 000s Ulahe
Perkins, assignee Of Louis Robert, $2l. 600,
Alexander l., Farfbault, $50, 900; Amanda
B. Forbess widow of thel Henry Forbes,
SIS. !. and c. NJ. DAILY, assignees for B,
F. Pratt, $1,000
During the storm Wednesday, at Moor
head. the lightning struck the chimney
the Grand Pacific hotel, cutting hole il
| the roof letting down the brick and morta'
into a sleeping room. Two persons wer
very badly but not seriously injured. Tn
Moorhead foundry was also struck an
| damaged to the extent of So, 900. At Far
go the electric light tower was thrown
down. At Detroit, Mimi, every windmill
in the town-and there were quite mum
ber-was blown down and broken. Tn
total damages in Detroit, as estimate,
above, aggregate O,250, and probabl
$12,0 900 would not cover the damages b
tiicted by wind, hail and rain in peIoi
alone.
Secretary Lamar assures Mn Eaton tn.