The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-07
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.

The G. A. R. post at Litchfield is al
ready preparing for the encampment
to be held at that place next June.
The Yankton oil mill will shut
down for the season in a short time
on account of q lack of fax seed.
The NJ. E. church society at Leola
has received plans and specifications
for a new church, and is making ar
rangements to begin work soon.
Hon. 0. W. Shaw, of Austin, has
been appointed by Gov. Merriam as
one of the board of control of the
state school tor INDECENT children at
| OWatOnna.
MankatO business men have recent
ly been victimized by raised bank
notes passed upon them by several
young men who have since disap-
peared.
An association of the teachers in
vocal and instrumental music at
Winona has lately been formed to
promote their professional interests,
and a concert is projected in about
two weeks.
The Rev. P ]. Gallagher, of Wi
mona, has been appointed spiritual
director of the Minnesota branches
or ST. Paul council-of the Catholic
Knights of America by the arch
bishop.
Mrs. Charles F. Baker, wife of a
prominent farmer in RiceIand town
shib, Freeborn county, has begun
action for a divorce, alleging inhu-
man treatment.
The Moorhead Driving Park as
sociation and the Clay County Agri-
cultural society are considering the
advisability of uniting under the
name of the Clay County Driving
Park association.
The farmers in the town of Under
wood, heavily timbered district in
Otter Tail county, have organized an
association for the sale of wood.
They have sent out a travelling sales
man, who is at work in Dakota.
George Connell, Henry Gibson and
Charles Letter, arrested some days
ago on the charge of creating a riot
in lie Roy, had an examination at
MankatO and were held to the grand
jury,
A complicated case of exc;sion O.
cancerOus breast was performed at
Duluth, upon m aged lady by Drs.
Graft and McComb assisted by Drs.
Wheaton and Allen, OfSt. Paul. The
operation was entirely successful.
W. A. Potter superintendent OF the
Red Wing water works. died at his
home of inflammation of the bowels.
He was taken sick on the train on his
way from Minneapolis where he had
been as a witness in the Beach trial.
William Land graft, seventeen years
old, was arrested at Mankato,
charged with grand larceney in the
second degree, in having stolen some
money from his father Hewas COM
mitted to Jail to await examination
March 2.
A man by the name of W. W.
Bradley was killed while chopping at
the logging camp of Joshua Tibbetts
on Willow river. The deceased is a
son of DR.. E. B. Bradley of White
House, Ohio. The body was brought
to Aitkin, and sent to his father.
Fire destroyed the Royalton Opera
House. A strong gale was blowing
from the northwest, and the whole
business portion of the village would
have been buried had it not been for
the hard work of the fire department..
Loss on the opera house (Which is
totaD, 5000; no insurance.
Sheriff Barlass arrived at Hastings
with Mrs. Lizzie Aldrich and Henry
I Neimeyer, charged with murder.
Some weeks ago John Aldrich, hus-
band of the woman, died on his farm
near Aver under suspicious circum-
stances. His stomach was sent to
Chicago, and there found to contain
strychnine. Neimeyer is eighteen
years old, and worked on the farm.
Notices bearing the usual heading
and signed by The White Caps"
were posted on several business
places at Plain view and in most
cases the parties were notified that if
they did not show any change in
their actions by March 6 they would
be harshly dealt with. There is no
apprehension arsingfrom the notices,
as they are thought to be the work
of some idle person.
A team belonging to B. F. De Ha-
ven, q wealthy farmer of Preston,
took fright while coming down the
i long hill south ot the town and ran
away. The nigh horse ran against
a post and was completely disem-
howeled. The animal walked several
steps with it's intestines dragging on
the ground. The boy who was driv-
ing was thrown out, but fortunately
escaped injury.
The action of President Cleveland
in his discrimination of the land of
fees at Benson anu Fergus Falls is
very much disapproved of by the
people in the part of the two dis
tricts thus blotted out. 1t has been
quite O burden to settlers who are
in the remote parts OF the old dis
tricts named to be compelled to GO
to Fergus Falls and Benson, but now
that they will be obliged to go to
/ ao,l>on
will be much greater. President Har-
rison will be asked to establish %
land Office at Morris, to embrace the
territory of the old Fergus Falls and
Benson districts.