Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-26
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Mumps and scarlet fever are reported
at ScramEler.
Dodge county has four creameries in
active operation
An electric street railway will soon be
built at Winona.
Owatonna has voted to issue $50, 900
water works bonds.
The Amery Echo, by C. B. Dodge, has
made its appearance.
The Chippewa Indian commission will
begin work very soon.
Telephone communication is wanted
between Madison and Lac qui Parle.
There were but four applications for
liquor licenses at Northfield this year.
st. James voted $4,000 out of its vii
lage treasury to secure Touring mill.
The Ben Harrison gold mine at Gran
ite Falls produces ore assaying $125sa
ton.
The next Episcopal diocesan council
will be held at Minneapolis in June,
1890.
The Northern Pacific conference of the
Congregational church at Wadena has
adjourned.
A boy eight years old recently arrived
in Lanesboro, having come from Norway
all alone.
Tramps have threatened the town of
Sauk Rapids il they are not supplied
with work.
A strange disease which puzzles vet
Urinary surgeons is killing horses around
New Ulm.
The American Society of Homeopathic
Physicians is in session this week at
Lake Minnetonka.
Frost was reported from Rushford and
some other Southern Minnesota points
Saturday morning.
Farmers elevator at Wadena burned
to the ground; $500 bushels of wheat
was also destroyed.
There are no licensed saloons in Hub
bard county, but this is not saying there
is no liquor sold there.
A class of ten Turner's left New Ulm
Thursday for Cincinnati to compete for
prizes in the turnfest.
A strike is imminent at the brick
to reduce wages 10 per cent.
st. Johns university at Collegeville,
near st. Cloud. has been closed on ac-
count of an epidemic of black measles.
The national camp meeting of Free
Methodists opened at Lake Crystal on
Wednesday last, and will continue one
week.
Several St. Cloud business men have
been swindled by confidence man,
who induced them to cash forged
checks.
Mrs. J. w. Blanchard, of Elk River,
owns hen which every day, it is said,
lays an egg weighing 8 1-2 ounces and
measures Ia by Z Ia inches.
The jury in the trial of Clara Blatz,
who shot John Doherty, her paramour,
on the streets of st. Paul because he had
deserted her, failed to agree and were
discharged. -:.-
State Auditor Braden and Assistant
Attorney General Child have left for
Washington, to appear before the secre-
tary of the. interior in connection with
swamp land matters.
Henry Weston was arrested at Lake
| DGuE1u 4OA q USesAAA VI $5OFCAA-
ment horses from the Sisseton Indian
agency. He is justice of the peace and
notary public in Nebraska.
The supreme court of Minnesota has
rendered an opinion upholding the con-
stitutionality of the law requiring ply
sicians to have a license before practic-
ing medicine in the state.
A fatal shooting affray took place at
Nicollet Wednesday,. The victim of the
murder is J. B. Kennedy, an engineer in
the NicolIet mill, and the man who did
the shooting is Henry Kellgen, who was
jailed. ~
Governor Merriam has issued par
don for John Robinson, the colored
Porter who, month ago, was sentenced
to one years imprisonment at the work
house for robbery. Robinson is dying Of
consumption.
Governor Merriam has reappointed
John Lamb, chief commissioner of
the state labor bureau, and Mr.. j.
p. McGuaghey, of Minneapolis, one of
the two deputies. The other deputy has
not been selected.
Governor Merriam has appointed DR..
J. Fl. Phillips, of Preston, Fillmore
county, member OF the state board OF
he alth, vice DIR. Hand, of st. Paul, de-
ceased. DIR. Phillips was member of
the last legislature.
| A remarkable operation was per-
formed at Richmond by Messrs. s..
Schneider and N. Z. Gile on a COW of
Mr.. Daniel Robinson, taking a calf
weighing forty pounds from the cows
| udder. The calf had broken through
| the walls of the abdomen. The cow is
| now alive after the operation, and is do
ing well.
| B. s. Taylor, a revivalist from North
Dakota, who was holding a camp meeting
under the auspices of the NJ. E. church,
at st. Charles, was ordered by the
| city council to leave at once. He packed
his tent just in season to escape the
vengeance of mob. that gathered at
| the depot with clubs, stones and rotten
eggs. J. f. Chaffee, presiding elder,
/ forbade his speaking again in his dis
trict. 1t is said he offered insults to
ladies.
Fired on by Haytian Soldiers.