The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-11-21
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SdhS VI
A party of burglars so far forgot themselves
as to break into newspaper office in search
of plumber. The Clinton Herald was visited
by robbers, much to the delight of the editor.
Large rewards are offered for the arrest and
conviction of the incendiaries who started tho
fire at Rock Rapids The rewards amount
to 81 800, and the damage done by the fire
is estimated at $4,000.
A dog was drowned in the mud on one OF
the principal streets of Burlington. 1t is
said the mud is so deep in that town that
mothers have to put life preservers on their
children when they allow them to go on the
streets
In a drunken brawl at Keokuk William
| Richards was stabbed in the throat with
jack knife by q Sweed named Ole Anderson.
The wound may prove fatal and Anderson
was locked up to await the result of his vic.
| TINS injuries.
An old man named james Gibson, while
walking along the Milwaukee track at Cedar
Rapids, was struck by locomotive and
thrown from the track, suffering a broken
arm and shoulder and sustaining O serious
| internal injuries,
James Arthur and a 10-year-old youth
named Laurence Desmond drove off the
bridge at the monastery near Dubuque, and
were thrown into the creek below. Both of
young Desmond's legs were broken, and he is
not expected to live.
A wild prairie wolf was proving around
the principal streets of Des Moines recently.
1t was thought that it was an escaped spec-
men fir m the zoo, but a chase discovered
that a whole family had taken up their win
ter quarters in a cave about two miles from
the city.
In a struggle over the possession Of a keg
of beer at Dubuque William Boyd struck
Officer Carter on the heHd with beer glass,
intlictng a serious wound. Boyd was bound
over to await the action of the grand jury
on charge of assault with intent to do
great bodily harm.
During the absence from home of Henry
Grages, a farmer living near Keosauqua, his
residence caught fire from detective Chin
ney. In attempting to extinguish the flames
Charley Grages aged IA, fell from the roof
and broke his leg. The building was burned
to the ground at a loss of 500,
Ferdinand Heeb, a Dubuque man, was
awakened in peculiar manner the Other
day. He was lying on the lounge asleep and
in turning threw his hand out, striking q
bulldog which was lying on the floor beside
him. The dog was wide awake and bit
chunk out of Heeb's hand, makinging a
wound which may necessitate amputation.
A short time ago a family named Parker,
consisting of the parents and seven children,
removed from Epworth, Dubuque county,
to Oregon. Word was received at Dubuque
that the eutire family, with the exception of
the father, were drowned by the capsizing of
a small noat while going from Newport to
South Beach on the Pacific coast of Oregon.
Newton w Belts, a porter on Pullman
sleeper between Burlington and st Louis,
met horrible death in the former place,
While examining the airbrake on the rear
end of the sleeper he stepped in between the
sleeper and the pumping post and while in
that position the engineer backed up the
train. The drawbar struck the unfortunate
man in the abdomen and crushed his body.
He died in few minutes.
R. R. Plane, OF Independence, slipped on
the sidewalk recently and broke his hip,
making the fifth serious accident he has suf-
fered in a comparatively short space of time.
He first fell from load ofhay and broke a
rib next he spraned his back in fall from
hay NOW; then he suffered broken ankle,
followed by fracture ofthe collar bone. He
expects to be on deck Tor the sixth in few
days.
The work OF securing jury in the PETERS
murder case was begun at Marshaltown. It
is stated that the defense will not deny the
fact of PETERS killing Cathor, but will put in
plea of jutstifabIe homicide. The confessions
of the killing by both Mr.. and Mrs. PETERS,
in letters to friends, will be used in evidence
by the defense.
+, D. Alderman was married at Marion
Friday the Sth, to Miss Louisa Dorsey. Sat
: urday a rsquisitiou was forwarded frcn the
: sheriff of Ogden, Utah. requesting Acker.
mans presence at that place on the charge
: horse stealing. The bride does not want
to lose her chubby" so soon and has had
him habeas corpused.
John Tuisel young citizen of LeClaire,
! Scott county, was SO elated over the result
, of election that he went on protracted
drunk. He ended up by trying to cut his
throat with pocket knife while in q fit OF
, deerium tremens. He succeeded in severing
a his windpipe, but missed the artries and will
4 recover.
This year Iowa reports q corn crop of $780,
100000 bushels. worth $4,000, 900. II her
= people had only q market at home for that
= crop. instead of having to pay the expences
4 of sending ZOO miles away to sell it, it
8 would be worth at least 5 5000, 900 more to
them. They pay that much penalty every
D year for being so for from manufacturers. =
s. P, Callshan, of Keokuk, had a narrow
n escape from death the other day. He was
q driving buggy through piece of woods
| 1oor 4bo I'll Suddonlv The borSo 1-o,-o =
> jump forward and the next instant the dead
a trunk Of o largo tree fell directly across tht
$ road with crash, some Of the branches
striking the buggy and slightly injuring iti
occupant.
A man named Brownsll has disappeared
from Marshaltown, Iowa. and w. H. and
E. Wilson are under arrest, against whom 6
serious charge may be made. One of thu
Wilson's was brakeman on the Iowa Cen.
trial, but had been laid Off Bronwell was tc
y take his place. The Wilson's tried to intimi
d date him, and Saturday night he was seer
u going up the track followed by the Wilson's
|. He has not since been heard OF, and did mo-
T. go out on his run.
The notorious "Paddy" Cox, of Burling
Q ton, who was recently arrested, together
: with the rest of his family, for illegal liquo1
selling, has been sent back to Fort Madison
to serve out the balance of fifteen years
sentence for manslaughter. Coy. Larrabe
last spring pardoned Paddy" on the condit
q on that he would behave himself, but the con
Is dition was too trying f9r the old man and h
r broke the agreement before he hpd been a
# liberty twenty-four hours His wife and sol
are serving out terms In the Burlington iai
at present, his 15-yeaP-0ld daughter havin,
just been released sitter twenty days visl
d to that institution.