The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-06
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
The Minnesota Editorial association will
meet in st. Paul, February II and IS.
Girls from Is to SO years of age enjoy
themselves skating at Minnesota City.
Simmons, the Tower murderer, was acquit-
ted at Duluth after the jury had taken forty
eight ballots.
Judge John II. Brown, of the Twelfth Judi
icial district, died at his home in Willmar
of heart trouble.
Mrs. Chapman, widow of the late editor of
! the st. James Journal, has assumed editorial
management Of that paper.
Herbert Voos of st. Paul, concealed seven
dozen raw oysters inside of thirty minutes
and won bet of $50.
An attempt was made to burn the feed mill
at Lakefeld the other night, but the fire was
discovered in time to prevent much damage.
No clue to the perpetrator.
Am Buresh. Bohemian girl, committed
suirhV hsral ma hR drowning herself in
d, cistsrn- o4sappointment in love was the
cause.
A. Strutz, a lumberman, was crushed to
death by O wagon heavily laden with logs
passing over his body at lumber camp near
Hinckley. 1.&
George Smith, a Mile Lacs county farmer,
is in jail at st. Paul on charge Of forging
Isaiah Gould's name to pension check for
81 900. Gould had lived iu Smiths family,
but has been dead for two years.
Mrs. r. G. Hutchins, wife of the former
pastor of Plymouth church in Minneapolis,
committed suicide few days ago in Los
Angeles, Cal, where Mr.. Hutchins is the
pastor of one of the leading churches.
IL is alleged that paupers are being shipped
into the northwest over the Canadian Pacific
railway from Norway, and that q number of
cases of leprosy have lately developed
among than in Kittson county.
Will Carl and George Ellsworth are in
iaiI at Mortified for burglarizing Wilson's
store at that place. They attempted to
shoot the officers who arrested them. Carl
is soldier in the Salvation army.
At Austin, E. P. Aplin, confined in Jail for
grand larceny, attempted to hang himself
He was discovered just in time. He was re-
GENTLY released from the Rochester insane
asylum. He made q rope out of his shirt
The Minnesota grand lodge of Masons in
session at St. Paul condemned Cerneauism
bv an almost unanimous vote. The Ger
neauists belong to branch ofMas onry which
does not believe in the existence Of q supreme
being.
O. =. Olson, of Battle Lake, has brought
suit against K K Tvete for $4,000 dam
ages. They are rival merchants, and last
fall Tvete accused Olson of stealing some
goods from his store, but failed to substanti-
ate the charge.
Robert McNabb, a 16-year-old messenger
oye,ll- hy a st. Paul firm, forged the
,ure of the firm TO several checks and
ing them cashed at the Capital bank.
skipped for Duluth. He was arrested and
taken back to St. Paul.
Michael Schieber, the Bavarian murderer,
recently arrested in Minneapolis, has been
sent back to Bavaria Germany. The crime
charged against Schieber is the murder of his
4-year-old stepson and his grandfather in
Pandorf, Germany.
A state law has been passed providing that
tree pedd!eI9 from other states must file an
affidavit with the secretary OF state to the
effect that they are engaged in legitimate
business-anG provide bond of 81, 500 be-
fore being allowed to SD
The roller mill of A. - 3prague, located
in the Winnebago valley, sVlz5-,-s-~---
mill, including the warehouse, is total loss.
The miller thinks the fire started in the dust
room from che chimney The loss is $1O,-
900, without insurance.
ASH. W. Jones was walking up Third street
at Faribault, he sli pped upon the Icy side
walk and fell, coming down on his back. 1t
was thought at first that he was dead, but
after taking him home it was found that his
backbone was showed together about four
inches. He is now in O critical condition.
The case of William Broker, the Chengwa-
tona murderer, is being tried at Pine City at
an adjourned term of the district court be-
fore Judge F. NJ. Crosby, L. H. McKusick,
county attorney, and Attorney General Clapp
for the prosecuti on, and Dent & Dent for the
defense. The trial excites the greatest inter
est in the county, from the fact of the cruel
atrocity of the murder.
The John Gund Brewing ompany of La
Crosse has leased ground on the Omaha
track at Luverne, for a warehouse. large
building will he put up in the spring and the
trade supplied from that point Just what
bearing this will have on prohibition in
South Dakota and Iowa remains to be SEEN
The Sioux Falls brewery, which it was thought
would move to Luverne, has been located at
Pine Stone. There is not enough local trade
at Luverne or Pipe Stone orin their immedi-
ate vicinity to support these Establishments,
and the proximity of the prohibition states
gives the whole thing peculiar look.