The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-07-12
General News Items.

The supreme court of Minnesota has de-
cided that eleven men constitute jury ii
both plaintiff and defendant are willing.
The senate committee on the judiciary has
decided to report back the nomination OF
Melville W. Fuller to be chief justice, without
any recommendation.
Carleton college Mimi. has just received q
legacy of So 900 from DR.. C. L. Ives of New
Haven, Conn. This is to be used as a schOl-
arship fund for the assistance of poor but de-
serving students.
Barley has been practically ruined in the
western portions of Goodhue county, Minn.,
and in Pierce county, Wis, by the chinch
bugs. In many places the farmers are plow-
The probabilities are that the crops as q
whole will be even worse than those of last
year.
In the twenty called test case involving the
right of importers of liquors into Iowa from
another state to sell while they remain in the
original package. Judge Banks of Keokuk
holds that the statutes of Iowa, in SO far as
they prohibit the sale while the liquors are
under the control of the importer and in the
original package, are in conflict with the laws
of the general government and thus far in
valid.
At picnic given by the trades and labor
Mo-, the Brotherhood men attempted to run
Golden Holman, a Chicago, Burlington
Quincy engineer, from fairgrounds A crowd
of men started after him, yelling "kll the
scab." Holman drew a revolver and fired,
shooting Dick Harrigan, butcher, nineteen
years of age, in the left lung. Holman gave
himself up. HarFigan will probably die
The Indians of the Leech Lake reservation
are already starting south for the blueberry
picking. 1t has been understood that Agent
Sheehan would not permit them to
leave the reservations, or would make an
effort to prevent it, owing to the agitation
against the Indians on account of 30 many
prosecutions for liquor selling to them.
There is much bitterness and some danger of
acts of violence if previous conduct is repeat
ed; and if, as is usual liquor is sold them.
Mrs. s. N. Brooks, mother of Hugh NJ.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, the chloroformer of
c. Arthur Prelier and her daughter, Annie,
arrived at st. Louis, from Hyde, Eng and
later in the day had an interview with young
Brooks at the Jail. They we're not permitted
to enter the cell department of the prison,
that being contrary to the rules, but they
held long and earnest conversation with
their son and brother through the bars. She
win be at Jefferson on the 9th inst, when
Gov. Morehouse will hear an appeal for the
communication of sentence by Brooks attor-
neys, and she and her daughter will make
personal plea for young Brooks life and
present letters and documents in his behalf.
Wisconsin dedicated seven monuments on
the Gettysburg battlefield. The exercises were
held at Reynolds grove and within few feet
ofwhere that general was killed. When Capt.
Levi Long, president of the commission,
called the gathering to order and transferred
the monuments to the representative of the
governor of Wisconsin, the level space before
the stand WAS crowded with the veterans of
the Wisconsin regiments. Gov. Rusk was
not present, and the state treasurer, Col. H.
B. Harshaw, accepted the monuments on be-
half of the state. United States Senator
Spooner delivered an eloquent Grafton. The
monuments were formally presented to the
Gettysburg Battle Field Memorial associa,
ton by Gen. Lucius Fairchild.