Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-09-11
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The state board OF equalization is in
session at st. Paul.
A cable road, to run between Duluth
and West Duluth is talked of.
A. L. Mohler will succeed Allen Man
vel as general manager of the Manitoba
road.
w. B. Flanders of Kandiyohi, will be
appointed cadet to West Point from the
Third congressional district.
Contractors throughout Duluth an
nounce that they have raised the wages
of common laborers to $1.75 day.
The Lac Qui Parle county fair will be
held at Madison Sept. "a to 26. Igna-
titus Donnelly has promised to speak.
Two factions are engaged in a fight
for the control of the East Grand Forks
schools, and as a consequence the build
ings have been closed.
Canadian timber thieves are said to be
destroying the pine on Northern Mime
sofa boundary, and the interior depart
ment will investigate.
Wheat receipts ut Minneapolis during
the past year were 81 200, 900 bushels, or
more than Duluth, Chicago, Milwaukee
and New York combined.
Assistant Attorney General Childs
has given an opinion to the railway and
warehouse commission that fax is grain
and as such liable to inspection.
A young bear entered the house of R.
N. Bennett, near Motley, and in the
dark was kicked out by Mr. Bennett,
who imagined that it was dog.
r. S. Grant, of the Grant Locomotive
works. Patterson, n. j., has been in
Minneapolis the past week to see about
removing his immense plant to that
city.
The schedule of assets of the j. H.
Mailer Carriage company of st. Paul
has been filed. The assets amount to
800, 7S7. SO and the liabilities about $14,.
0G0 less.
A regular train on the Manitoba road
collided with state fair special at the
fair grounds smashing the car and shak-
ing up the passengers. One man was
injured.
T. r. Richardson, merchant at Sand
stone was tarred and feathered last
week for his two great intimacy with
his hired girl. He was warned to leave
the country at once.
Attorney General Clapp has submitted
an opinion to the railroad commission
ers in which he says that railroad COM
panies must build side tracks when re-
quested by the board.
Miss Mary Strand was knocked down
by an unknown man on the streets of
Faribault, after which her sssailant
walked off. The mayor has offered 500
reward for his arrest.
The city clerks records show that
5000 poor, friendless dogs have been
captured and slaughtered in st. Paul
since the dog catcher commenced his
dreadful career last spring.
Fire at Winona did 100000 damage
to the Laird Norton Lumber yards and
mills last Thursday. Twenty-Five mil
lion feet of lumber 100000 shingles
and 100000 lath were destroyed.
Threshing crews around Argyle struck
for 81. 90 a day. They had been getting
$1.50. The farmers are stacking their
grain and will wait for the men to come
to time or for others to do the work.
A Mrs. Beach, so years of age, was
found wandering on the streets of st.
Paul half famished. She said she had
been turned out of doors by her son.
She had no money and nowhere to 60.
Professor Greene, of the Minnesota ex-
perimental station, has been experiment.
ing with frosted seed wheat and recon-
mends that it be not used. 1t may grow
all right one season, but cannot be relied
upon.
Senator D. F. Goodrich died on
Wednesday last at his home at Blue
Earth City. He was lawyer by pro-
fession and one of the foremost men in
the last legislature. He was buried on
Friday.
The grand jury at Princeton has found
a true bill against the Indian Wadena,
whose drunken antics caused such a
rumpus at Mile Lacs last summer. The
indictment accuses him of assault in the
first degree.
In the past month about lie, 900 bush
els of corn have gone to Duluth, and
since Jan. 1 the receipts have been about
1,500,0 600 bushels. 1t looks now as if the
total receipts for the year 1889 would be
$500, 900 bushels, against 259, 900 BUSH
els for 1858.
The Minneapolis Journal is authority
for the statement that the deal with the
English syndicate for the Minneapolis
milling property is likely to be consum-
mated in October. The only difficulty is
that the millers hold their property
rather high.
Albert Lea will have the Holly water
works system supplied from artesian
wells. There will be about five miles of
mains, sixty hydrants and public water
lug troughs and fountains. The city is
to pay rental of $500 a year. The
system is to be-completed this fall.
The log jam is broken at the dalles of (
the st. Croix river, although the upper
jam at the falls is still intact. It is esti-
mated that the number in the small
flood of a few weeks ago and in this one
is over 00,000,000 feet, or total so far
for the season of 255 100000 feet, with
prospects of more later.
The old Blakeley gun, captured by
the First Minnesota battery from the
rebels, and priced highly, burst at the
old soldiers reunion at Fairmont, where
it had been loaned. The gun had a no
torious history not only during but since
the war. It severely injured man at
st. Charles some time ago, and last fan
blew off both of L. NJ. Olson's hands
hands during a Republican jollifcation.
Prison Hospital Steward Hall, on
being asked as to how long lease Of
life Bob Younger had, replied: "Bob is
liable to die to-day or tomorrow of
heart failure, though lheamay linger
along for two weeks yet. In my
opinion he cannot survive longer than
that length of time. Bob is SO weak
that it is impossible to hear his faintly-
whispered words without the listener
bends close to his lips" !"
Thursday a.stranger arrived in Will
mar and hired a livery team. When
about two miles from town he met
farmer and wanted to buy his watch.
The farmer said he could haveit; for $40.
The stranger counted out the money and
put it in small box and handed it to
the farmer for the watch and then drove
off. The farmer on opening the box
found no money in it. Sheriff Odell
gave chase to the swindler.. They found
him in bed. They put handouts on him
but while they were talking the man
broke from the sheriff and got away.