Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-08-28
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
St. Cloud win have free postal deliv-

cry after Oct. 1.
Coy. Merriam viii attend the fairs at
st. Cloud and Mankato.
Ohio capitalists are about to start q
fibre factory at st. Cloud.
An unknown disease is killing off the
hogs in the vicinity of Cannon Falls.
The Minneapolis exposition opened
last Wednesday with good display.
The Winona city council has defeated
proposition 20 run the street cars by
electricity.
The damage from the storm at Duluth
Monday night of last week is estimated
at 100000.
Forty picnicers of st. Paul were pois-
oned by eating ice cream last Sunday.
No deaths.
The first number of the Lamberton
Leader, by w. d. Smith, has made its
appearance.
The firm of j. III. Mailer &c Co., ex-
tensive carriage manufacturers of st.
Paul, has failed.
st. James is to have q new. 81, 900
school house, a $14, 600 flour mill and q
fine Baptist church this fall.
Charles c. Cole, well known as one of
the pioneers of Minnesota, died at
Woodstock, Pipestone county.
1t is said trains win be running on the
Duluth and Winnipeg road by Dec. Is
from Duluth to the Mississippi river.
A teachers institute will be held at
Graceville, Big Stone county, during the
week beginning Monday, September 8.
A washout on the st. Paul and Duluth
road near Rush City ditched twelve
freight cars. Two tramps were badly
bruised.
Minneapolis is to have a rubber fac
tory, employing 500 men. The Tribune
sees another stretch of population
therein.
Thomas Kelly, of Grow, twenty miles
north of Anoka, has lost three children
from diphtheria, and two more are dan
gerously ILL.,
English sparrows have become so nu-
merous at Red Wing, that the city coun-
Gil has been asked to adopt measures to
exterminate them.
Robert Arola, the young Finlander
who shot his father near Fergus Falls,
and was proven insane, has escaped
from the ST. Peter asylum.
The Moorhead papers complain that
laboring men are scarce there, and that
as high as $2.75 per day is paid. Farm
ers are paying almost as much.
Indians are doing good business at
Red Wing by selling lotus lilies. It is
said that the only place in America
where they grow is at the head of Lake
Pepin.
While picking berries near Herman
town SWede woman gave birth to a
male child. After the child was born
the mother walked three miles. Both
are doing well. -e.--..- E.. F..
Upon hearing his death warrant read
by the Moorhead sheriff, Thomas Brown
remarked that it was finely gotten up
document, the seal and ribbons being
very attractive.
The first NorthGeld directory has Just
been issued by j. P. Heatwole Of The
News. 1t consists of 40 pages of bust
ness houses and residents, and estimates
the total population at 1000.
The log jam at Taylors Falls has been
broken, 50,000,00 feet of logs starting
down the river at once. The sight is said
by those who witnessed it to have been
one of the grandest imaginable.
James Wood, an agricultural imple-
ment dealer at Newell, has been arrested
for embezzling $31, 700 from the Wafder,
Bushnell & Glessner company of Chi
cago, he being the agent of that firm.
Ex-Indian Agent Sheehan is now at
Brainerd, from the Leech Lake Indian
reservation, and reports the final success
of the Chippewa commission. About
5000, 900 acres will be opened BY the
treaty.
Work on the new water reservoir, at
Duluth is in progress. The reservoir
will be 242 by l52 feet and will occupy
just half a block. The depth will be 90
feet. The elevation of the water will be
be 295 feet above Lake Superior.
In looking farther into the proposal for
the making of earthenware and fine pot
terry at Saltwater, there is found to be
plenty of material in the kaoIin beds
discovered. They are now penetrated to
a depth of 20 feet and cover large area
of ground.
Professor Hoeig, of the government
coast and geodetic survey, has erected a
signal post on the farm of James Reilly,
in Goodhue county, at point which he
pronounces the highest elevation in
Southern Minnesota. 1t is 1911 feet
above the level of the sea.
Professor Edward D. Porter, for nine
years professor of theoretical and prac-
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Minnesota, and director of the state ag-
organization, has been unanimously
elected dean of the college for agricui-
ture of the University of Missouri, and
director of the experiment station of
that state.
State Public Examiner Kenyon has
sent a circular letter to all county
treasurers in the state requesting state
ment of their receipts and disbursements
from March to. July 81 last. The OBJ
iect is to obtain statement up to the
close of the fiscal year. In his last re-
port Mr.. Kenyon was only able TO give a
financial statement up to March 1.
When he prepares his report next year it
will contain statistics up to July 81,
1890, SO that the June settlements will
be included.
Assistant Secretary Chandler has de-
cided a Minnesota swamp land case
against the state. AT the hearing before
the. land officer the evidence of the
claimant was that the land was rolling.
The state put in no evidence, but moved
to dismiss the case on the ground that
the, land, having: been granted TO the
state as swamp land, the government
had lost its right in the case. The com.
missioner of the general land Office de.
cided against the state and his decision
is affirmed. In all cases hereafter it ID
probable that the state will have te
prove that the lands are actually swamp
or lose them. One effect of the decision
can be seen in thefact that there art
now 800 swamp lard cases pending In
the Duluth land cfficc, all for valuable
pine or iron lands. The total amount
involved will reach SO, GOO acres or more
and will affect the swamp land grants Of
many railroads. The railroads will prob
ably 60 back to the state to be REIN
bursed.