Morris tribune., 1889-08-14
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


Armour is preparing to ship dressed
meat to Duluth again.
The Renyille county fair will be held
Sept. 19 and 10, at Hector.
A site has been selected at Duluth for
the new linseed oil works, to cost $780,
600.
Governor Merriam has fixed Aug, 20
as the day for hanging Thomas Brown
at Moorhead.
Constable Robel, of Mankato, tried to
arrest two tramps and was shot through
the body. He will recover.
Work is to be begun at once on the
Duluth and Winnipeg. Track will be
laid as far as the Mississippi this fall.
Theodore Norelius, assistant state
bank examiner, was drowned in Chicago
lake while bathing. The body was re-
covered.
The st. Cloud Normal school will be-
gin its entrance examination Aug 20,
and the regular work of the term will
begin the Goth.
J. Frank Collom, prominent young
Minneapolis attorney, has been arrested
charged with forging the name of J. F.
blc1ouSl1 W S~S WV WI III OA uOGCS,
DIR. Williamson, assistant superintend-
ent of the asylum at Middleton, N. Y,
has been elected superintendent of the
new insane asylum at Fergus Falls.
Thursday, Sept. 5, competitive ex-
animation will be held at Litchfield for
the appointment of cadet to West
Point from the Third congressional dis
trict.
The Austin high school has been ad-
vanced to the first grade list by the state
board. Three hundred and ninety-six
state certificates have been received by
the school this year.
Red Wings city council considers the
Salvation army parades nuisance, and
have asked the mayor to sit down on
them. The army will contest the right
of the mayor so to sit.
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper, has
just concluded an engagement with H.
NJ. Barnett of Minneapolis to jump from
a height of $50 feet into Lake Mime
tonka for the sum of $500.
State Treasurer Bobleter says the reve-
nue. from the taxation of railroad re-
ceipts shows decrease of 800, 900 upon
that of last year. The revenue of 1888
was s713, 3,913.43, and this year it is $780,
600.
N. ?. Clarke's stables at the fair
grounds, st. Cloud. burned. The stables
Contained a large nomber of imported
Clydesdale horses, but they were all got
ten out except Clydesdale mare. Loss
$4,000.
Col. j. H. Davidson, of st. Paul, has
made an ssignment for the benefit of
his creditors. He was largely interested
in the Prosser street locomotive, and it's
failure to meet expectations is given as
the cause.
Henry Kusel, town treasurer of
Minnesota Lake, is missing, and so is
81 800 of the corporation money. Ru-
NOR says sister of his wife has also dis
appeared. The whereabouts of the pair
are unknown.
Excavations have begun at Shakopee
for large pork packing plant. The
building will be built of Shakopee brick,
and will be ready for operation Dec. 1.
The plant will have capacity of 200
hogs per day.
The D. NJ. Stevens Manufacturing
company, of Kansas, will move its en-
tire plant to West Duluth. The company
manufactures harvesters, twine binders,
mowers and other farm machinery, in
Guiding wagons.
At Luverne two travelling men were
held up and robbed by three men
who overlook them while going from
the depot to the train. and at the point of
revolvers relieved them of $50 in money
and two gold watches.
The Methodist minister at Cannon
Falls was tried and acquitted on charge
of preyarication, but will be overhauled
again on an accusation cf slander. He
was given surprise party, purse con-
tanning ample cash and serenade by
the village band.
A 9-year-old son of Joseph Deidrich,
of Palmer, Sherburne county, was play
ing with button after the fashion of
buzz-saw, when the string broke and
the button entered one of his eyes, cut.
ting it completely out. The physicians
say he will probably lose the other eye
also.
A novel weed exterminator, invented
by Supt. Kellie and Master Mechanic F.
A. Fraser, of the $500 Line" is in use
on the Minnesota division. Super
heated steam, dried in the fire box, is
forced through perforated pipes under
the locomotive, whitening all vegetable
growth within its range.
Milton Wilson, serving life sentence
in the Saltwater prison for the crime of
murder in the first degree, was par
doned by Governor Merriam. He en-
tered the prison Dec. 81, 1916, and was
then 4S years old. He has no home or
relatives, and the ex-warden has kindly
offered him home with him at Roth
say.
Ernst Hoppe, q laborer on the North
western road, took a heavy log chain
and locked it very tightly around his
sons neck, lad some ~ years old. He
then put the key in his pocket and went
to work. After foul hours the neigh
bors discovered the boy and took the
chain off. The boy was suffering very
much and might have perished in few
hours: The indignation of the citizens
eliminated in their claiming him to a
post with the same chain that he used
upon his boy.
George N. Seymour has left Saltwater
for Venezuela in the interest of capital
lists of which ex-senator Sabin is presi-
dent. Mr.. Seymour will report upon
the state of the country and its re-
| sources, and this report will have much
to do with the acceptance of PROPOSE
tlonS made by the government TO give
the syndicate the exclusive right to build
and run railways, establish telephone
and telegraph lines, put in electric
plants and manufacture paper Of a SUI
perior quality from a plant Indigenous
to the country. .s- .a.--@~
At Moorhead an application has been
made by Attorney G. E. Brown, Of Min
neapolis, to Judge Mills to appoint a
guardian for onesW alter s. Cox, minor.
Cox is the alleged owner Of the original
town site of GAINESVILLE, and his friends
will sue Mr.. Manville, of the st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba road to regain
possession of the lands. The case has
caused considerable excitement from the
fact that the claim embraces nearly all
the land in New GAINESVILLE. The mo
tion was granted and Judge Mills will
appoint the guardian. - ~ eL.4Ia
| Ri1ls have been introduced into some