Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-09-04
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

barrel mill.
Duluth is credited with $4,4S4 ,94s per-
sonal property.
The second trial of Clara Blatz for the
murder of Doherty is set for Sept. 8.
Selah Matthews, a we'll known Min
neapo!is lawyer is defendant in divorce
suit.
The Rice County Union Agricultural
fam will be held at Northtield Oct. 4
and 8.
Attorney General Clapp has decided
that the reform school. property is not
assessable.
The Madelia Touring mill was entirely
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000; insur-
ance, $1,000.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota
knights of Pythias will be held in St.
Paul Sept. 10 and II.
The st. Paul board of equalization
made a reduction of nearly $500,000 in
the assessors return.
Cornelius Mulverhill, a farmer living
six miles south of LIE Roy, died from the
effects of snake bite.
The seventeenth annual fair of the
Anoka County Agricultural society will
be held Sept. 3, and 5.
The Fillmore County Agricultural
society will hold its thirteenth annual
fair at Preston on Sept. II, IS, - and 20.
st. Paul will have no street illumina-
tion during the state fair this week, save
those that few private individuals may
put up.
Secretary of War Proctor has awarded
the contract for the construction of dou-
BILE barracks at Fort Smelling at cost of
$oS,000.
The peculiar worm which did 80 much
damage to corn in Wanamingo last sea-
son has appeared this year again and is
once more devastating the fields.
J. Devlin, the stenographer for the
Rochester investigating committee, has
finished his copy of the testimony and
submitted the last batch to Secretary
Hart.
The motion for new trial for Clifton
Holden, the Redwood Falls murderer,
has been denied by Judge Webber. The
case will be appealed to the supreme
court.
Big Bird, the Indian arrested a month
ago for killing companion on the
White Earth reservation, has been re-
leased, the shooting having been proven
accidental.
The Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house commission announces that it
will no longer furnish inspection for
private warehouses at st. Paul, Mime.
apolis and Duluth.
Judge Cory. of st. Paul, has decided
that physicians who have not filed their
permits with the clerk of the district
court are not "legally practicing physi.
cians," and cannot collect their bills.
c.. L. Watrous, young man who has
been looking around for some time in
st. Paul for a steady job, has fallen heir
to large estate by the death of his
father, millionaire Australian miner
The Window postoffice contest has
been settled by caucus of the warning
factions. The meeting was presided
over by Congressman Lind. Joseph
was decided upon for the
place.
Wilkin county has the finest wheat
crop ever harvested. There has been
scarcely field in the county threshed
yielding less than twenty bushels and
many go as high as thirty-five to forty
bushels per acre.
The Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house commission has fixed wheat
grades the same as last year. An addi-
tional grade of Northern white wheat
was established, and several inspectors,
weighmasters and registrars appointed.
1t has been ordered by the state high
school board that the following high
schools shall receive the appropriation
of S400 each: Appleton, Cannon Falls,
Duluth, Dodge Center, Dundas, Madelia,
Wabasha, Wadena, Winona, Garden
City and New Ulm.
The. government has ordered native
police force organized on the Vermillion
Indian reservation. 1t will consist Of
three officers, at the head of whom will
be Charles Ancker. These Indian DO
licemen are paid $40 a month, with ra-
tions and uniforms furnished.
Four Thousand men will be employed
on the Duluth and Winnipeg railroad as
soon as they can be hired, and the road
bed will be completed to the Mississippi
river within ninety days. New and
valuable discoveries of iron ore have
been made on and near the line of this
road, aud it is expected that others will
follow, as prospectors in large numbers
are securing the country.
The board of prison managers met at
Saltwater to open bids for half the avail
able convicts to be employed on the con-
tract system, but no bids had been re.
ceived The thresher company, how
ever, made proposition looking to the
employment of such labor, and a gen.
eraI conference between Manager Fogle,
of the thresher company, and the prison"
officials followed, the proposition being
finally left for action at the next meet
ing.
Rear Admiral Harmony, chairman Of
the lighthouse board, gives notice that
on or about Sept. light of the fourth:
order, giving red flash every six sec.
onds, will be exhibited from the struct-
ure recently erected on the inner end of
the south pier at tho entrance to the
harbor at Duluth. The light will illu-
mine the entire horizon. Its focal plane
will be sixty feet above the level, of the
top of the pier, and sixty -four feet above
the level of the lake, and the light may
be seen in clear weather thirteen statute
miles. 49, ~ ..--
Yellow Fever in Venezuela
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-United States
Minister Scruggs writes from Caracas,
udder date of Aug, 10. toin-