Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-12-04
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Mankatos. new court house will be
ready for the December term of court
The annual meeting of the Duluth and
Winnipeg has been set for Dec. 12. at
Duluth.
Five hundred new and deep wells have
been sunk in Blue Earth county this year
on account of the drouth.
The New Ulm vinegar works sent $500
worth of clothing, caps, boots and. shoes
to the sufferers of Dakota.
Complaint is made that the Northern
Pacific refuses to furnish cars for farm
ers to load from side tracks at country
places.
Gen. j. II. Baker recently had his
ankle injured and it is causing him
much anxiety as it does not heal, and he
is laid up in consequence.
Deputy United States Marshal E, L.
Warren has gone to Mile Laos to look
after parties who are alleged to have
been engaged in supplying the Chippewa
Indians with frewater.
Joseph Thompson. of Faribault, and j.
w. Thompson. of the town of Forrest,
have received notice of the death of an
uncle of theirs. at Birmingham, England,
whose estate is worth S4,OOO,OOO. There
are but four heirs.
The Salvation army is in trouble again
at Red Wing. Recently the army were
given permission TO turn out one night a
week, but they were not satisfied. They
turned out two nights in succession and
were arrested and fined 81 each.
Col. G. G. Edwards, collector of GUS
toms for the Minnesota district, which
also includes North and South Dakota, is
making an inspection tour along the
boundary. He has inspected the offices
of the sub-ports of st. Vincent and Penn
biua.
The Port Arthur and Duluth road has
been irOned for twenty-five miles this
year. A bonus of S3,20O from the do
minion government and $500 mile from
Ontario is asked for, besides a guarantee
fund from Port Arthur to complete the
line to the boundary.
The mink lined coat belonging to Sem
ator j. N. Castle, and the seal skin wrap
belonging to his wife. stolen about two
weeks since. have been recovered from
Mrs. Murphy, washerwoman and prob
ably q fence at st. Paul. The thief
only secured S18 on the two valuable ar
ticles.
1t is said that I'll. J. Miller. editor of
The Rock County Herald. will be ap-
pointed supervisor of the first census
district of Minnesota, including a part of
the Third and all of the First and Sec
ond congressional districts of the state.
He has been endorsed for the position by
Senators Davis and Washburn and Con-
gresham Lind.
Early in the session Congressman
COmstock will introduce bill for the
relief of settlers who have taken land in
the indemnity limits of the Manitoba
road, and who were by a recent order
of the land office notified that their
claims were invalid. Mr.. Comstock says
the rights of these settlers should not be
jeopardized, and that the money they
have paid the government should be re-
turned to them.
Fred Douglass, sent from Minneapolis
last summer for bank robbery, made an
attempt to escape from the state prison
by secreting himself in q box ear inside
the prison walls, He was not discovered
by the guards. He got with the car as
far as the Northwestern brewery, when
the brakeman, entering the car for fire.
wood, sa " Douglass. The car door was
shut and bolted and an officer notified.
Douglass was taken back to prison. He
was serving a sentence of fifteen years.
It has been decided that the Northwest
ern bonspiel will be held at Minneapolis
this winter. This is the meeting of the
curling clubs of the West to compete for
medals offered annually. 1t was held at
Milwaukee last year and intense excite
ment prevailed. There will be rinks
from Chicago, Milwaukee, Portage, Wis.
St. Paul, Denver and other cities. The
date has not been set as yet, but it is
planned to have it come either Just be-
fore or after the carnival in st. Paul.
The conference for the Dakotas and
Minnesota of the Evangelical Association
of North America is DESTROYS of estab-
fishing college within those states, and
have issued circular soliciting bids.
The building is to be 45x90, three stories
and basement, and the college is to be
endowed with $50, 900 by the association.
Offers are to be received until April 1,
$780, by Rev. C. Brill of Mankato, and
the conference will pass upon the offers
at the May session: The conference rep
resents 5000 members and 100 ministers.
Ed Millner, son Of Mrs. Millner, of the
Windsor house, Willmar, and Myrtle
Bates; were married. The groom OBJ
tanned license upon false statement.
1t transpires that he is but 19 years of
age. and that his parents knew nothing
of the matter That is not all. Mr..
Shaw, of the Manitoba, informed the
Justice that he for three years past has
been the husband of the young bride,
and demanded satisfaction i'll the shape
of warrant. 1t is claimed that Mr..
Shaw was married to the woman under
an assumed name, and that she sought
and obtained legal advice satisfactory to
herself before she married young Millner.
In Chicago paper of Nov. 90, Mr.. E.
J. Foster, of Winona, noticed an item
stating that a medal had been awarded
to Mr.. Francisco for being the youngest
volunteer soldier enlisted during the
civil war from the State of Wisconsin.
As Mr. Foster has heretofore laid claim
to that honor himself he wrote letter
of inquiry to Governor Hoard, and from
the reply finds that he is still the young
est volunteer on record by eight days.
He was born in Waterloo, jefferson
county, Wis, Aug. IA, 1949, and enlisted
May Ii, 1854, in the Fortieth Wisconsin
volunteer infantry. Mr.. Francisco was
born in Lake Mills, same county and
state, Nov. 26, 1849. and enlisted in the
Forty-seventh Wisconsin volunteer in
fantry Aug. 81, 1864, but while he is the
Younger man on account of earlier EN-
listment, Mr.. Foster is the youngest vol
,lnteer on; record. Governor Hoard
states that the legislature has awarded
no medal for this honor, that Mr.. Fran
cisco had merely applied for one.
E. 8. Bates, young student from
Boston. who was reading law at Cincin-
na.:. Committed suicide in his room in