The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-07-04
MINNESOTA ULLINGS.
The News OF the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

Duluun pays It's clty railway CON-
missioner salary of $5, 900 a year.
The.Eighth Minnesota regiment has
had successful reunion at Lake
Minnetonka.
A farmer named Ostroom, living
near Pipestone, and another living
near st, Cloud, were killed by being
struck by lightning.
The body of Walter Lovelnce
drowned in the Mississippi at Little
Falls was found a short distance be-
low the city next day.
A number of horses in WEIGH,
about twelve miles southeast oil
Hastings, have had distemper;
terminating in farcy, and had to be
shot.
At Cottonwood station, near Mar
shall, during storm six cars were
blown from the track and hard
ware store owned by Thomas Bair
was demolished.
Robert Robinson, the young horse
thief who made SO desperate an at
tempt at suicide June 16, at Roches-
ter, has been taken back to De kalb,
ILL.,, by Sheriff Helcomb ofthat place.
There are at present 172 fire in
surance companies authorized to
transact business in Minnesota. OF
these 100 are foreign companies with
United States branches and twenty
six are mutual companies.
Mr.. Martin Conlin was found
guilty at Moorhead OF assault
in the second degree. He was in
dicted for brutalIy assaulting an
old lady at Glyndon last Feb
ruary. He will go to Saltwater for
three years.
A Norwegian woman, wife of Jor-
gen Thompson, committed suicide at
Wells, by hanging herself to a beam
in the barn. She had been in i'll
health for some time, and probably
was temporarily insane, She leaves
IL husband and three children.
A gang of tramps, supposed to
have come to Red Wing in advance
of Wallace & Co.'s circus, got drunk
in West Red Wing and when the Of
fcers came resisted arrest. Nine were
secured and locked up and sentenced
to five days confinement in jail.
The hardware store of NJ. J. Clark
and harness shop Of NJ. Jargenson at
Benson were burglarized and six d0z
en- pocket knives, two dozen razors
halt-dozen revolvers, some cart
ridges, a valise and the watch OF
Theodore Jargenson taken.
The farmers elevator caught fire at
Wadena and burned to the ground,
together with $500 bushels OF
wheat. The elevator was owned by
+. W. Murray, and altogether with
contents, was worth about $4,000
Insured for $4,000 in the St. Paul
fire and Marine and Phoenix,
Mayor Sullivan has opened alabor
exchange at Marshall to sift desery,
ing sons of industry from the I'M
worthy tramps who drift into Mar
shall. Applicants for money are SET
to scrubbing the town bridges with
brooms at 20 cents an hour. The
plan is likely to be incorporated into
an ordinance.
Merrill's shoe store, Lashbtook's
grocery and the Register printing of
flee at Austin were broken into Only
about q dollar was taken. No goods
are missing. One George Williams
q stranger, was arrested for the
burglary, and preliminary eXamin
alton was bound over to await the
action of the grand jury.
A suit that has been pending eight
years was decided in the district
court at MooFhead, It was brought
by f. J. Scrieber against the German
American Hail Insurance company
OF St. Paul, to recover on policies
covering grain which was destroyed
by hgii, The jury brought in a yer:
dict Of $3, 876:15 for Scrieber: -
! An astronomical dome is being
placed on the tower Of the new high
school building at ST. Paul, and the
new telescope will be forwarded from
! Boston as soon as the dome Is com.
pleted, The instrument is made by
the manufacturers of the celebrated
Lick telescope, has n siX-inch object
glass and cost $3.50 without mount
ing.
Mrs. Loren Jensen, O farmer s wife
living six miles south of Hutchinson
in fit OF insanity threw two of hel
children into a we'll, She came tc
her senses as soon as she had donG
the deed, and Immediately called fol
help. Both children were taken out
alive, but the youngest, a babe -four
months old, has since died. The
other, a boy three years old is not
out of.dlan2ser.
The Southern Minnesota HQrticul
tural society will hold it's annual
summer meeting under what is