Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

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Red Wing schools are SO crowded that
more room is necessary. ..@
Stone has been found near Cannon
Falls which assays 90 to the ton.
The Union Elevator company at Still
water is in the hands of receiver.
The annual session of the state w. G.
T. U. was held in Duluth last week.
Secretary Rusk attended the Minnesota
state fair Wednesday and Thursday last.
On an average nine tramps day have
been arrested at Madison during the past
week.
The second trial of Clara Blatz, for the
murder of John Dougherty, has been be-
gun at st. Paul.
At Dodge Center Henry Churchman's
barn was burned and two of his children
perished in the flames.
The prison doctor says Bob Younger
is not as bad off as the newspapers make
him. He may live a month.
D. DR.. ]. L. Camp, of Brainerd, imperil-
ing his own life, saved two ladies from
drowning at Long Lake, and is very i'll.
Wadena, the Indian charged with kill
ing man at Mile Lac reservation q
short time ago, has been found not
guilty.
The Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh
and Tenth Minnesota Volunteers held
reunions in st. Paul last week. All
were we'll attended.
Tuesday was wedding day" at the
Minneapolis exposition. Three couples
were joined in the holy bonds after the
latest approved plans.
Mrs. Topliff, of Edgerton, put small
rope around o. Gould's neck and almost
choked him to death. She claimed that
he had grossly insrlted her.
At Blue Earth City the bloody fux
has become an epidemic, twelve children
having died within nine days. Several
adults are very low with the disease.
Advices from the Freeborn gas well,
where work is now in progress, are to
the effect that strong flow of gas has
been struck which when lighted burned
to height cf six feet.
The Wilder farm school and business
college has opened under the auspices of
the Episcopal church, with about 100
students. Bishop Whipple was present
and delivered the opening address.
About 100 Yankton Sioux Iudians are
now camped al the historic pipestone
quarries near Pipestone. They are here
for the purpose of obtaining an annual
supply of the stone that is worshipped
by the tribe. They will remain about
ten days.
Twenty stacks of wheat containing
some 1 800 bushels, owned by B. Blemke,
! farmer near Sleepy Eye, were set on
fire and completely destroyed. Although
a man was seen to fire the last stack, he
escaped and is as yet unknown. The loss
is over $1,000.
P. Clark, at ST. Cloud, has prASesota
to the secretary of the Centrfo 81 1000.
Fair associs first fair not being fnan-
OR Rgotess, the association has been
laboring under financial difficulties, but
this removes them.
Land sales are to be held next month
in Pine, Chisago, Kanabec and Isanti
counties. Only limited quantity of
land, principally that covered with hard
wood timber, will be offered this time,
as auditor Braden contemplates more
extensive sale early in May.
At Winona three boys were playing
fridge shell. They loaded it with pow
der and a small stonc The charge hit
Larry Milkofski, boy of Is, in the
neck, severing his juglllar vein. He
blsd to death in two minutes,
The st. Croix Dam company intends
this week to begin the construction of
the big dam at the head of Daubrey's
rapids, above st. Croix falls. This work
is one of the most important ever con-
structed on the St Croix river, and will
do away with the costly jams that have
taken place for years.
Last week Wednesday the machinery
of the new 2 900 barrel Imperial flour
mill at Duluth, started grinding its first
wheat. A few car loads were put
through the mill to clear out the ma
chinery. Grinding began in earnest
Monday. 1t employs, with cooper
shop, about seventy-ive men.
The will of the late Senator Goodrich
has been admitted to probate in Blue
Earth county. The estate will inven-
tory $1O, 900. To his aged mother is be-
queathed 81 900, and the balarce is di-
vided between two sisters living in
Maine. His library is donated to the
Blue Earth City Masonic lodge.
A little over thirty years ago Louis
Vertun, then living at st. Paul, pur-
chased 100 acres of land in what were
the wastes of Minneapolis. His widow
has just arrived from Germany and lays
| claim to the land. which is now in the
! heart of the city and worth millions.
The land had been sold for taxes years
| ago.
The plans of the Duluth street railway
| for building an inclined railway up the
hill are perfected. 1t will be built en-
tirely of iron and steel, will pass over
some Of the streets at height great
enough to allow teams to pass under
meath and will carry street cars and
wagons up the hill. The cost of this in
cline will be about $4,000
A Washington special says Dame Ru-
NOR in the capital city has it that ex-
Senator Sabin is to marry Miss Ida MUIR
ply, of st. Paul. Mrs. Sabin's friends
| are very emphatic in denunciation OF
the contemplated marriage, some even
going SO far as to say that the charges
| against his former wife were trumped
up in order to get her out of the way.
The Northern steamship line, whose
six steel ships ply for the Manitoba road
between Duluth and Buffalo, will build
this winter large steel tug for the use
of the limo. The tug will bevery power
full, all of steel, and used entirely to ham
die ships of this line in Duluth harbor.
| It win cost nearly $40, 900 and is named
for n. D. Minot, president of the Eastern
] railway.
Bank Examiner Kenyon has COM
! pleted an-abtraet of reports showing the
/ condition of the Minnesota state banks
for the quarter ending Aug. is, 1889.
The total resources are S24 ,9S3, ,429. so.
i For the quarter ending May l6 the re-
sources were $23, 81, ,939.64, showing an
increase for the last three months of
/ $1,4I1, ,500.35. The number of state
banks in May was 81; now there are 81,
IN increase of 3.
| In one case. at least, gas and electric
illumination have met and made friends
4 In Cincinnati the gas company itself l.
putting in an electric plant to accommo-
date such of its customers as desire that