The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-10-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.

-Four couples were married in Red
Wing on the 18th, and it wasn't
much of a day for weddings, either.
The town hall at New Trier was
burned recently. 1t was owned by
E. N. Wallerius and Peter Kuhn, and
valued at 81 900; insured for 5000,
The young ladies of the Jackson
school in Duluth have formed an
anti-slang society, and it costs 5
cents for any member to use a slang
expression.
Patrick Howard, recently at work
for the St. Paul Brass Works COM
pany, fell underline wheels of an Oma-
ha freight train and was instantly
killed.
The chinch bugs which afflicted Bel
videre and vicinity have mysterious
ly disappeared during the past three
weeks. No effort will be made to dis
cover their whereabouts.
Per Person, Swede farmer aged
fifty-seven, near Elbow Lake, hung
himself with rope in his barn. After
adjusting the moose he laid down and
strangled himself to death.
Hon. D. J. Knox, of Aitkin, had
two young deers in his park and a
small dog only in play started after
one, and the deer in its rapid fight
fell down and broke it's neck.
A son of George Osborn, a farmer
living fifteen miles northwest ofFair-
mount, had his arm torn off at the
shoulder in a threshing machine, from
the effects of which he died in q few
hours.
Recently a threshing machine
on John Peterson's farm, north
west of Cedar Mills, McLead county,
set fire to the straw, and the separa-
tor and 200 bushels of wheat were
burned.
Miss Alice Downs and Mr.. Todd,
telegraph operators at Alexandria,
attepted to leave town in each others
company, but were taken home,
where they were married, and left
town by the night train.
Congressman Macdonald secured
the passage of bill for the relief of
ElizabethE. Cole OF Shakopee. Thepur-
pose of the bill is to give the mother
the accrued back pension of the son
who died some months ago.
A very serious accident occurred at
the Polar Star Enills at Faribault. A
lad seventeen years of age name Wer-
ley Vail was out duck hunting on the
mill pond, when he accidentally dis
charged the entire contents of one
barrel of his gun into his face, killing
him instantly.
John Bowman, six miles south of
Ada, was attacked by vicious steer
and severely injured, and probably
would have been killed had it not
been for the brave efforts of his
son, a. lad of twelve years, who drove
the vicious brute away with club.
Ayoung man named Nelson, at
Clear Lake, while delirious with ty-
phoid fever, arose from his bed at
about 2 o'clock A. NJ, while those
who were caring for him had dropped
to sleep, and wandered away and was
not found until the day after, eight
miles from home.
A. A. Hrfeman, in Steele county, is
the owner of a hen which lays eggs
remarkable for size at the rate of
three week. They each measure in
circumference seven inches one way
and eight and q half idches the other.
He says the hen is healthy, and seems
to enjoy herself.
Mrs. James Huron has sued her
mother-in-law, Bridget Huron, for
SANDER, and places her damages at
1000, all at Wabasha. 1t seems
that Mrs. James was not conducting
herself in the most decorous way and
that her mother-in-law attempted to
give her some advice, hence the diff
Guilty.
Frank Dadeck, fourteen years old,
had his right leg badly injured in the
trimmer at Libbey's mill at Hastings,
his apron catching in the shaft and
pulling him over into the endless
chain. A lump Of flesh as large as
ones fist was gouged out above the
cap and the skin and muscles OF the
thigh stripped up ten inches.
Fred, aged fifteen years, son OF
Mrs. Charles Foreman of West Al
bany township, Wabasha county
started with q team to the
blacksmith shop, mile dis
tant, and not returning when expect
ed, his mother went to look for him.
She found his dead body in the road
with the neck broken, and near by
was the team, tangled in the brush.
The fatality was no doubt caused by
the horses running away.
There lives three miles east of Ma
della Isaac Slocum, ssventy-eight
years old, who voted for William H.
Harrison in 1886 and in 1910. In
1910 Mr.. Slocum, in company with
| the club of which he was o member,
Travelled for ten days with Gen. Har-
rison in Ohio, during which time they
visited and the general spoke at Nor
walk, Bellevue, Fremont, Perrys-
burg and Fort Meigs, where they re-
paired for three days and had a con-
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