The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-11

third day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty
nine, and OF the independence of the United
States the one hundredth and thirteenth.
WILLIAM r. MERRIAM, Governor,
H. MATTsoN, Secretary of State.
Samuel Speer, in jail at Wabasha
awaiting the action of the grand
jury on a charge of larceny, escaped
one night and is still at large.
The acting controller of the cur
rency authorized tho National Bank
of Commerce of Duluth, Mimi, to
begin business with a capital of
100000.
Jessie Lindsey OF Vernon Center,
aged sixteen, was arrested for steal
ing $16 worth OF laces from Mrs.
John Root, her employer. She
pleaded guilty and was committed
to jail for thirty days.
Lars Larson, living five miles
north OF Cokato, was fatally injured
while leading a horse. 1t suddenly
turned and kicked him in the face,
breaking his jaw and dislocating the
teeth. He is still alive, but there is
no hope OF his recovery.
Charles Kondler and Moses Lam
preux, two farmers from the town
of Sank Center, we're arrested at Red
Lake Falls on complaint of Thomas
Daragan, charging them with grand
larceny by stealing fifty bushels of
seed wheat from the complainant.
The municipal election at Winnie
bago City, resulted in the election of
the entire temperance ticket by ma
iorities of from sixty to eighty-tive.
John S. Robertson is elected presi-
dent of licensing saloons, and re-
suited in the defeat of license by 81
majority of eighty-six.
Last fall Aug Stahl, a young man,
single, aged twenty-eight, living in
Star Lake township, disappeared.
He left word that he was going to
Fergus Falls. Nothing was heard
of him until his body was found in
Lake Maria. He was drowned be-
fore the lake froZe up last fall.
A sudden and singular death oc-
Cured about fifteen miles southwest
of Mankato which caused consider
able excitement. Mrs. Knute Knud-
son was attending the funeral of
friend, and on opening the church
door fell dead of heart disease. She
was sixty-fve years old and leaves a
family.
Frank Osborne was convicted at
Brainerd of grand larceny in the firsU
degree. This means Imprisonment
for from five to ten years. A motion
for a stay of sentence has been made.
William Bently, who was indicted for
the same offense as Osborne's &C
complete, plead guilty to grand lar
ceny in the second degree.
The house of Charley Johnson, a
bachelor living alone in Wang town
ship, Renville county, was discover
ed by the nelghbors to be on fire,
and before they could reach there it
was entirely enveloped by flames,
and nothing could be saved. John
sons remains were taken from the
ruins a charred mass,
The two Minneapolis & Northern
elevators at st. Cloud were
burned with about 10000 BUSH
els of wheat, entailing a total
loss of about $4,000. The fire
caught from a hot box and but
little could be done by the fire de-
partment, the elevator being so far
distant from the hose houses, but
they saved the adjoining railroad
property.
A young man living at Elmore
named Burt Greenman eloped with
Mrs, M. Richardson of the same viii
lage. The couple went to Blue
Earth city, and securing a livery
deported, the young man returning
here with the team the same day.
Immediately on his return he was
arrested, charged with adultery, and
a second warrant was served upon
him, charging him with passing
counterfeit money. The where
abouts of the woman are unknown.
Robert Henderson, one of the
earliest settlers of Fillmore county,
was burned recently. Early last
fall deceased had cancer removed
from his lip, and the physicians for
bade smoking. The wound healed
rapidly and Mr.. Henderson again
took to smoking, which brought
back the malady in so malignant a
form that death resulted on the
25th inst. The cancer had eaten
away the right side of the jaw and
into the jugular vein. He suffered
untold agony for nearly five months.
| Last December George M. Cook,
living near Deer Creek, Otter Tail
county, eloped with Cora Zellers,
aged fifteen years. In getting the
marriage license he swore she was
eighteen. After living with her q
| month he left her. The girls father,
who has been living near Bismarck.
arrived this week and swore out a
warrant for Cooks arrest char ging
him with perjury in securing license.
He was taken before Justice Webb,
| who held him for an examination,
placing him under $500 bonds.