Morris tribune., 1889-05-08
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

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The Mirror Is a new paper at Lyle.
Snow fell at Sauk Rapids Thursday.
Albert Lea 10 agitating street sprink-
ling.
Lake City boasts pig with six legs
and double body.
John Rengel shot a full-grown lynx at
st. Cloud last week. \
Measles are epidemic at Zumbrota.
They are mild in form.
The corner stone of the new Moravian
church was laid at Chaska Sunday.
There were 10,S47 marriages, 5sS di-
vorces and 20,626 naturalizations in 1888.
Vicks, the Rochester seed firm are
looking up property near saltwater for
q seed farm.
Mrs. Ellen Larson, sixty-six years OF
age, secured divorce from her husband
at Moorhead.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Chambers, of
Glencoe, celebrated their golden we'd
ding last week.
A superior quality of hematite iron
ore has been discovered at Hogs Back,
near Plainview.
Waseca had an incendiary fire last
Wednesday, and serious damage was
narrowly averted.
The Minnesota Farmers alliance have
organized Hail, Cyclone and Tornado
Insurance company.
w, F. Street, editor of the Superior
Inter- Ocean, has been made deputy col
lector of that port of entry.
Two deaths from diphtheria are re-
ported from one family at Red Wing.
The house has been quartined.
Professor o. Whiteman, after seven
teen years service as superintendent OF
schools at Red Wing, has resigned.
The postoffice department has sent an
inspector to st. Cloud to investigate the
claims that city has for free postal de-
livery.
Citizens of Traverse county will vote
on May 28 on the question of removing
the county seat from Browns Valley to
Wheaton.
Philip Chmelick, of London, whose
wife and daughters were foully muir
dered last winter. has gone insane from
his trouble.
Boston bond holders are figuring on
the Brainerd dam property, with a view
of purchasing it. The property is val
ued at 100000.
The st. Paul street car drivers voted
Thursday evening to return to work at
the reduced prices. The cars are now
running as usual.
st. Paul water works bonds were sold
last week to the amount of 100000 at
nearly 10 per cent. premium. They
were 1-2 per cents.
The owners and lovers of fine horses
have organized the Spring Valley Trot-
ting association and fine half-mile
track has been completed.
The st. Paul iobbers have decided to
give their employees half holiday each
week, and will close their places of busl-
ness at D. m. on Saturday from May /
to Aug. 81.
In the case of the state against the st.
Paul Union Depot company to recover
$10.450.5y taxes on gross earnings, Judge
Villas decides for the plaintiff, and the
company must pay the taxes.
C. NJ. Reese, of Kandiyohi county has
been appointed to succeed E. M. Mer-
chant as state weighmaster at Minneapo-
lis. Edwin McManus, of Crookston, will
succeed 81. A. Norton at Duluth.
It is said that a syndicate of capital
lists, headed by Thomas Lowry, are buy
ing property on the Duluth hill top, and
that the scheme is to put cable line up
the hill starting at the union depot.
About 1000 laborers employed by the
st. Paul Street Railway on construction
work, went on strike for an advance
in pay from lbs to $3.50 per day. They
won their point in twenty-four hours.
The wheat acreage of 1887 was $685.
| 9S7, while in 1888 it was only 2,929, ,052,
with an average yield in 1887 of 1870
bushels per acre. The total yield of
wheat in 1881 was SO, ,07O, 10y bushels.
In the centennial procession at Little
Falls the Sons of Veterans carried a flag
| that was presented to Wa-wa-a-com-ick,
head chief of the Mile Laos Indians, by
President Jefferson over eighty years
ago.
Two boys sleeping in the upper story
| of T. j. Hatbaway's residence at Crook
ston were badly burned Thursday, one
of them probably fatally. Mrs. Hatha-
way was also considerably burned. The
house was entirely destroyed.
Erick e. Salseth, postmaster at Nash,
/ Stevens county, was arrested Thursday
and taken to st. Paul, charged with hav-
ing made practice of using stamps as
legal tender at neighboring towns and
reporting them to the department. as cam
celed by him. He is said to have pock-
eted 5000 or $6, 900 in this manner.
| It is stated that at Grassy Point and
Fond du Lac fully 200 barrels of eggs of
wall-eyed pike are now lying about in
| that vicinity, where they have been
thrown by the netters who have been
| fishing illegally up the river. There are
/ 10000 pike eggs in quart, and this will
show that over 300, 1000. 600 eggs have
been destroyed.
Saltwater is one of the first cities to
| appoint its meat inspector and establish
/ fees. For cattle, from one to four in
spected at one time, % cents each, over
/ that number, l5 cents each; hogs, one to
Il four. Is cents each, over that number,
i II 1-2 cents; sheep, one to four, IL 1.2
cents: over that number, 10 cents each;
lambs, one to four, 10 cents each, over
i that number, 8 cents each; calves, 10
cents each.
/ At Crookston Wednesday night an un-
Il offending citizen named Jake Zeinholt
was taken from his room at tho Cleve-
land house, was bound, gagged and un-
mercifully beaten. Then he was taken
i to the outskirts of the town and tarred
\ and feathered, rope was placed about
his neck, and he was dragged mile
and left for dead. Finally he recovered
4 and informed the police. He now lies
il in precarious condition, with little