Morris tribune., 1888-11-14
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

The winter term of the Moorhead Nor
NAL school opened Monday.
A little child of A. Christiansons
living near Marshall was burned to
death by running into a fire some seq
tion men had started along the railroad
track.
The brakes failed to work ON a stock
train at Duluth and two cars of sheep
We're derailed and rolled down the bank
into the river. The sheep were all
drowned.
Joseph Kospau, an old settler near
Fergus Falls, committed suicide in q
novel manner. He put the but end of q
gun into fire and held the muzzle to
his head until it was discharged by heat.
The victims of the jackson county
fire We're Mrs. Molly O'Connor, Mrs.
Kate Porter, her sister, and Mrs. O'Con-
nor's baby. Henry Ray, the young man
SO badly burned, has since died. Miss
Julia O'Connor, who was teaching
school, saved her pupils by taking them
to piece of plowed ground till the fire
had passed.
The Duluth roller mills turn out IT'S
barrels of flour daily.
Senator Sabin says the manufacturing
of cars will be revived in Saltwater by
Jan. 1. Eastern capitalists are interest
ing themselves in the matter.
Mrs. Gurley, of La Crescent, was SO
badly frightened at the sight of blood on
her door steps that she died. The blood
was spilled in a political fracas.
A first mortgage of equipment for
$85O, 900, from the Chicago, Burlington
and Northern railroad company to Fran
els Peabody, Jr., G. V. r. Thayer and
Nathaniel II. Stone, has been filed in the
office of the register of deeds at Winona.
Secretary Hart, of the state board of
charities and corrections, has compiled
several interesting tables making COM
parsons of the nativity of inmates of
of state institutions. They show that
foreign born parents furnish less con-
victs proportionately than American
born parents. In Minnesota the per-
centage of foreign born convicts is 37.S.
In the table on insane population, for
eign nations contribute more than their
share.
A teamster named Moordoch Adams
went into Ladow's restaurant, at Two
Harbors, caused disturbance, and was
ordered out by the colored cook. He
took up a knife and wanted to use it.
He was again ordered out, but refused,
when the cook fired one shot at him, it
taking effect in the knee. In fight be-
tween E. A. Ladow, the restaurant
keeper, and a teamster named Shannon,
Ladow's finger was badly bitten and
Shannon's uose was half bitten off.
On the Clearwater branch of the
Manitoba the stations of Crow River and
Hassan have been abolished
The Winona and Southwestern inn
provement company has been incor-
porated, with $500, 900 capital stock.
|, The fastest trip from Buffalo to Du-
luth has been made by the propeller
Mills, which arrived in port Saturday.
The 1 200 miles was traversed in three
days and seventeen hours, with full
cargo.
The first mortgage of the Duluth, Red
Wing and Southern to the Central Trust
company of New York, in trust, has
been filed. 1t covers all the lines and
property of the road, now owned or
hereafter acquired, and provides for the
issuance of bonds in the sum of SIC, 900
mile.
Secretary Hart, of the state board of
charities and corrections, has prepared a
table of the cost of keeping inmates of
state institutions for the year ending
July, 1888. At st. Peters hospital for
the insane, 1,065 were fed during the
year at an average cost of $45.27: in the
Rochester hospital, 55S inmates cost
~. 65 each; in the reform school 268 in
mates cost $3S.27; in the state prison
cost $43.73 for 46S convicts. The
soldiers home shows an average of 40
inmates, at cost of $7361. The total
average for 1878 in all institutions was
B, III persons at a cost of $43.84.
The last stone on Winona's new court
house has been laid.
A new saw mill, with capacity of
100000 feet daily, is to be erected at Lit
tie Falls.
The residence of P. P. Barron, near
Wadena, was destroyed by fire Saturday
during the absence of the occupants.
The November term of court is in ses-
sion at Redwood Falls. Two murder
eases will be disposed of-John CORES,
for the murder of John Rosenkranz, and
William Rose, charged with killing
Moses l.. Lufkin.
George w. Post, the notorious con-
fidence man, who was alleged to have
swindled Jonathan Grimes, of Mime
apolis, out of $4,000, was discharged on
preliminary examination. An alibi was
proved to the satisfaction of the court.