Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-19
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Red Wing will build q new Jail.
The Winona school enrolment is
2,286.
. New Ulm offers ss,ooe bonus for a
pottery.
Rose Coughlin viii open Duluth's new
opera house Oct. 81.
The St. Cloud band took the first prize
at the Fargo tournament.
Duluth teamsters have struck for 81
per day. raise of 90 cents.
Travelling men held a three days re-
union at Ltchfield last week.
On account of the low water the mills
at Cloquet are shutting down.
Forest fires are raging near Two Har-
bors, along the Iron Range road.
Morris is exercised over the amount of
counterfeit moneyin circulation there.
The mill of the Cloqet Lumber COM
pany has shut down. There are no logs
to cut.
Four business houses at Rices Station
were destroyed by fire, causing loss OF
5000.
Ludwig Arenson, charged with muir
acquitted.
Red Wing dogs are now killed by cleo
tricity-that is. those that are killed
officially.
The st. Cloud city council will vote
81 900 to the Johnstown and Seattle
sufferers.
An addition 5Ox10O feet will be built
upon the southwest wing of the Mankato
normal school.
A large moose has been seen near
Edna, and hunting parties have tried in
vain to capture it.
Rev. Pettingill, of St. Cloud, who it
was supposed perished in the Conemaugh
food, has been heard from.
Mrs. Deny, an old lady of Morristown,
recently went into store for the first
time in over twenty years.
II. G. Stordock has been reelected
warden of the Minnesota penitentiary by
the new board of managers.
The state firemen's tournament was
held at Alexandria last week. The next
meeting will be at Brainerd.
A new bank has just been started at
parties own most of the stock.
Mrs. w. L. Dunn, of Mankato, gave
her baby morphine, mistaking it for an
other medicine. The child is dead.
Brown county was the first to make
its June settlement with the state treas
urer, SIG, 900 being the amount paid in.
The United States court opened Mon
day, Judge Noonan presiding. The cal
endar contains sixty law cases and fif-
teen chancery causes. ..
An abstract of public Examiner Ken
yon,s books shows the resources of the
sixty-fonr state banks of Minnesota, May
16, to be $23, ,571, ,929.64.
The Mississippi is lowering so rapidly
that unless there are heavy rains soon
navigation between La Crosse and ST.,
Paul will have to be suspended.
Dairy Commissioner Ives has gone to
New York and Boston in quest of infor-
nation concerning the enforcement Of
the food aduiteration, laws In Eastern
states.
!. Mining men Of the Vermillion range
rnerce in erecting large permanent
magnificent exhibit of ores from the
range will be exhibited.
Postmaster Thompson, of Cloquet, de-
nies that he is short in his accounts, and
says that he will bring an action for
damages against the postofdce inspector
who made the charge.
The county commissioners of Big Stone
county have been enjoined from consid-
ering the petition asking the removal of
the county seat from Ortonville to Clin-
ton on account of irregularity in the no
tices.
A twenty-one-year lease and an option
for purchase has been filed for record at
Albert Lea on the farm of O. G. Olson,
where the newly discovered gas wells
are situated. s. Lee Davis, of st. Paul,
is one of the lessees.
The injunction procured by Ortonyille
parties enjoining the county commits
sioners from ordering a special election
before Judge Brown at Wheaton, and
the injunction was dissolved.
The Eastern Minnesota railway COM
menced regular passenger service be-
tween st. Paul and Duluth on Monday.
Their time for the trip is five hours, or
an hour less than the Duluth limited.
The Duluth promises to make the same
time.
There has been quite an Indian upris-
ing scare at Mile, Laos lake the past
week. One man was shot by drunken
Indian, and it was reported that six or
eight had been killed and more were go-
ing to be. Three companies of United
States infantry went to the scene from
Fort Smelling.
The Minnesota Union ex-priscners of
war have decided to attend in body
the national association, which will be
held in connection with the G.. A. r. en-
campment at Milwaukee. P. L. Daw-
son, st. Paul, A. Dockstader and w.
Mills, of Minneapolis, have been named
a committee on arrangements.
The Flandreau Indians have been
camped at Pipestone in the quarries for
about week and have displayed con-
siderable skill and labor in delving for
the much priced pipe stone. The horses
lately supplied by the government are
all fine animals, being young and weigh
ing about 1000 or 1,100. The wagons
are new. One noble red man went to
the quarries in top buggy.
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