The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-12-04
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

present year.
The latest report Of the Bradstreet company
shows II sos business firms in Minnesota, St
Paul has nearly fourth of the whole number,)
An increase Of ,l27 firms in three months.
L NJ Gregg of wabasha has made an assign
mont of his property for the benefit Of his
creditors to O. D. Ford, of Mazeppa The
| schedules are not fled yet The previous re-
! port OF MI. Gregg's assignment was premature.
Andrew Davidson and G. A. Carlson of Red
Wing are engaged in getting out the stone for
tho Minnesota h Northern bridge at St Paul
1t will take 5000 square yards Of stone. They
have ninety men employed in the quarries.
Ole Hanson, Dane about twenty
6ve years old, was run over and killed by a
Minneapolis 4 st. Louis switch engine of St
Paul Deceased was walking on the track and
did not hear tho engines approach
Last week WAS tho livelist of the season at
the Rochester stock yards Something like
$50. 600 pounds Of hogs were shipped, beside a
number of car laads of beef cattle This is in
face of the fact that many farmers are still
holding their hogs in hope Of higher prices
The reduction in the Northern Pacific shop
fierce ut Brainerd went into effect last week.
The total number let out was 100 men, leaving
400 men still in tho employ of the company.
This force will be kept throughout the winter.
Last winter the force numbered only 30O men.
W. O. Wright president of the Chicago, Free
port St Paul, is quoted as saying that it is
the intention Of the company to begin opera
tons between Freeport and St Paul early in
the spring. A force of surveyors is now this
side OF the Wisconsin river.
Mr.. J. p Berry died at his residence in
Pleasant hill recently after aprotracted illness.
Mr.. Berry came to Minnesota in 1857 when .
boy, and ever since the war Of the Rebellion,
in which he participated as Union soldier,
has been prominent in the social, educational
aud political .frairs of the southern section of
Winona county.
Tho articles of incorporation Of the Continen-
tai Express company, with a capital stock Of
$500 OOO has been fled with the register of deeds
1t Minneapolis. The object of the incorporation
is set forth as the operating of an express or
fast transportation route or rontes by land or
wafer, or both, between any points III the do
main of the United States
Mr.. g. NJ Seymour OF Saltwater leaves Mon
day for South America, whittier he goes in
company with the committee appointed by
congress to investigate and report upon the
and the United States. The trip will be made
via San Francisco and Central America
b. W. Sprague was arrested in Chicago re-
Gently, and started toward saltwater. He is
said to be q defaulter to the amount Of 1000
from the Northwestern Car company for which
he was bookeeper. He was arrested at . music
store, for which he had formerly travelled as
salesman He was recognized by prctures in
the hands of the detectives
Maj. Hjortsberg, chief clerk Of the secretary
Of state, is compiling the legislative manual
for 1885. Among the illustrations will be four
plates OF the state university, showing the
main building, drill hall, agricultural building
and experimental fruit farm. The state fish
hatchery will also be represented, the other
plates of public institutions being similar to
those Of the last manual
A few votes were cast in Renville county for
J. NJ Bowler for the state senate In reply to
the county auditor, Attorney General Hahn
holds that he should not be given a certificate
Of election unless there was q vacancy, and he
apprehends there was none, because no writ Of
election was issued by the governor, as is re-
quired by section II, article 4, of constitution.
Commissioner Price of the Indian Depart
ment says the charge that the annuties have
been withheld from the White Earth Indians is
untrue. In fact the money has not been in
St Paul at all; hence it could not been kept
back for the benefit of the banks. Sept Is the
Indian Office issued q requisition on the treas
ury for so, - to pay all the bands in Mime
sotA Oct 27 it was found that Agent Luse
had not received the money. The Indian Of
fee asked Treasurer Wyman what the trouble
was, and he replied that be had mailed draft
Sept. 25 for Luses credit with the Second Ma
honal bank in st Paul for sl4,@S2, and Oct 20
another draftfor sl5, 900 The remaining sl5.-
eco draft, Mr.. Wyman explained, was held hat X
by this treasury until the balance of deposit
with the Second National would allow further
denoslt to Luse credit OF course, Luse would
not pay out part of the money before lie got it
all from Washington. Special Agent Milburn,
who must be present when the moneys are
paid the Indians, 10 at Fort Peck, Mont, and
was telegraphed recently to 60 to White Earth
and witness the payment
The Washington school building at Anoka
was burned. with its contents, recently. Loss,
$40, COO; insurance, $1,000 The flames started
from the furnace in the cellar. The building
was occupied at the time, but all the pupils
were safely removed
Joeph Farley, . lonely settler near Lake
Vermillion. was murdered and burned in hia
cabin few days ago.
The Minnesota exhibit has started for New
Orleans
Articles Of incorporation of the Aitkln, Mile
Laos l. Minneapolis were filed with the secre-
tary Of state. The company is to build line
of railroad and telegraph from Aitkiu to some
point On the south or east shore of Mile Laos
lake. thence southerly to Minneapolis. The
principal place of business is Aitkin. The cap
ital stock is 81, Goo 000 and the limit of indebt-
edness 10 not to exceed two thirds Of the capt.
al stock. The incorporators are D. J. Knox,
G G. W. Mcdonald, J. J. Mcdonald, E Rrech,
Thomas R Foley, Aitkin; W. w. Parker
Spearfsh, Oak. Noses Mckinney Minneap-
oils, and George W. Knox, Orange City, Fla
A crowd of men took Policeman Fogolstian OF
Brsinerd into . saloon put out the lights, re-
ieved him of his star and turned HIM out
Frank Rice, working as mason in Detroit,
was found dead in his bed
NrA sheard, residing in Brainard, while in
. somnambulistic state, left her bed, and while
wandering about the house, fell down two
flights of stairs. and was found in the morning
lying in the cellar insensible. There are hopes
Of her recovery.
The first district conference of the Minneapo-
lis district Methodist society will be held in
Anoka, Dec l, Q and next As this is the
enc hundredth anniversary OF the n e. soci-
ETY. moro than usual interest is manifested
The Close brothers, and friends. of Pipe
Stone, hunt wolves in regular English fox
hunting style. At the last hunt . wolf was
killed in fifty minutes, after run of twelve
miles.
James Ryan and James Mccarthy of Hyde
Park, Wabasha county were going home with
. team from Hammond's ford, but stopped on
account Of . severe snow storm at the shanty
Of Tim Donohue in the timber. While they
we're all asleep the shanty took fire. James
Mccarthy barely escaped, and rescued the team
hitched in an adjoining she'd The other two
men were burned to death. Donohue was q
bachelor, but James Ryan had wife and four
children
At Norris, Thanksgiving morning, fire de-
stroyed the one-story building on Fifth street
owned BY Charles Wilson and occupied by A.
". Nordquist. tailor, and damaged nearly to
destruction the fine new Tribune building,
owned by E. W. Randall, editor, occupied on
the second floor as q printing Office, and on the
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