Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-09-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.

large numDer OF DulldlnSsi IN enllnueapollS
were struck by lightning on--Friday' morning
the editorial chair of the radical to Mr.. John F.
Murphy.
John Miller of Carlston, Freeborn county,
lost four horses and buggy, from the visit of
a midnight robber
The Redwood county fair will be held at
Redwood Falls on Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept 2Sth and 29th.
The house of Gen. Sibley at St Paul was
entered on Tuesday night and $3.50 of silver
ware and $50 in money taken
| Mrs. Swift of st. Peter wife of Ex-Governor
Swift deceased, has had stroke of apoplexy.
She is in a dangerous condition.
The annual delegate convention of the Min
nesota Turner's will be held in New Ulm, COM
mencing Saturday, Sept Oath, next, and con-
tinuing over Sunday.
Upwards of 10000 barrels of flour were
shipped from Duluth in one day. The St Paul
& Duluth brings in on an average, 5000 par
rels per day from Minneapolis.
Robert Wear of Lake City has been appointed
first assistant to the professor of mathematics
in the normal schoolat Holly Springs, Miss,
and will enter upon the duties of that position
September 5.
Gov. Plllsbury has reappointed the following
named gentlemen as members of the state board
of equalization: w. Dawson, St Paul; E. W.
T'rask, Caledonia; Felix A Borer, LIE Sueur,
and H. s. Sjoberg, kirkhoven.
dispatch has been received from J. A.
Leonard of Rochester from Queens
town, saying he was eight days on the
water from New York to Queenstown. He is
appointed U. S. consul at Lieth, Scotland
The American Land and Colonization COM
pany of Scotland. limited, has purchased from
John B. Dumont and Jason c. Easton nearly
5000 acres of land in Redwood county, for
$40, ,241.34 This land consists of ferty eight
tracts of forty and eighty acres, located in diff
ferent towns.
Lightning struck the building corner of Eighth
street and Eleventh avenue north, Minneapolis,
owned by Mr.. Haley of Boston and occupied by
Abraham T. Salter, both US a grocery store and
dwelling shattering i and setting II on fire.
The building, valued at So, ,O0O was destroyed,
together with about ST., 900 worth of groceries
and 5000 in value of furniture :, Mr.. Salter
was insured to the amount of 81 900.
W. Pratts steam thresher and two stacks of
wheat were burned on the Monticello prairie,
Wright county. The tlresher was set between
the two stacks and had just got to work when
one of the stacks was set Oh fire by sparks from
the engine The operatives, in their frantic
endeavors to save the wheat, overlooked the
danger the thresher was in until too late to
draw it away from the burning stacks, and it
was, consumed, together with both stacks.
George McGowen, who recently shot An
drew Dick at Hartmann's saloon, Minneapolis,
lived at Brownsville, Mower county, two or
three years ago, but left the pace under
cloud, having attempted to collect a debt from
farmer by whom he had been employed hv
perforatlng the latter W th pitchfork. He was
known then as a lawless and ugly sort of -
pilgrim, and the people were generally afraid
of him. -...sh ...-..T u
The New Ulm relief committee has sent the
following sums to adjacent towns where dam
age was sustained from the cyclone: Town of
Wellington, $500; Cairo. $500; West Newton,
Nicollet county, $500; Severance, Sibley coun
$500; Phi Kaufenberg, Mulligan, $50: and
Nels Anderson, Burnstown, $3.50; Milford,
Brown county, $3.50. The committee has also
contracted house for Joseph Pfeiffer in the
latter named town.
Judge Wilkin of the district court at St
Paul, has rendered q decision of interest to
justices of the peace and judges generally. 1t
was in the matter of the application of Nick
Klinger for q writ of habeus corpus, remand
ing the former to the hands of the sheriff.
