Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-02-08
MINNESOTA MITES.

Willman's $s5, 900 hotel, the Merchants,
is open for guests.
Insurance companies paid Minnesota
$74, 600 as taxes for 1887.
Adrian is making love to the Sioux
Falls & Willmar railroad.
Red Wing raised $500 for the poor of
the city by an entertainment.
Wolves are causing trouble around
Sank Center slaughter-houses.
Minnesota is the first state to organ
ize a Republican state league.
Ignatius Donneuy is again made lect-
urer of the Minnesota Farmers ALI
ance.
John Buxton, of Owatonna, has been
granted patent for an improved grain
binder.
A million and half pounds Of dressed
pork has been marketed at LIE Suer this
winter.
Washington dispatches say Cush Davis
has been near to deaths door, but he will
recover.
The situation" is said to be distress
ful'' in Pelican Rapids, because of scar
let fever.
Nine hundred men are working on the
Iron Range railroad extension from
Tower east to Ely.
st. Paul saloonists who failed to take
out 81 600 licenses are being closed by
the chief of police.
Lanesboro's big flour mill will here
after be operated by home instead OF
Minneapolis owners.
Jack Keefe, alleged pugilist, will serve
Brain erd twenty days for being the
central figure in saloon Insurance.
Duluth is Growing because the Stand
ard Oil company will at once build q
dock in that city costing 500, 600.
The st. Paul & Duluth Railway COM
pany paid the state treasurer $SS, 3A. 13
for taxes for the last six months Of 1887.
A construction company with plenty OF
capital is being organized at Red Wing
to build the Duluth, Red Wing & South
ern.
The surveyors of the Duluth. Red
Wing & Southern have been compelled
to stop work on account of the deep
snow.
Charles Hoag, who became famous by
christening the city of Minneapolis, died
last Wednesday in that city, aged 80
years.
Sabin is pushing his bill for public
building at Saltwater, and Davis is look
ing out for st. Paul's interests in a SINH
lar way.
The Winona board of trade approves
the action of the Dubuque convention
looking to the improvement of the Upper
Mississippi river.
Ten thousand masked persons demon
strated that the fools have not all ex-
pired, in the mard gras at st. Paul on
Tuesday evening.
Winona insurance companies are said
to have standing offer of $500 reward
for the arrest and conviction of any one
committing arson.
Snow is piled so high in the streets of
Minneapolis that lively athlete could
jump over street car as it moves along
in the snow tunnel.
Jerome Case got tangled up with q
circular saw in Chatfield lumber mill,
and will do without the use of one arm the
rest of his sojourn on earth.
By the aid of the supreme court Todd
county comes out victorious in her tussle
with the Manitoba railway in the matter
of taxes on railway lands.
Big Tom, Of Alexandria, was not so
big and desperate that plucky police
man could not place him in the jug for
stirring up local disturbances.
Sam Brear, of Winona, says farmers of
the Northwest may look for big grain
crop the coming season, and there are
those who say Samuel knows.
At Princeton Sunday Mr.. Moses Jes-
mer died, aged 80. Monday morning his
wife died, aged "a. 1t was their often
expressed wish to die together.
The night operator at the depot in De-
troit, Mimi, heard "a dull thudn and in
the morning safe in a village saloon
was found blown open and 800 stolen,
The marriage of a prominent young
couple of st. Paul and sham fight that
became quite real, were the attractions
at the carnival Wednesday evening.
George A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis,
offers to build Baptist college building
in Owatonna to cost SCI, 900, and when
finished he will endow it with a fund of
$25,000,
The St. Paul Cable company should be
eensured for employing incompetent grip
men, says the coronor's jury, which has
been investigating the cause of the recent
frightful accident.
Four branch postoffices have just been
opened in Minneapolis, and st. Paul will
now pull her belt up one notch tighter
and holler for that quarter million dollar
public building.
The proposed line of the st. Paul &
Southern railway through Wells and
Faribault counties looks very well on the
map, there being only one curve in
twentyfour miles.
Between the holding of farmers insti-
tutes and the organization of political
campaign clubs, things have been pretty
lively in many of the towns throughout
the state the past week.
The Industrial parade in st. Paul
Wednesday was seven miles long and
was witnessed by nearly 200, 900 people.
Every industry was represented and the
whole affair was well managed and sue
cessful.
A Blue Earth City drug firm sold
liquor two years without q government
license. The fact has been learned by
one of Uncle Sans mysterious servants,
and the cash balance of the aforesaid
firm will look sick after settlement.
Minnesota railroad and warehouse COM
missioners have sent their annual report
to the governor. It shows that SOB miles
of new road were built in tho state dur
ing 1887, and that 4, S71 miles of road are
operated in the state ut present Freight
earnings increased nearly $1,000, 900,
while passenger earning decreased $40, :
900
A. Guptill, grocer, Maine Prairie, near
St Cloud, deserves a medal. He fired
out of his place the gang of loafers usu-
ally found around a country grocery.
They objected, of course, and attacked
Gupfill and his store He then went to
St Cloud and swore out warrants for the
arrest Of the gang, ana win make life
rather sultry for the "tuis. =