The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-01
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.

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tured her right leg.
A large number of people from the
vicinity of Sank Center left for Port
land, Ore, and will start a colony
there.
AS George Searles was assisting to
unload a safe at Northfield, it tipped
over, crushing Searles' right leg and
left foot.
Lewis Larson, a we'll known citizen
of Wastedo, committed suicide by
hanging himself in his barn. Tenn
porary insanity is supposed to have
been the cause.
There is considerable excitement in
Ruthton, Pipestone county, over a
coal find. The vein is about eigh-
teen feet beneath the surface and was
discovered by parties digging a well.
Work has been commenced on the
convent of the Ursuline Sisters to be
erected on the shore of Lake Pepin,
near Frontenac, on ground donated
by Gen. Isreal Garrard.
There were manufactured and
burned at the kiln in Albert Lea
100000 bricks during the past
year. There were five kilns burned.
the fuel used being mostly coal.
A Thirteen club is the style under
which some society leaders at Brain
erd have organized, casting defiance
at the old tradition concerning the
unlucky number.
Andrew Hermark of the town OF
Lisbon, Yellow Medicine county, had
his right arm torn off in threshing
machine. He was taken to Monte
yideo for treatment. The chances
are against his recovery.
Wheeler Bigarel, a farmer of Otter
Tail county, was brought to Browns
Valley in charge of the sheriff and
arraigned ON a charge of offering
counterfeit money for sale. He
pleaded not guilty and the case was
continued.
B. H. Purdy, dealer in family gro
ceries at Howard Lake has made an
assignment for the benefit ofhis cred
itors, to A. p. Bull of the same vii
lage. The liabilities, though not
large, is considerably in excess of the
assets.
One of the most important events
of the year in its relations to the in
terests of Luverne is a movement in,
stituted for the organization of a To-
cal stock company for the operation
of the Mound quarries. The move
ment is now so we'll under way that
the organization is assured.
The Hall house at Albert Lea with
all it's furniture and fixtures, includ-
ing bus line and four store buildings
on Clark street and eight vacant lots
on Main street was sold by ex-Mayor
Frank Hall to a syndicate consisting
of Charles kittleson of st. Paul, s.
J. Bohnson, G. Gulbrandson and W.
W. Bohnson of Albert Lea the con-
sideration being $4,000.
In digging a we'll at Dodge Centre,
for the Chicago, ST. Paul and Kan
sas City railroad, when at depth OF
twentyfve-feet, a test augur was used.
After going five feet further water
was forced through the hole four feet
high. The company has been troubled
for some time by lack of water,
and this may result in making Dodge
Centre the end of a division, with
shops and round house.
Foley Bros, railroad contractors
of St. Cloud, have j ust closed a con-
tractt to build twenty miles of rail
road for the Duluth and Winnipeg,
from Duluth through the Indian res
ervation to Cloquet. They have
also contracted to build a bridge for
the Eastern Minnesota road $4,000
feet long across the bay from West
Superior to Duluth, to be completed
by the Goth of December.
Chief of Police Hayes, ofCrookston
who was shot by tramp, is doing
we'll and will probably recover. Both
the bullets passed through him.
Hayes had very narrow escape,
as the tramp fired twice after Hayes
clutched and threw him. There were
some 10 or a dozen people standing
around, and the wonder is that no
one else got hurt. The real name OF
the tramp cannot be ascertained
He will not be arranged until Hayes
is able to appear.
B. Hedding arrived at Long Prairie
from St. Paul, accompanied by Miss
Anna Dorfer, of Pomeroy, Ohio, his
intended bride. The prospective
groom is head of the firm of Hedding
& Dettorman. So far as can be
learned they are not married; but
she comes with the understanding
that she must look about for a few
days and see how she likes her in.
tended husband before she decides to
wed him. The groom is prosperous
merchant and an honored citizen OF
Long Prairie, and though Miss Dor,
fer has come 900 miles to take as
a husband a man she never met, she
could have Jared worse at home in
nine cases out Of ten. Mr. Hedding
refuses to talk on the subject but it is
the sensation of the hour.
At Elliottsville, Indiana, workmen were en-.
gagged in raising q large stone from the