Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.

G. G. Hawley, pioneer settler of ChatHeld,
is dead.
Henry Davis of La Crescent, Houston county
was drowned near La Crosse.
An Episcopal church, (All Saints) 80 by So
has been Consecrated at Howard Lake.
Allen Whitman, assistant state examiner, re.
ports that the Wright county books are in per.
feet order
Manager Willard Of the trans Continental
railway sends $4,000 to New Ulm collected
through his personal solicitation in New York.
The Illinois contribution to the State library
of law reports, statutes and executive docu-
ments numbers $50 volumes, and will prove Q
valuable acquisition.
Excursions of from 500 to !, 900 people are
of almost nightly occurrence from St Paul tc
Minnetonka lake. Sailing, music, and hops
constitute the entertainment.
Rev. G. II. Davis, for the past three year;
pastor Of st. Johns Episcopal church, at St
Cloud will remove to Fairbault with his family
on or about the 3Oth inst.
The wedding of Mr.. Herman Stookenstrom,
Office editor of the Skafferep, the Swedish
weekly, and Miss Mary A. Nelson. daughter of
ID. Nelson, ESQ.,, was solemnized. at the
first Swedish Evangelical Luthern church, st.
Paul.
The adjutant general has received from the
Moorhead Rifles notification of the election of
officers as follows: Captain, Benz. B. Gurley,
vice, Capt. Sloggy, resigned; first lieutenant,
Walt W. Partridge, vice Gusley, promoted
second lieutenant, ALI. J. Smith, vice Partridge,
promoted.
waterspout deluged Lakeview, Lake
county Ore, an unbroken stream Of water
pouring from the clouds for nearly thirty
minutes. The loss of life and property has not
vet been ascertained on account of the con-
f11ai oain rnI or,If fhn of fho
scene from telegraph facilities.
In the case of Edwin Lawlor, covicted at Wi
mona at the October term of the district court,
1880, of the manslaughter Of James Malone,
on July 27, 1879, and sentenced to state g
prison for five years, the supreme court has af-
frmed the judgement and ordered the sentence
to be carried into execution. Pending this de-
cision Lawlor has been confined in tile jail at
Winona.
At Ottawa, LIE Sueur county, James Weth-
ereu widower aged 20, and Margaret
Dougherty widow aged so, were married.
The roughs started a charaivari at IL p. M,
which lasted till two o'clock in the morning
The mob then broke in the door and demanded
money, which was refused. The old man beat
them off and followed them out. At daylight
his dead body was found by the road, his head
crushed.
Owing to the failure of the collectors for New
Ulm sufferers to report, the total amount COL
lected at Chicago cannot be definitely ascer-
tanned. The amounts already forwarded to
New Ulm reach 81, 600, which do not include q
large number of private donations. The COM
mittee on concert report that the net profits from
the concert Friday evening will reach $500.
The total amount collected by the committee
up to date is estimated at $4,000.
The singular news came from Washington
that Secretary Kirkwood has asked the resigna-
ton of Mr. Ruffee, agent for the Chlppewas,
because he could not answer the secretary's
conundrum as to the valuation of the lands to
be overhowed by the Lake Winnibigosish
reservoir-and that Messrs. John De Laittre
of Minneapolis, Thomas Simpson of Winona
and Mr. Marrel of the Indian Office are to be
sent on the same wild goose chase.
Freddie W. Van Patten, son of A. s. Van
Patten left his home in Cambria, Blue Earth
Co., Mimi, on the 22nd of last June, and has
not been heard from since the day he left He
was seventeen years old, about five feet eight
inches high, blue eyes and dark brown hair.
All search and inquiry, SO far, have been in
vain. Any information leading to his discov-
distressed parents Address. A. s. Van Patten,
Courtland, Nicollet Co., MINI.
GOV. Plllsbury has received contribution
of 500 from S. A. Quale, of Eau Claire, Wis,
to be applied for the benefit of the cyclone suf-
ferers at West Newton, Nicollet county, de-
wasted at the same time as New Ulm In his
letter Of transmission enclosing the $50, Mr..
Quale says: s'This is in fulfllment Of prom
ise solemnly made Immediately after the at
temp ed murder of tho beloved president O"
these great United States, that in case :,
should get we'll and be entirely out of dan,
said sum should be used for the benefit of some
really needy and deserving person. The pres
ident having had relapse, threatening in the
extreme, have waited until this time in order
to be fully satisfied of his complete recovery,
which, happily for the country's good, is sure
ly expected"
reporter who visits the capitol every day
for state news says that Gov. Pillsbury is called
upon to act in loco PARENTS, in so far as giving
advice, at least, is concerned in more ways than
the general public ever wots Of Farmers
whose crops do not turn out well; merchants,
in whose tills money is far from plentiful; law
yers sans briefs and doctors lacking patients;
elergymen seeking charge and laborers
place to work-these, and hundreds of others
write and ask him, not only advice, but assist
ance, varying the demand according to the
cheek or needs of the writer. This may be all
we'll enough, but when one fellow asks that
in expectancy Of an increase to the family and
his excellency must furnish the article, the pa
terual business seems likely to be run into the
ground'a trife. While the reporter was in the
gubernatorial Offices, a letter was reed from a
gentleman in Marshall, Lyon county, setting
forth that glanders was becoming very preva-
lent among the horses in that region and naive
ly suggesting that the governor send "vet'
up there at once to look after the matter.