The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-08-21
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA

The average yield Of wheat in Blue Earth
county is estimated at from twelve to fifteen
bushels per acre.
John MeCloud, a young merchant of Bay
field, was run down by q tug while sailing on
the bay and drowned.
| The barn, granary and machine shed Of
Chris Stroek, near Luverne were destroyed
by fire.
Carl Van Arnold, chief oil the American De.
tective agency at st. Paul, is under arrest on
the charge of grand larceny
Even Fringalson, a farmer living near
Beaver Creek, has disappeared, leaving a
| large family and numerous creditors.
Mrs Adelaide Mayne is mysteriou sly
missing from st. Paul. and her friends think
she has met with foul play.
The hardware store of Wise Bros. at Lake
City was entered by thieves and q large
quantity of cutlery and other articles taken.
st. Paul family were taken sick with a
disease resembling hydrophobia from using
milk from COW that had been bitten by a
rabid dog.
John Lundberg, a farm hand employed
on farm near Iitchfield, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
His home was IN ST. Cloud.
horse near Sanborn, while feeding at a
shock of oats in field, was struck by light
| ming and killed. The bolt burned up the
oats and partly consumed the horses head.
The school districts in Goodhue county
have adopted the Tree text book plan OF
the $50 school districts 100 are now sup
| piled with school libraries.
|
three tramps offhis train near Hastings, and
they retaliated by firing three shots at him,
shooting his lantern out of his hand
A number of farmers of Freeborn county
have used fax fiber binding Irvine, sold at
IL cents per pound, in binding their grain
this season and have found it equal to any
and much cheaper that m anilla and sisal
An old man and woman were married at
New Ulm few weeks ago and are al
| ready tired of double blessedness and have
agreed to seperate. The former is now seek
ing to collect bill for three weeks board.
Mrs. Mains, the woman who was so badly
burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove
ut Fergus Falls has since died OF her injuries.
| 1t is understood her real name was Naylor
and that she lived in Sioux Falls, S. D.
|
[. o. o. F., was arrested at Plainview on the
charge of EN- bezzlement, pre- erred by Noble
Grand Roberts. French was a prominent
candidate for the postmastersbip and is q
| justice of the peace.
Secretary Hart, of the state board of char
ities says the cost of caring for prisoners in
the county jails, now from 81 to 16 per week
is reckless extravaganza He urges that
counties should combine. the prisoners Of
several counties being placed in one Jail.
By the explosion of a gasoline stove Mrs
| Sutton, OF Bingham Lake, was seriously il
| not fatally burned. She ran outin the weeds
and rolled, and her cries attracting the tele
| graph operator he went to her assis tance
and put out the fire in her clothing. HeI
delicate condition makes recovery doubtful
John Kerwin has commenced an action
against ex-senator Dwight NJ. Sabin to re-
cover $S, 900 damages. 1t is alleged that
Kerwin owned 100 sh ares of stock in the
Northwestern Manufacturing and Car com
pany, valued at $5, 900. and it is cluimed
that Sabin converted the shares to his own
use.
The first nstallment of eighty insane pa.
tients have arrived from the st. Peter asy.
lum and are at the Fergus Falls asylum.
The car containing them was run to the
door of the asylum and the transfer made
without confusion or disturbance. The pa
tents are all men and will be set to work
about the asylum at once. -
Tie TIE assessor Of -Pips--Island village has
4 made his return of watches locks in &C.
cordanee with the order of t lnty equal
izing board. He finds that there are forty
w2tches and clocks owned in the village, and
the total value of these is $3.50. The high
est priced watch is Sc and the majority o.
them are not worth over 81 apiece accord
ing to the assessor.
Eddie, the six-year-old son of E. Ledoux
o Belle Prairie, had the tine of a pitchforE
run entirely through his body. The lad was
riding on board which projected from tn,
rear ofthe hay rack, while his elder brother
was loading the hay. While endeavorng tt
secure the hay that his father was putting OF
the wagon the fork slipped from the handle
and struck the boy between his collar bon'
and the armpit and passed through his body
coming out at the shoulder blade, from
which the tine projected four inches. Hi
physician thinks the boy will recover.
man was found lying by the side of tn
Great Northern track near Kent, with hi
skull broken in on the right side and hi
brains oozing out The wound appeared al
ifmade with coupling pin. He rallied onc
little, and in answer to a question CAV
his name as Ben amin Clark He also sale
indistinctly something about the east sid
and Nebraska. He then relapsed into ,
comatose state and remained so till his death
No further clue to his identity has been OBJ
tanned. There is good deal of suspicion O
foul play
NORTH DAKOTA.