The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-12-29
Iowa.

Des Moines will invest $500, 900 in public
parks.
William Ryan, SO years old, was frozen
to death, while intoxicated, near Lyons.
Rufus E. Graves, the Dubuque bank pres
ident was convicted of fraudulent banking
operations.
The Mississippi river at Keokuk is frozen
over. Steamboat traffic is absolutely sus-
pended from st. Louis to st. Paul.
Kimball C Champ, the Council Bluffs,
bankers, charged with embezzlement were
acquitted.
Edgar Moulton, of Cedar Rapids, conf.
Dental clerk OF Superintendent Riser, oil
the Chicago & North Western Railway,
committed suicide.
w. e. Walker, a travelling man for the
Cottage Organ Company, committed sui
eide at Perry, by taking morphine. His
home is in Des Moines.
Gov. Bots has appointed n B. Hyatt of
Webster City, judge of the Eleventh Judi
cial district in place of J. L Stevens, Of
Ames, resigned.
Rev. DR.. T. L. Patterson, of Mason City
died at his home His illness was OF
short duration, resulting from erysipelas OF
the head, which finally settled in his lungs
and was the immediate cause of his death.
William Ryan, who worked on farm
near Bryant, came to Clinton recently and
got drunk. He started to walk home at a
late hour. Not arriving, search was made
and his body was found in the hedge about
O mile from here. frozen to death.
The will of the late DR.. Donnelly was
filed for probate, at Upton, leaving all his
property to two brothers and three chill
dren. Mrs. Donnelly Immediately began
sos, 900 is involved and the will shuts off
her dover.
The breach of promise case at Atlantic
which attained so much notoriety, when
called for trial, was settled Potham paying
$4,000.
A passenger train on the Chicago Great
Western railroad near Des Moines came in
to collision with a freight train within a
rod of long, high trestle, James Bolen, of
Kalamazoo, Mich, was seriously hurt
The other passengers and the trainmen es-
capped with bruises.
The decision of the railroad commission
ers in the Oskaloosa viaduct case was made
public. The city of Oskaloosa complained
that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and
Burlington & Western crossings impeded
travel and asked that viaduct be ordered
constructed under the crossings. The COM
plant is dismissed as the Board of Railroad
Commissioners contend they have no 1ur-
isdiction to open streets in incorporated
cities.
A freight train was wrecked at Waucoma
and Elk cars loaded with coal were smashed
in the ditch. The entire train Is off the
track. A broken rail was the cause The
track is torn up and ties cut off for 800 feet.
No one was hurt.
A Des Moipes special says: The Prohibit
tionists assert that Mayor Lane has given
assurance that he will veto thu disorderly
house ordinance which has passed its third
reading in the city council. This Is denied
by others who favor the new ordinance.
Enough aldermen are pledged to pass il on
o final vote but not over the mayors veto.
What Mayor Lane will do bthe chief sub
ject ofinterest now. The ultra Prohibition
lists are greatly excited.
VIM. Herman, tailor, was struck in the
head with piece of board in the hands OF
Charles Bittinger, in a drunken row at Fl.
Dodge. Herman is in preoapious con-
dition with small hopes for his recovery
Phillips Miller assisted Bittinger by kick
Ing Herman while down. Both men are
under arrest.