The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-13
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Gay Long, q Keokuk Chinaman, is a hap
by father. His wife is a colored woman.
Harry Nye. 14-year-old Primghar boy,
broke his arm while throwing SNOWFALL at
another boy.
The contractors have fled bond OF $3, 900
to complete one and half miles of street
railroad in oskaloosa by August l.
Mrs. GINS Boog, Of Lincoln township, Poca-
hontas county, increased the population by
three rscently-two boys and a girl.
During the year 1890 there were %, O92
certificates granted to teachers in the state
1870 being to female teachers. The num-
Der of applicants rejected was 3,942.
s. F. Prouty, of PelIa, has shipped over
/ 200 carloads Of walnut logs during the
past Ave years to England and Germany
most OF which he had gathered in this state
In placing the clock in position in the gov
eminent building at Keokuk, it was discov-
cred that twsnty-three feet OF the tower are
three inches OF plumb.
Emma Myer, q Davenport girl 10 years
of age, committed suicide in Kansas City
while on a visit to relatives, by taking an
overdose of morphine. Dependency over a
quarrel with her lover was the cause.
Miss Rilla Walker, of Keosauqua, has
m ysterionsly disappeared. Several weeks
ago she left her home for Pennington, where
she had been rendered position in a millin-
cry store. She has not been seen since.
A citizen of Warren county played q pro-
hibition joke ON some old topers and at the
same time made few shekels for himself.
He filed some twenty-five bottles with tea
| and sold them for 81 each, the customers
supposing them to be filed with whisky. A
kicker gave the snap away.
w. E. Chapman, foreman in the McCosh
iron works at Burlington, while adjusting q
belt was caught in the shafting and whirled
around the rod halt q dozen times with
frightful velocity. When rescued it was
found that he had suffered o compound
fracture of the left arm and several bad
bruises. His escape from death is consider.
ed miraculous.
John Munko was granted a verdict o.
| 90, $50 against the city of Clinton from in
juries received from falling into vat Of
boiling water which had been left in the
middle of street. Last July a bleacher il
the Lyons paper mill blew up, killing two
men. Munko, at IL o'clock the Same night
visited the scene OF the accident and fell into
the vat from which tho exhaust from the en-
CINE was turned.
Miss Schumann is handsome Burlington
girl, and up to Friday night possessed q
head of beautiful golden hair. While on q
shopping trip that evening she was seized
on one of the principal streets by a strange
man, who held her round the waist with one
arm while he rapidly run a knife around hel
head, cutting off her hair as smooth as q
barber could have done it. The thief theI
disappeared and has not yet been appre
hended
Several years ago Jennie Nelson haG
trouble with her wealthy father, in the south
ern part of the state, and left her home, going
to Mason City, where she changed her nam
to Mary Nelson, and went to work as
waiter girl in the Park Hotel Recently he
fatherdisd and wilIed her the bulk ofihis for
tune, but without her knowledge. Recently
a stranger, who was stopping at the hotel
recognized her and told her of her father
death and Of the fact that she was an heiress
She returned to her home with the stranger
Hessian, the Humboldt county man VIII
swindled an insurance company out of con
plucEduiC AuOHOy q HAOII oEO OA q bOSu
fire loss, is again in trouble. His wife ha
brought suit against the Northwestern Raj
road company for damages for injuries sus
tanned in On accident on a railroad crossing
Thecompany hopes to prove thatH essian cor
spired against the company to collect dan
ages, and left a wagon on the crossing pu1
posely while his wife sat on the edge ofthe Gu
to lend effect to the case. Judge Cook, for til
company, says that they will furnish positiv
proof to this eff"
--~ i-r~,-IiU-, o,rplar "worked" the IL
dies Cottage" at Grinnell in broad da
light. He appeared at the door dressed
his old suit of Clothes" with q monke
, wrench and a screwdriver in his hand an
told the matron he had come to inspect tt
steam pipes and radiators. She admittt
him and he went around the different room
tapping the radiators with his wrenc
tighteningup screws, etc. He reported ever:
3 thing o. K, and took his departure, and
t short time afterward it was found quaint
r ty of valuables were missing. The thief mac
good his escape.