The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-03-11
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

Angeles, CAL, at or near which point he ex-
poets to reside in future. q
George Robinson OF Faribault has pur-
chased OF j. d. Greene & Co., the Straight
river Stone Touring mills.
| A large number OF trespassers upon s. &
o. Rips lands in Todd and Morrison
counties are to be prosecuted unless they
settle at once. One man has got away with
22O, 900 feet OF logs.
| The Thompson boys were sentenced at
Fairmount to one years imprisonment for
placing an iron rail across a railroad
track.
Auditor Braden states there will be no
land sale in Redwood county this spring.
From official sources it is learned that
the Minneapolis & st. Louis road will run
its new short line trains between st. Paul
and Minneapolis on the quarter hours and
not on the Millwaukee's time as reported.
| This will give to the two cities short line
trains every fifteen minutes during the day.
The sheriff OF Ramsey county served writs
| OF quo warranto on the Southern Min
nesota Railway company, the Southern
Minnesota Railway Extension company,
Hastings & Dakota Railway company and
the st. Paul & Sioux City Railway com
pany. For the latter road the writ was
served on e. F. Drake, vice president and
general manager. The other four roads
having no officer or represen tatives re-
| siding in this state, the writs were served
| by leaving duplicate copies with the secre
tary OF state, according to the statutes ol
| 1854.
Leonard Day. the we'll known Mime
apols lumberman. died suddenly, the re-
suit OF stroke oil apoplexy.
T. F. Egan, treasurer OF Pine county
| gives himself up to the st. Paul police and
accuses himself OF embezzlement.
c. A. Pillsbury e. Co. sell 600. 1000, 900
feet OF pine timber in Northern Minnesota
to Michigan and Chicago parties.
Frank Gardelind of Taylor's Falls
jumps from a sick bed through window
| and is frozen to death.
Rev. Dr. Wechsler of st. Paul is to deliv-
er a lecture at Winnipeg, the proceeds to 60
toward building synagogue.
At Bo hemian dance at Lake Mary,
Douglas county, John and Joseph Bosick
were stabbed by Frank Koglisch.
George Carter. OF Austin, four years old,
SON OF Hon. c. g. Carter, died of inflamma-
ton OF the kidneys.
The following patents have been granted
to citizens ofMinnesota: C. L. Travis. Min.
| neapolis, insulator; w. F. Edlebrock. 81.
Cloud, saw: G. A. McCollum, Dassel, cookie
separator; C. Esplin, Minneapolis, nose
guard for saw mill blocks; q. N. Bressler,
Long Prairie, snow pillow; NJ. Barr, Aitkin,
grab hook for chains.
George Cady, brakeman on the Dakota
Central road at Marshall, got caught be-
tween two cars and received injuries from
which it is supposed he cannot recover.
Mr.. Bell, near Edgerton, has been very
successful in some experiments with blue
grass, and thinks Minnesota will soon
equal Kentucky as a blue grass country.
All the property recently owned by the
Little Falls Live Stock company has been
decided in trust to S. B. Mcconnell, OF the
st. Paul trust company.
A special land agent has been through
the towns OF Belle Prairie and Fort Ripley
and recommends the cancellation of sixty
five homestead entries.
Farmers in the vicinity of Waseca hold a
meeting and agree to boycO William Ev-
erett and his -four mill and elevators.
They claim that he has forced down the
price OF wheat while keeping up that OF
flour.
A.C. Lawrence, vice j. w. Hurd, re-
moved, was appointed postmaster at
Carlisle Otter Tail county.
N. NJ. Singleton & Co., druggists at North
Branch, have failed. st. Paul creditors
will fight to attachments placed on the
stock.
Ole O'Brenner, of Minnesota, has as
signed for the benefit of his creditors. AS
sets, $3.50; liabilities, $2,1OO.
The Mankato board OF trade calls for
river convention to be held in that city
April 13.
A syndicate of Iowa railroad have rented
grounds at East Chain Lake, Martin coun-
ty, for the purpose OF establishing sum-
mer resort.
j. w. Pearson, prominent citizen at
Marshall, was probably fatally injured by
being crushed between wagon and build.
ing
Louis Zange. near Warren, was caught in
a storm and SO badly frozen that ampu.
tation OF one loot was necessary.
The next meeting OF the teachers insti-
tute for Mcleod county will be held at
Hutchinson the latter part of April.
Sauk Center has been offered chance
to secure the location OF a clock manufac-
tory employing 100 men.
Mrs. S. F. Phelps has instituted a suit
for $5, 900 damages against the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad company for the
death of her husband, Seth Phelps, we'll
known in Mankato and vicinity. He was
crossing the company's track near Waseca,
with team, in March, 1884, and was run
into and instantly killed.
j. d. Robinson, senior member of the
firm OF Robinson & Patterson of Beav yer
Creek and u resident of Luverne. was in
stantly killed at Beaver Creek while unload.
ing car OF cedars.
Henry B. Chase, of the firm of Chase &
Miller, Minneapolis, one OF the most extern
sive numbering companies in Minnesota, was
instantly killed by falling tree near his
timber camp at Aitkin.
A fire broke out in s. Wickman's brewry
at Marine, and rapidly spread through the
structure and to the residence Of Mr..
Wickman close by. The loss is estimated
at 81 600, with no insurance. The brew
cry was old and small, and was valued at
$4,000, and stood under the hill. The
residence was a two-story frame and stood
OH the hill just south OF the brewery and
valued at $4,000.
Iowa fishers, arrested at La Crescent at
were discharged on the ground that the
water in the sloughs was that OF the Mis-
sissippi river. 1t cost Houston county
$50 to find this out.
George Gruber's hotel at Rich Prairie
burned. Loss, $1,000; no insurance.
The trustees OF the Bishop Seabury mis-.
sion at Faribault, held brief meeting at
the Merchants, st. Paul, at which they de-
cided, without any apparent opposition,
to erect a new building to be used by the
students at Shattuck college, Faribault.
The cost Of the new structure was placed
at $50, 900. It will be known as Shumway
hall, the funds being secured for its con.
struction from the Shumway donation.
State Auditor Braden says: .There will be
comparatively few sales Estate lands dur.
ing the coming spring. The sales Of school
la. ..ds in any one year are limited by law to
100, 900 acres. There were in all 135, 600
acres OF land sold last fall, OF which $4,000
were school lands. The fiscal year com.
mences in August, and consequently no ex.
tended sale can be held until next fall.
Sales will probably be held in Lac qui Parle
county, mono having ever been held there,
and perhaps In two or three other counties
where there were no sales last fall. The de-
mand for the lands never seemed so good
as at present. and were it not for the limi.
tation large sales could be made. The re.
ducing Of the interest to 5 per cent has been
an important factor in creating the de.
mand"
The footings OF the reports OF the valua-
tion Of personal property in the different
counties OF the state, as revised by the