The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-12-20
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.

The w. r. C. ofAdrian has donated
$50 for the soldiers home at Mime.
haha.
The pay rolls of the city of Duluth
Tor the month ofNovember amounted
to $40. 1856.
The city council and the Fergus
Falls gas company are wrestling
over the gas contract.
Theinfant child of Chas H. Essler,
of St. Peter, swallowed q dose OF
Rough on Rats and died from it's ef-
tects.
A telegraph line has just been com.
pleted along the Milwaukee Cannon
Valley road between Red Wing and
Mortified.
Dennis Shean, a we'll known farmer
living near Waseca, was the victim OF
a runaway accident by which he lost
his life.
Mrs. A. Link, aged 20 years, re
siding near Preston, was knocked
down and trampled on by colt. Her
recovery is doubtful.
Rhodes Bros, retail grocers at Wi
mona, have made an assignment.
Their assets are about 81, 500 and
liabilities $4,000.
Roy Hellweg and Frank Middaugh,
aged ten and eight years, respectively,
were drowned while skating ON the
river near Owatonna.
Fred Wright and Fred Freeman,
two young toughs at Owatonna,
have been sentenced to two years in
the reform school for burglary.
So far this year 6S5 prisoners have
been confined in the county Jail at
Duluth, of whom SIS have been city,
ISL county and Is United States
prisoners.
The Philharmonic society of Winona
has decided to revive the old custom OF
having a big carnival and street
parade. 1t will occur some time
during the winter.
Miss Emma Barnholtz, daughter
of wealthy Winona county farmer,
and Albert CHASER, her cousin, eloped
because Miss Barnholtz s parents op.
posed their marriage.
At the last regular business meet
ing of the Duluth Turn verein mo-
ton was made and carried unani-
mously amid great enthusiasm pro-
hibiting the members from treating
Or accepting treats at the bar.
Two barns, one of which belonged
to V. C. Clifford and the other to H.
D. Wickham, in Lake City, were de-
stroyed by a fire of unknown origin
which was first discovered in straw
shed between the two buildings. The
residence of Mr.. Cliftor d was scorched.
Willie Mitchell son of Judge Mitchell,
and Carrie Curtis, daughter of Prof.
V. G. Curtis, broke through the ice
while skating on Lake Winona and
narrowly escaped drowning. Young
Mitchell succeeded in getting out
without assistance. Miss Curtis was
rescued by some young men skating
in the vicinity.
Bert Wilbur was jailed at Mankato.
He escaped from the Waupun wis.,
penitentiary last August, where he
was serving term for horse steal
ing. He came to visit a cousin at
Vernon Center, and was apprehended
by the officers on information from
Waupon. His friends say he is not
in his right mind.
Burglars entered Lufkin & Ken
dall's hardware store at St. Cloud
through a rear window and stole
several dozen knives, a dozen re-
volvers and silver knives and forks OF
!! a total value of almost $50. They
were probably frightened away, as
they did not touch a number of the
most valuable things in the show
cases.
True bills have been found against
John Gibbs for robbing the depot at
Madison Lake, Ed. Greenbush for
| highway robbery, and against two
boys, named Childs and Laffey, of
Beauford for lecherous conduct at
school. These four will be arranged
at Mankato. Gibbs says he will
plead guilty and Greenbush will plead
not guilty.
The grand jury at Buffalo found
two important indictments, one
against Erickson of Annandale for
killing q man named johnson in a
saloon at Cokato. Robert Porter,
an old settler of Woodland, in
Wright county, was indicted on a
charge of attempting to poison a
neighbours well by dropping a bottle
of Paris green into it. The case has
occasioned great interest and de-
velopments are eagerly awaited.
! A little fellow named Johnny Bur-
ley was brought before JudgeAllen at
the municipal court in Winona by his
| grandmother, who asked that he be
sent to the reform school. Johnny's
mother is dead, his father intemper-
ate, and his grandmother claims
f, she cannot make a good boy out OF
him. The public schools closed their
doors against the incorrigible pupil,
and the boys penchant for stealing
made him too troublesome and dan
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