The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-25
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

else TO do We may aye be SGlckln In
a tree; it will be GROWN, Jock, when
ye're sleepin'."
Prof. r. F. Humiston, known to
all a. prominently identified with
the founding of Worthington and
the early settlement of Mobiles county,
died recently in Boston, Mass, and
and was buried in Cleveland, o.
The grocers held a meeting at st.
Clare, and elected J. N. Benson a
delegate to attend a convention at
St. Paul to break the grocers' trust.
They claim they can ge1 no prices
until the goods are delivered.
Coroner Watkins of n. P. June
ton received telegram stating that
a mans body had been found in the
woods near HOlyoke in a very de-
composed state. This is the second
unknown man found dead there this
spring.
Next Memorial day no soldiers
grave in any cemetery in and around
St. Paul will be unmarked, for on the
3Oth day of May next a headstone
of snow white marble will mark the
last resting place of every dead hero
lying there.
John Nelson, about tifty-fve,
years of age, employed in the stone
quarry of G. A. Carlson, at Red
Wing, was precipitated backwards
from ledge OF rock and sustained
fatal injuries, dying abont an hour
| afterwards. He leaves q wife and
family of grown sons and daughters.
A man named Oleson was knocked
down and robbed of watch at Sauk
Centre. OIeson's injuries are quite
severe, but not dangerous. Frank
Peterson was arrested, charged with
the crime, and waiving examination
was bound over to the grand jury
in $500 bail.
The report comes from New York
Mills, that a woman in the Finnish
settlement there named Mrs. Acton
Bubera has given birth to six chill
dren at one time, three of whom are
alive. Two wears ago a woman in this
same settlement gave birth to quad
ruplets, all of whom lived several
days.
Joseph Baumgarten, of Myers
Greve, Stearns county, was injured
in shocking manner. He was en-
gagged in hauling a harvester out of
a machine shed, when the team at
tached thereto took fright and ran
away. The machine passed over
Baumgarten and the sickle guards
tore open his abdomen. He cannot
recover.
Gov. Merriam has requested Capt
o. c. Chase, of the Otter Tail county
commissioners, to come to ST. Paul
to see what can be done in regard to
the grasshoppers. Capt. Chase had
charge OF the grasshopper war last
summer, when the county expended
ST., 900 to exterminate them An
investigation has been made, and 1t
is found that the eggs are very plenti-
full and that last years scorge is Ii
able to be repeated. The state has
appropriated $4,000 contingent to
be used to exterminate them, and it
now looks as though it would have
to be used,
At Brainerd a stranger entered
Rosenblatt's clothing store and pur-
chased $14 worth of clothing and Of
fered check on the First National
Bank of Brainerd, signed by f. c.
Whitney, tor $3.50. Rosenblatt
paid the stranger the balance in cash.
Shortly afterward another stranger
entered, and after purchasing some
| goods offered a check similarly sign
ed, but Mr.. Rosenblatt becoming
suspicious refused to cash che second
one, and Immediately inquired into
the matter and found that the checks
were forged. The men were found i'm
a house of i'll fame, where one was
captured, two others escaping, An
other has since been captured and
both have been identified by several
merchants.
There is general rejoicing at Win
dom, over the supreme court decision
in the ST. Paul & Sioux City tax case.
though the action was against the
county officers of the county, MANY
Southwestern Minnesota counties are
interested, and the taxes involved
amount to hundreds of thousands OF
dollars. The same questions were
involved as in the case tried twice bv
Judge Young of Minneapolis, and
both times decided in favor of the
monopoly, but Judge Perkins be-
lieved and held differently from Judge
Young, and the supreme court affirms
his opinion. There il another case
in the April term of the suprerne
court in which the Sioux City &. st,
Paul company is plaintiff, and this
decision gives County Attorney Red
ding confidence that the lower court
will be affirmed again. The decision
is regarded as the triumph of Justice
long delayed,
Coroner d. c. Darrow of Moorhead
held an inquest over the remains OF
John Void, killed at that place.
The evidence showed that Void, in
company with Robert Rasmussen
and Knute JENNIE, boarded the train
at Fargo, and on arriving at Moor
head the train did not stop, where
upon Void jumped and stumbled
and was struck by the trucks, three
cars going over his left arm. Death
was caused by a fracture of the skull
at the back of the head. Theevidence
also showed that the train was run
about twenty miles per hour instead
of four miles, as per city ordinance.
The verdict OF the jury was that the
j accident was caused hY Joint neoli-