The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-23
IOWA.

Through the carelessness of brakeman
two freight trains collided on a sids-track at
Lisbon. locomotives were damaged, but no
one was hurt.
Ruthven parties have taken in the contract
tofurnish three thousand carloads of ice to
firms in the south this season. The ice will
be taken from Lost Island Lake.
In quarrel over a business matter at
Fort Dodge, Jerry O'Donnell struck William
Cavill on the head with bar of steel, infict-
ing serious wound.
Hog cholera is playing havoc with the swine
in the vicinity of Odebolt. 1t is claimed the
disease was imported in several carloads of
hogs recently received from Dakota.
Brother Carthage, OF the new Melleray
monastery, Dubuque, was kicked on the
forehead by horse, and his skull was frac
tured. 1t is thought he will die.
The Creston board of trade, in conjunction
with the leading farmers in the neighbor
hood has decided to build a creamery and
cheese factory at that point on an extensive
scale.
While hunting near Grandview, Louisa
county, the other day Albert Thompson was
shot in the side by the accidental discharge
of a gun in the hands of a companion. He
may not recover.
Horse thieves are working the territory
adjacent to Charles City. fine Clydesdale
stallion was recently stolen from the stables
of E. D. Clark, of that place. Every effort
is being made to ind trace of him; but as
! get get ali is futile.
The Waverly temperance crusade has
closed SO far as Francis Murphy is concerded.
Mr. Murphy has addressed the people on IL
| different occasions with marvellous success,
having secured over 1000 signers to his
pledge.
| Iowa leads all the states in the potato
crop this year, having 3O.49O, 900 bushels
and an average of 1876 bushels to the acre,
also the highest. Kansas is seco nd in yield,
l34 bushels per acre, and the product
1886, 700. Ohio leads in acr cage.
While telling stories to her little grand
daughter at her home in Ringwood, Clinton
county, recently, Mrs. A. P. Stone, and
old resident and pioneer of the county,
was suddenly stricken with paralysis. As
she is over 80 years of age, her recovery is
doubtful.
A reunion of old lawmakers of the terrific.
~ and state of Iowa will be held at Des
members and officers of the house and senate,
up to and including the year 1868, and all
present members and officers of the state OF
Iowa are cordially invited to attend.
The Francis Murphy temperance crusade
at Waverly, Iowa, is still on, and the list of
signers to the pledge is steadily increasing.
Many hard drinkers have signed and among
these one who was once an associate and in
innate friend of President Arthur, and whose
father was once vice president of the Illinois
Central railway. This talented person is now
an enthusiastic temperance worker and has
assisted Mr.. Murphy with neat speech.
G. W. Ferguson, of Marshalltown, is ter
ribly afflicted with cancer in his face.
few days since he submitted to fourth oper-
alton within short space of time, having
part of his lower lip removed. Anew weeks
ago he had his left eye taken out on account
of cancer growth back of it. He is an old
man of 6S, and his ability to stand so much
carving is considered remarkable. tits hoped
the last operation will result a permanent
cure.
Mrs. Barbara Roster accused of the muir
der of her husband at their farmhouse north
of Maryland Fayette county, last June, is
on trial at West Union. Roster was drunk
ard and was continually quarreling with his
wife. He was found by some boys in his
house with bullet hole through his head.
his wife was arrested and confessed to the
killing, but claimed that it was done in self
defense. She had been married to Roster but
little over year and was his third matrimo-
NAL venture, his other two wives having met
premature deaths, it is claimed, through his
continued brutality.