The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-28
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.

Window has decided to exist with.
out saloons.
Doud Sons & Co.'s barrel factory
at Winona burned. Loss. $S,00O;
insurance $4,000.
Henderson is experiencing q boom,
several new business enterprises
having located there recently.
The board of education at Winona
has decided to dispense with the
usual spring vacation in the public
schools.
The grist mill belonging to H.
Jay Stedman at Sank Center was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $500;
insurance, $4,000.
At the first meeting of the new
village council of Detroit saloon
licenses were raised to $1,000 and
W. A. Norcross was elected village
marshal.
James H. Griffin, of Saltwater, at
tempted to extract a cartridge from
a Winchester rife, when it exploded
and the powder entered his face and
destroyed his right eye.
The Herald sizes up the condition
of affairs at Eldora as follows: Coal
is drug in the market, mud is up a
little, influenza booms, and snuffies
are on the rampage.
Nick Item, a farmer living near
Clear Lake, reports that while re.
turning from St. Cloud he was at
tackled by two highwaymen, but fin
ally escaped.
Henry Ellis. q farmer of Jordan
township, Fillmore county, attempt
ed suicide by cutting his throat with
a razor. The attending physician
says there is no possible hope of his
recovery. Dependency the cause,
The common council at Faribault
has passed q resolution protesting
against the passage of any bill by
the Legislature changing in any man
ner the boundary line or geograph-
ical limits of Faribault.
Rev. n. T. Blakeslee, for several
years pastor OF the Congregational
church at Wabasha, has rendered his
resignation as pastor, to take effect
April l. He has had calls from sew
eral localities, but has not yet de-
cided where he will locate.
The Swedish Orphans home at
Vasa, has purchased more land for
farming purposes. The farm last
year contained 1913 acres. There
are thirty-seven children at the home
now.
The wife of Chas II. Fish. of Worth
ington, eloped a few days ago with a
member of an Uncle Toms Cabin
company. Fish employed an officer
and found his wife at a hotel in Man
kato, and after some talk they made
up and returned home together.
An effort will be made to secure
the commitment of. Swanson, the
seventeen-year-old boy held in jail at
Red Wing, Tor horse stealing, to the
state reform school, in order that he
may escape the penitentiary.
Gustave John was arrested at Mil,
bank, Oak, upon instructions from
the sheriff of Blue Earth county for
forgery. He borrowed $40 from the
citizens National bank, giving as
collateral note for 5000 signed by
a man known to the bank officials
The note turned out to be a forged
one,
The first case OF the violation Of
the license laws under the present
system brought to the notice of the
city authorities came up at Fari
bault. F. Doping was arrested
charged with being the proprietor Of
a "blind pig" When arranged he
pleaded guilty, and was fined $50
and given thirty days in jail.
Edward Sherman, of Whitewater
40 years old, and asteady, industri
GUS man, determined to give up to-
bacco, which he smoked and chewed
almost incesantly. Sickness followed
anb the physician recommended Sher
man to use tobacco again, but spar
ingly. He wouldn't take the advice
but vowed he'd get the better of the
habit ifit,killed him. His health con-
tinued to fail, he became peevish,
then morose, and then, a short time
ago, violently insane. He has been
removed to the Madison asylum.
The meeting of the Farmers al
lance at Austin was very largely at,
tended. The matter of starting a
Irvine factory was fully discussed
Experts stated that a $4,000 flax
Irvine mandatory would produce
from 700 to ZOO pounds daily. 1t
is claimed that our flax straw can
be proftably worked up into Irvine
A committee consisting Of J. j. Fur
long, c. II. Huntington, Thomas
Varco and G. W. Grimshaw, was ap
pointed to investigate the matter
fully and. advise at the nextmeeting
A telegram was sent to Congress
man Comstock at Washington from
Fergus Falls, asking him if the re
cent order ofthe interior department
suspending the action of President
Cleveland's order consolidating Min
nesota land Offices, reinstating the
} land Office at that place. He replied
that it only suspended the presi
dents order in cases where it haC