Morris tribune., 1889-10-30
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Clearwater has another paper, started
by L. Finley Wharton, formerly of ST..
Cloud.
Two children named johnson, living
near Sleepy Eye, went to town on an er-
rand and have not been seen since.
Will E. Hutton, formerly of The East
Minneapolis r Herald, commences the
publication of The Carver County Times,
at Norwood.
i The Twin City stock yards have been
completed, and packing commenced
last Monday. The capacity is 400 beeves
and 1000 hogs daily. ...
The cooper shop branch of the Cream
cry Package Manufacturing company at
Mankato was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81, 900 to $15,-
600.
The chief engineer of the Northern Pa
cific says that, including the price of the
land, the cost of the new union depot in
Minneapolis will be between $500, 900
and $500, 900.
Van Dusen and the New Ulm millers
are having war over that wheat mar
ket, and last week the price was run up
to 72 cents. Over 5000 bushels were
| uldTketeu III TWO UayS.
The Duluth board of trade has appro-
priated $500 for the sufferers of Ramsey
county, North Dakota. Individual mem
bers increased the amount to $1,000,
which has been forwarded to the relief
committee.
A prairie fire six miles east of Slayton
burned 300 tons of hay, 800 bushels of
wheat, an unoccupied dwelling house
containing large amount of flax. ma
chinery, and buildings belonging to sew
eral farmers.
| 1t has been definitely settled that the
! National Teachers association will meet
in st. Paul in $780, Various committees
have been appointed for the preliminary
work The meetings will run from July
to II inclusive.
| The New York Life Insurance COM
pany has promised to erect building
costing at least $500, 900, providing the
citizens of Duluth viii take 81 200, 900
worth of insurance. $500, 900 worth was
subscribed at once.
Advices from Fergus Falls say that
prairie fires are raging in the neighbor-
hood of Mettona, which have devastated
the farms of many settlers. A dozen or
fifteen have lost all their hay and some
have lost buildings.
Citizens of Verndale escorted G. G.
| Woodward to the train, bought him
ticket and warned him never to return
| to that town. He was suspected of hay
| ing had hand in "a robbery that occurred
at the Central House there.
A Representative of Russian syndi-
cate was in Duluth last week inspecting
the elevator system there. 1t is intended
to adopt similar system of elevators at
Odessa, those now there proving made
quate both in size and equipment.
The Minneapolis city comptroller has
discovered that the city of Minneapolis
has for several years been paying inter-
est on $6S, 900 worth of bonds which were
never issued by the city, and no record
shows that they were ever assumed by
the city council.
The old Indian warrior. Lorenzo Law
renee aud his followers, about twenty in
number, are cafnped~ at, Mantevideo.
This part of the state was his hunting
ground before the Sioux massacre. He
| was friendly to the whites in the out
break and saved many lives.
The rainfall of the year 1889, as re-
corded by the signal service bureau at st.
Paul, up to the present time is only 14.61
inches, against 1856 last year. The
yearly rainfall in Minnesota ranges from
80 inches to 22.89-the latter in 1885, and
the lowest in twenty-five years.
What came near proving to be seri-
GUS affair happened at Caledonia We'd
nesday. AS Mrs Frank Palen was pass
ing near where some boys were having
target practice with revolvers, a bullet
from one passed through her hat, knock
ing the hat pin out of her hair and leav-
ing her senseless.
The large Touring mill of the L. G.
Porter Milling company, at Winona, was
destroyed by fire. The engine and boil
ers are but slightly damaged. The fire
| caught from spark from smoke stack.
The capacity of the mill was 1,400 bar
rels daily. Loss approximated nearly
| $110, 900, with fair amount of insur-
ance. .-s ...
The Northwestern Miller announces
positively that the G. G. Washburn mills
in Minneapolis, consisting of the Wash
burn A, B, and G mills had been sold to,
an Eastern syndicate; that the papers
would be signed soon and possession
given Sept. 1, 1890, when the present
lease of the Washburn- Crosby company
will expire. ..,.....
About two years ago it was reported
that E. d. Crandall, at one time a
resident of Albert Lea, had been killed
| in railroad accident, everybody believ-
ing the story to be true. The other day
| Crandall turned up alive and well after
being supposed dead for two years. Mr..
Crandall is now engaged in railroad work
at Cherokee, Iowa.
Ex-Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, whose
remarks about "priest ridden Ireland"
on his return from Europe lately, caused
such revulsion of feeling among his
Irish admirers, has received five different
threatening letters signed .sIrishman,"
"Catholic," "Clan-na-G Gael" etc. They
warn him if he does not leave the eoun-
try he will suffer the fate of DR.. Cronin.
The 10-year-old daughter Of T. 7. Ras-
dale, in Seely, fifteen miles south of
Wells, was burned to death. Her
clothes caught fire, and she ran out
and set d hay stack on fire. The barn,
granary and stable were burned, to-
gether with 800 bushels of wheat, 1000
bushels of oats, some hogs and sheep.
4 The house only was saved. The girl
4 died in few hours.
One of the most singular cases of mis-
taken identity on record is reported from
st. Paul. On Monday of last week
James Maloney, from Worcester, Mass,
fell from the Endicott building and was
] killed. His remains were identified as
4 those of Patrick Mahoney, from near
Northfield. The body was viewed by
Mahoney's brother, mother and probably
500 friends; all of whom identified it
completely as they thought. The corpse
WIS taken to Mortified and buried, and
on Thursday one of the brothers went to
Minneapolis to get the clothes and effects
of the supposed dead man. 0nsarriving
; there he found the brother whom they
had mourned as dead alive and well and
unconscious of all the sorrow he had
created. This led to the true identifica-
ton.
Even the heathen tribes .of Africa
, progress. The sultan of Zanzibar has
given to the British consul in his do