Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-08-21
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
ST. Louis county is to have $4,000

ST. Louis county is to have q 100000
Jail.
Glenwood's two newspapers are to be
consolidated
A worm resembling the army worm is
creating havoc around Bird Island.
]. r. Bell has purchased The Sauk
Rapids Free Press, II. P. Wood and Mrs.
Julia A. A. Wood retiring.
Hunters at Graceville killed several
tame Geese, mistaking them for wild
birds. 1t cost the party just $3.50 per
1nan to settle. @s@
A train loaded with Forepaugh's show,
on its was to Red Wing, was ditched
and badly wrecked and three chariots
smashed to pieces. ~..sf r~
R. F. Nicolay, of the Plainview News,
was stabbed by lead pencil which he
had in his pocket. 1t entered his side
three inches when he fell down.
A telegram from Brainerd reports the
the Indian commission at Leech lake in
danger of their lives because of the hos
tility of the Indians to the treaty and
the aid of whisky. @ -.
While excavating for the foundation
of round-house at Glenwood a fossilized
elephants tusk, feet inches long by 4
inches wide, was found, about seven feet
beneath the surface.
Judges Stearns and Ensigns, of the
Duluth circuit, have held the Scheffer
dressed beef law to be unconstitutional
as an interference with interstate COM
merce. Both judges concurred in the
opinion.
Five men have been arrested at
Anoka charged with the murder of
Mangus johnson, whose body was found
in the river there about q month ago.
They were neighbors of the murdered
man.
Attorney General Clapp has decided
that prairie chickens may be legally
harvested on Aug. 20. There is some
conflict in the law in regard to the mat
ter, and he holds the penal code rules in
the matter.
The Minnesota railroad commissioners
directed the st. Paul and Duluth Rail
road company and the Northern Pacific
Railroad company to chow cause why
they should not be compelled to furnish
the people of Fond du Lac with railroad
facilities.
Duluth grain men are kicking against
the weighing and inspection fees there,
especially on corn, and the board of
trode has passed a resolution requesting
the grain and warehouse commission to
reduce them. 1t is said they amount to
$1.S0 per 1000 bushels of corn.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Par
ticket Office at Faribault was entered by
masked burglar with drawn revolver,
which he presented at the operators
head and demanded the keys to the
money drawer. He got them and Sc
cured $43.y5 and left.
The June statement of deaths in Min
nesota has Just been issued from the
Office of the secretary of the state board
of health at Red Wing. The total num-
Der of deaths was 800, decrease of 81
compared with the previous month. The
population of the state the board esti-
mates as l 1856, $50.
Hanson, the man bitten by a mad cat
at Minneapolis and started for Paris and
Pasteur, is coming back. He got on
big tear and was taken in charge by the
New York police. He went through
the money furnished to go to France in
great shape. The man will now be
taken to Chicago hospital for treat
ment.
A prize fight to finish took place
few days ago in Loon lake, near Man.
kato, between large pickerel and a
bull-head. The pickerel was about
three feet long and attempted to swal-
low the bull-head, which was about ten
inches in length. The latter would not
be swallowed and in the struggle stuck
his horns into his antagonist and killed
him. -.--
The log jam has assumed a serious
piasJ, p9S ros not ,ot az - ans
it out, as much of it has been removed,
but the jam at Big Rock, at the head of
the chain of Rapids ending at Taylor's
Falls. This jam first formed at Daub-
rey's rapids, and started bodily with the
rising water till it came to Big Rock,
where the whole mass stuck.