The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-08
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.

Arrangements have been completed
by which Fergus Falls will secure a
wooden factory in the near future.
The jailor in the prison at Manka-
to found two case-knife saws in the |
possession of the prisoners. They |
had begun to saw their way out.
The students of the Mankato nor
NAL school have founded monthly |
school paper to be known as 1.-THE
Student"
The Presbyterians and Congrega-
tionalists at Lake City have conclud-
ed to formally unite and will do so
on the first Sunday in November.
The foundation walls for new ho-
tel at Brainerd have been laid. The
building will be three stories high |
and will contain nearly 100 rooms.
The Creamery Package company
at Mankato is preparing to put in
several thousand dollars worth OF
new machinery and also to make
large additions to it's buildings.
The Presbyterians of Lake City
whose house of worship burned down
year ago and who have since been
meeting with the Congregational
church, have concluded to formally
unite with the latter.
While Sever Thorson's nine-year-
old son was playing with a powder
horn at his home in Manchester, some
of the powder ignited, and was blown
into the boys face, tearing off the flesh
and greatly injuring him. 1t is be-
lieved that his eyesight can be saved.
The store of August Wendlandt,
the leading hardware man of Good
Thunder, is in the hands of the sher-
if. The attachments so far served
are small, but the lawyer for the
plaintiffs say the total liabilities
amount to $1S, 900 or $1,000 The
assets are not known.
1t now transpires that the man
Anderson, so called, who has been
giving an exhibition of his kill as
runner to the sporting fraternity at
Faribault is none other than Prot.
Bethune, the celebrated racer. The
Faribault sporting men did not
find it out until they lost about
$500 on him Waseca.
Miss Edith Annis, one of the teach
srs in the city schools of Albert Lea,
in company with several other young
ladies, assembled the tower of the new
court house, and as they reached the
highest point Miss Annis became
dizzy and fell down the narrow stairs
a distance of sixty feet, sustaining
severe injuries about the head and
face.
A Northern Pacific train leaving
Duluth ran over a lad named Francis
Fish in the Rice's point yard, near Du-
Iuth, cutting off one of his legs. He
was, with other schoolboys, stealing
q ride home The train was backed
up and the child taken home. His
father is an engineer in a mill. The
boy died the same night.
For years Jackson h as been wait
ing for something to give her start
onward toward distinction and
prosperity, waiting for something
that would give her place among
the bright stars OF cities that bios
som and bloom on the western
prairies, and now the unmistakable
sounds of approaching prosperity
and progress are heard, for the Sal
walton army is headed that way.
The foundation walls are about in
for the new hotel which r. r. Wise OF
Minnnewaukan, OAK, is building at
Brainerd. Mr.. Wise removes main
part of the building from Minnewau-
kan, and it is ready for shipment.
The building will be much larger
than before, and will be of brick
veneer, The hotel will be situated a
little north and east of the original
Headquarters hotel. which was de-
stroyed by fire in 1882.
An accident occurred on the St.
Paul & Duluth road, belo W Rush City.
Section hands were fixing the track,
and a number of rails were torn up.
Flags were displayed, but at such q
distance from the work that they
were not noticed by the engineer OF
the gravel train, which ran into the
place where the men WERE The fire
man jumped and escaped injury,
while Engineer George Young went
over with the engine, which turned
two or three times, but he escaped
serious injury.
Some unknown parties made away
from Mortified with team belong
ing to a livery man and since that
time nothing definite has been heard
of there whereabouts until the other
day when Frank NJ. Truax, marshal
of st. Paul Park, who has been hunt
ing the thieves got on their track
near Newport, and succeeded in
capturing a man and a WOman-tep
miles from Mortified, The man