The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-31
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.

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Negotiations to secure a large
iron working concern for Duluth
have been about completed.
The Polish and Swedish settlers
at Sturgeon Lake contemplate build
ing twoHhurches in the spring.
The city council at Winona is con-
sidering the subject of a system OF
sewers. The estimated cost of a sat
isfactory system is 100000.
A company with 100000 capital
has been organized at Duluth for the
purpose of furnishing the city with
water from Pike lake.
Some educated prisoner in the
Saltwater penitentiary win be de-
tailedto give one hours instruction
daily to his fellow prisoners who are
unable to read and write.
Martin Olson, Swede was adj
judged insane at Moorhead by Judge
of Probate II. G. Finnie and sent to
st. Peter for treatment. Olson is an
old resident of Clay county.
A Lake city special says that
many farmers in Wabasha county
will not be able to put in wheat this
year unless they are assisted in pur-
chasing seed.
A large number of men at Sank
Center are making their living this
winter by catching fish through the
ice. Hundreds of pounds are be-
ing caught and shipped daily.
w. II. Brink, the st. Paul contrac-
tor, has finished work on the 500
barrel floIring mill at Little Falls,
and is figuring on the work ofraising
the bridge across the Mississippi,
The trial of John E. Shea, of Glyn-
don, indicted for arson, has been
finished, the defendant being ac-
quilted. Shea was charged with be-
ing the author of some of the recent
fires in Glyndon.
Oscar Nord, the fourteen-year old
boy who disappeared from home at
Red Wing, has been several miles west
of town, on the Red Wing and Hast
ings road. 1t is now known to a
certainty that he ran away from
home.
The Sank Rapids Sentinel comes
out for consolidation ofSauk Rapids:
East st. Cloud and st. Cloud under
the name of St. Cloud, and also the
eastern part of Stearns county with
Benton county under the name o
Benton county.
Scott & Holston, sash and door
manufacturers, of Duluth, inaugu'
rated a system of division of profit
among their employees. One thousand
dollars was divided among all the
men who had been in their service
over q year, according to the rate Of
wages received.
The news of the recent committal OF
DR.. Cart to the Sioux City Jail was
read with interest at Howard Lake.
A gentleman of that name and pro.
fession visited Wright county tou1.
years ago and made briefstay. He
claimed to be Il Minneapolis million.
aire possessed of real estate in the
Sawdust City valued at $500, 900, be-
sides having the largest practice OF
any physician there. Heprofessed to
be in search of Indian curiosities to
furnish material for an important
book. After mourning heavy debts
in saloons and hotels, taking in all
who trusted him and quilting thepuh
lie generally, he was discovered to be
fraud of the worst description, and
finally he skipped out OH account OF
female entanglements. The newspa
per reports of DIR. CARTS doings in
Sioux City and Dakota are very sim.
liar to the tricks, Misrepresentation
and quackery practiced in Minnesota.
By the action of the city council OF
Winona the city officials are author
lied to issue bonds to the amount OF
100000 to the Winona L South
western Railway company, payable
at the National Park bank, New York,
in bonds of 81 900 each. No opposi-
tion was made by any Of the alder.
men to the matter. H. l.. Buck, in
behalf of some of the property own.
ers, made aspeech protesting against
the issuance of the bonds, as he
claimed that the railway company
had not fulfilled the conditions which
entitled it to the bonus. Further
more, the question was in the su.
preme court undecided, as to whether
the Winona & Southwestern com
pany was a legal corporation ornot,
and he thought it well to wait until
that was settled before paying out
100000. Aid. Van SAINT, of the
finance committee, said his commit.
tee had personally investigated the
question with all its bearings, and
were satisfied that the city never
paid out 500, 900 with prospects q
such abundant returns for the money