The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-10-22

Mlnona, clty............. 1o'oaa
Young America, town .................. 1,763
John F. Bannan of Brainerd has been
appointed deputy collector OF customs
with headquarters at st. Vincent, under
Collector Guernon. The appointment was
dictated by p. H. Kelly. Bannan has
been engaged in the Northern Pacific shops
at Brainerd.
John Anderson was hauled up in Chicago
on the charge of robbing Albert Dunke, g
Minnesota farmer, OF $500.
c. c. Wrenshall, ,superi intendent OF bridges,
tracks, etc, for the Northern Pacific, is
. preparing plans for the Improvement Of the
lands recently Purchased by the company
at Duluth from the Duluth improvement
company. The improvements are to con-
sist OF new docks and warehouses. The
docks are to be 1,4OO feet long and 800
feet wide. They will be entered by new
slip to be built by the improvement com
pany.
The Omaha reduced it's lumber rates
from all local and competitive points to
Omaha, three cents per hundred pounds.
This makes the rate from st. Paul and
Minneapolis II cents. 1t was formerly 20
cents. This reduction is in consequence OF
that made by the Milwaukee & st: Paul,
in it's rates from Chicago, Milwaukee and
Racine to the same point
1t is definitely settled that the Burlington
& Northern the Burlington & Quincy new
line to ST. Paul. will enter st. Paul by shaw
ing Dayton's Bluff and building between the
bluff and the Milwaukee & st. Paul tracks.
A Northern Pacific train runs into Mani
toba grain train ut East st. Cloud, and
there is quite Il tumble in No. 1 hard.
William Moore, n peddler, is wanted at
Owatonna for assaulting the young daugh-
ter OF James Sheldon.
Minnesota pheasants sell at 81 pair in
st. Louis, and are much sought after.
The news OF the death of Col. Clark w.
Thompson will be Termed with deep regret
throughout the State of Minnesota. Es-
pecially will this be the case with the older
residents, the men with whom he has
worked in tie great cause OF Minnesota 8
development and progress. 1t is nearly n
third of a century since Col. Thompson
settled in Houston county, and during that
time he has not only seen the wonderful
growth of the state, but he has had the
satisfaction of knowing that lie himself
had done much to aid that growth.
Albert Dunke, q German farmer from
Norman county, on his way to visit his
old home In Germany, was robbed on the
train near Chicago. One OF the robbers
has been arrested and identified.
John Becker, proprietor of Touring
mill on the north branch of the Vermillion
river, in Goodhue county, while oiling the
machinery, was caught in a shaft and
killed.
Mrs. Kate Leman of Elgin has been
granted divorce from her husband, II. &.
Leman, on the ground OF adultery, and
granted alimony to the amount OF 81, 800
State Auditor Braden sold twenty thou
sand acres of state land at Redwood Falls
ON the Iath inst. 4. C. Frederickson and
NJ. W. Prins OF Chicago bought nearly tour
teen thousand acres. which they propose
dividing into tracts to suit purchasers.
The father of Hon. II. NJ Hastings, ana
OF the oldest and most esteemed citizens 81
0watowna, is on his deathbed His son
at Brookings, Dak., has been teegraphed
for.
| The family Of ex-senator Window are in
Washington preparing for the removal OF
their household effects to Winona.
About three thousand acres of land were
sold at Fairmont by Auditor Braden at
The s.ale lpud gale, the avarags price per
acre being about 81 80. Twenty thousand
acres were sold year ago at similar SALE
But few thousand acres remain, and
these are in small subdivisions.
David w. Humphrey OF Faribault dice
suddenly OF heart disease,
4 warrant was issued for George Hibhard
Of the town Qf McCrea near Warren, on
oath OF Charles F. Egea, farmer, whose
building he had threatened to burn, Viii
lage Marshal Lockridge attempted to
TO make the arrest but was resisted, Hib
bard using an AK and gun. Lockridge pull
aI Prif h hill RI nd oh or
him severely. He will recover.
Fairmont Special: Claims and tree
claim filings are being made upon the St.
Paul & Sioux City railroad lands in this
county by the wholesale. II the boom con.
tinues lnsids OF {, fortnight there will not
be a quarter section In the county that ID
not homesteaded or tree-caimed. Settlers
are confident of eventually gaining clear
title to the lands, which are outside Of the
ten mile limit, and, it is claimed, were il
legally selected in advance OF the location
OF the road.
Some time since the fact was mentioned
that United States Geologist Leo Les
quereaux was in Red Wing in the interest
of that parv af the Union, 1t Ia now be-
lieved that he is a fraud. He has disap
peared as suddenly as he came. He vic
timized Prof. Winchell, OF the state uni
versity, into whose confidence he ipgra
tiated himseli and many people ef HedWing
Saltwater, etc. S. Mcclure is another vic
tim to the tune OF hall hundred. Hon, g.
w. Durant also contributed somewhat
In short, the eminent scientist probably
walked away from Saltwater several hun
dred ahead. The government knows moth
ing about him.
On the afternoon OF April II, 1883. John
Mcconnell left Benson on horseback for his
home four miles east. He was somewhat
intoxicated at the time, and as his horse
came home without him nothing was learn
ed pf him until q few days ago" Az f. G.
Wilkens Ind Frank Feichtinger were hunt
iig In q slough about one mile east OF town
which is nearly dry now, and found a skele
ton Of q man, which the coroner brought in
and identified as the body Of the lost Nc
Connell by means Of the sh zee, clothing
teeth, eto. No inquest WAS held, and the
remains were delivered to his family 10,
interment.
R. III. Folwell OF Hallock, has been put
under bonds on q charge OF incendiarism-
setting fire to his own store.