The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-11-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.

At st. Paul w. A. Hardenburgh and
Miss Ella A. Stone are married; also j.
Frank Shaw of New Orleans and Miss
Matte Il. Riley.
Solar in the State OF minnesota. but four
olemargarine licenses have been taken out.
Three OF these were Wholesale, and wera
taken by the Armour Packing company,
]. j. Brown and B. l. Brayton-all OF st.
Paul. One retail license has been taken
out in the state by j. Nay & Co. OF Min.
neapolis. The Armour Packing company
reported that it had found q marked in
crease in it's sales OF olemargarine since it
took out it's licenss-the increase in the few
DAYS since the law went into effect being
about 10 per cent. 1t intends to contin.
us the sale right along.
An exceedingly sensational divorce case
has been commenced in the Washington
county district court and will likely be
tried during the present term. The parties
are members Of about the oldest and best
known families in the st. Croix valley.
The action is brought by the husband,
whose complaint charges the wife with
adultery with q prominent physician OF
Saltwater and with u professor OF music
who absconded from the locality some
months ago.
The change in the county seat Mt Lac
qui Parle county, from Lac qui Parle to
Madison, was carried by a vote l, ,l73 to
703. Gov. Hubbard has issued his proc
lamation accordingly. hon. Gordon h.
Cole has notified Gov. Hubbard that the
election will be contested.
All the returns OF the counties in the
Third congressional district have been
officially canvassed. and they show that
Judge Macdonald received 1910 moro
votes than Editor Herbert.
Judge Vanderburg OF the supreme court,
hands down q decision affirming the valid
ity OF the oleomargarine law.
Circulars received in st. Paul announce
that arrangements have been made for
five California excursions via New Orleans.
They will leave Chicago over the Illinois
Central Nov 16. Dec. Ia, Jan. II, Feb. Is,
and March 8. The fare for the round trip
from ST. Paul will be $3.50.
Bait Steffins' brewery at Hastings was
damaged 50, 900 by fire.
The Official canvass Of votes on the ques-
tion of removing the county seat of Trav-
erse county to Wheaton gives q majority
OF 200.
Frank patten, one OF the men in the
Waseca county Jail, brought from Austin q
few months ago, charged with robblng the
Weckworth house. escaped.
i ne new S1Ce LOT WHICH Une SOVeTHmeu1
paid SIS, 900 for the erection of q public
building at Winona fronts 1sO feet on
Fourth street and 12O feet on Main street.
The building will be started early in the
spring.
The grand jury of Wabasha county fin
ished it's work and was discharged. In
dictments were found as follows: Anton
Gedert for polygamy, Henry A. Andrus for
horse stealing, Frank A. Hammond for
selling mortgaged property, Jeremiah King
for robbery, A. j. Edstrum for burglary
and David Vining for rape. Gedert pleaded
guilty and was remanded for sentence.
The others pleaded not guilty, and they
will be tried shortly. The case OF Vining,
woman in the case being his granddaughter
young girl. Vining is between 60 and 70
years of age and resides in Lake City. His
alleged victim il a resident OF Florence,
Goodhue county.
st. Cloud Journal: The water power
company's dam across the Mississippi riv-
er at this place has finally been completed.
There is still some work to do on the can
al, but the dam is an accomplished fact
and the father of waters at last rolls over
what the people OF st. Cloud talked about
and hoped for for many years. The COM
pany extended the canal three hundred
lccU lOLScI Cudu euO COnCI0Co WIN chC ivy
calls for, and it is now one thousand feet.
Col. Sam McPhail was elected county at
torney of Lincoln county.
The Citizens Bank of Cannon Falls, for
merly owned at Hastings, has been sold
to SERVER & Norton of Northfeld.
Gus H. Beaulieu, q Chippewa Indian. has
sued T. j. Sheehan, Indian Agent. in which
he claims that he owned ON March Is,
1885, a lot OF type and printing material
valued at $500, and that it was in his
possession and removed him and his ma
terial from the reservation.
The following corrections, from official
returns, have been received since the pub
lication of the list OF legislators OF the
state at the recent election. In the Twen-
tieth district (Rice county,, A. D. Keyes
and II. A. Swartw oudt, both Republicans,
are elected, instead OF Batchelder and
Matthias, Alliance candidates, as report
ed. In the Thirty third district Wright
and Sherburne countiesJ, +. F. Hurd,
Republican, is elected over Fridley, Demo-
crat, by ESQ majority.
The resignation OF Rev. D. D. Reed has
been accepted by the trustees of the Bap-
Boston very soon.
The Minnesota surpeme court has decid-
ed that q complaint for selling intoxicat-
ing liquors without a license, which sub
stantialy follows the language of the stat
ute or ordinance under which the prosecu-
tion is brought is sufficient. It is compe-
tent for the legislature in establishing mu-
nicipal courts to provide for the trial and
hearing OF complaints and causes involv-
ing merely the violation OF municipal or
dinances in q summary manner, without q
jury. As respects such prosecution the
act establishing the municipal court OF the
City of Mankato, ch. 119, Special laws
1885, is constitutional.
At meeting OF the Methodist Social
Union of st. Paul and Minneapolis, reso-
luton was adopted inviting Sam Jones to
visit the two cities.
A company has been organized to build
line of road from st. Paul to White Bear
and thence to the Wisconsin boundary line
on the st. Croix river. It will be known IN
the White Bear Lake & Wisconsin railroad.
Its capital stock il $500. 900, divided into
10, 900 shares, and the incorporators are
e. D. Comings, w. A. Somers, R. A. Smith,
H. H. Fuller, William Dawson, William
Dawson Jr., w. r. Sache and H. H. Hor-
ton.
Henry w. Bulls, and aged and respected
citizen, OF Owatanna, died Of pneumonia.
He was well known there as hotel man.
Henry Balm, OF Ottawa, took horse to
LIE Sueur and sold it for $1O5, after which
he started for his home. He was followed
by four roughs and when hallway between
Ottawa and LIE Sueur he was knocked sense.
less and robbed OF all but SO cents.
Judge Benjamin Pringle celebrated his
seventy-ninth birthday on the 9th.
A French teamster near Fossum, threw
lighted match into the dry grass from
which q prairie fire started that did ar
immense amount OF damage before it could
be quenched. Stacks Of hay and grain were
consumed, and many OF the unhappy
farmers must now part with their stock
as hay cannot be procured in sufficient
quantity to supply the loss.
There are said to lie several thousand
| spurious silver dollars in circulation In
| Southern Minnesota, SO nearly like the
genuine that detection 10 almost impos
| sible.
| There are now fourteen passenger trains
per day running from Minneapolis and ST
| Paul to Chicago, and the demand for pas
| aenuer traffic begins to exceed the aunnlv