The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-03-03
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important Events
Of tho Week in tho Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, NOrtl
and South Dakota News ina
Nutshell,
MINNESOTA.

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A. c. Whitney, all old resident Homer,
while OH his way home early the other
morning dropped dead in his wagon.
L. e. Morse, one of the oldest settlers of
Redwood Falls, was taken to the asylum
at st. Peter. An attack of grip shattered
his mind.
Citizens of Saltwater protest to the board
of education against the employment of
nuns as teachers. The county authorities
are to be enioined from paying over school
funds.
City water works bonds o. Redwood Falls
have been sold to e. H. Rollins & Son, of
Concord, N H., at premium of$261.
Work on the plant will commence as soon
as the weather will permit.
A Worlds Fair meeting was held at
Adrian recently by Superintendent Hunt,
and committee appointed to raise $3.50.
Worthington has pledged Lii. amount
which finishes Noble county's quota
A Sauk Rapids Special says; Arthur
Jones was brought in from Milaea tonight
with three ribs broken and his body badly
crushed, caused by logs. 1t is feared he will
not live.
William Rice, of Winona, brakeman on
the way freight for the st. Paul road, had
his first two fingers on the right hand
crushed while making coupling at Lake
City recently.
Judge Ira B. Mills, judge of the Four
teen judicial district, has been requested hy
the county Alliance of Marshal county to
becom an Independent candidate for
Judge FOR this district. s-.
-Four of the eight new electric cars for the
electric street car line at st. Cloud have ar
rived. They have. all the latest improve
| ments. The line is nearly all built from
| Eleventh street south to car shops dis
tance ofthree miles and halt.
]. ]. Dayton, proprietor of the cold stor-
sge plant at Lake city. has purchased a
| number of lots on Washington street in this
| city, and will establish q creamery and
cheese factory at cost of $1,000. He has
| already secured the necessary machinery.
c. B. King, Duluth, will have charge OF
the new paper started at the new town of
| Merrill, in the Mesaba range. The owner
| of the paper is DIR. Fred Barrett, editor OF
the Vermillion Iron Journal, at Tower,
and the Ely Iron Home, at Ely.
Two human skeletons have been found in
a cellar being dug for Stauch's hotling
house, Clark street, in the heart of Albert
| Lea. It's supposed to have been the site
of an Indian burying ground, other skele-
tons having been found in the vicinity.
The Minneapolis g. Northern elevator at
| Dugdale was consumed by fire the other
night The cause of the fire is unknown,
and al all-papeFs,- books. etc, We're destroyed.
| 1t is reported that the elevator contained
| 10000 bushels of wheat
| The suit for criminal libel OF Henderson
in which s. A. Cooley, of lie Sneur, was
complainant against II. H. Moellering, oil
| the Henderson Independent, resulted after
long and interesting trial in favor of the
defendant.
A Faribault special says: A young man
who gave his name as James Freeman and
who has been at the county poor farm
about three weeks hung himself to tree
with a clothes line. He recently cut his
foot while chopping wood, but was nearly
we'll
Kish- misunderstanding sachem and
grand medicine seer of the Objibway of the
Mississippi, and repute to be one of the
oldest Indians living in this state, being
considered over 100 years old, is dying at
White Earth.
A large number of men and teams will
find abundance OF employment at Argyle
as soon as spring work begins, and labor
ers can find work at the present time by
| hiring to farmers for the season. There is
great scarcity of help here. Wages are
good and pay sure
Flora Ingersoll, formerly of Dodge Cen
ter, and halfsister of Mrs. James Christian,
with whom she was living at Northfield,
committed suicide by taking strychnine,
The deceased was about thirty years old
and unmarried She stated just before her
death that she was tired of living.
James Langhran, farmer living in Cot
touwood county near Heron Lake, was ar
rested few days ago at the instance of the
Omaha Railway company for alleged steal
ing OF some old bridge timber and railroad
ties, A trial was had which resulted in the
jury ac4uitting the prisoner
William Hutchinson, general grocery
merchant at Dundas, has purchased from a
leading dealer of Rice county, the valuable
trotting filly sire by Port Martins Grand
Mountain Morgan" four years old. The
animal shows 2:30 gait, and is valued at
So, 500 The intention is to trot her in the
2:30 class.
The Jail at Fosston was destroyed by
fire early the other morning. The fire
originated in prisoners cell. 1t is sup
posed that he set fire to the bed clothing.
The prisoner was taken out. His name i:
L, J. Hagen, and he was at one time pro.
minent citizen of Albert Lea, where he was
engaged in the drug business, but of late
years whiskey has gotten the better of him.