The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-05-18
Saturday, May 13.

U. Steber died at Winona from the
results OF a kick from horse. Deceased
was forty-seVen years of age. He leaves
o wife and seven children.
August Kroeger, a German. aged sav-
enty, was found dead in a we'll Mt Ken
wood Park, Duluth. He has been de-
spondent, and committed suicide doubt
less.
A freight wreck occurred on the Cam
non Valley branch of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis at Faribault A switch had
been left open and the freight train ran
into it and down an embankment. The
engineer and fireman both jumped, and
no one was hurt.
An elevator at Johnson, a station be-
tween Graceville and Morris, was totally
destroyed with its contents. 1t was the
property of Stair, Christensen & Case
of Minneapolis Some railroad cars of
the Great Northern were also destroyed.
The organization of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank of Wadena was effected by
the election of the board of directors and
officers. Directors are Isaac Hazlett, J.
J. Meyer, John Howe, A. G. Broker,
Charles Erickson, Frank Coon and j. L.
Barnes.
Henry Kinsey vas found hanging dead
in his barn at LIE Sueur. No reason is
assigned for the act. In his pocket was
a memorandum saying whom he wishes
to settle up his affairs. Deceased was
sixty-two years old, and came to LIE Sueur
in 1856.
A very sensational divorce case is on
trial in the district court at Fergus Falls.
The plaintiff is DIR. E. Holbrook, one of
the oldest doctors there. He alleges
adultery as the ground. and claims that
Dr. E. I. Miller is the man who has led
his young wife astray.
Henry Schelgreen's four=year-old son is
supposed to have been drowned in Sauk
Rapids last evening. The father and elder
brother were fishing from the bank. The
boy started from the brother to the father
and this was the last seen of him. No
one saw him fall into the water or heard
a scream, but the boy cannot be found,
nor his body been discovered,
Billie Butler of Aneka, coloFed. came
to st. Cloud yesterday with a white wife.
He got q hack and drove to the house
where q stepdaughter is employed as
housemaid. He walked in, picked up
the girl in his arms, drove away with her
and took her home. The girl is nearly
eighteen, and left home because her
mother, who is divorced from her father,
has twice since married negroes, and
she found life unbearable in such home
Her father sent her money to get away.
In the district court, by Judge Lewis,
Fred Ekstein was sentenced to two years
and three months at Saltwater for as
sault in the second degree. George
Brown was sentenced to the reformatory
at st. Cloud for grand larceny in the
second degree. ]. e. VALLEY got thirty
days in the county Jail for selling mort
gagged property. Elora Pearson was given
a divorce fFem William Pearson, Mrs,
Hscker was given divorce from George
HeckeF.
The hardest lain storm that has been
known for years, accompanied by high
winds, thunder and lightning, struck
Slayton recently, blowing down outhouses
and demolishing things generally. divers
Great Eastern circus was showing here,
| and the storm struck the tent, swapping
| poles and tearing canvas. But for the
| quick work of the canvasmen 1t would
have resulted fatally, but, save few
slight bruises. every one escSne6. The
canvas, however, iss utterly demolished.