The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-07-11
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News Of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

SynuledIe ol spoFGIllS cltlZenS are
making track and arranging for a
series of races at Heron Lake.
Thirty young Indian girls received
their first holy communion at St.
Joseph's church st. Cloud.
A little girl at Red Wing coughed
up pin she swallowed two years
ago.
A daughter ofJohn Hartell ofCIear
Lake was struck by lightning and
instantly killed
Miss Allie Scherer while riding at
New Elm, was thrown from q buggy
and sustained serious injuries.
John A. and Edward S. Boyce
aged respectively q and Is years,
were drowned in the Red river, near
WOlverton.
L. }. Roberts, timekeeper in the ce-
ment works at Mankato, forged %
check for $65, got it cashed at So
loon and skipped.
Burglars made an attempt to rob
the Moorhead postoftice, but failed
to penetrate the inside blinds, which
were put up after the successful at
tempt of last fall.
An unknown man was found dead
in an outbuilding at Blakely. At
the corners inquest it was decided
that he died from excessive use of
Intoxicating liquors.
During II rain storm at Morristown
an old man aged seventy years,
father Leonard Bahr of Blooming
Grove, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
Martin Conlin was found guilty of
assault in the second degree at
Moorhead. He was indicted for
Brutality assa"lting an old lady at
Glyndon last February. He will go
to Saltwater for three years.
A complete human skeleton was
found many feet under the ground at
the topmost peak OF Sugar Loaf, the
high promOntory south of WinOna.
1t is believed 10y some to be that of
an Indian and by others of a white
woman.
A new trial was granted by Judge
Farmer at Caledonia to C.. 0. Dahl,
| convicted at the May term of court
of manslaughter in the second degree
on the grounds that one of the jury
men procured a half pint OF whisky
during the trail.
At Ouatonna during a shower as
A. D. Selleck's covered milk wagon
was passing by a large cottonwood
tree the tree was struck by lightning
and the driver. Fred Borch, was
stricken nearly insensible, his right
side being almost paralyzed.
A traternal order ofChosen Friends
will soon be organized in St. Paul.
Fifty charter members have been Sc
cured. The order is represented as
being 10000 strong, and claims as
one OF it's prime objects the further
ance of "lranternity" and mutual in
surance among women.
John Rogers, former labOrer at
the Phoenix iron works of North St.
Paul, has brought an action against
the company 10 recover $3.50 for
the loss of a finger and the general
laceration of his hand in some gear,
ing which he alleges was negligently
left open.
! Scarlet fever has broken out in the
family of G. May at st. Cloud. DR..
De Courcy was arrested on complaint
of DR.. Post, of the health board, for
not reporting the disease or causing
to be displayed the necessary placard.
He was tried, and the decision of the
judge was reserved:
The Caldwell mill at Hastings is
undergoing extensive repairs prepar-
atory to the starting of the linen
factory. The ma ;hinery is being put
in and when the enterprise will he in
operation it will give employment to
400 hands, tWo-thirds OF whom will
be girls. The capital stock is $780,.
600.
An order has been issued by Judge
McCluer vacating a portion of the
town site of the old village of Wa,
couta. In the early SOS that place
WIS one of the foremost settlements
in Minnesota, 1t contested warmly
with Red Wing for the county seat
of Goodhue county, but on it's being
defeated Immediately began to de
cline.
Joseph Bartcs, a lad about ter
years old, living near Prairie JUNG
ton, was in the town of Heron Lake
to have his wounds dressed. He anC
some other boys were playing with
gunpowder when itexploded. Young
Bartos receiving the full force of its
charge in his face. He is severely in
iured, but perhaps will not be disfg
ured.
The first case under the ScheffeJ
law was heard in Judge Stacy's court
at Albert Lea. Mrs. Andrew OVERLY
of Twin Lake, entered a complaint
against her husband, section hanC
TN the Minneapolis & St. Louis road
charging him with drunkenness. The
evidence was conclusive, and Judge
Stacy sentenced him to ten days il
the county Jail, where he now is so
bering off.
At Faribault during q storm, Mich
oIas Beare, an old gentleman living
in the township of Blooming Grove
while getting an armful of wood tc
carry into the house, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. Thu
bolt apparently hit him ln the bacE
of the neck and followed down his
back, burning strip the whole