The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-11-28
IN THE NORTHWEST
A Summary of the Important
Events of theWeek in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

Oh decouhI Oh the prevalence OF ulpnJner1a.
man living near Lake City who disap-
peared some months ago is now said to have
been murdered
Sixty-four cases of clothing and provisions
were forwarded from st. Paul to the North
Dakota sufferers.
The Northwestern Telephone company is
granted an underground conduit franchise
by the st. Paul council.
The premature explosion of blast in a
quarry near Hinckley resulted in A. Corne-
lius losing his eyesight.
Northwestern roads, it is decided, must
make reports hereafter to the United States
commissioner of railroads.
Frank E. Judge, the young son OF P. T.
Judge, of Hastings broke through the ice
while skating and was drowned.
The Washburn-Crosby Milling company
has announced it's determination to remove
its plant from Minneapolis to Duluth.
The Red Pipestone Quarrying company, of
Pipestone with a capital of$5O, 900, has been
organized under the laws of the state.
An ex-engineer of the Burlington & North
ern secures O $4,000 verdict against that
company for the loss of leg in st. Paul.
The city council at Litchfeld has called
special election, to vote on the issue of$22O,-
600 bonds for water-works and electric
lights.
John Smith, stranger, while intoxicated.
laid down on the railroad track at Wilmar
and was run over by switch engine. He
| cannot recover.
John Yanke, of Hector, committed suicide
by cutting the arteries in his wrists with a
q penknife He was found by his family
lying in a hay-mow.
Peter Monson, farmer, dropped dead with
heart disease at 'Montevidea while raising q
sack of wheat from his wagon at the mill
elevator He resided as Lauriston.
Minneapolis physician experimental on
an old man OF 70 with some Brown-Seq uard
elixir some time ago and the oil man is now
lying in the hospital at the point of death in
consequence.
John A. Brown, @ young man living In
Pleasant Grove, Olmstead county, ,accidentIy
shot himself while hunting. In falling he
broke his collar bone and shoulder blade.
He will probably recover.
The attorney general decided that C. A.
Gle couldn't hold position as member of
the Winoua board of education and teach in
Gle resigned his position as teacher.
DR.. Ames, of Minneapolis, received another
threatening letter ewdays ago, in which the
writer says: "You have insulted a noble race,
which offense places your life in jeopardy"
The letter was signed "Clan n-na-Gael."
A burglar made call at the residence of
! A. E. Cheney, at Hastings, secured some val
uables and left without being discovered.
The next morning he was traced in the snow
| to a vacant house mile distant and captur-
ed.
In q quarrel over cigarette which James
Simpson took from a showcase in WilliamE &.
HaVerstick's store at st. Paul, the former
stabbed the latter in the back with a pocket
knife inf1cting dangerous and probably
fatal wound.
When W. FL. Millman. commercial editor OF
the Minneapolis Tribune went home to din
ner he found his wife sitting in a chair dead.
She had been asph yxiated by gas escaping
from defective pipe. At her feet lay her pet
cat, also dead.
A convict was released from the Saltwater
penitentiary after serving term of seven
years for manslaughter, and the first thing
he did was to get an abnormal jag on and
was in the cooler in less than two hours
after he gained his liberty.
The charred remains of Swenke Torgensen
and wife were found in their burned house
near st. Peter. 1t was known that they usu-
ally kept sums of money in the house and it
is supposed they were murdered and the house
fred to conceal the crime.
At the meeting of the common council of
Rochester it was decided to give the North
western Electric Construction and Supply
company the franchise and q contract
which allows $115 apiece per year for five
arc lights to be placed on our streets.
The new high school building was dedicated
at Worthington. The building, which is
conceded to be one of the finest in the state,
cost $4,000. State Superintendent Kiehle
and Prof. Soaring of the Mankato normal
school, delivered lectures in the building.
After session, all told, of 25 days. the
jury, ..empanelled to try J. Frank Colon
for the very grave charge of forging the
name j. T. Blaisdell to $27O,O0O worth of
paper, were discharge by Judge Hooker,
they having failed to agree on q verdict
Bob O'Neil and Charles Kelly were arrested
and lodged in jail at VerDdale on the charge
OF stealingeverythi in one ofthe Chute Riv-
er Lum ber company's camps on the Red Rye
river The goods taken amounted to 81 200,
and $500 was found in the possession of the
men when arrested.
Possibly the heaviest verdict ever rendered
against railroad corporation in a damage
suit was the one returned by the jury in st.
Paul in the case of Hall against the Burling-
ton road. 1t seems a sort of travesty on
Justice that the law should limit damages
for the destruction of human life to S., 900,
and yet person who has only been main cd
can recover 81 0,OO0. 1t does seem that hu-
man life ought to be worth as much as hu-
man limbs.