Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-12-26
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

city.
The Cannon Falls creamery has been
sold to Marvin q McCammack, of So.
Paul.
The new Milwaukee depot at North
field viii be ready for occupancy this
week.
The Beethoven Musical society at
Owatonna produced "The Little Ty-
coon."
Minneapolis -four brings higher price
In European markets than any other
brands.
Burglars stole $500 worth of silver
ware from the Catholic church at Belle
Center.
The expenses of Goodhue county for
the past year have been $43, 200, against
$56. 900 last year.
Engineers of the Winona and South
western railroad are at work in the vi
cinity of Chatfeld.
The Faribault Electric Light and
Power company, capital 10000, has
been incorporated.
At st. Cloud, Barbara Wayne, of
Avon, on trial for poisoning her hIls-
band, was acquitted.
Hugh Daily, a prisoner in the peniten-
tiary at Saltwater from Duluth, was
killed by landslide.
The site offered by G.. E. Lovett & Co.
for Sis, 800 will be bought for the gov
ernment building in Duluth.
Harrisonis plurality in Minnesota as
choxrr hx tho official co,,rt 90 1n~
Merriam's plurality was 81, 104.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Minnesota Horticultural society will be
held at Rochester Jan. and 2.
The Touring mill at Fountain City
has burned, with loss of $4,000. The
mill was burned two years ago.
At Carleton college observatory at
Northfeld, regular work in astronomical
photography is now being done.
At Fergus Falls Mrs. Schaal is contest
ing the will of her husband. which gave
the property to a sister in Germany.
An Eastern boot and shoe factory has
made proposition to locate in Still
water, providing bonus of $4,000 is
offered.
A building permit has been taken out
at Minneapolis for the new court house
and city hall. The estimated cost is $s,-
O00, 600.
D. E. Shook, wheat buyer at Stephen,
in the Red River valley, is defaulter to
a considerable amount, and has gone to
Manitoba.
The business at the st. Paul postoffice
for 1883, shows slight increase in some
departments and slight decrease in
others from 1887.
The Indians at Prairie Island, a few
miles from Red Wing, are in a destitute
condition, and unless aid is rendered
suffering will ensue.
The st. Cloud Water Power company
has settled it's suit against the Phoenix
from Works company, paying 81, 900 for
its buildings and the block.
The Mazeppa creamery at Red Wing
manufactured 1895 pounds of butter
last year and SIC, 1921. .72 was paid out for
cream, and $2,971 for labor.
Work on the elevated incline railway
to the heights back of West Duluth has
already commenced, and the cars will be
running inside of five months.
Thomas 8. Carlton, the embezzling
book keeper of the Farmers and Traders
bank at Hastings, was sent to the Still
writer penitentiary for two years.
In st. Paul the receipts from liquor
licenses in 1887, with over 700 saloons,
were $71 200, and in 1888, with half the
number, the receipts were 1851 900.
County Attorney Sherwood has set
about the herculean task of closing up
all illegal liquor selling dance houses and
kindred dens on the Vermillion range.
Edward Davey, the alleged Little
Falls millionaire, is missing and a num-
Der of creditors are anxious to hear of
his whereabouts. His meat market
property has been seized by the sheriff.
At special meeting of the Duluth
council Friday the Duluth Electric
company, an organization lately started,
received valuable concession. Doodle
is limited at, and legal fight may en-
sue.
N. G. Nelson and J. J. Tool, conductor
and engineer of the freight train which
collided with the passenger train at Wa
basha last week, have been held to the
grand jury on charge of criminal care
lessness.
The Duluth chamber of commerce has
taken. up the matter of the proposed
school of mines and discussed the steps
necessary to be taken to insure it's suo-
cess. The matter has been finally re-
ferred to a committee with instructions
to report.
John DOYLE, while coupling freight
cars in Willmar for the Manitoba, had
his leg crushed. He sued for $31 900, al
leging negligence. The jury returned a
verdict for $7,572 damages. The case
will be appealed.
The pastor Of the Peoples church,
Minneapolis, proposes to omit church
collections and run the church on faith,
pure and simple, making mo personal
solicitations for money, letting those in
terested know what the church is doing,
and then leaving it to God to move their
hearts to give or withhold"
A body found frozen in the ice at
Rice's Point. near Duluth, was identified
as that of III. Anderson, who has been
reported as missing since the night of
Oct. 26, at which time he set out from
Rice's Point with female companion in
9 small boat to attend dance at West
Superior.
The man who recently proposed to es-
tablish mammoth boot and shoe fac
tory in Saltwater is said to be mono
maniac upon that subject. He engaged
man in advance to travel for the pro-
posed house at salary of $4,000 per
year, and shortly afterward tried to bor-
row 80 cents to go to Hudson to establish
another great boot and shoe house.
The Saltwater Gazette says that Bert
Whitemore, formerly an employe of the
Omaha road, has been sick with typhoid
fever followed by inflammation Of the
bowels, and to all appearances died.
After he was laid out barber was sent
for to shave him. As the knight of the
razor was in the act Mr.. Whitemore
raised UP and insisted that he was MOI
dead. The patient will fully recover.
To Counteract English Influence.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 21.--The Rus.
aian Government ia about to increase the