Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-05-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.


One hundred and four wolves were captured
in Fillmore county, costing the county $72S.
Atthe Houston county district court at Gale
donia, there was only one criminal case and
that was Insignificant
A little daughter Of George W. Finney, of
Little Falls, was badly burned by her clothing
catching fire, but she will recover.
| The marriage of DR.. II. L. Crittenden and
Miss Nellie A. Orr was solemnized at Northield,
at All Saints church, in presence of large
number of friends of the contracting parties
While attempting to cross the Chippewa riv-
er few miles north of Clontarf, Swift county,
the boat was capsized and out of a party of five
Mrs. Cullen and a three year old son were
drowned. Both bodies were recovered.
| Mr.. Donald Grant, of Faribault, Mimi, has
arrived at Winnepeg, with large number of
on the new curves of the Canadian Pacific rail
road, to effect junction with the new Louise
bridge.
| In Wilmont, Mobiles county, little son of
Luzi Schneider picked up double -barreled gun
that was standing outside of the door, and cock
ed it, when it went off shooting his little six
year-old sister, who will loose her arm in con-
sequence.
George c. Harding, editor of the indianapolis
Saturday Review, is dead. Mr.. Harding is
known in Minnesota as the journalist who pur-
chased the Lanesboro Journal, and changed it's
name to Harding's Herald, and published an
| Indianapolis edition.
Never in the history of st. Paul was there
such big building boom as at the present
time. Besides hundreds Of new private resi-
dences of improved style of architecture, the
number of elegant and costly business blocks
now IN course of erection, surpasses anything
ever witnessed.
Mr.. E. W. Durant, who has just returned to
saltwater, from down the river, reports bust
ness IN the log line quite dull on account of the
high water. Many Of the mills are unable to
run, and none care to buy logs until the water
recedes sufficiently to enable them to care for
them more readily
Sank Centre Herald John R. Howard went
DOWN to St. Paul recently for the purpose of
closing up his legislative work He has COM
pleted the index of the journal, and finds that
sion. His index fills three hundred pages of
closely written matter, and is more than fifty
per cent larger than that Of any previous.
On Thursday morning Mr.. Christoph Mer-
tens, an old and highly esteemed resident of
Jordan, committed suicide by cutting his throat
with the small blade eff large pocket knife,
severving both jugular veins and'the windpipe.
His mind had become unsettled by suffering
| from asthma Deceased was seventy four years
DID, aud leaves large family of children in
good circumstances.
| VIM. Ross, who was arrested in La Crosse for
forging the names of Houston county farmers
to premium notes in the st. Paul Fire and Ma
Ross had admitted the forgeres, and seemed
willing to submit to his punishment, but his
| plea of not guilty put the state to the proofs
and these weuld show that the offense was
committed in Winona county. Mr.. O'Brien, the
city attorney, refused to incur the expense of a
trial with certainty of defeat.
A man named Chillet Hoffman was murdered
| las 10 VITO hxy
one Herman Trautsch Hoffman received one
cut in the throat, severing the artery entirely
and two thirds of the windpipe. The cash in
his breast was about an inch and half wide
and six inches deep, reaching through both
lungs Besides this he received two shots in
| the back. His hand was cut badly, which was
done by grasping the knife. The knife was one
that Trautsch had made and the blade was
about six inches long. After the murder
Trautsch proposed to give himself up but final
ly escaped.
A runaway couple from Falrbault registered
Paul train. The gentleman ordered supper for
two, clergyman and the bridal chamber. All
these demands were complied with, but the
clergyman declined to tie the knot on the ground
that the lady did not appear to be of lawful age
Justice Knowles was finally taken from his vir-
tuous couch, and after requesting both to make
oath that they were Of lawful age, he tied the
oonnubial slipnoose to the entire satisfaction
of the contracting parties They gave their
names as Charles s. Bordnard and Edith Gas
kell, both of Falrbault; he timer and she
a student They started for home by train the
next morning.
A friend of G. L. Malcolm of St. Peter re-
Gently wrote him from London to secure, if
possible, refusal of a tract of land comprising
from 100, 900 to 200. 900 acres in Minnesota,
for the purpose of locating an English colony
upon it. Mr.. Malcolm found it difficult to find
so large body of land that would be likely to
meet the requirements of the proposed colony,
but the most desirable opportunity that he has
yet learned of is on the line of the Sioux City
| road in Watonwan, Cottonwood and Martin
counties Mr. Martin was requested to sscable''
the result of his negotiations, which he did,
stating that no refusal could be obtained, and
advised that the English parties send some au-
thorized person over here to make the pur-
chase.