The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
IN THE NORTHWEST
A Summary of the Important
Events of theWeek in the
Northwestern States.
MINI ESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
st. Paul has just completed extensions that
will double the water supply of the city.
Arthur Pratt, aged II, is mysteriously
missing from Anoka.
Henry BerkhaTu, of Minneolo, has been
committed to the Rochester Insane asylum.
James O'Reilly, aged 55, is mysteriously
missing from his home near Red Wing.
Subscriptions for the relief of Mrs. Parnell
are being taken up in st. Paul.
The Chippewa commission has been sue
cessful in securing the signatures of all the
Indians on the Cloquet reservation.
While temporarily insane Alice Coon,
Viola school teacher, committed suicide by
taking dose of rough on rats.
The new Humbolt school building, one OF
the finest school edifices in St. Paul, was
completely wrecked by fire.
Anunknown man was run over by the cars
and mangled beyond recognition in the de-
pot yards at Minneapolis.
Surveyors are at work locating the route
of the Little Falls, Mile Lacs and Superior
railway.
The young son of Theodore Anderson, Of
Battle Lake, accidentally shot himself and
died shortly afterward.
At Worthington E. 81. Lambertson was
sentenced to six months in Saltwater for
stealing wheat, and Frank Tyrell to four
months for forgery.
Acting Secretary Batchelder, ,ofthe treasury,
appointed Sam Lowenstein of st Paul to be
gauger for the revenue district of Minnesota,
with headquarters at ST. Paul.
DR.. Staple, of the state board ofhsalth, has
ordered the NJ 1orhead board ofhealth officers
to take charge of the diptheria epidemic at
Georgetown, ithaving got beyond the control
OF the local board.
Clifton Holden, who was found guilty of
the murder of Frank Dodge, was brought
into court ut Redwood Falls and his sentence
suspended until January 6, 1890, pending
the action of the supreme court.
Jacob Schrieber, the young man who mur
dered his uncle at Moorhead some time ago,
was taken to the government insane asylum
at Washington, D. G., being deserter from
the United States army.
Frank Landees, one of the cleverest forgers
in the country, who escaped from Saltwater
in 1887, has been captured in Bavaria. He
had only served three months OF his twenty
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A reward of 500 was offered for informa-
ton leading to the finding OF James Reilly
who disappeared two weeks since from Red
Wing. There is growing fear that he is the
victim of foul play.
Stephen Newell, aged fourteen years, son of
Justice Newell, was run over by the cars at
Hastings. He fell between the tender of the
switch engine and box car, the wheels OF
the latter passing over him. He died IN an
hour.
A convict named Fred Douglas attempted
to escape from Saltwater by concealing him.
self in a box car that was being run out OF
the prison yard. He managed to get as far
as the railroad yards when he was discovered
by q brakeman and taken back to the prison.
Botleff l.unde, of Wanamongo, was found
dead under his wagon box on the road be-
tween that town and Lumbrota. His death
apparently resulted from q runaway. He
still held the lines in his hands, and the horses
were standing quietly beside his body.
W. H. Adamson, a notorious usurer of
Minneapolis, was found guilty of forgery in
that city. During the trial it developed that
his method was to charge 10 per cent. inter
est, payable twelve times year, or 12O per
cent. on money loaned. He will be sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
jack Jardipe sixty years old, was killed
by the switch engine in the yard of the
Northern Pacific railway at Detroit. The
coroner's jury decided that deceased fell on
the track while under the influeoce of liquor
and that the crew of the switch engine was
blameless as the engine was running at slow
speed the bell ringing and nothing was seen
of Jar,line until the engine had passed over
him.
Martin Anderson, a well-to-do. farmer liv-
ing about ten miles from Rush City in Fish
lake town, made an unsuccessful attempt to
murder his wife, but shot himself dead with
Winchester He had been drinking hard
lately, and it is supposed was suffering with
the tremens at this time. His wife attempted
to go to one Of the neighhors, when he op-
posed her, tussel ensued in which a sister
and son Of the wife took part, assisting the
latter to keep the crazy man from doing
bodily harm, He pounded them until they
got away and ran toward q house near by
when the assailant fired two or three shots
at the retreating wife, who fortunately es
capped unhurt. Within an hour a party Of
men returned to the house and found Ander-
son dead, having killed himself
Miss Minnie Brown of Maine township
Otter Tail county has strong desire fol
elopement. Although too ZQuag to b
married in Minnesota she eloped last spring
with young man and came to Fergus Falls
In order to get away she started in the even
ing and walked to Fergus in the night, :
distance of fifteen miles. Her father missed
her early in the morning, came to town and
fndihhg The couple ct the American house
gaYe fhs woqldRe husband the seveFast MIND
of q pounding and took tha girl home, warn
ing ths young man never to come arounc
theFs again. He profted by his expsrieno,
and kept away, but John Aldrioh another
.. young man, determined to try his luck. HI
was warned to keep a way, but, taking ad
vantage of Mr.. Browns absence Friday, h
drove to Maine and got the girl and took th
train for Whapeton, where it is impossible t,
get married without a license,