Morris tribune., 1881-06-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Items by Mail and Telegraph.

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The citizens of Austin last week cast 2SS
votes in favor of railroad bonds, and not one
against
M. W. Glenn & CO.. boiler works, and r. R.
Bryants and Douglass q Halls machine shops
at Minneapolis were destroyed by fire last Sat-
urday evening.
J. Z. Price of Eyota sheared 500 sheep av-
erag1ng elght pounds of wool each. He has cut
ITO acres of clover and has seventy acres of
| clover and eighty acres of timothy to cut.
The closing exercisesat st. Mary's school,
Farlbault, on Wednesday, were very interest
ing and largely attended. The graduates were
Helen 8. Peabody, Jessie s. Card. Mary M.
Mitchell. and Annice Il. Williston.
girl named Kaplin was killed by the cars
| near Owatonna. She was on the track. The
train came over small rise when she was dis
covered just ahead, and every effort made TO
warn her and stop the train, but in vain.
Rev. Mr. Kiehle, Of the First Presbyterian
church, Saltwater, has resigned. and will go to
the Calvary church, in Milwaukee
Mr.. Ed. Stevens, who was deputy auditor
and treasurer of Fillmore county for the last
ten or twelve years, is about to take position
with Hart & Norton at Winona.
Master Alfred, the fourteen -year-old son of
Dr. Benjamin of Hutchinson, was drowned in
the river near that point while in bathing. He
got beyond his DEPTH lost his presence Of mind
and was strapgled before his companions could
rescue him.
At Minneapolis district court, Julia Smith
was granted decree of divorce from l. J..
Smith, and the right to resume her maiden
| name of Desjardin. They were married last
| October, and defendant as convicted in Feb
ruary of forgery, and sentenced to Saltwater.
A very eventful experience in married life for a
| girl of seventeen.
A party of 129 Scandina vians arrived in st
Paul Monday, bound for Fergus Falls, Alexan-
| dria, Ashby, Ada, Crookston and other points
in the Red River valley. The arrival of these
people is one of the results of the work of the
agents of the ST. Paul g. Manitoba company
| sent to the old country,
'Prof." Benjamin F. Stanley, the Cottage
| Grove school teacher, and married man, who
| seduced one of his pupils, Miss Julia Bolles,
| had his trial at Saltwater recently, and was
| convicted. When the prisoner was conducted
back to the Jail he was met at the door by his
| wife, and the scene was very affectisg.
| BY thesterm of Saturday night Mr.. and Mrs.
Chaffee, living in the town of Lura, Fairbault
county, was killed by the blowing down of their
house. The barn of l. J. Praber, in the same
town, was unroofed, burying his daughter in
the ruins. She was taken out in an uncon-
scious condition, and the injury may prove
fatal.
Col Justus j. Mccarthy formerly resident
Of St. Paul recently died in Washington. In
the Mexican war he was major of the noted
Tenth New York Regiment, in which Col Alex
| ander Wiikin, Minnesota's hero, was captain.
In the spring of 1852 Col. Mccarthy came to
st. Paul, and during his residence was in the
law business, in partnership with Dewitt G.
Cooley.
Mr.. Ralph Walters, head miller at Geo. F.
| Strait & Co.'S MILL at Shakopee was seriously if
not mortally injured by being crushed under
the heavy iron smoke stack. Mr.. Walters was
| directing the raising Of the stack, blown down
| in last Saturdays storm, when, by the giving
away of some ropes or tackle, the stack, weigh
| ing about ton, fell upon him, doubling him up
80 that his spine was severely injured.
The thirteenth Minnesota Turner festival
will be held in Minneapolis on the 18th, 18th,
| 10th and 18th days of July, and the West
Minneapolis Turn Verein has appointed COM
| mittee to make all necessary preparations for
the event. The Turner societies OF Minnesota
and Wisconsin, and the class from Milwaukee,
which earned such brilliant laurels at Frank
fort on-the-M Main. have been invited to attend
the festival
Levi Frankenfeld, of Henderson, was found
dead in barn, where he had gone to get a team
re ,dy to take q trip in the country for Fl. Poeh-
ler & Co. 1t 10 supposed his death was caused
by stroke of apoplexy. He has always been
q strong. healthy malI. and his sudden death is
quite shock to the citizens who have always
held him in high esteem. He was brother-in-
law of Hon. Henry Poehler, and brother of
the Frankenfelds of Henderson.
At the first term of district court for Big
Stone county, at Ortonville, no case of interest
was on the docket with the exception, perhaps,
of that of theState VS.. Clara Ewes, who has been
indicted for cohabiting with Frank Ewes, for
merly her husband They procured a divorce
some three years ago, in order that ca ch might
enjoy the benefit of pre- -emption and timber
culture acts, and have lived in the same house
ever since. A few days ago they were married
again. tsa
| Hamline University Commencement.