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.
MINI sofa.
e Minnesota Editorial association will

MINNESOTA.
The Minnesota Editorial association will
meet i'll st. Paul, February II and l3.
Girls from ~ 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.
Judg" John II. Brown, of the Twelfth iudi-
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 Il bet OF $50.
An attempt was made to burn the feed mill
at Lakpfe}d the other night, but the fire was
discovered i'll time to prevent much damage,
No clue to the perpetrator.
AM |uresh. II Bohemian girl committed
sncit NJ na hR drowning herself N
q, cist4rn disappointment in love was the
cause.
A. Strut a lumberman, crushed to
death by wagon heavily laden with logs
passing over his body at lumber camp near
IlinckIey.
George Smith, a Mile Laos county farmer,
is in Jail at st. Paul on charge Of forging
Isaiah Goud's name to a pension check for
81 600 Gould had lived i'll Smiths family,
but has been dead for two years
Mrs L. G. Hutchns wife of the former
pastor OF Plymouth church in Minneapolis
committed suicide a few days ago in Los
Angeles Cal, where Mr.. Hutchins is the
pastor of one Of the leading churches
1t is alleged that paupers are being shipped
into the northwest over theCunadian Pacific
railway from Norway, and that IL mum Der of
cases of Ieprosv have lately developed
among them i'll kittson county.
Will Carl and George Ellsworth are in
inl at Mortified for burglarizing Wilson's
store at that place. They attempted to
shoot the officers who arrested them. Carl
is a soldier in the Salvation army.
At Austin, T. F. 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 a rope ont of his shirt.
The Minnesota grand lodge of Masons in
session at st. Paul condemned Cerneauism
neauists belong to a branch ofMas onry which
does not believe in the existence of supreme
being.
O. -. Olson, of Battle Lake, has brought
suit against X. X. Tv"tp for $4,000 dam
ages They are rival merchants, and last
fall Tvpte accused Olson Of stealing some
goods from his store, but failed to substuntl-
ate the charge.
Robert McNnbb. 1G-yea old messenger
'oye,! I,v Il st. Paul firm, forged the
IRE of the firm 10 several checks and
ing them cashed at tic Capital bank.
skipped for Duluth. He was arrested and
taken back to st. Paul.
Michael Schieber, the Bayaran murderer
recently arrested in Minneapolis, has been
sent back to Bavaria, Germany. The crime
charged against Schieber is the murder of his
4-vearo old stepson and his grandfather in
Pandorf Germany.
A state law has been passed providing that
tree redL!ss1 from other states must file an
affidavit with the secretary of state to the
effect that they nre engaged in legitimate
business-anG provide bond Of $500 be-
fore being allowed 70 ~'e
The roller mill of A. prague. located
in the Winnebago valley, was
mill including the warehouse, is a total loss.
The miller thinks the fire started in the dust
room from che chimney. The loss Is $lO,-
600 without insurance.
ASH W. J ones was walking up Third street
at Faribaut, 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 q critical condition.
The case of William Broker, the Chengwa-
tona murderer, is being tried at Pine City at
nm adjourned term Of the district court be-
fore Judge F NJ. Crosby L. H. Mckusick,
county attorney, and Attorney General Clapp
for the prosecute 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 I.uverne. for a warehouse. large
building will lie 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 Luvprne or Pipe Stone Orin their immedi-
ate vicinity to support these establishments,
ard the proximity of the prohibition states
gives the whole thing peculiar look.