Morris tribune., 1888-10-24
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

The fibre-ware works at Mankato have
resumed operations with increased bust.
ness.
Political meetings are being held
among the miners on the VeEmillion iron
range nearly every night.
A horse thief named Lynch, who stols
q horse from j. Smith, Of Sank Center
has beed captured and lodged in Jail.
Fairmont boasts of big potatoes-five
weighing eight pounds and TIVE ounces. A
Sherburn man claims to have raised one
that weighed three pounds and fvs
ounces.
A young Scandinavian named Melon
aid had the muscles Of his right arm
lacerated by the accidental discharge OF
his gun while getting out Of a boat at
Spring Lake.
The work of exploring the iron belt OF
the Vermlllion range, as ordered by the
legislature four years ago, is about fin
lshed and the third volume of the report
will appear soon.
The Northern Pacific has opened the
ball OF competition with the G.. p. r. for
Manitoba wheat tafic by a rate of 81
cents per hundred pounds from Winnipeg
to Duluth. The c. P. r. promptly met
the cut to Port Arthur.
A worlds conference of the Seventh
Day Adventists is being held at Mime
apolis, and will probably continue four
weeks. 1t is expected that about SOC
delegates will be present, while the num-
bers OF believers in the faith in the North
west who will go to the conference will
probably swell the attendance to / 600.
The Minneapolis garbage crematory
the first in the West, Is ready for
use.
Davis & Rankin, Chicago, want to
establish canning factory at st. Cloud
of q, 900 cans daily capacity.
Northfeld is enjoying quite a little
fan boom with wheat at 81. 10, and ali
the houses for rent filled with tenants.
The supreme court holds that a rail-
road company is responsible for the acts
OF its employees in ejecting persons from
trains.
Last Saturday night the Manitoba dis.
charged 100 men from st. Paul shops
in pursuance of its policy Of reducing
expenses.
Judge Wilkin, Of the district court.
ST.. Paul, decides that improvements
ordered by the board of public works
must be paid for.
There is wheat blockade in Mime
apolis, and 1t is causing no end of
trouble. 1t is caused by the vast GUAM
titles OF low grade wheat that is coming
to the city.
Miss Jennie Burns has accepted the
Republican nomination as superinten-
dent of schools of Winona county. The
superintendents of both Houston and
Fillmore counties are ladies.
A delicate job of blasting is being done
in the Parsons building, at Duluth, where
a considerable amount of solid trap rock
is being blasted from the basement with
out disturbing the floors above.
Shipments of iron ore from Two Har.
bors by lake for the season to last We'd
nesday were 327, 439 gross tons, against
800 ,464 for the same period of 1887 and
1854 900 for the season to date in 1885.
Since Wednesday nearly $4,000 tons
more have been shipped by lake, making
total lake shipments of 342, 900 tons. Be
sides this large quantity has been sent
forward by rail.
A jury at Bird Island found Baker not
guilty of shooting w. Q. White at Hec-
tor.
The Southern Minnesots Dental asso-
citation, IN session at Albert Lea, has adj
journed.
The postoflce building and all its con-
tents and stock Of groceries were de-
mail matter was consumed.
Werk has been commenced on the
convent of the Ursuline sisters. to be
erected on the shore of Lake Pepin, near.
Frontenac, on land donated by Gen.
Israel Garrard.
w. F. Fritz, of Germantown, was
pulled from his buggy, kicked, beaten
and robbed while on his way home from
Duluth. His assailants numbered three
or four and they took from his person
% 900, which belonged to the Herman
town school district, of which he was
treasurer.
Two Minneapolis citizens were con-
fidenced out of 81, 900 by bunco men.
Gen. s. P. Jennison, Of Red Wing, and
family have gone to Boston 10 spend the
winter.
The First National bank at Austin has
had its corporate existence extended to
Oct27, 1908.
John Stewart: colQEsa, who ran away