The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-09-19
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

the port OF st. Paul were S15,OOO
The Southern Minnesota fair at
Rochester was a great success.
The wooden mill at Faribault, own
ed by c. II. klemer, was damaged by
fire to the extent of $4,000.
A new opera-house has just been
completed at Window. 1t will be
formally opened the 10th inst.
An English Syndicate has pur-
chased the Hamm, Banholzer /
Stahlman breweries at st. Paul.
The board of trade of Rochester
banquetted Gov. Merriam and other
state officials, including members of
the legislature.
The house of Owens Long, near
Havannah, was struck by lightning
and one child persisted in the fire
that followed.
A thrashing machine and outfit
cte9at'aer with $50 bushels of wheat,
was destroyed by fire on the farm Of
H. 0. Melby, in Otter Tail county.
The leaders in the labor riots at
Duluth will beput on trial at the end
of the present term of court in that
city.
Frank Lommel, who was accident
ally shot August q at Richmond,
died at st. Cloud of blood poison.
He was a merchant and 35 years old,
During the absence of the family at
church recently thieves entered the
house of Henry kater, living on a
farm near st. Cloud and stole $50.
Peter Shepherd, who was recently
arrested in Lewiston for house
breaking, committed suicide by hang
ING himself in his cell.
The Young Peoples Society Of
Christian Endeavor is making rapid
progress in southeastern Minnesota,
and a steady growth is reported this
summer.
Johanna Dugan, of Duluth, was
awarded $4,O4O damages from the
St. Paul and Duluth Railway COM
pany for injuries received in a rail-
way accident last November.
Frank D. Moan, a Minnesota pio-
neer and an old resident and promi-
nent business man and politician of
Winona, was taken with a stroke of
paralysis at his office, and his physi-
clan says he will not recover.
The Eastern Minnesota railway
will have its terminalfacilities at Du-
luth perfected by the middle of Octo-
Der. The foundation for the freight
depot has been put in and the passen-
ger depot will be completed within
two months.
Albert Clover, son of G. W. Glover,
of Marshall county, was found dead
imam old we'll in a field. The we'll con-
tanned but two feet of water, and it
is a question whether the youth was
drowned or killed by the fall. He
was 6 years old.
John Steffennagen, ST., of Fon tie
nae, guardian and Item of his son,
has sued II. Scherf, of the same place,
for $500 for injuries sustained by his
son through beng bitten by a dog
owned by the defendant, which, it is
alleged, was known to be vicious.
Burglars entered the general store
of E. E. Abbott of Dodge Centre and
took about $500 worth of goods
Kasson, ChatfeId and several other
towns on the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad have suffered similar
losses.
Louis Row, a German about thirty
five years of age, who worked
in brick yard at Coor
Creek, went to Minneapolis
with a couple of friends. He i'm
bibed considerable liquor and started
to walk back on the railroad track
He was struck by a west bound
freight and almost instantly killed.
Martin Purcell, farmer living
four miles south of Rochester, drew
$500 Saturday, the proceeds of hi
fax crop. The money disappeared
Saturday night, and Sunday morn
ing a young man, William Conway
was arrested on suspicion of beine
the thief. Conway was with Purcell
when the money was paid him.
A bold burglary occurred at tn
house of Martin Purcell, eight mile
from Rochester, the thief getting
away with Mr.. Purcell's trousers
which contained $40 in money. TIL
circumstances surrounding the cas-
point strongly to one VIM. Conveys
young man living in the neighbor
hood, as the guilty party. He is I'm
der arrest.
N. P. Clarke of St. Cloud presented
to the secretary of the Central Min
nesota Fair association q check TO
$1,000. Owing to the first fair no
being a financial success the associa
ton has been laboring under fnan
cial difficulties, but this remove
them, and now the association doe
not owe dollar.
Lambert LEM of Melrose was ex
amined in the probate court at ST
Cloud and committed to the insan
asylum. His malady was caused b,
religious troubles. While in custod,
he made three attempts to commi
suicide by stabbing himself in tn
head with a sharp stick, by thrustin.
a stick down his throat, and b,
smothering his head with q blanket
J. W. Reynolds, an attorney q
Herman, and member of the Re
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