The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-11-28
IOWA,

IOWA.
Pottawattamie county supervisors win
offer q hounty to induce citizens to go for
the gopher.
The report of the soldiers home for the
month of October shows an average of 301
inma tes. The auditor has issued a warrant
for So, 135 for the support OF same.
Francis Marion Wagner a teacher in q
public school at Meriden, is under arrest for
striking boy named White with an iron
poker.
Emanuel Nelson is on trial at Newton,
charged with the murder of Thomas Archer,
The murder occurred at a. picnic given last
Fourth of July near that place.
Brooks, the murderer, 70 rmerly of Coun-
Gil Bluffs now of Fort Madison, is confident
that the supreme court will grant him new
trial.
R. g. Snyder, an employe of the Le Grand
Touring mill at MarsnalItown, has been ar
rested for Systematically robbing the COM
| pany.
legal controversy over a calfin Cou n
Gil Bluffs justice court has SO far cost enough
to buy respectable herd of cattle, while the
final outcome is still in the dim distance.
There are over 500 G. A. R. posts in the
state with a membership of about $4,000,
and 200 relief corps with a membership OF
something like 5000.
An unfeeling storekeeper in Des Moines is
| tantalizing the life out of the colored popula-
ton by'exhibiting a big tat 'possum in his
show window with card Not for sale' tied
around it's neck.
| oI o5 in nnlo 40
ship, Adams county, recently. J. NJ. Figgin s
little girl was terribly bitten by one of them.
A large number of cattle and other stock were
also bitten.
Milton Mcconnell, of Meriden became en-
tangled in the harness of a runaway horse
and was dragged half a mile at the horse 8
heels. He suffered broken collar bone, q
couple OF ribs and serious internal injuries.
| A jeweler in Shellrock whipped a boy for
marking his window with his dirty fingers,
| the boys father whipped the jeweler and a
justice of the peace raked in jack pot Oslo
and costs contributed by the belligerents.
| L. B. Willett, who was "sent up" from
Marshallstown two years ago for burglary
was arrested on his release at Anamosa by
Sheriff Clark, of Butler, Mo-, on a charge of
forgery committed three years ago and taken
| to that place for trial
The state board of health has changed the
rule governing contagious diseases among
school children. Formerly the certificate of
the attending physician was all that was re-
quired for readmssion after being quaran-
tined. Now the approval of the local board
of health, or the health officer of the local
| board of health, in necessary to remove the
| quaran tine.
Des Moines, Marshalltown and Webster
City are all figuring on securing the 10 cation
of the contempla ted college of the Seventh
| Cay Adventists, viii ch is to be built some
where in the west after the pattern of the
one at Battle Creek, Mich. Des Moines has
offered $40, 900 cash and twenty acres of
land and Webster City offers a site, while
Marshalltown is still 'igerin'."
The state commissioner reports that there
are now in the state 164 cheese factori es, and
that the product of cheese for this year is at
least Is per cent greater than last year.
Statistical tables incorporated in the report
show that the creameries manufactured dur
ing the last year Al $50, ,54S po unds of but
! ter and 4,406,09S pounds Of cheese. The
| average price of the butter was 81 cents and
of the cheese 9 cents.
VIM. Carl in Jail at Jefferson for tryin tc
hold up two merchants at Grand Juncti on
is liable to loose one of his hands. During the
fracus at Grand Junction Mr.. Covell, in pro
tecting himself from Carps attack, cut the
robber in the wrist with a pocket knife, sew
ering the tendons. Carl was too chicken
hearted to have his hand attended to pro
perly at the time, which will probably result
in his loosing it altogether.
N. B. Dodson, of Cedar county, ought &
team of horses from a man named johnson
over a year ago, paying $190. Recently q
Mr.. Freeman, of Shelbina, Mo-, put in an
appearance and claimed the horses, saying
they were stolen from him by Johns on. a,
proved his claim, and Mr.. Dodson, who had
become attached to the horses, bought them
over again, paying this time $275. John
son was arrested for horse stealing at the
instance of Mr.. Freeman and told where he
had sold the team in order to get lighter
sentence.
The faculty OF Des Moines college are
worked up to the highest pitch Of indigna.
ton. The other day little love affair be
tween two of the students reached the des
peration point, and they hied themselves
away to the residence of the young lady,
parents at Knoxville and became one stu
J dent as it were. In the meantime the fac
ulty became aware of the fact and held 9
star chamber session, in which it was re
solved that the college could not be used a,
q matrimonial incubator, and that the new
: ly married couple would have to hustle fo
education somewhere else.
William Maxwell, an engineer in the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy yards at Bur
lington, was found wandering around in /,
dazed condition An investigation showed q
large red lump on the back of his neck, evi
IDENTIFY caused from being struck with a sand
bag. He was taken home and cared for
when twas discovered that his tongue wal
paralyzed. He recovered his mental facul
ties, and, aside from being unable to speak
appears to be oil right He writes his con
versation and explains the affair by saying
aomeone stepped up behind him and strncl