The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-03-06
INGENERAI

A company has been formed with capital
of 81 900, 900 to develop immense salt beds
recently discovered near Cleveland, Ohio.
1t is the intention of the city authorities Of
Toronto, Ont, to prosecute the News, World
and Mail for printing advertisements of the
Louisiana Lottery company.
The adage Now you know how it is your
SELL has a striking illustration at the Jail at
Alexandria, Mimi, where ex-Sherif Urness
now langu!shes, filing out fve-days SEN
tenCe Tor contempt of court.
While digging in the ruins of his burned
dwelling Luther Limerick of Falmouth, Va,
found q large tin bucket filed with gold
and silver, amounting to several thousand
dollars, supposed to have been buried by q
| hermit
The school committee at Pittsfeld, MASS,
has sustained the action of Principal Welsh,
OF the high school, in dismissing six Catholic
pupils who declined to study in the history
class because of the way the Reformation pc,
riod was treated in the text book.
The Ohio river has reached 55 feet 215 inch,
es and still rapidly rising, Two more inch
es will cause the railroads Ito abandon all
trains leading out OF the Grand Central sta
tion at Cincinnati. II the precipitation
should be as great in the Ohio Valley as 1T
| doubtless cause a third great Hood.
Local saloon men were made happy at
Huron, s. D., by the grand jury presenting a
report in open court to the effect that be-
| cause of the wide difference of opinion as to
the legality of the liquor law and the uIcer
tainty of convictions, they had decided toIe-
| turn no indictments for violations, although
! they believed Intoxicating liquors we're sold
in saloons in this city.
Four large raccoona were killed in the vault
at Lakeveiw ea1petery at Hastings. Mimi, by
George Magic and P. Peterson, two parties
who went into the vault to transfer corpse
from it to the grave The vault is built on
q side hill and the animals had burrowed
, their way into the hill. loosened a rock about
| five feet from the floor, and jumping into the
vault found exit impossible. They were
mammoth specimens, and were killed by the
| workmen with spades
The affairs off. Semsch Bro, ,croekery deal
ers, of La Crosse, Wis, who made an as
signment last fall are being laid
before the special term of the cir.
cult court. They disclose a long and as
! tonishing series OF Misrepresentation and
forgeries tor the purpose of keeping a failing
| business a1oat. Of eleven notes in the La
Crosse National bank, endorsed by different
! parties, the endorsement was forged to seven,
| and in nearly every case there had been a
series of renewals, the surety being forged
every time.
Another important change from the esystem
of doing business which Land Commissioner
Sparks put into effect during the last admin
istration will soon be ordered by the secretary
OF the interior. 1t will come in the shape of
an order suspending and revoking the Sparks
orders which required special inspectors to
report on surveys before they were accepted
by the government. 1t will allow the report
of the surveyor general OF public lands to
stand accepted as proof that the work is done
and the surveyors entitled to pay.
Ed Nieland, an employe of Swift & Co. OF
Chicago. who are packing ice in Fond du Lac,
Wis, became suddenly insane and attacked
some of his fellow boarders. The boarders,
six in number, lost control of themselves and
in their lear beat Nieland with chairs and g
poker and Daniel Hurley, foreman of the ice
cutters, shot at him twice, one bullet making
a slight wound. Nieland was then allowed
to run out of the house, thinly clad and bare
footed He was fonnd several hours later
PROSTATE and helpless on the ice in the river
near where he had been employed the day
before. When taken to jail it was found
that the man had sustained t#enty.three
scalp wounds, all of which laid the skull bare
ranging in length from one to four inches
His feet were also very badly frozen. NielGnd
is in very precarious condition.