The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-10
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Since the original package house opened
up in Elk Point live tarantula has been
found in a bunch of bananas.
Prot John Voight. a Marion Junction
music teacher, has become insane and will
be sent to the asylum. 1t is thought with
proper treatment he will recover.
Four Idaho Mormons sentenced for adul-
terry, we're received at the Sioux Falls peni-
tertiary. Their sentences range from one
year to fifteen months.
The highest point on the Black Hills extern
sion OF the Burlington and Missouri road
will be at an altitude of Z, 100 feet above sea
level.
Ned Mcdonald, a Washington Springs
small boy, was so fond of green currants
that he poked his ears full OF them. A do c.
tor removed the currants with a pair of
tweezers, but the boy may lose his hearing.
A Sioux Falls workman engaged in rum
ming electric lot or wires accidentally touched
live wire the other day and was hurled to
the ground. His face turned as black as a
negroes, and it was by q m iracle he escaped
| death.
George W. Carpen ter, of Watertown, COM
mitted suicide in Chicago by taking an over
dose of morphine He went to Chicago in
seaach OF employment and failing to secure
work he became Respondent and took the
fatal dose. He was SO years of age, and
leaves n wife, who resides in Watertown.
The Elk Point Courier tells of good joke
on m an named Strong, living at Richland,
| who captured nine wolves and sold their
scalps in Iowa TO r 50 each, not knowing the
Dakota bounty had been raised from 81 to
| Sd, and thus beating imself out of SO. The
! Courier fails to note the good joke played
| by Strong on the taxpayers OF the Iowa
eorntX- where- the scalpps> were sold VINO
/ ought t o make in warm for him If they can
! get hold of him.
| A section OF cedar log, twenty-eight inches
! in diameter, taken from the upper Cheyenne
valley, is on exhibition at Pierre. The In
! dipns and settlers build their honses OF these
| logs along the Cheyenne, and at Noble they
are building bwo-story hotel Of this timber.
The deep cannoha it many places along this
valley contain thousands of cords of this
splendid timber that eLdures almost as long
as granite. The heaviest timbered region
lies in Sterling and Scobe y counties.
WISCONSIN
A runaway team dashed through the win
dow of a crowded barbershop at Ba raboo.
Matt Hoven and Thomas Morgan. OF
Madison have sold $4,000 worth OF ice to
Chicago parties.
A gang of tramps in camp near Fl orence
committed twelve highway robberies in a
week.
Over 2, 900 men are employed in cleari n g
the right-of.way of thcextensi on oftheOma-
ha road from NeilsviIle to Wausau.
The 14-year-old son of Patrick Casey, OF
Mansion, was drowned in the mil! pond al
that place. The body was recovered by div
ing.
Alexander Anderson, one of the Oldest col
ored men in the state whose home is at Ra
cine, was stricken with paralysis. He is 81
years old.
The Great Northern Railway has opened
the new telegraph lines of the Eastern Mime
sofa Railway company to the use of the
public between Duluth, West Superior and
Hinckley.
A peculiar case has come before the courts
at Superior. 1t is that OF Henry M. Lawson,
charged with stealing q gold watch, pair
OF diamond earrings an two rings rom his
wife
President Luling of the State Board Of
Supervision, says that the next Legislature
will be asked to appropriate money for sew
eral new institutions, reformatory and char
table What the board would like to have
is an intermediate prison, where offenders
too old for the Waukesha school and yet 90
young for confinement with the hardened
criminals of the state might be placed. They
also feel the need of an asylum for the. GRIM
inal insane, and an asylum for the feeble
minded.