The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-03-20
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An Algona man shipped 1000 bushels OF
oats to the Pacific coast at cost of $3.1
He paid II cents q bushel for the oats and
the freight was 30 cents q bushel.
Capt Tom Burns, the weIl.kuown steam.
boat inspector, died at his home in Galena,
LII. He was pilot on the Mississippi for
over thirty years.
The Creston Gazette would like to see the
law so amended as to make the school treas.
uryship an elective Office, thus divorcine the
question of finance and bank deposits an ee.
ment OF choice in selection OF schooI directors
farmer named Eisel, living near George,
went to town the other night, drank freely
of the OVERLOOKING bowl missed his way
while returning home, and when found was
in a badly frozen condition.
Henry Kerwin, aged 40, of Davenport was
found in his hut with his neck broken. Ap-
pearances indicated that while intoxicate he
had fallen downstairs. His only son had Just
been sent to the reform school.
DR.. Van Epps, of Sheldon, was wounded in
the leg on the southern battlefield in 1863.
He has been troubled with the limb ever
since, and few days ago had to have it am.
putated below the body in order to save his
life.
peculiar condition of affairs politically
exists in Moulton, growing out of the Murdy
murder trial At the municipal election the
friends OF DR.. Murdy, who is now serving q
sentence in Fort Madison for the murder Of
Silas Upton, took one side and his enemies
the other Murdy folio wers were victorious
Charles Beal. of Bancroft, had all his fin.
gers amputated in peculiar way the Other
day. He was tying horse in the manager
when the animal suddenly jerked it's head up
and catching the young mans hand in 6
! loop in the rope and cutting off the fingers
as nea tly as il done with Ratchet.
sneak thief made n sweep of the clothes
line in the yard of Rev. S. R. J. Hoyt at
! Waverly the other night, and the Republican
congratulates the reverned gentleman OIL
having a coat that buttons close up about
his neck, "thus concealing u scarcity of linen
which is sufficiently uncomfortable without
ostentatlous display"
A queer case was tried before Justice Love
JOY at Jefferson the other day. Billy McCo
mick had Dick West arrested for assault nc
battery, and West was fined 81 and costs
which he paid. He then had Mccormick ar
rested for being the aggressor in the affair
and the latter was fined $40 and costs
County Attorney Church prosecuted boil
cases, using the same justice and witnesses ii
each case, which, all things considered, wal
somewhat novel.
The usually quiet little town of Rome
Henry county, INDUCED in a little excitement
A train laden with liquor was wrecked nea
there and the vessel in which the liquid wal
contained burst. Everybody turned out witt
pans, tin cans. ETC., and succeeded in saving
large quantity of the spirits. Then ensuet
scene which, according to witnesses, rivaleC
the bacchanalian orgies ofthe ancients. TIL,
tough element took possession o. the tow
and pandimonium reigned supreme. Tit
| good people OF the place barricaded them
selves in their houses and waited till tn,
| flood had subsidized. The circus lasted two
days, and it is sa to say that Spartacus
with all his gladiators, never made Rom'
howl so successfully as did the wrecking O
that carload of whisky
| Only few years ago thecountry rang will
the praise ofMiss Kate Shelley, of Moingona
who crossed swollen stream in the dark a
great risk to herself, and in the midst of
! hoWlng storm, to ssve passenger train, TO
bridge had been swept away by torrent
Poems were written on the episode, picture
appeared in the illurtrated papers, and in
! Vulnerable paragraphs were written abou
| the heroine. 1t is said that she saved tn
railroad company $50,00o OF more il
property, to say nothing of What the,
might have been called upon to pay TO
! lives lost and passengers injured. To-da,
Miss Shelley is the whole support of wild
owed mother and three small children, an
they are living in aheaviy mortgaged house
which is their only property. Three year
ago she risked her life for others, and her IT
ward is chiefly the consciousness of a BRAY
and successful deed. The railway compan
gave her small reward, less than the valu
Of the cars which she saved, and the passen
gers whose lives she preserved by her act
have entirely forgotten her.