The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-08-23
DOINGS IN MINNESOTA.

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War has been declared against the
whisky element at Pipestone, and
more arrests are likely to follow.
THE lumber mills at Anoka have
disbursed $4,000 among the labor
men in that vicinity during the past
ninety days.
C. F. Kindred has sold the cars
and rails of the Brainerd street rail
way to the Fargo Street Railway
Company.
Gustaf Carlson, prominent farm
er living near White Rock, was bound
over to await the action ofthe grand
jury on a charge of selling liquor
without license.
A frame dwelling belonging to Will
lam Sondermann of Hastings, caught
fire from q defective fiue and was
burned with a portion of it's contents.
Loss about 81 900; insured for $500.
The assessed valuation of Dakota
county for 1883, as equalized by the
board, Is: Real estate, 50, 725, 697;
personal property, 81 ,S65, 557; a
grand total of $40, 591 1854.
Fred Klaus of Empire, Dakota
county, has been committed to jail
for fifteen days by Justice Gray of
Pennington for an assault upon his
wife.
w. C. White, who was shot by L..
II. Parker July 81, died at Bird Is
land. Parker, who is a mail agent
in Northern Wisconsin, is out on
bail.
The county commissioners of
Douglas county, appointed Thomas
Barros sheriff of Douglas county,
vice J. Urness, removed by Gov.
McGill.
William Danforth of Red Wing,
who engages quite extensively in the
propagation of bees, has extracted
thus far this season $50 pounds OF
honey from two hives, which he has
sold for $35.24.
The voters of LeSueur have decided
not to issue bonds and the new school
building will be completed by levy
ing ON assessment, while the i'm
provements on the old building will
not be put in until next year.
Two women, arrested for keeping a
house of ill-fame at Pipestone broke
jail and escaped to Dakota. Thomas
Dixon and George Carnegie, a livery
man are under arrest for assisting
the prisoners to escape.
id. Jones, living near Denison,
had his barn, four horses and farm
tools destroyed by fire, probably the
work of an incendiary. The loss will
aggregate $4,000, with an insurance
of So, 900.
A grand celebration was held at
Winona to commemorate the CON-
mencement OF grading on the Winona
and Southern. For 3Oyears Winona
has been striving for this road, and
finally is in way to see her wishes
| fulfilled.
Two brothers named Mutchler, re-
siding on the flats in Wilken county,
were arrested charged with stealing
three sets of double harness from
farmers at Pelican Rapids. They
were tracked, and the harness found
secreted on their premises.
The three-year-old daughter Of 81.
W. Zeller was fatally scalded at Lake
Benton. The mother was washing
and the child fell into tub of hot
water sitting on the floor. 1t was
terribly burned and lived but short
time.
FredC. Brown ofSt. Peter was unan-
imously elected steward of the in
sane hospital in st. Peter by the
board of trustees at their annual
meeting held in Rochester. Mr.. Brown
succeeds G. w. Dryer, who resigned.
He is a brother of w. C. Brown, land
officer at Winona, and has been con-
,sected with the hospital for years.
Frank B. Kellogg of st. Paul is at
Fergus Falls beginning a suit in the
case of Sophia Head against Morris
D. Cutler, which involves property
valued at $15O,OOO. Mrs. Head
claims that Cutler was simply q
mortgage but has kept the property.
The case is similar to the King Rem
ington case. The Cutler interests
here are very heavy.
The limb of a tree, seemingly cedar,
though no cedar grows there, was
dug out of solid clay forty-two feet
below the surface in the Camden
bluffs in Marshall county by the
graders on the new railroad a few
days ago and sent to Prof. Winchel,
who, from description before receiv-
ing it, pronounced it O relic of an an
ti-glacial forest.
City Marshal Ri lhardson arrested
a woman at Little Falls answering
the description of and supposed to
be Mrs. Margaret Bryce, who is
charged with numbering her grand
child last March near Anoka. Annie
Bryce, the daughter of Mrs. Bryce,
was supposed to be an accomplice in
the crime and the authorities are
trying to find her. The marshal has
been watching the case several DAYS,