Morris tribune., 1889-12-25
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


zero at Brainerd last week.
A company has been organized at
Cannon Falls to build q telephone line to
Randolph.
DR.. Ames, of Minneapolis, who has
been reported as having been again very
i'll, is getting better.
Brainerd public schools are having an !
extended vacation on account of diseases
which are prevalent among children.
Alexandria authorities are enforcing
the law against selling cigarettes to min.
ors and closing up gambling houses.
Chris Belts, German laborer of Ows
tonna, to-day shot and killed his wiz .
and then himself. Domestic troubles
Attorney General Clapp has denied he
application for quo warranto proceeds ,gs
against the Great Northern Railway CO M
pany.
A post mortem examination of n ,cow
held at the state veterinary schot j in
Minneapolis revealed clear case of con-
sumption.
A. Rarto, of st. Cloud, has beess ap-
pointed register of the land office at that
place. William Westerman was ap-
pointed receiver of the same Office.
The body of Guy Gardner. who has
been missing from Rose Creek since
Aug. Is, was found about two mile fl ON
town. 1t is thought that he suicided.
Thieves have been tampering with the
mail boxes in st. Paul. They have a
key. A policeman caught two Of them
in the act, but fell down and failed to
catch them.
Some genuine cases of small pox in
the village of Sleepy Eye are causing
great excitement, having closed the pub
lie schools and all public assemblies, and
threatening to close all places of bus l.
ness.
w. c. Pence, who gave the famous
steamboat excursion from Winona, oE.
the Mississippi last Christmas, is oM;
with placards announcing second ex-
cursion this Christmas with the steamer
Robert Harris and two barges.
A practical lumberrnan is authority
for the statement that the Canadian gov
ernment has lost $3,O0O.OOO in timber
dues alone since 1885,, through fires set
by the Indians. He claims that $780,
600, 900 would not cover the amount Of
timber that has been destroyed by FIRE
between Lake Dauphtn and Lake Win
nipeg.
At Breckenridge, the motion for a
new trial in the case of Andrew
Void was denied by the court. But
the court, considering the facts as war
ranting it, certified to exceptional cir
culmstances, and reduced his sentence to
Imprisonment for, life. Harry Baldwin,
indicted for outrage, was sentenced to
Imprisonment for twenty years.
The winter cholera has captured Fer
gus Falls. Over 300 citizens have had q
run of the disease, or. at least a touch of
it, and two or three cases have been ser
ious. The city water supply from the
Red river, has been analyzed and found
free from impurity. and the physicians
say the origin of the disease was un.
doubtedly the unusually mild weather
which has prevailed all this month.
Petitions for the appointment of Mark
Hargreaves, publisher of the Hokah Sun,
and David House, a prominent druggist,
for the postmaster ship were recently for
warded to Was 'Gngton. Congressman
Dunnell has sent word chat q disinter-
ested committee must be obtained and
vote taken of the Republican patrons of
the Office for choice of postmaster. The
proposition is lSot looked upon with ia
vor by the candidates or their friends,
and they refuse to obey the o. der.
The state public examiner has COM
pleted an abstract of reports made to
him as superintendent of banks, show
ing the condition of the state banks of
Minnesota at the close of business Nov.
10, 1883. The total resources are $780,
62S, ,693.50, which is an increase of
1854 ,263.51 over the abstract of re-
ports made on the 18th of last August. |
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the following items: Capital stock,
$3.50, 900; increase of deposits, $674,- |
S27.31; increase of profits, 1924 ,415.5 81. |
The number of banks have increased |
by one.
The total enrolment in the graded |
schools of the state for the year ending |
July 81, 1889, was g., ,227, and the aver
age attendance has been 81, ,457. These |
figures are given from the annual report |
of State Superintendent Kiehle. This |
report also shows many interesting facts. |
There are 119 Independent and special |
school districts in the state, under. con-
troll of 10 special superintendents and 100 |
high school principals, who also officiate
in the capacity of superintendent. The |
salaries paid the special superintendents |
aggregate $50. .405, and those. paid the |
principals who act as superintendent as |
well as teachers in the high schools |
amounted to S99, ,9O2.50.. { Among the |
teachers the ladies largely .predominated.
There was total Of + 1.857-1, ,640 females
and 217 males. :. The principal cities, of |
Minnesota that have an enrolment of |
1000 or more pupils are: St., Paul,
1858; Minneapolis, 1914; Duluth,
2,90S; Winona, 2,744; Saltwater, 1, ,672;
Red Wing, 1,4O2; Brainerd, |, 1920; Fergus
Falls, 1,O44; Rochester 1923 The av-|
erage attendance in these schools for the
fiscal year were: St, Paul, 10, ,924; Mime
apolis, ID, ,367; Duluth, 1890; Winona,
2,036; Saltwater, 1882; Red Wing,
Big Offer by the English.
RICHMOND. Ind, Dec. 23-Recently a |