Morris tribune., 1889-07-10
MIMI. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10. 1889.
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
The Mahtomedi Chatauqua assembly

The Mahtomedi Chatauqua assembly
10 in session.
Bears have killed several hogs at Nor
ril recently.
The Sixth Waseca Chautauqua assem-
bly, is in session.
A postoffice has been established at
Malmoo, Akin county.
Bogus dog license checks have been
discovered at Red Wing.
New Ulm will soon issue $4,000 in
bonds for city buildings.
A uniformed rank of Odd fellows has
been instituted at brainerd.
The fare on the Anoka street cars is
now 1O cents instead of cents.
A tirecracker blaze at East Granite
Falls did IS 900 worth of damage.
E. =. Freeman has been appointed re-
ceiver of the land office at Marshall.
Three unsuccessful attempts to burn
the village of Morris were made on the
Fourth.
Four prisoners escaped from the Wi
mona county Jail, but they were soon re-
captured.
j. A. johnson, a farmer residing near
Red Wing, thinks he has found gold on
his farm.
Hawley has female lawyer, Miss
Burrill, who is said to be a success in her
chosen line.
Maxtielu Bros livery barn at Leroy
was destroyed by fire and several horses
were cremated.
Workmen in the Rockford saw mill
are on a strike, claiming that they can
not get their pay.
Hon. Edmund Rice, congressman from
the Fourth Minnesota district, is incur
ably ill at White Bear lake.
A family of peculiar looking people,
who do not know their own nationality,
are camped near Lake City.
Public spirited citizens of Sleepy Eye
are agitating the construction of a three
mile boulevard along the lake.
Hon. A. C. Forbes, county attorney
and member of the legislature, died at
his home in Marshall last week.
st. Paul and Minneapolis claim pop
ulation of 100000 jointly. The figures
are based on directory canvass.
The park Region G. A. R. will meet
at Wadena next year. Mai. G.. A.
Whiting was elected commander.
The Minnesota state fair will begin
Sept. 6 and close Sept. "A on the grounds
between st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The Nelson Lumber company of Du-
1,,fI, will build hiCr 10 ho
quet river, forty miles above the town
of Cloquet.
Miss Theresa Burke, aged 30, was
killed at Mankato last week while Jump
ing out of bus, the team of which was
running away.
Fire broke out in Hiram Frost's house
at Hopkins, near Minneapolis, and Miss
Bessie Frost, nineteen years old, was
burned to death.
John Cunningham was sent to Jail for
one week at st. Cloud, for trying to steal
so cents worth of meal, to keep himself
from starving to death.
E. J. Chadwick, Fred L. Draper and
George Kingsley have been held to the
grand jury for completely in the real es-
tate frauds at st, Paul.
Tom Carlin, who assaulted his mother
in-law, Gertrude Christopherson, last
March, at Glyndon, has been SEN
fenced to two and one-half years in
Saltwater.
DR.. s. B. Newell, arrested at Slater
for beating his wife, was taken from
Jail by thirty masked men, who gave
him a coat of tar and feathers and rode
him ont of town on a rail
Rosa, the 3-year-old daughter of Henry
Pusch, living near Anoka, drank a
quantity of whisky which the father had
carelessly left in bottle in the water
pail, and died from the effect.
At Moorehead boarder pretended to
be sick and borrowed the landlady's
watch so he could tell when to take his
medicine. After getting the watch he
left the place and has not been seen
since. {.~'
Several men, wearing masks and call
ing themselves ''White Caps" took two
brothers, named Brown, from their
house at Anoka, and horse whipped
them. They both were charged with
stealing chickens.
The report comes from the village of
Albany, twenty miles west of st. Cloud,
on the Manitoba road, that black diph-
Both churches and the schools have been
closed. No deaths have occurred so far.
While Severt Lee and Guttorm Hen
Erickson were blowing at Holland, near
Mule lake, they found gold chain and
gunlock beside a human skull. The
place where the relics were found is sup
posed to have been an Indian burying
ground.
Edward T. Phillips and George Pell,
two United States prisoners now in the
county Jail at St. Paul, on the charge of
selling whisky to Indians, expressed
their desire to plead guilty and were al
! lowed to do SO by Judge Nelson. Pell
lives in Hubbard comfy and Phillips in
Carleton county. Both men have been
several months in jail
United States Marshal Campbell last
| week sold at auction the 4UO pounds of
opium seized at Minnesota Transfer last
| spring. Among the bidders were several
Cinnamon from San Francisco. Noyes
Bros. C Cutler, of st. Paul, bid $3.50 q
pound and secured the opium. 1t was
bought by them for San Francisco par
ties. The duty alone on opium is $40
| pound.
Fayette Marsh has instituted criminal
proceedings against Alderman George
Low, T. C. Kitty, f. b. Yates, A. w.
Pattee and James Goodman, the mem
bers of the city council of Saltwater
! who have held Office prior to the present
| year. Marsh, in his complaint, charges
| that the council had levied assessments
| for the improvement of certain streets,
but applied the money to other sources:
that they voted to pay bills on con-
| tract in which one of the aldermen were
interested, and voted to pay more than
his contract awarded him.
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