The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-24
THE NORTHWEST.
a Summary of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MIN sofa.

st. Cloud is to have -four mill that will
employ 100 men.
There are now 32S prisoners in the Still
water penitentiary.
Robert Saxton comm led suicide in a st.
Paul hotel by taking morphine.
The assessed valuation OF Duluth perso nal
and real property is $37, 900, 1T.
Dunn & Allen, well known saloonkee pers of
Minneapolis have been closed by their cred
itors
A. II. Smith, printer, and the husband OF
four wives, has skipped from Rush Lake to
escape prosecution for bigamy.
A. S. Sackett, one of the Oldest nd best
known men in Olmstead C ounty, has become
insane through the excessive use of alco hol.
Judge L. HaseE, OF oEateHna, and Miss
Moford of the same place, were married. The
judge is 73 years of age.
Austin Hill, an employe in the shoe factory
at Anoka, was assaulted by three footpads
and badly injured. They secured no money.
George Anderson, of Jackson was accident
ly shot by target gun in Lake field, July
4, and has since died from the wound.
John and Willie Donaldson aged Is and
years, respectively, were drowned while
bathing in the Straight river at Owatonna.
John B. Mueller, the Minneapolis brewer,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Brooding over money
matters was the cause.
John Welch died at Hokah the other day
at the age OF 101 years. He was a native
of Ireland and came to this country fifty
years ago.
Thomas B. Strike well to do farmer, was
thrown from his buggy near Forest City and
| SO severely wounded that he died a few hours
| later.
Father Anslem, a young St Johns college
cleric, was drowned in Lake St. John, near
st. Cloud, by the capsizing of a boat. He
was 26 years of age,
| The hardware store and postofice at Kel-
logg was entered by burglars the other night
and robbed of $3.50 in money, $65 in stamps
and gold watch and chain valued at 500
Sneak thieves ransacked the dwelling of
William Bartrow, at Verndale, and stole
1925, which was concealed in some bed
clothes in a bureau drawer
farmer named Oefner, while alking
along the Great Northern track at ST. Cloud,
was struck by passenger train and instant
ly killed. He was deaf and could not hear
the danger signals,
| Edward Boew aged 16, was killed at Fer
gus Falls by being thrown from a loed of
hay. The wagon passed over him and he
was found dead in the road three miles from
| town.
1t is estimated that wi thin the past 80
years 100 persons have been drowned while
bathing in the Minnesota river between Man
kato and st. Peter. The current is very
| treacherous
Rochester suffered from one of the hottest
days of the season, the atmosphere being un-
usually oppressive. A farmer named Brooks
was sunsss:-" ss-""t and two horses dropped dead
from the h:S
Andrew Thompson a Swede. was drowned
while bathing In the Minnesota river, near
Redwood. He was about twenty years of
age, unmarried and had been in this country
about year. He is not known to have had
any relatives except brother at Litchfeld.
The clerk at the Grand Pacific hotel at
st. Cloud was Mortified when he discover
ed the dead body of ohm Mccarthy with his
throat cut from ear to ear, in his room at
the hotel. Mccarthy was an engineer and
had been on q spree for several weeks and
it is thought, committed the deed in fit of
drunken frenzy. He was q brother o. Mrs
Mary Bowman, who two years ago attempt
ed suicide by jumping from the Mississippi
river wagon bridge, and also OF Carrie Nc
Carthy, the somewhat noted courtesan who
made way with herself about tho 1st OF July
by taking laudanum at St Paul
John Trimble an innocent old farmer from
Glow, kittson county, was worked by con-
f1dance man in st. Paul On the way to the
depot he was aceosted by n man who claim
acquaintance and said he was on his way to
Pennsylvania. Trimble said he was going
to Pennsylvania too. The two went to the
train together and took the same seat. The
stranger finally got up and said he was 60
ing to get $500 out of his grip which was
checked in the baggage car In few min
utes he returned and told Trimble that they
would not let him have the grip before they
reached Chicago unless he put up $50 as se-
cRrity. He did not have quite enough, and
asked Trimble to help him out until he could
get the 5000. Trimble had $50, and he let
the stranger have $35,ofi it, and has not yet
seen the man.