Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Inc city elecuOn at Northf1eld resulted In the
| election of the anti-prohibition ticket
s. J. Kinkaid, an old settler of Minneapolis,
and Mrs. j. G. Tucker, wifeof DR.. Tucker, died
last week.
Harry Spriggs, popular variety actor and
vocalist died at boarding house in St. Paul,
| in great poverty.
l The fourth semi annual meeting of the Bee
union will be held at Hastings, commencing
May the 18th at o'clock.
The house and contents of Mr. M. B. Bron-
| son Of Deerfeld, steele county, were totally de-
stroyed by fire recently. Fully insured.
D. w. Carpenter, of Kasota, sold five calves
grade Durham-that averaged S73 pounds
| EACH They were only sixteen months old.
W. J. Jacobs died of paralysis, in Lake City,
at the residence of his son-in-law, Geo. Barton,
on last Saturday night, aged sixty three years.
Daniel Wilson, father Of Judge Wilson Of
Winona died in st. Louis last week, the re-
mains will be conveyed to Concord, Pennsylva-
mia, for interment
At the request of Senator Mcmillan, the su-
perintendent of the public documents of the
senate has sent to the state librarian 221 vol
umes of books for the state library.
Miss Hattie Sloan of Nebraska City, and Mr..
Edward E. Moore, of Moorehead Mimi, was
married at the Merchants hotel on Palm Sun
day. In the evening the happy couple left for
Moorhead.
Late Minnesota Patents: William H. Foote,
Minneapolis, dust collector; Thomas C. Robin
son, st. Paul, paddle Wheel H. B. Vincent,
Minneapolis, stove-pipe damper; J. s. Ware
| and W. s. Fleming, Pine Island, combined an
vii, vice and drill.
1 Prof. Peckham, late of the state university,
has struck it rich on the Pacific coast. He has
| been rendered the important position of con-
sulting chemist of the California Petroleum
company, at $5 900 per year, and will doubt
less accept
The board of directors of the Sauk Rapids
company-notice of the incorporation of which
was made about two months ago-held meet
ing in St Paul and organized by the election of
| Col III. Davidson president, and IL Williams
| secretary and treasurer.
Two prisoners-J. Hanbrick, confined on
| charge of horse stealing, and Parsons, one of
| the rioters-escaped from the St Peter jail
The sheriff's little son went in to give the pris-
| oners their supper, and these two set him to
| one side and passed out.
Mr.. J. T. Williams and Mr.. J. A. James Of
Mankato, have become established at Durunge,
Col, as dealers in real estate and mining prop
erty. These gentlemen, 30 well known in
Minnesota, are said to have "struck it rich' in
| their new sphere of operations.
Sheriff Dill, Of Winona county, has taken five
| prisoners to Saltwater: Edward Sass commit
ed for 1S months for larceny: Charles Parker,
| Is months, larceny; Joseph Blumer, Is months,
| larceny; John O'Cennor, Is months, larceny;
Washington Spes, years, murder in the first
| degree.
| DR.. D. F. Powell of Lanesboro, has been ap-
pointed to take the census of the Winnebe 60
Indians of Wisconsin and Nebraksa. This
work will be executed during the summer, so
as to enable the government to make an equita-
BILE distribution of the fund of 5000, 900 which
| was appropriated for their benefit by congress
some time since.
| Gov. c. G. Washburn is reported as improv-
l l.
ness for some time to come. Believing that a
foreign trip will prove beneficial, he will sail
| for Europe late in NAV next, intending to spend
some time in Germany He will not return to
Minneapolis before his departure.
DR.. G. s. Weber, homeopathic physician of
| large practice, and one of the oldest and most
| highly esteemed citizens of St Cloud, having q
bad cold, took dose of aconite by mistake and
died in few houls. He was conscious to the
last DR.. Weber was about fifty five years of
age, and leaves wife, two grown rons, and two
young daughters.
