Morris tribune., 1889-10-09
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The Manitoba depot at Willmar was
burned to the ground Thursday.
A military cadetship has been secured
| by William B, Flanders, of Kandiyohi.
The Methodist Episcopal delegates have
! decided against dividing Minnesota into
two conferences.
j. j. Hill, the Manitoba railroad presi-
dent, has subscribed $25, 900 to the Chi
cago worlds fair fund. @
A. F. Leopold, the petrole man of Du-
luth, has sold the new states territory for
good round sum, said to be $500, ,00e.
County Attorney L. NJ. Lange, of
Worthington, has been appointed regis
ter of the United States land office at
Marshall.
Sam Christie, a noted character of the
upper Mississippi region, was shot and
killed by Thomas Kelly at Grand Rapids
on Tuesday last.
At DuSelth Saturday ten prisoners were
sentenced by Judge Stearns, nine to Still
water and one, Thomas Bier, to the new
reform school at st. Cloud.
Richard Robillard, ST. Paul engineer,
has built perpetual motion" machine
machine that has run eight weeks. 1t
viii operate two sewing machines.
Six farmers near Fergus Falls, in Par
nell township, have been arrested and
bound over to the grand jury for recap
turing goods seized by the sheriff.
The Red Lake Indian commission, now
at Mile Lacs, appear to be meeting but
little opposition, and the Indians there
will undoubtedly ratify the treaty al
most unanimously.
Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Grace, second
bishop of st. Paul, has been made an
archbishop by the pope. No information
has yet been received as to the diocese
he will preside over.
Gen. John T. Averill, of st. Paul, who
came to Minnesota in 1852, died of
Brights disease on Thursday last He
was member of the firm of Averill,
Russell & Carpenter, wholesale paper
dealers.
The asylum trustees announce that DR..
Kilbourne has been appointed first medi-
cal assistant at the Rochester asylum,
and DIR. Faulkner second assistant. No
superintendent will be appointed for the
present.
At Ada-J. A. Campbelrs livery barn,
with three horses, ". ". CampbelPs
office, Bert Thams barn. and j. c. Vel
lands barn were burned. The Norman
County Herald building was badly dem
aged. Loss, $4,000, mostly covered by
insurance.
Four of ArnOur's agents were arrested
in St. Paul Saturday for selling Chicago
killed meats. The authorities claim the
law is in force until the case which was
appealed has been decided by the United
States supreme court.
DIR. Homer Collins, first assistant ply
sician, and DR.. A. L. Randall, third as
sistant physician of the Rochester insane
hospital, followed the example set by
DR.. Bowers and rendered their resigna-
tions. They were accepted.
An appeal has been taken at st. Paul
to the United States supreme court in
the case of Jesse P. Farley against il
Fill the K;tsest estsSa66 aha uIfe Manitobs
road, recently decided by Judge Brewer
of the United States circuit court The
action, as is well known, involves some
4 S5,000,000
Terrible fires have been raging in the
bed of what was once Rice lake, near Al
bert Lea, for week. There has already
been thousands of tons of hay destroyed
one man losing nearly 400 tons. The
peat bogs have caught fire and unless
heavy rains come soon the fire will las
all winter. 1t is now burned to deptl
of five or six feet.
> The old stone machine shop in the Still
water prison yard, which has long beer
in tumbled down condition, has beer
razed and the preliminary work (pil,
driving) of building new shop upon it
site begun. The structure. will be o.
stone, three stories in height, and it
ground dimensions will be 103 by &c feet
giving width twelve feet greater thar
the old building. -
The delegates from Minnesota to th'
National Farmers congress, to be hele
at Montgomery, Ala, from Nov. 1S tt
Is, have been appointed by Governor
Merriam. They are: At large-H. w
Donaldson of Kennedy, and r. J. Hall
of Morris; first district, George w
} Sprague, Preston; second district, T. NJ
Pugh, Mankato; third district, Joh1
Byers, Hastings; fourth district, NJ
Holmstrom, Cokato; fifth district, w. J
Bodkin, Moorhead; w. M. Bushnell, st
Paul, president of State Agricultural so
ciety; Prof. N. w. McLain,, director
Minnesota experimental station.
The new law regarding fees in probat,
courts went into effect Oct. / throughou
the state. The fling and registering O
any paper costs 5 cents in each case
The hearing of the probate of q will is 81
cents, and the issuing of letters testamen
tary, administration or guardianship II
cents. Three dollars is charged for th,
hearing on contested wills; the same fo
the hearing of objections on final &C
count, and the hearing of every contested
application for the appointment or re
= moval of executor, administrator o.
, guardian So each day. A deposit of $1t
to cover the fees is required Oh commenc
ing every proceeding in the matter of tn,
estates of decedents.
Annexation of Hawaii.