The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-09-23

The Supreme court of the State has just
decided: "Under section 81, article 81
General Statutes 1878, damages may be
recovered against d railroad corporation
for injury done to a farm by rendering il
less fit for pasturing cattle, in consequence
of failure to fence the road as required by
the statute. The statute requirement to
fence railroads and making the railroad
company liable for damages in consequence
OF failure to comply with it's terms is
within the police power OF the state"
At Minneapolis, w. P. Van Norman, a
we'll known member OF the Journal City
Staff, died after a weeks illness and within
u week of his wedding day-Typhoid Pueu'
monia did 1t.
fifteen-year-old lad, Thomas Nickel.
son, in the employ OF Thomas o. Jones oi
kalmar, Olmsted county, was sent to
lead some horses to water, and Was found
shortly afterward tangled in q barbed
wire fence, kicked to death.
The body OF an unknown man. in a
partially decomposed condition, was found
two miles northwest of Red Wing on the
farm of Mrs. Brecht. A receipt was found
on his person given to P. Reitman OF Zunl:
brota by Charles Hill, but whether he was
the man is not yet known. The cause oil
his death is a mystery:
The Indian commission have made a
treaty with the Pillager Indians which pro.
vides for the cessi on of the Leech Lake
reservation to the United States, and the
sale thereof in tracts OF forty acres each,
under sealed proposals, to the highest
bidder for cash, the proceeds derived there
from to be placed to their credit in the
treasury of the United States, and to draw
per cent. interest, which interest Is to be
xIa<l fD, kl,.v
will be removed to the White Earth reser.
vation.
The suicide OF E. A. Barnstrom Of Burns,
Anoka county, at the residence OF his SON.
in-law, John Satterstrom, at Stanchfeld,
Isanti county, is announced. Barnstrom
and his wife had trouble, she having gone
to live with her daughter, and he had visit
Ell her with the purpose OF effecting a recon-
tiliation, If possible. The wife refused to
60 home with him, when he pulled out re-
volver and pointed it at her. She ex-
claimed: "Oh, don't shoot me!' He sud
denly turned the muzzle toward his own
head and fired, the deadly ball doing it's
work.
Threshers from the settlement lying six
miles east OF Granite Falls report the yield
to run from twenty-five to thirty.six
bushels to the acre Of wheat, and from for
ty-five to sixty OF oats.
The man who robbed young Gill, at Ben
son, was captured by some boys named
Murphy, three miles north OF DeGraf. He
confessed and gave up the money.
Frank Mead has been committed 20
await the action OF the grand jury this
month. MIR. Mead waived examination.
Mrs. Emma NJ. Nickel, whose husband,
John N. Nickel, well known Chicago
commission merchant, fled proceedings Of
divorce againsr her in the Chicago courts,
was once well known in st. Parl. Her
father was at one time ONE Of the city 9
maiden name was Emma NJ. Sinipaon, and
her father was John W. Simpson.
Rev. Charles f. Thivins OF Cambridge
Mass, has accepted call to Plymouth
church, Minneapolis.
The state auditor has made the award
OF the state appropriate tion to the agriSuE
tural societies OF Minnesota. The total
amount was $12,312t0, and each organi..
zation received $219S7. There were Sc
beneiiciaries, as follows: Anoka Blue
Earth, Crown Carver, ChisAgo, and Pine.
Cottonwood, Crew Wing, dakota. Good
hue Hubbard, Isanti, Kittson, Kandiyohi,
Le Sueur, Lyon, Mcleod, Martin, Meeker,
Morrison, Mower, Murray, Nicollet,
Mobiles, Olmsted, Redwood, Rice, st. Louis.
wan, Wright. Yellow MediciNe. AsearR and
Burton and Sherburne, Dodge Joint Stock,
Butter ana Cheese asspcsatiaa, s, DAKOTA,
Mankato. Fillmore, Faribault. Lac Qui
Parie, Becker, Big Stone, Faribault Stock,
Renville.