Henry A Wise, Richfeld, Hennepin county,
while in a fit of insanity, attempted to shoot
bay with knife. They had long talk with
with him then, and finally got him to put up his
knife, and one of them engaged him in con-
versation, while the others came up behind,
and, pinioning his arms, succeeded in binding
| him fast.
ttuOIlleT u1ulIIS LAS USSu lOIluSu Ill
| Winona, consisting of number of business
| men of La Crosse, together with gentlemen of
| Winona The articles of incorporation have
| been fled and the name adopted was the
Mountain King Mining company. The capital
| is 81 800 900. tits understood that this COM
pany is to operate in Suntey's basin, Idaho
| Territory.
Some time ago man named Charles Schmidt
was arrested at Detroit, in Becker county, by
the United States authorities, and brought down
to St. Paul on charge of selling liquor to In
dians. He was fined, and paid his fine, by the
sale of his tools at Detroit, but could not leave
the city for want of money, became discharged,
took poison was pumped out by DR.. Murphy,
and is now all right
Mr.. Angelo Newton died at Rochester of
Brght's disease. Mr.. Newton came to that
city from Brooklyn, n. Y, in 1868. He had
been associated with Judge Daley, of New
York city, in the law business, but came west
on account of his health. He has been en-
gagged in business in that city several years, but
for the last few years has owned and operated
several farms in Olmsted county.
At an election at Benson upon the proposition
to vote bonds in the sum of So, 900 fort the pur-
pose Of building bridges and maintain. a sys-
tenn of water works, 81, 900 of which is to be
given to parties who will erect a Touring mill
worth from ST. ZOO to $4,000 inside the
village limits, and keep sufficient supply of
water in the village tanks to extinguish fires,
was carried by IL majority, 40 votes being
cast for and SO against it
F. P. Foley, of Woodbury., Washington
county, is being sued, in St Paul, for money
expended for medical care for his son whom he
had expelled from his home. The boy was sick
at the time, it is said, and lily able to bear the
buffets of this worlds strife, 80 he succumbed,
and would have perished then and there, it Is
case, and taken him to his home where he gave
him good attention and medical care. This cost
money, and it lasted until December, when the
lad died.
Frank Thompson has been arrested and
brought to ST. Paul, on a charge of cutting logs
near where Rainy river emptes Into Lake of the
Woods. He had struck perfect bonanza, he
thought, as the timber cost him naught but the
cutting and rafting to Rat Portage, on the lake
mentioned, where the Canadian Pacific railway
for About 200, 900 feet Of timber was seized
and turned over to Major Ruffe, Chippewa In
dian agent
The constitutionality of the "act to enforce
the payment of the taxes which became de-
linquent in and prior to the year eighteen
hundred and seventy nine" having been ques
toned in certain quarters, the state auditor has
delayed issuing the proposed circular to county
auditors relating to the execution of this law un-
til the attorney general can examine the points
raised. AS soon as his decision ID made, if the
law IS held c0nsutuuonal, OF which there ls but
little doubt, the circular will be printed and
, distributed.
The store occupied by J. G.. Geraty, in Rose
mount, was destroyed by fire. Only a small
, part of the goods were saved There was 81
! 900 insurance on the goods. >Of this So, 600
was in the Tfadesmen's Insurance company of
New York, and ! ], 400 in the Northwestern OF
Milwaukee. The building belonged to Frank
Gullom and was insured for $780, A part OF
the store was occupied as dwelling by Mr.,
Geraty. The principal portion of his house.
hold furniture was destroyed, upon which there
was no insurance.
Under the award made by commission in
1878, the time has arrived when the state il
! compelled TO purchase all the machinery and
fixtures owned by Seymour, Sabin & Co., in the
state prison shops and on the grounds, the
price to be fixed by a commission made up al
follows: Gov. Pillsbury has selected O. A.
Pray of Minneapolis, to act for the state; Sey.
mour, Sabin & Co., have chosen G. N. Parker
of St Paul, as their representative, and these
two have decided upon Mr.. @. H. Robinson, Of
the firm Robinson and Cary, as the third mem.
ber of the commission.