The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-12-08
NORTHWEST New ) BUDGET
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF
IMPORTANT NEWS.
A Concise Account OF the Happen
ings of the Past Week In Min
nesota, North Dakota
Iowa and Wisoon-
Minnesota,

Fergus Falls, was accidently shot and kill
ed by her 4-year- old brother.
Frank Brown, the last victim of the Van
Sickle tragedy, at Frazee, died from the
effects OF his injuries.
A channel has been cut in the ice and the
ferry is running at Red Wing, but ii this
mild weather continues the ice will soon
break up 1t is now weakening.
Henry Driscoll was badly cut in drunk
en- row by Simon Myhre notorious char
acter at Northfield. Myhre is now in jail
awaiting trial.
A farmer named Daniel Lodin, living
seven miles east of Warren, hung himself
from ratter in his granary.
Neil Johnson, in charge of the govern
ment dam at Sandy Lake and we'll known
throughout the northern part G. the state,
died of pneumonia.
A threshing hand from Oak ota by the
name of Golden was run over by the cars
at Montevideo and killed. The home of
the deceased is unknown.
Charles Rynda, of Montgomery, was in
stantly killed by the bursting of wood
saw, piece of which was driven through
his brain. He was % years of age and
single.
The building of Luther Academy at AL
bert Lea is entirely too small to accommo-
date students who desire to attend. 1t is
probable ladies' hall will be put up be-
fore the next year.
While skating on the Vermillion near
Eggleston, George Trainor; telegraph
operator for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul road at that place, broke through the
ice and was drowned.
The large cooper shop owned by Cargill
Fall, at Houston, burned. The machin-
cry was totally destroyed, together with
about 500 ready made barrels. Loss, So, 000;
insurance 81, 200. They will rebuild.
Charles Fiedel an oiler in the St. Paul
Gas and Electric Works. met horrible
death by being caught in the machinery.
His body was almost crushed to pieces.
Deceased was % years old and leaves wife
and two children.
The trial of @. G. Smith, the engineer on
the 500, who was in the wreck at Thorson
on Oct. 9th of last year, came to an end
the other day at Glenwood. The Jury was
out only short time and brought in a
verdict of acquittal.
John Marvin, a Great Northern brake
man who by the breaking of a brake chain
was thrown from box car breaking his leg
some weeks ago. at st. Cloud has since died
Typhoid fever as result o. the accident
was the cause of his death. The railroad
company will be sued for damages.
Information has just reached Lake City of
the burning of the H. J. O'Neil elevator at
Zumbro Falls. The elevator was filled
will hor
work of an incendiary. Loss and insurance
are unknown.
The three boys who attempted to wreck
Great Northern passenger train last July,
near Lockhart, by piling ties upon the
track in three different places, were tried at
the last term of the district court held in
Ada, and found guilty The boys will be
sent to the state reformatory.
Martin Wick, an employee in the York
steel plant, was stuck by a short line train
near 1ronton and instantly killed. He
was with party of fellow workmen on
their way to the shops when the train over
took them hurled Wick violently to the
ground. The others cleared the track in
time to escape.
An unusually we'll equipped flour mill
has just been completed and put in eper-
alton at Lakefield. The proprietors, A. A.
Fosness and NJ. J. Milne, are planning an
extensive business. The mill has been
built at cost of $4,000 and has capacity
of 100 barrels per day.
A highway robbery occurred a short dis
lance from Mankato. Louis Herzberg, of
Decoria, was driving home, and a stranger
asked him for ride. The stranger struck
Mr.. Herzeberg on the side of the head, sew
ering the top of his right ear and bruising
his head. He fell to the roadside uncon-
scious, and the robber escaped with the
team.
While Gottleib Grandis was driving across
the railroad crossing at Redwing his wagon
was struck by westbound passenger train,
smashing the wagon into smithereens. The
driver was thrown a distance of Is feet.
While in the air he had presence of mind to
catch the top of a brake on freight car on
another track and was saved as by mira
Gle.
R. P. Grant, together with Oliver King
and two other men from Park Rapids
broke through the ice on Crow Wing lake,
some fifteen miles east of Park Rapids,
losing a span of horses and buggy. The
LueI Udfely cSCdpSu WIFI Gnolr own lives:
and up to present writing the buggy has
not been found.
John Peterson, of Kasson, stabbed Jean
Childs and man named McDonough, of
Mantorville, Dodge County, in Joseph
Afterwards saloon at Rochester, Childs
was stabbed in the right eye and McDo-
nough received a cash in the cheek while
assisting the former. Childs is in pre-
carious condition. The fight is said to be
the outcome of an old grudge cherished by
Peterson against Childs.
Jacob Zimmerman and Frank Seitz,
homesteaders near Tower, are each bereft
of wife under peculiar circumstances,
Jacob advertised for wife and comedy
German matron put in her appearance
and they were married. A few days later
another woman arrived from Iowa in re-
Spouse to the lad" and Jacob turned her
over to his friend. Four weeks ago Seitz
and Miss Minnie Keith were married in
Tower. Then came the denouement
Zimmerman unguardedly told his young
bride he had wife in the old country, and
she Indignantly left him: About the same
time the sheriff of Story County, Ia, ap-
peared in search of the woman who mar
ried Seitz, and she went wi h him. 1t ap-
pears that she had deserted husband and
three children in Iowa.