The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-08-08
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

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any other depotin the United States.
Samuel BranelIa and his cousins
wife, who eloped from St. Cloud, ,have
been captured, and are now at home
behind the bars in the st. Cloud jail.
John Scalrud, a well-to-do farmer,
living about two miles east of Ada,
fell from a barn and was killed al,
most instantly. He was intoxicated
at the time.
Mrs. Judge Waite, q middle-aged
lady and wife of a prosperous farmer
living near Trosky, Pipestone county,
attempted suicide by taking Paris
green. She will probably die.
Chester Coburn of Sauk Rapids was
severely injured by being struck 10y
train. Coburn and a companion
sat down on the track to rest and
went to sleep.
Charles Chilson, aged thirteen, of
Decora township, was arrested at
Mankato on the charge of setting
fire to the house OF Edward Chindle,
one of his parents neighbors. The
house was new one and completely
burned.
Mrs Martin Olson arrived in Du-
luth in search of her husband, who
left her twelve years ago. She found
him. He was living wich another
woman, presumably his wife, and to
make matters worse, four children
are the result of this second union.
AS the construction train passed
over the Chicago & Northwestern
bridge at Kasota O. A. Shunell, a
shoemaker, was struck and thrown
from the bridge fifty feet to therocks
below. Death ensued within an hour
The deceased leaves q wife and seven
children.
Charles F. Peterson was a miller at
Moorehead. He got hit on the head
wi tn shaft about year ago, from
which time hehas been gradually go
ing insane, Becoming worse he was
examined and ordered to the insane
asylum at ST. Peter. He has q large
family.
During the fiscal year ending July
l, the internal revenue office at ST.
Paul collected 81, ,377,796 the larg-
est sum ever collected before in
single year A heavy increase is ex-
pected this year on account of the
ST. Paul Distillery company. Itmay
reach s2,5OO,OO0.
A. c. Chittenden. proprietor of the
depot house at kasota hung his coat
in the office one morning The pocket
contained a purse OF 500, When he
came back he found himsslf minus
$6S. A tramp committed the deed,
and a posse are hunting hfTn Win
good chances of success.
Frank Tritz with City Marshal
Wagner of Belle Plaine passed
through Montgomery looking for
Norman Harris, who abducted Tritz's
daughter Annie. After rgoing as faras
Waterville and not finding them they
engaged deputies to follow on. Harris
leaves a wife and child behind.
William Panzer, who worked on a
gravel train on the Chicago & North
western road, while standing on the
Northwestern track at Owatonna
watching a freight passing on the
Chicago & Milwaukee track, was
struck by an incoming passenger
train on the Northwestern road, and
injured so that he died in a few min
utes. He leaves family.
The police force OF Brainerd was
kept busy by q gang of fifty or sixty
tramps who were Sundaying on the
river-bank and RECALLING themselves
by raiding storage-house for beer,
which was taken out by the keg. The
police offered to arrest the raiders,
who fed, and pistol fire was opened
on them and several overhauled and
arrested. One tramp jumped into
the river and was not seen afterwards
and is supposed to be drowned.
Murderer Thomas Brown, who is
in jail at Moorhead, when informed
by his attorney of the action of the
supreme court in affirming the deci-
sion of the lower court, manifested
the same Indifference which has char
acterized him since his conviction.
He stated that hewould not lose anv
sleep or appetite on account of his
having to be hanged. A petition will
be circulated asking the governor to
commute the sentence to life impris.
| onment,
A saloonkeeper named Robert Lux
was arrested, tried and convicted at
Sank Centre for selling liquor with
out a license. He was fined $1O5,57
including costs, which he paid and
and lett the city at once to avoid re-
arrest for each separate offense. Lux
had purchased q saloon from J. Hat
terman, whose license had not ex-
pired when the offense charged was
committed, and he was relying on
Hatterman's license,
Sheriff Krissin, of Waseca arrested
Frank Conway, who in the year Of
1875 was tried and convicted in
Waseca county tor horsestealing
and sentenced by the then presiding
judge of the district, Hon. Samuel
Lord, to the penitentiary for term
of five years. Conway appealed the
case to the supreme court, and gave
bonds in the sum of 81 500. The de-
eision ofthe court below was affirmed,
and Conway not being found, he
having skipped, the bonds were for
feited, and upon this old charge ne
has been arrested. Since that time