The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

Amanual training school is to be opened
In st. Paul.
Thenew courthouse at Winona cost S127,-
IT'S. 1885,.
The Fergus Falls city council has ordered
fire escapes to be put on all buildings ofthree
or more stories.
George Dosey, aged 8, of Pine City, died
of hydrophobia. He was bitten short
time ago by rabid dog.
Capitalists are looking over Saltwater
with the object of locating q wooden mill
employing 260 hands in that city.
George Shaw, q well-kuoWn Northern Pa
cifc engineer OF Branerd, died at Winnipeg
Junction of la grippe.
August Anderson, a Norwegian laborer OF
St. Paul, has become violently insane as the
result of severe attack of the influenza.
The Odd Fellows of Kasson dedicate their
new hall in that city recently. 1t is one OF
the finest structures in southern Minnesota.
Mrs H. E. Hennessy, Of Red Lake Falls,
slipped on the ice while drawing pail of wa
ter from we'll and fell in and was drowned
James N. Elkins, q st. Paul cashier and
bookkeeper committed suicide by blowing
his brains out with a revolver. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
The county commissioners of Clay county
have raised the liquor licenses in unincor-
porated towns and villages in the county to
$1,000.
The Minnesota Eight Hour league has
made arrangements to have public demon.
STATIONS in every city in the state on Febru-
airy %.
I Il of
dergast, of Brainerd, eloped with Chris Will
liams, bartender of that place. The couple
are believed to be in st. Paul.
The citizens of Winona, thro ugh the city
council, will petition congress to build an
| iron drawbridge across the Mississippi at
that point.
Halvor Lying, an old and we'll known farm
or, living near Fergus Falls, was tipped over
an embankment while driving home and
received injuries that may prove fatal.
There are upwards OF 100 cases OLA grippe
reported in Faribault. None have proven
fatal as yet. Some of the patients are quite
sick, but not dangerously so.
Judge Crosby sentenced Mrs. Ellen Holmes,
found guilty of manslaughters in the second
degree to one year in the state prison at
| hard labor.
The liabilities of J. W. Colmann & Co.,
dry goods house in Faribault, which was
closed by creditors, amount to about
$4,000. The asserts are not known yet,
but probably WILL foot up in the neighor-
hood of $4,000.
Mr.. Fortier, an old resident OF Cookston
died very suddenly at Gentilly, where he had
gone to Wis it his parents. His family werein
Butte and were summoned by wire in timefor
the funeral Rev, FIR. Fayolle, of st. Anne's
church. conducted the services.
Silas Wilcox, living near Renville, recently
dug q we'll which has turned out to be rather
eccentric. When the wind is in the southeast
there is an abundance of water, but when the
wind is in the northeast scarcely drop con
| be had. The Minnesota river, twelve miles
away, is the nearest body of water-~-
The parents of>young Sam Martin of St
Cloud who had been q student at the norma
school, are anxious to learn of his where
abouts. He was expelled from the school fol
some misdemeanor, and was then refused ad
mittance to the city school. He disappeared
the next day, and no word has been received
since.
Christian Tanberg, of Mansion, Wilkir
county, committed suicide by taking poison
in alcohol punch. He was very well known
around Fergus Falls, having owned the towI
site of Rothsay and the town of Tanberg be
ing named after him. He has drank gooG
deal of late and rather lost his grip, which, il
is supposed, lead him to commit the act.
G. W Thomas, one of Lake City's oldes
business men, has made an assignment to A
J. Greer for the benefit of his creditors. Liza
bilties, $9, 900; assets, $4,000. Mr.. Thomal
was in the dry goods and grocery business
and had a strictly cash trade, and his as
signment was entirely unexpected. F. Fl
Stanff druggist, also made an assignment
Liabilities, $1,000, which his assets vii
nearly cover.
Otis 81. Brown, aged 70 years, u residen
of the town of Osseo, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the heart
He was a very eccentric old man, ant
among other things left a diary containing
an account OF his condition before his death
lie also left funeral sermon to be preached
over his grave, and being a carpenter mad
coffin in which to be buried. He was
spiritualist in religion.