The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-06-06
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News Of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

The county seat of Lac qui Parls
county has been removed from the
village of Lac qui Parle to Madison.
The First Presbyterian church So
ciety at Duluth will erect a new
building at cost of $4,000.
Rev. Franklin Carter, a pioneer
Methodist preacher of Minnesota,
died of apoplexy at Faribault.
A man at little Falls was sentenced
to Jail for twenty days for jabbing a
pitchfork tine through neighbours
ear.
The Merchants National bank and
the Union national bank, of Duluth,
will consolidate as the First National
bank.
The body of Louis Foisie, who was
lost in the big blizzard of January
u, 1888, was found fifteen miles
south of Crystal City.
The body ofJake Bernhart, a roam
ing blacksmith, was found suspended
to tree near Winona. Hehad COM
mitted suicide.
Mrs. Charles Lundberg of Cannon
Falls was attacked by vicious COW
and very dangerously hurt, four or
five ribs being broken.
George Maloney, a farmer near
Stephen shot himself three times in
the chest with a double barrel shot
gun. He will probably die.
What is supposed to be a meteor
fell about a mile south of Tower with
loud report. Fragments have been
sent to st. Paul for analysis.
Mortified figures that her college
brings to the town fully $780,
600 annually in the way of expendi-
lures for board, repairs and general
expenses.
The Bank of Little Falls, hereto
fore a private clearinghouse, has
been changed into the First National
bank of Little Falls. The capital is
$4,000.
The county seat trouble has begun
in Murray county. The county COM
missioners have ordered an election
to make choice between the towns
OF Currie and Slayton on the 18th of
June.
A petition was circulated at Pipe
stone the early part of the week, and
numerously signed, asking the gov
eminent to set aside a part of the
Indian reservation north of that
town for apublic park.
Hon. W. T. Bonniwell, one of
the best knownDemocratic politicians
of the state, died at Hutchinson. Mr..
Bonniwell was q member of the state
senate in 1871, 1879, 1881 and 1888,
and of the house in 1873. He had
been i'll for some time, but his death
was not expected.
frankie Smith, aged fourteen, shot
himself at Mankato. He had been
hunting, and returning home
climbed over the yard fence, pulling
the gun after him. The trigger caught
and the gun was discharged, the lad
receiving the full charge in the head.
He was the son OF Mrs c. D. Smith.
William Peterson, brother of John
Peterson, who was mysteriously
murdered in Traverse county last
January, has been arrested tor the
crime and held to await the action Of
the grand jury. The accused siren
uously maintains his innocence, but
there is q very strong chain of cir
cumstantial evidence against him.
Quite a sensation was caused at St.
Cloud by the report that County Su-
perintendent Rochell had been quiet
ly married in a neighboring city to
one of ST. Clouds fair. daughters,
without the knowledge or consent of
the brides parents He left the city
ostensibly for Sau'< Center, and is
supposed to have Joined. the lady at
the place where they were married.
Ten brick yards at Chaska are
furnishing employment for over 200
men SO far this seaons. Nine yards
are making 425,OOO brick per day
now, and all ten will turn out over
half a million brick per day when
running at full capacity. Owing to
the pooling of the railroads Chaska
manufacturers are compelled to pay
as high freight rates as towns located
three times the distance from St.
Paul, and q movement has been
made to ship brick to St. Paul this
season on the Minnesota river.
Quite a sensation was created in
H"ron Lake at the memorial services.
W. G. Mcdonald preached the mem
orial sermon in the grove near town,
and while denouncing all wars, and
quoting statistics to show that wars
generally transformed men into
thugs, the G. A. R. veterans left in q
body, and very bitter feeling has been
created by this unexpected circum-
stance. Rev. Mr.. Mcdonald in ex-
PLANTATION says that being conscien-
tiously opposed to war no other
] course than the one pursued was open
to him.
In the libel suit of DIR. D. F. Powell
VS. Fl. L. Hohl, editor of the Hokah
Chief, the jury brought in a verdict
for the plaintiff for S., 800 damages.
The judge instructed the jury to find
substantial damages if any, and the
theory was that as the defendant
probably could not pay any sub
stantial sum they might as we'll find
q verdict that would be q complete
vindication of the plaintiff. There
is some talk of an appeal, but prob
| ah1v Hohl will accent the onIv oItar-