The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-09-10
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in q
Nutshell,
MINNIE sofa


Michael Marwitz, an old man, suicided
at Dodge Center by hanging.
The Duluth Tribune has a $35, 900 libel
suit, brought by A. H. Truax & Co.
The first Scandinavian grand lodge IA
America was organized at Minneapolis.
The new hospital building of the Norwe-
gian Lutheran Deaconesses, at Minneapolis,
was dedicated.
Andrew Carlson fell from the Linton ele-
yator at Minneapolis, sustaining injuries
that proved fatal. ,sz II
Marie Fergstad and Gustav G. Kindseth,
teller at the Scandia Bank at Minneapolis,
were married.
Minnesotas' Worlds Fair commissioners
declare $780, 600 to be too small for a good
exhibit, and Col. Reeves threatens to
resign.
Miss May Pierce, daughter of ex-senator
G. A. Pierce and Rev. Robert Inglis, of
Charlottesville, Ind, were married at Min
neapolis.
John Maguren, who has been on trial at
st. Cloud for rape committed short time
ago at Melrose, was bound over to the De-
cember term of court.
Six prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Crookston the other night. Completely of
the other prisoners enabled the escape to be
concealed 36 hours.
Thecontract for building the new city
hospital building at Saltwater was let to
Sven Berglund for $5, 728.
mining man and explorer, of Duluth,
attempted suicide by shooting at Tower
while intoxicated.
Misses Marian III. Seeley, Edna K.
Smith and Alice A. German graduated
from the training school for nurses of St.
Anthony's Hospital at Minneapolis.
w. Mccullough sustained broken leg
and other injuries while riding down in an
elevator at the Albion building at st. Paul.
The fastenings of the elevator broke and it
fell twenty feet.
issues the Svenska Folkets Tidning at
Minneapolis, has been sued for $4,000
damage for an alleged ibelous statement
regarding Gus Holm, book dealer.
Ground has been broken for the founda-
ton for the new county court house at
Slayton. Lock & Mcleod of Minneapolis
are the builders. It is to be completed by
Jnly 1, 1891.
G. M. George of St. Paul has leased the
opera house at Redwing for one year from
Sept. 8, 1891, and will operate it in connec-
ton with the Mankato house, leased by his
brother, in a new tn eatrical circuit.
Thirty acres of uncut wheat belonging to
the Grandin and E. J. Clark forms near
Georgetown were burned by an accidental
fire. A separator burned and the fire ran
through the stubble.
Tie two sections of freight train on the
Eastern Minnesota collided near Princeton
and four men severely injured. They were:
Conductor Young Brakeman Cardle, Colin
Campbell, and James Baker, of Milaca.
J. W. Jennison, brakeman, has brought
claim against the city ofWinona for 81, 600
While on top of a freight car on the Wi
mona & st. Peter track he had been knock
ed down by an electric light wire.
An unknown man threw himselfi in front
of a short line train at Hazelwood near
Duluth and was horribly mangled. He
was apparently 80 years old, roughly dress
ed and barefooted.
BY the accidental discharge of gun a
q young man named Williams, was fatally
injured at Sleepv Eve. His neck. face and