Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-12-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.

contributions for tho relief of the Conemara
settlers.
The Transcript estimates that 5000 deer
have been killed i'll tho vicinity Of Little Falls
the present season rD
Francis Witte, late of Hastings, committed
suicide at Fremont, Neb., on the 18th inst, by
shooting himself in the head.
draft for 800 from the Indians of Green
wood, Oak, was the first contribution from
abroad to Albert Lea College.
Latest Minnesota patents: H. j. Anderson,
Spring Valley, heater and ventilater; James NJ.
and r. P. Mathews, Owatonna, pump.
c. B. Chase, photographer Of Minneapolis,
who has been sick for five weeks past at the
Holland house, at Rockford, ILL.,, died of heart
disease.
Assistant Engineer Vanderwarker, of the
Hastings Il Dakota cutoff has been missing
sixteen days and not the faintest trace Of him
has been discovered.
Rev. w. d. Thomas, of Winona, preached
his farewell sermon at the Presbyterian church
to large congregation on Sunday evening last.
He leaves for La Crosse this week.
Two brothers named Moody, just returned
from hunting camp near Mile Lacs have
electrified Delano people with the report of
having slaughtered eighty deers and nine bears.
VIM. Macy, . brakeman, was horribly man.
gled at Rushford The cars were backing
when his foot caught in the frog and one leg
was crushed and the other broken in two places
causing his death
NJ T. Grattan, Esq, of Preston, general
agent Of Mccormick Bros, Of Chicago, for
southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa, has
handed IN his resignation after seventeen
years continuous service.
The grand jury of Scott county found two
bills of indictment against Herman Baumbager,
the present county treasurer, by appointment
last spring by the board of county commissioners,
for embezzling some $500 county funds.
Following are the latest post-office changes in
Minnesota: Established-Alice, kitson county,
Mrs. Agnes Hawley; Egby, Iowa county, Lewis
H. Shelly; Wykenham, Todd county, Joseph
Clarno. observation-disclosures. IeSuer county
Judge Cox has granted twenty-six divorces
the preSeut year. and refused eight, one of
which was carried to the supreme court, and
the decision of the district court reversed, max
ing twenty-seven divorces granted in the dis
trict within the year.
Big Stone Herald: There is movement on
foot to the northeast of this section to build a
railroad through the center of Todd county,
tapping the main line of the Northern Pacific at
Motley, making Osakis one point in its course to
the southwest.
The Marshall, Lyon County News thinks that
the tive men-Pagenkops and Weeks-who were
! found dead on the claim of the first named man
in Lincoln county during the latter part of
April last, were poisoned by DIR. Prudden, who
persisted in the late asylum disaster at st. Peter.
A fellow named Sylvester Z. Miner, famil-
iarly known as Dick Miner Is under arrest at
Winona on charge of bigamy, having been
married on the 2nd inst, to disreputable
woman named Rose Storms, alias Boyne, with
| whom he has been assoclatlng for few months
! past.
! Hon. ". ". McNair, counsel for n. B. Har-
| wood, has arrived home from New York, and
represents the creditors as likely to accept Har-
woods proposition if they find things about as
represented, in which case they are also willing
! tie exercise such lberality as will enable him to
| resume business
| Ovid Pinney the rich man, who died at Minne-
apolis several years ago. The new claimant ls
William H. Pinney, of Cincinnati, who became
estranged from his father many years ago, and
didn't hear of his death until some time after
| that event, and then only incidentally, through
a son-i;.-law in Nebraska.
Rev. W. C. Rice, of Red Wing, has presented
to Hamline university a complete set of the
Methodist Quarterly Review comprising sixty
one volumes, QS1S to 1880, and of which
there is said to be but three other complete sets
in the United States Rev. Mr.. Rice has spent
much time and money in this collection, and has
refused $500 for the set.
LIE Sueur has humble imitator of DR.. Tan
ner in the person Of Mr.. Richard Patten From
February l, 1877, to September l, this year,
Mr. Patten ate but one meal (dinner) per day.
Since September l he has eaten but one meal
in two days, or fifteen meals month. Mr.. P.
is sixty-four years old, and says that he feels
| first rate on his limited diet
In the safe of Gottleb Gluyck recently de,
ceased brewer of Minneapolis, was found a
number of mouldy and musty packages which
proved upon examination to be greenbacks and
| national bank notes amounting to the comfort
able sum of $4,000. The presence of &c
much money in neglected safe was not sus-
pected by any one, and Mr.. Gluyck had care
fully concealed the fact, even from his wife and
children.
Winslow Mally, who was found guilty at the
present term of the district court, at St Paul
for an assault with intent to rob and kill Anton
frisco, in the month of May last, was sentenced
by Judge Mckelvy to five years of hard labor
in the penitentiary this being the full extent Of
the law. Langdon, accomplice of Mally, who
escaped his just deserts by turning States evi
dence, skipped for parts unknown as soon as al
lowed to do so by the court.
The Sioux City depot at ST. Peters was en-
tered by burglars, and four trunks taken ou
to the stock-yard near by, where they were
forced open and ritled of their contents
Another trunk was broken open in the depot
gone through and left there. Of those take1
out, one belonged to Miss Casey of New Ulm
but as the robbers had no use for female ap
parel, its contents were comparatively undis
turbed. One of the others belonged to young
man from New Ulm, who states that contained
5000 i'll money when the thieves got it.