Morris tribune., 1889-07-03
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


The street car tracks at Mankato are
to be extended.
The electric street cars at Saltwater
have been put in operation.
Charles Coburn, a prisoner, escaped
from the Jail at Preston.
The state prison at Saltwater now has
more inmates than ever before.
Thirty Indian children made their
first communication at st. Cloud Sun
day.
The sixteen-ye daughter of M.
Martel, Clear Lake. was killed by light
ming.
During the past year j. S. Dutton, of
Faribault, has lost twenty head of cattle
by disease.
A temple of the knights of Aurora has
been organized at Mankato, with men,
bership of fifty.
Walter H. sanborn, of st. Paul. has
been elected grand commander of the
Minnesota knights Templar.
Jeremiah Prendergast, of Minnesota,
carried off high honors at the COM
mencement of Georgetown college.
Two young men of Kellogg have leased
q farm on the Zumbro river, and will be-
gin hog raising on large scale.
The State Dental association holds q
three days meeting at the Spalding
house, Duluth, beginning July 10.
1t is said that if Albert Bulow, under
sentence of death, escapes hanging, the
people of Royalton will lynch him.
Joe Carkie, Jr., Peter Paul and An
toine Lamott were arrested and fined at
Anoka for fishing in the lake with net.
Wadena, the Indian who shot Magnu-
son in Mile Laos county, and created the
recent "Indian" war, has been arrested.
Swan Magnuson, shot by drunk en- In
dians at Mile Laos recently, has recov-
cred sufficiently to be removed to his
home.
A gang of tramps engaged in fight
with Red Wing citizens and nine of the
former were landed in Jail after hard
battle.
Minnesota stock shippers think that
with good crops the state will produce
at least one-third more hogs than ever
before.
Reports from various parts of the state
say that the chinch bugs are being at
tackled with disease that kills them off
rapidly.
Sheriff Cratic, of Wabasha, has two
bird dogs which recently came to u
point on covey of prairie chickens and
remained in the same position twenty
four hours.
C. o. Dahl, convicted of manslaugh-
ter in the second degree at Caledonia,
has been granted a new trial because
one of the jurors took whisky into the
jury room.
The Chautauqua Assembly at Maple
There will be Bacon-Shakspere con-
troversy between Donnelly and Wallace
Bruce, of New York.
An order has been issued by Judge
Mcclure vacating portion of the town
site of the old village of Wacouta. In
the early fifties that place was one of the
foremost settlements in Minnesota.
George Dreven thought he had struck
a natl1r al spring ON his property at Wa
SEGA, but found on making close ex-
animation that it was only a broken
water pipe from which the water bub-
bled up.
Ex-senator Sabin has made formal ap-
plication at Saltwater to legally adopt
the three orphan children who have re-
sided with him for some years. Two of
them are the daughters of the late Dele
gate Raymond, of Dakota, and the other
is Ida Chambers, whose parents are
dead.
Arrangements for the summer meet
ing of the State Editorial association
have been about completed by the COM
mittee. The meeting is to be held at
Saltwater about July "A, and in connec-
ton with it there will be an excursion to
some point of interest in the neighbor-
hood of the city.
At the Park region encampment,
G.. A. R., Detroit, a serious acci-
dent occurred while firing a salute to
Governor Merriam. The cannon was
discharged while Nathan A. Starr was
ramming home the charge, lnangling the
right hand badly and burning his face,
eyes, breast and both hands and arms.
A report from Detroit states that Mon
day night robber entered the caboose
on freight train between Audubon and
Park Lake, in which were a number of
passengers, and demanded their valu-
ables. All but one gave up, and the
robEer shot at him and jumped from the
train.
The amount of logs sold at Saltwater
last week aggregated about 13, ,000, 900
feet. For the season so far nearly 120,-
100000 feet have passed through the
boom, and there are still some 50,OOO,-
900 in the boom. The home consumption
is large, over 1,U00, 900 feet of lumber be-
ing cut daily.
The report of the Red Wing reform
school appraisers shows the valuation
determined upon them for the Lowther
lands to be $11 $500; Thomas lands,
$391.35. The Jordan farm was not ap-
praised, as arrangements for its purchase
had been made. Mr.. Lowther will ap-
peal to the district court, but this will
not delay the erection of the buildings.
Capt. D. G. Chase has left Perham,
where he has been experimenting the
werk against the grasshoppers, which is
finished. The expense to the state will
be $4,000. Five thousand acres have
been ploughed, and several hundred
acres on which 'hoppers hatched were
swept with "dozers." Capt. Chase says
all trouble with grasshoppers is at an
end.
The Michigan legislature adjourned