Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-05-01
MINN NESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Harris will have a starch factory.
Winona has young ladies' orchestra.
Saltwater street cars to be running
June l.
Thomas Brown will be hanged at
Moorhead June y.
Northfield is excited over the discov-
cry of several mad dogs.
Four thousand dozen eggs were shipped
from Lanesboro within two weeks.
Governor Merriam and staff left for
New York Saturday to attend the Wash
ington centennial services.
J. A. Henry, of The Argus. has been
appointed postmaster at GAINESVILLE under
this Republican administration.
A proposition will be submitted voting
$20, 600 bonds for the purpose of putting
in water works at Two Harbors.
The annual meeting of the Owatonna
conference of Congregational churches
will be held at Austin May IA and Id. -
Minneapolis workingmen have decided
to organize Herdic company and run
Herdics in opposition to Lowry's street
cars.
Postmaster Whipple has received from
Washington new plans for the proposed
$150,O00 government building at Wi
mona.
There are 100000 feet of logs on the
various tributaries of the st. Croix,
which have been left stranded on the
shores.
Maj. Victor Hjorstberg, chief clerk of
Secretary of State Matson, died at his
residence in st. Paul of typho- -pneu-
monia.
The business men of Chatfeld have
organized company under the name of
the Southern Minnesota Milk Pail asso-
citation.
George McNair, of Minneapolis, has
been appointed receiver of the First Ma
tional bank of Anoka, which failed on
April 6.
Nearly all the members of the Missouri
legislature have petitioned Governor
Merriam for the pardon of the Younger
brothers.
Fires have been raging in the timber
on Bear creek, near Chatfeld, since Sat
urday, burning cordwood and doing.
damage to fences.
The Winona willow ware works,
which recently failed, have been sold
to number of energetic young busi-
ness men of that city and started up
again.
1t has been decided by the citizens of
Adrian and vicinity to begin the erec-
tion of a twine factory. Parties are
ready to take $40, 900 of stock in the pro-
posed factory.
Wilt K. Cochrane, city editor of the
st. Paul end of The Minneapolis Tribune,
has fallen heir to a snug little fortune of
$4,000 by the death, of a relative in
West Virginia.
Ex-Governor Pillsbury has given di-
reetions to commence operations at once
on the new science hall addition to the
state university, for the erection of
which he has donated $150,000.
Rev. C. r. Kellerman has resigned as
managing agent of the new Methodist
college at Fergus Falls. He gives as his
reason the difficulty there will be in
raising the necessary funds to start the
institution.
Wabasha Wolf harvesters are still
reaping with abundant success. Grant
Smith brought in the bodies of five
young brutes, which he had captured in
Plainview township, and was awarded
bounty of $50.
The Pipestone county fair will be held
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept. II, IS and 19, the same dates as
those selected for the corn palace at
Pipestone. A floral hall, grand stand
- IL ,+<ol, al, will ha' oraofa1 nd
fine race track laid out.
A singular case is interesting the med
ical fraternity at st. Cloud. A 2-year-
old child of W. L. Rosenberger has been
ailing for the past four months, and few
days ago small red spot on the child's
breast was lanced and a medium-sized
darning needle extracted therefrom. It
is supposed that the needle was swal-
lowed several months ago.
Saturday morning fire of incendiary
origin started'in- Howard, Walters & Co.'s
building at Breckenridge. The whole
block from Fourth to Fifth streets on
Minnesota avenue; was destroyed. The
burned district comprised about half the
business portion of the town. Five
years ago the same ground was burned
over, together with another block ad-
Joining on the east.
The report Of the senate committee
appointed to investigate the affairs of
the st. Paul and Northern Pacific rail-
road contained some sensational feat
-ures. L. G.. Monroe, a clerk, stated
that, under direction of Comptroller
Postlethwait, he added So, ,323, ,744!S0 to
the cost of construction, and to add
other figures to the expense account to
increase the apparent cost of the road to
$11,7l5, ,59s. .76-$5, ,19s, ,6l44 more than
the actual cost.