Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
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MINNESOTA NEWS.

Mrs. Stacy, mother of Hon. J. n. Stacy, died
at the residence of the latter, in Monticello
The house of Mr. Drake in Canisteo Dodge
county, was destroyed by fire on last Wednes-
day morning.
Mrs. Emerson, a laundress at Anoka, has re-
Gently fallen heir to large fortune by the death
of relative in Canada.
The members of the Irish land league in St.
Paul have forwarded to Dublin direct g1O in
money, for the benefit of the league.
| Rev. j. W. Bradshaw, pastor of the Congre-
| gatonal church. was presented with 800
| gold watch on Christmas evening by his parish
| ioners.
| Mr.. James G. Sumner, aged seventy three
| years, resident of Little Falls, Mimi, died
| suddenly of heart disease at the residence OF
his father, Mr.. Tyler Sumner, at Minneapolis.
About 100 feet of Main street, Minneapolis,
over tunnel, sunk on Thursday evening" Ii. G.
Crosswell's Touring mill was wrecked, and fears
are entertained for the great Pillsbury a Mill
| The total membership of protestant churches
| in Minneapolis is about D, 5,12l; catholic, 7, 800;
and the total value of church property i'll that
city, as appraised by the county board, is
1856, $40.
| The building improvements at Sauk Center
| for 1880 are S57 500. The total railway
freight business was y, 100000 pounds, and
| the freight, passenger, telegraph and express
tariffs foot up $42, 200.
4ul. IlcuIy NJ CIOMcII anu D1lsS IICleIl NTDsS,
| daughter of DR.. E. W. Cross Of Rochester, were
married recently, by Rev J. W. Bradley
| Among the gifts to the bride was purse of
5000 from her father.
The youngest child of F. 3. Clarke, general
traffic manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha line, died at ThomasvilIe,
Fla, last Thursday, where the family have
been sojourning for the past two or three
| weeks.
John Hughes of Moose Lake, who recently
had his arm fractured by falling tree, and was
| subsequently brought to st. JOseph's hospital,
| St Paul, has suffered aInputation Of the arm at
the shoulder joint, owing to the fact that morti-
| tication had set in.
R. T. Branvold, retail dry goods and grocery
| merchant, at Waseca has made a general as
| signment to Oliver Peterson, of Waseca. Liza
bilities reported at 81 4, 900, of which consid-
cradle is due his brother y. 7. Brandvold, OF
Faribault. Assets not yet ascertained
| Mrs. Quentin Campbell, wife Of a newspa-
per man, formerly of St Paul, has been di-
vorced from her husband, on the ground OF
| fraud and misrepresentation on the part Of
Campbell in procuring the st Paul lady 10
marry him. He now resides at Sioux City.
The Tribune records a disastrous fire a;
| Wadena on Tuesday night, by which the Central
| house. a building valued at 81, 600, was entire
| ly destroyed The house was insured for 81
| 100. The same evening, at about O'Clock,
Barwise's shingle mill burned, with q loss OF
| $500; no insurance.
The following named persons were elected
| officers of the FreeboTn County Teachers assO-
| citation, for the ensuing year: President. Henry
| Thurston; vice president, Cassie Barron; sec
retary, Mary J. Burke: treasurer ROanna Chal-
| lis; librarian Cassie Barron The next meet
ing will be on the Sth of January 1881.
Rev. g. NJ Wilkins was brought before Jus
uce Hunter, at Faribault, and fined So and
| costs, on charge OF assault upon Mr. David
Wood, of the town of Walcott, and brother of
DR.. Geo. W. Wood, OF Faribault The difficulty
| arose from settlement between the parties in
reference to the products of the farm owned by
the former, of which the latter is the tenant.
The sale of the Winona Republican establish
ment heretofore announced to take place, has
been indefinitely postponed by private negotia-
ton satisfactorily TO all parties concerned The
one-third interest of Mr.. G. \. Dye has been
purchased by Mr.. Sinclair, the senior member
of the present firm, by whom, i'll connection
with his remaining business associate, the Re-
publican will continue to be published.
The new and splendid gymnasium of the
Shattuck school at Faribault, was dedicated
with grand ball. 1t is magnificent structure.
covering ground space of 60x1GO feet, three
stories in height, including the basement, and
its walls are of solid blue limestone, two and
one-half feet thick in the basement, two feet
two inches thick in the second story, and two
feet in the third story, with partition walls nu-
merous and equally substantial
The grand jury at st Peter have been in
vestigating the burning of the hospital, and that
somebody was guilty of negligence in allowing
the insane patient, Ben Hazleton, to be out Of
his room on the night of the fire, especially as
he had quite recently threatened to burn the
building. This is the patient who was arrested
on the supposition that he had set fire to the
building. The grand jury say the hospital Off
GERS did all they could after the fire was ,iscov-
cred to save the lives of patients and exi lSuish
. the fire They find, also, that there We're no
ladders in or about the hospital wherewith to
reach the third story.
Redwood Gazette: Thomas Brady, living over
in Renville heard racket proceeding from his
stables one night last week, and got mp to see
: about it He encountered a man leading
away one of his finest horses, and went for and
overpowered him. According TO the best &C
count we have, colt which was loose in the
stable, got frightened and jumped upon the
struggling men in such way as to disable Bra
dy and give the horse-thief an advantage, OF
which he availed himself by shooting Brady
T through the mouth and cutting the side of his
, head with knife or ether weapon According
to one account, there were two or three men il
the attacking party Brady charges one OF his
neighbors with the crime.