The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-04-10

The Second Annual Meeting of the Minnesota
Bar Association was held at St Paul on Tues
day last The president, Gordon E. Cole, of
Faribault presided H. +. Stevens Of st. Paul
of1iciated as secretary. The committee on adj
mission reported a list Of over 30 names for
membership in the association.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
President Judge Thomas Wilson, Winona
Vice presidents district, Fayette
Marsh, Saltwater; Second district, L v. d.
Heard, St Paul; Third district, W. H. Yale,
Winona; Fourth district, P. N. Babcock, Min
neapolis; Fifth district, A. D. Reyes, Faribault;
Sixth district, M. s wilkinson, Welles; Sew
enth district, J. W. Mason, Fergus Falls !;
Eighth district Frances Caldwell, LIE Seuer;
Ninth district, john Lind, New Ulm; Tenth
district, H. r. Wells, Preston; Eleventh dis
trict, J. D. Ensign, Duluth; Twelfth district,
c. b. Strobeck, Litchfield-
Secretary-Hiram +. Stevens of St Paul
Treasurer Walter Fl. Sanborn, St Paul
The following committee were announced
1n Ad nsiss G. williston of Red wing, c.
D. OBrien Of St Paul, r. A Jones, Rochester;
d dg1nnr M f bansi Rncs George
Holland, Brainerd; E. SouthW0Esn, SnakoPee;
G. s. Ives, St Peter; A. G. Wedge, heert Lea !;
w. w. Billson, Duluth; L. G. Spooner, Moffts-
Executive-H. r. Bigelow, St Paul; j. N
Castle, Saltwater; John NJ Shaw, e. G. Rogers,
Professional Conduct-C. K. Davis of St
Paul, W. ]. Hahn of Minneapolis. Greenleaf
Clark of St Paul, George NJ Baxter of Fari-
bault, r. G. Benton of Minneapolis.
Jurisprudence and Law Reform-Eugene NJ
Wilson, of Minneapolis; W. P. Murray, of ST.
Taylor, of Kasson; J. N. Searle, of Saltwater
Legal History and Biography Atwater,
of Minneapolis; Henry j. Horn, of st. Paul; c.
H Berry, of Winona.
The retiring president Mr.. Cole read an adj
dress; J. w. Arctrander, of the committee Oh
jurisprudence and law reform, read the report
of that committee; the President elect, Judge
Wilson, also read an address.
In the evening there was jolly banquet at
the Merchants Hotel Judge Flandrau was
toast master. Speeches were made by Judge
Flandrau, Chief Justice Gilfillan, judge Atwater
Mr.. Morse, Judge Wilder, ]. N. Castle, John
B. Brisban, II. ]. Horn, Eugene Wilson. W. P.
Murray, J. v. D. Heard, etc.
The eighth annual meeting of the
Woman's Missionary society of the
Presbytery of st. Paul convened in the
House of Hope Presbyterian church.
Regular delegates were present from q
number of local missionary societies,
and the attendance numbered at least
800 ladies. Mrs. r. p. Lewis, the
presbyterial treasurer, submitted her
report for the past year. The entire
notwithstanding an organ and a box
semitic Sisseton Indian agency-were
So, 1857, all of which have been dis
bursed, with the exception of 500, being
devoted to the foreign missionary work.
The family of Leonard Gewter, living
near Elgin, on Greenwood prairie, Wa
basha county has been suffering from a
mysterious disease, which on investiga-
ton proves to be trichinosis of q very
pronounced type. The members of the
family have been eating more or less
raw pork during the winter. Mr..
Grewter died of the disease a few days
ago, and several members of the family
are not expected to recover; The re-
ports that have got abroad have been
greatly exaggerated. It is understood
that the infected pork was brought
from Wisconsin by the family when
they moved to this state last fall.
The editor of the Northwestern
Chronicle has inside a compilation
showing the number, character and
of the publications issued in
st. Paul. The statistics are as followes !:
Number of daily publications, 6; peekly,
10; monthly, z; total, 80. OF the 6
dailies, are printed in English and 2
in Germon; of the monthly publica-
tions, - are in English, 8 German, /
French and 2 Scandinavian; of MONTH
lies, are English, / Sc lndinavian.
Three of the weeklies are devoted to
law, to church interests; 10 are news
papers and 3 are classed as miscella-
neous. One daily and all monthlies are
classed as miscellaneous. Total !;
English, %; German, 8; French, /;
scandinavian, B; church, 3s
Is; miscellaneous /. The
following figures represent circulation !:
Daily, 26,506; weekly, 81, 846; monthly,
Z $50.
The total expenditures Of Wabasha
county for the year ending Feb. 90 were
$50, 1927 .53. There is balance to the
credit Of the county OF SIC, 02O. SO.
Messrs. Dunning and Fay, OF St.
Peter, are purchasing 5000 head Of
young cattle in the Minnesota valley for
B. F.. Ferris Of st. Paul, all Of which
are to be delivered by the LIST Of May.
The animals will then be shipped to .
ranch in Montana, forty miles from the
line Of the Northern Pacific. Messrs.
Cunning and Fay viii also purchase L.
500 additional on their own account
this spring.
At the Sc. Alexander hospital, New
Ulm, Sister Elisabeth, born Julie Blu
schausen, died recently aged Afty-one
years. She has resided ia the United
States since 1877. and II New Ulm
shoe 1881.