The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-27
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doctor who filed death certificate With
the city recorder at Dubuque recently called
for it later in the day and explained that
the patient was not dead,
Kelley, who attempted to kidnap the little
Barr girl at Dewitt, Clinton county, has
been sentenced to four years in the Anamosa
penitentiary.
One of the long lost dollars Of 1905 has
been discovered by A. NJ. Ingersoll, of Bur-
lngton. He found it on the levee near the
Mississippi river. 1t Is in q good state OF pres
ervation.
In the jail at Ottumwa Henry Murphy, a
burglar awaiting transportation to the peni.
tertiary, stabbed and seriously injured a TEL
low prisoner named James Hill, in quarrel
over a pointin table etiquette.
A swinder giving the name of E. F. Glib
berson worked" several farmers in Webster
county by getting them to sign what ap.
peared to be tree orders, but which in reality
were promissory notes.
Mrs. Thomas Niliana, wife of q Rock Island
railroad employee, OF Kenkuk, claims to be
one of FIVE heirs to an estate worth $4S,-
600, 600, left by a wealthy Englishman named
Ford, recently deceased.
Hamilton county has IA school buildinRs.
valued at SCI, 1876; employs 162 teachers at
IN annual compensation of $36,610.7O.
There are 2, 703 males and 2,739 females OF
school age in the county.
The Charlton Herald says most of the
prairie land in Lucas county IL fenced and
used, but it is estimated that there are 3d.
600 acres of brush and timber land lying un-
fenced and unused except as free pasture.
BY order of the county board two CLAN
dered horses at Gering have been shot and
two Others quarantined. A suit for damages
has been commenced against MIR. Brown, who
sold the horses
Samples of yellow ochre discovered at In
dianola, at the depth of thirty.six feet, have
been tested, and from the satisfactory re-
ports received the people there are inclined
to believe they have struck a bonanza.
Wapello is seriously considering the advis-
ability Of putting in an electric light plant,
organizing building and loan association;
forming company to manufacture paper;
the erection of a large hotel building and
many other needed improvements.
Willis Phipps is in Jail at Boone on a
charge of making the recent murderous as
the time that the weapon used was a beer
bottle but it turns out to have been q ham.
mer or wrench from q wagon. Phipps was
arrested in Greene county and taken back to
Boone.
While playing about some freight cars at
Rock Island the other day little boy named
Clark was fastened in an empty car by his
companions. just then an engine hooked
onto the car and the boy was soon speeding
on his way to Muscatine. At that place the
boy was released from his unpleasant posi-
ton and returned to Rock Island He had
nearly cried himself sick.
An old gentleman living ut West Keokuk,
while carrying lighted lamp around his
room the other night was taken with an
epileptit fit and fell to the floor. The lamp
was broken and the oil ran on the floor
about the old mans head and took fire. The
opportune arrival of his daughter was..the
only thing that saved him from horrible
death. He was severely burned.
Noel Bradford, just released from tho Joliet
penitentiary, has been brought to Daven-
port on a requisition from Iowa to stand
trial for shooting and wounding q telegraph
operator named Delaney in the latter city
three years ago. He escsped from the Dav-
EXPORT authorities and was subsequently ar
rested in Peoria for burglary and sent to
Joliet.
P. B. Hoist, the recently installed school
superintendent of Boone county. claims to
have discovered serious discrepancies in the
books of G.. W. Ashton, who recently re-
tired, which would indicate that he was a
desaulter to the county for several hundred
dollars. Some records are entirely worthless,
having Deen muJIIaCe-. HsL.. q ANTE. Ass q
moved to Texas recently.
While handling vicious horse at oaklan
the other day John Roy was kicked in tn
stomach, and received injuries which ma
prove fatal. A strange point in the circun
stance in that about a year ago Georg
Powell, for whom Roy was working and 70
whose widow he is still working, was kicke
by the horse, the blow striking in almost e1
actly the same same spot and proving fats
| in n short time