The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-07-18
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News OF the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

Seven saloons in Wells have paid
in their $500 each for a license for
another year. This is an increase of
one over last year.
Burton Van Camp, u young lad
living near Marion, has been taken
to the reform school for incorrigi-
bility and misbehavior.
Charles Burg, who lives about four
miles from Dundas, has been arrested
charged with having run a "blind
pig"
A fire in the docks of the St. Paul
and Pacific Coal company, near
Duluth, destroyed 100000 worth Of
property.
C. M. Morris, a colored attorney,
was admitted to the supreme court
to practice law in the courts of Min
nesota on certificate from the H.
linOis supreme court.
The city council of st. Cloud has
issued twenty-four liquor licenses for
the year beginning July l. This
number, at $500 each, enriches the
city treasury by $4,000.
William Ball is the name of O wife
beater in st. Paul. He stole so cents
from his brother, which he invested
in booze, and the brutal attack on
his wife followed.
August Brokoff had both legs bad
ly crushed and Albert Pralzy and
John kowanitzi were injured by the
falling of a wall in the Huff house at
Winona.
The contract for one wing Of the
new St. Benedict's hospital in St
Cloud, to cost $4,000, has been let
The whole building will cost about
$4,000.
E. W. Peet, of St. Paul, was elected
q trustee of Amherst college. There
were two vacancies to be filled by thu
alumni, for which places there were
over 300 candidates.
Hon c. E. Forbes, county attor
ney of Lynn county and member O
the legislature from the Marshal dis
trict, died at his home in Marshall
He was AZ years old.
No cars are running on the Anok'
street railroad owing to compiled
tions which have arisen from sal
and attempted transfer of the roaC
and rolling stock, including hors
power.
| .. n. Wonder Sluis, a Hollander
suicided in St. Paul. He hao v1..L.
zled $26 from his employer, and tn
fear OF arrest SO preyed upon hi
mind he concluded to end his miser,
and did it.
A lad named Louis Leroy, living a
Brainerd, lost both thumbs and tn
index fingers from both hands by tn
premature explosion of a dynamit
cartridge. Pieces of the shell severe
| ly cut his mother.
A few days ago the house of Mrs
Nicolas Iden, of the town of Minden
Benton county, was ransacked b.
burglars and all the jewelry and 9th
er articles of value, amounting t.
$500, carried off.
A young man named Erick Kris
t off of Elgon, Clay county, farm
laborer, and Stephen Johnson, a.
uncle of Andrew Swein of Warsaw
were thrown from their buggies an
instantly killed.
In digging we'll on the farm of A
J. Johnson, near Cannon Falls, som
rocks were secured at a depth c
fifty eight feet which contain pal
ticles said by those who are az
quainted with the matter to be gold
DR.. DeCourcey, of St Cloud, wa
fined IS and costs for neglecting t.
notify the board of health of a cas-
of scarlet fever. The doctor mad
the surprising excuse that the dis
ease is not contagious.
Tom Carlin, who assaulted hi
mother-in-laW, Gertrude Christopher
son, last March, and arrested at Du
luth, was sentenced at Moorhead, t.
two and half years at Saltwater
He now claims the name of Samue
Torrance Johnston.
Miss Ida Phillips, lately a mission
airy to India, and sister-in-law Q
President Marshall, of the Free Bap
fist college at Winnebago City, fel
from the bridge over the Blue Eartl
river near the college grounds AM
was drowned.
Robert Wiley, a young man Twin,
near Rushmore, was about quitting
work he threw a pitchfork with
broken handle from a load of hay
and, jumping from the load, fell o.
the broken handle, and received in
juries from which he died.
Fred Blomberg and Timman'
Berg, Scandinavian farmers living
fifteen miles northwest ofSt. Helarre
were killed by lightning during 1
heavy thunderstorm. Both leav
families. They were in differen
places when killed.
A. P. Sherman, one of the oldes
citizens of Winnebago City, died sud
tdenly. Mr.. Sherman came to tn
state in 1855, settled in Blue Eart7
county, and located in the village il
in which he died in 1858. He was ,
widower and leaves a grown up fam
lily.
An attempt was made to destro,
the Manitoba's lumber yard ant
workshops at Delano, The villag
has been infested for some time by
gang of thieves who set fire to build
mos and while the villaoars aro &c