Judge Wilkin decided that municipal court has
mo power to suspend the sentence of a person
duly convicted in that court and that the exer-
else of such power is quasi assumption of
the exercise of the pardoning power, which,
under the constitution, is vested solely in the
executive of the state.
At Fairbault, during severe thunder storm,
the lightning struck the large barn in the rear
of the Barron house, it Immediately took fire,
and, with the sheds adjoining, was soon con-
sumed. The barn had been used by DR.. DALI
more for boarding and sale stable There
were ten horses in it at the time, eight of which
were saved. H. E. Baron owned the barn, and
estimates his loss at 81 200; insured for $500
in the Hartford. DIR. baltimore lost horse,
harnesses, etc, amounting to $500, no in
surance. Albert Roper, proprietor OF the Bar
ron house, lost about $500 worth of articles
stored in the barn. --. ... ..-.-.., :;
Several weeks ago dispatch appeared from
Washington that the postofice at Lanesboro,
Fillmore county, was delinquent for the quarter
ending June 80. Subsequently a dispatch
stated that this statement was without founda-
ton, but, as usual, this did not obtain general
circulation. 1t is sufficient to say that Mr. o. G.
Wall, the postmaster, holds an acknow-
ledgment from the auditor of the treasury for
the postoffice department, that his quarterly
account 'for the quarter ending juno Both,
1881, has been received, audited and found
correct" This s an authoritative denial of the
statement first published, and does justice to a
faithful officer.
= Hon. Thomas Simpson, president of Ghe
State Normal school at Winona, writes to r. G.
Judson, secretary of the State Agricultural So
ciety, that he will exhibit at the State fair, at
Rochester, some of the results of the State
Normal school at Winona, such as writing, free
hand drawing, map drawing, mechanical draw
ing, etc. also, some of the apparatus from the
departments of natural history and chemistry,
and some of the public charts in physiology;
also, some very interesting and attractive
specimens from the large museum (Which is un-
equaled west of the Alleghanies) and illustra-
tions from the art gallery, etc.
On the Goth inst, George Collett, of the town.
ship of Aldon, Freebora county, came to Albert
La q W mr. nf
Frank Metsaw of the same township, charging
him with an assault with an intent to commit
rape upon the person of Mrs. Collett, an old
lady about eighty-six years old. The warrant
was placed in the hands of Sheriff Shehan, who
with Deputy Sheriff Greene, went to the house
of the accused and arrested him and brought
him in and lodged him in jail On Monday he
was arranged before Justice Blackmer and was
held to bail in tho some of 81 900, which was
furnished, to appear at the next term of the
district court, to await the action of the grand
jury.
A division of the order of railway Gonduc
tors was arranged at St Paul last,week There
were forty seven charter membcrs present
from northwestern railways, and of these TWEEN
ty-eishti were inGucted into the workings of the
order, and the rest to be afterwards initiated
by the new division officers. The order is a
secret one, but the following officers, yesterday
chosen, are made public: Chief conductor,
James A. Mitchell, s. p & d. assistant chief
conductor, M. Brinkerhoff, Northern Pacific;
secretary and treasurer, W. Il. Doyle, North
efn Pacific; senior conductor of ceremonies,
G. II. jerks, st. p, NJ & NJ; Junior conductor
of ceremonies, Nicholas Bouce, st. p, M. G.
NJ. inside sentinel, II. Molloy, st. P, M. M. !;
outside sentinel, D. r. Dixon, St P, M. & NJ.
40 Robert COllyer.
From Potter's American Monthly. -
DO you know Bob Collyer, si1 ?" famil-
iarly inquired one Sunday evening passen-
ger of another in north side, Chicago
stteet-car affew years since. i k
The querists was an animated country
man spending the Sabbath in the city; and
reckless how the rest Of the day spun
tthrough his fingers, at the hour of worship
}he twas on the Jealous hunt for religious
curiosities. He recognized the garb land
air of the city about his fellow passenger,
and inferred that he, of course, would
know something of MI. Collyer.
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