The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-27
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lie past year Dher0 were Loo piTbns
eaths in Rock county.
ext state fair will commence Monday,
,mber 8, 1890 and last six days.
he court has granted a stay in the LEM
.urder case at MAnkato until the 18th OF
March.
1t is estimated that St. Paul blows in
100000 year on the Louisiana state
lottery.
Over 100 men are steadily employed in
cutting ice at Worthington, and about sew
enty cars day are being shipped south.
The schoolhouse in Hunter township,
Jackson county, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is about $3.50; not insured.
DR.. Edward Walther, of st. Paul, is the
Posssssor of a silver dollar of the coinage of
1904. Only four silver dollars were issued
in that year.
strange woman stopped at a st. Cloud
hotel one night recently and disappeared the
next morning, leaving 5-weeks-Old baby
on the hotel mans hands.
The committee appointed to expend
81, 900 among the destitute farmers in Kilt
son county have not yet been able to find
any who are destitute.
c. L. F. Bergstone of Saltwater, has been
semitic to the insane asylum. He became
impressed with the idea that he had won
several big prizes in the Louisiana lottery
and that turned his mind.
Matt Guftafson, living near Sandstone,
bought pint bottle of whisky and after TAX
ing two drinks ont OF the bottle fell dead on
the street The verdict of the coroner jury
was that death was caused by the whisky.
The jury in the Tart Rom an breach of
promise case at st. Paul gave Miss Tart
verdict for 81, 600 The plaintiff promptly
attached the property of DR.. Roman. and SO
far has secured $700 of the amount
The building trades of Minneapolis have
expressed themselves as prepared to make a
determined effort to secure the establishment
OF eight hours as days work on May l,
when the eight-hour movem ent will be tested.
A lot of tramps took possession of the
schoOl-house at ST. Vincent, and after getting
drunk used the school records for making a
| fire. 1t took all the town police officials and
a number of citizens to lodge them in jail.
The contest over the st. Cloud post-ofice
was settled when Representative Comstock
recommended Capt. J. T. West for the place.
Charley Gilman was backing Long, but West
had many influential men with him.
Leonard Garding, young man ofAlbany,
Stearns county, while shooting with some
companions at target with rife was shot
in the chin. The bullet has not yet been
fonnd and his condition is critical.
| The Wilder Episcopal school at st. James
| has proven a success. Last fall the school
opened with sixty students and now has an
| attendance of over 100 The school build
ings are already inadequate and arrange
ments are being made to make S., 900 worth
improvements on the building.
| Mrs. D. W. Wolcott, of the town ofSt. Olaf,
Otter Jail county, thought she was taking
| DOver's powder, but got hold of a bottle Of
rat poison instead and took a large dose.
! She had an hour of terrible, excruciatng sui
fering. and day OF great danger, but re.
covered, though she is still very weak.
James Claherty, a prisoner in the st. Paul
jail dug his way through the wall of his cell
into the cellar of the building in an effort to
escape but was discovered before he could get
out OF the cellar. The only implement he had
was steel finishing nail about three inches
long, with which he dug a holein the cement
ed stone wall large enough to crawl th ropgh
Dr p-..-1IoNvs and j. 81. Koop, PREF
: of the Brainerd board of trade, who 8
sent by Agent Shuler to the Mile Laos L.
dian reservation to investigag alarming re-
ports of restitution and deathh nong those
Indians, have returned. They found little
foundation for the exciting rumors. There
has been but about the usual sickness among
them, except the grippe, but only few
deaths from that.
In the beautiful city of Winona there
stands a romantic and picturesque noun
tain called Sugar Loaf, which is al
enormous square rock. One day beautiful
Indian maiden for some reason mounted this
dangerous rock and jumped from the eleva-
ton with the intention ofcommitting suicide
Her name was Winona, and to her this hand
some city owes its pretty name-Winona
James Tawney and John Harris Of tina
place are now in Washington with a bill
uppropriating money tor the establish men
ofan observatory on Sugar Loaf mountain
which is thehighest point on the Mississippi
river.