The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
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John Thompson, formerly of Dubuque
had theee ribs broken and was otherwise
seriously injured while attempting to board
Q moving street car in New York recently;
Frank P. Toll, an employe of the American
Express company at Clinton, skipped out
with $500 of the company's money, which
he had taken from express packages.
At Traer last week two of DR.. r. NJ Par
sons children died OF diphtheria- His
three other children are now attacked with
the disease and not expected to live.
At business carnival" at Wall Lake re-
Gently woman appeared among the mas
queraders in a suit OF butchers working
clothes and carried banner decorated with
bologna sausages.
Last week DR.. Sitter, of Sac City, removed
piece of bone from the head OF a soldier
from Fonda which had remained there evss
since the battle of Antietam, where he had
received a wound in the skull.
Fred S. Harbolt, a Burliagtoa brakeman,
fell twenty feet into the water from a train
while crossing Prairie creek near Cedar Rap
ids. With the exception of an ugly cut on
his hSad he escaped injury.
The authorities of Sac City are looking for
George Lewis, who disappeared from his farm
near that city not long ago with his wife's
youngest sigtaE and leaving numerous ered-
| itGrg.
| Al Weaver, switchman in the Central
yards at Marshalltown, while courling cars
had his right hand caught between the
bumpers and crushed so badly as to render
amputation necessary.
Miss Kate Ryan, a Clinton school teacher
punished little Alvina Thiesen with a rn,er so
severely that the child has been. confined to
her bed for over a week with Nervousness and
fright
Mrs. kis Kaddea. aged 10 years, who re-
moved from Bellevue to southern Colorado
RbNHt yer ago, was caught in the recent
olzZard while on her way home from a
neighbours and frozen to death.
Capt. Will Pattee, of Bremen county, the
last living official of the old democratic re-
glme in Iowa, called on Gov. Elect Boies at
his home in Waterloo. Capt. Pattee held
the position of state auditor fran 1851 to
1854,
The little 2-year-old son of Mrs, Jennie
Anderson, of Marshalltown, got hold OF q
can of powdered lye and before discovered
had eaten mouthful of it. with probably
fatal effect.
awarded the contract to build the Tama
county soldiers monument. 1t will be a
combination of white bronze and granite,
and will cost $4,000.
D. E. Gleason. Council Bluffs coal dealer
wants Geo. H. Champ to give him $40, 900
$4,000 for libel and $2QoO0 for slander.
Alleged that Champ said Gleason was
swindling his patrons by giving them short
weight.
A. 4. Noys, OF Steamboat Rock, has lust
shipped 800 head ofcattle-eghteen carloads
direct to Liverpool, Eng. This stock had
hcen fed for fifteen months and average 500
each. all in prime condition. Over thous.
and head will be shipped from Iowa Falls
next week
Owing to the recent trouble al Des Moincs
college, brought about by the Teeter mar
rage, the male students have formed q
brotherhood, the purported object of which
is to stick together in the marriage business
The girls it is stated, have also formed an
organization or sisterhood. with the same
object. and it is feared by the faculty that
when the two organizations come together
in joint session there will be adecided decrease
in tho epFallment of the college-unless the
rula prohibiting matrimony is materially
MouikSu
The DeMoines Register contains a story
about man named Stelson, of that city.
digging up a treasure box whisS at work ON
cellar beneath q rented Aoase occupied by
him. The box is supposed to contain treas.
ere buried during TIE war, and which, owing
TO the death Of the owner. has remained I'M
disturbed since that time. A peculiar cir.
eumstence in the story is the mysterious dis
appearance of Stelson shortly after the
alleged discovery of the box. He leaves O
wife and nine little Stelsons, who bear testf.
mony to the fact that he is a material man
and was not manufactured by the Register ..
"sensation" reporter. The explanation Civ
en- is that Stelson has skipped while untier
the impression that he would have to give,
up the treasure to the owner of the property.
! on whie b it was discovered.