Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
STATE NEWS.

| Alexandria has 'Rod and Gul
Cub"
Red Lake Falls is driving piles for
mill race.
Kasota and st. Peter report a freigh
blockade.
The Aitkin Age, No. |, Vol. |, ap
! pears this week.
The Winona Daily Tribune has sus
pended publication.
The Zumbrota Free Press has sus.
pended publication.
A post of the Grand Army has been
organized at Waseka.
Rochester has made out her pro-
gramme for July 4th.
Bismark greenhouses are furnishing
new radishes and lettuce.
Horse thieves are at work in the
southern part of the state.
A Swede was lynched at Garfield
recently for jumping a claim.
a Creamery has been started at Ma
rine Mills, Washington county.
Duluth will soon gaze on the foun-
dation of her first Touring mill.
There is a movement on foot to in
corporate the village of Plainview.
The pile driving for the new bridge
at Fergus Falls is now completed.
The tug boats in the Duluth harbor
are actively preparing for the coming
season.
The state apportionment of school
funds for March is on the basis of 43
cents to each pupil.
Sauk Center has organized foundry
and machine shop company, with
capital stock of $4,000.
Viola farmers meet once week, at
the town hall, to discuss practical
methods of farming.
Princeton carried the question of
$50, 900 bonds for court house and jail,
by majority of six votes.
Fifteen million feet of lumber are
awaiting shipment at Winona, for
want of transportation facilities.
Nine passengers in cabo0se were
more or less injured by the car being
thrown from the track few miles be-
low Lake City.
st. Cloud is justly proud of the new
post-office fitted up by Captain West.
The wood work is of red oak finished
in Eastlake style.
The amount of wheat now stored in
the different elevators in Duluth is:
Elevator A, $4,000 bushels; B. S61,-
Ol6bushels; total, 1,2S0, 9lG bushels.
The round-house and machine shops
of the Winona q st. Peter Division of
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway,
burned at Winona. Loss $55, 900; no /
insurance,
DIR. Stone has sued Judge Evans of
St. Cloud on medical bill. Mrs.
Evans came near dying from an over
dose of atropia and the Judge sets up |
5he plea of malpractice against the
dill.
A wild goose weighing twelve and a
lalf pounds and measuring six feet
rom tip to tip of wings, was killed the
'ther day in Whitefield, Kandiyohi
county. Old hunters say it was the
argest goose they ever saw.
The earnings of the St. Paul & Man
toba Railroad company for the last
ix months of 1882 were $4, SIC, ,467 IS,
Igainst $S,35l ,O5176 for the first six
months of that year, showing an in
rease of 1,225, ,415.42. The state tax
or the last six months of 1882 was
136, ,309.I5, against $100,5 531.55 for the
irst six months, showing an increase
# 35,777.60.
A strange and fatal accident occur
ed at the residence of Peter Freeman,
few miles west of Howard. A double
'arrel shot gun, hung on the wall, one
'arrel of which all of a sudden was
discharged. This caused the gun to
all to the floor, when the second bar
ell went off, the contents Of which
vent through pillow and struck an
nfant gfandohild of Mr.. Freeman's in
is right shoulder and penetrated its
itals as it lay in its cradle near by,
ausing instant death.