Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-27
MINNESOTA NEWS NOGES.

Bishop Whipple has started Cor Florida
to spend the winter.
Worthington's new $50, 900 high school
was dedicated last week.
Negotiations are pending for q CORFU
gated iron pipe manufactory at Duluth.
A new postoffices has been established
at Parent, Benton county, John Mar
shall, postmaster.
Two dogs got into the sheep ranch of
Andrew Hamilton, on the eastern out
skirts of Winona, and killed sixty sheep,
laming others.
A Minneapolis man advertised sets of
furniture for 95 cents. Now some peo-
pie who ordered them affect surprise be-
cause they received toy sets.
A private insane asylum under the
auspices of the Roman Catholic sister
hood has been established at New Ulm
This is the first institution of the kind in
the state.
The case at Fergus Falls, of Mrs. c.. H.
Goodsell against William Taylor, for in
juries received by the fall of the elevator
in the Grand hotel, resulted in verdict
for the plaintiff for s1.550.
The villages of Middleton and George
town, about eighteen miles north of
Moorhead. are stricken with a violent
form of diphtheria. There have been
over 100 cases. Nine deaths occurred in
one day.
Sixty petitioners, residents of Willow
River. Pine county, a station on the St.
Paul and Duiuth, have asked the post
office department for Il new postotfice,
with John Wisdom, as postmaster, and
Congressman Snider recommends it.
The large propeller N. K. Fairbanks
went ashore at OF near Two Harbors.
where she was driven by the wind. AS
sistance has been sent from Duluth
The Fairbanks is the last boat of the
season to so to Two Harbors for a cargo
of ore.
Two hundred residents of Winona
county, receiving mail at Morton, Utica
and Lewiston, have petitioned the post
master general for the discontinuance of
all these offices and the establishment of
new postoffice at central point, to be
called Bethany, on the Winona and
Southwestern railway.
Fred A. Hall, formerly an engineer in
the employ of the Chicago. Burlington
and Northern railway, secured verdict
OF $40, l43.3 against that road, for iniu-
ries received in collision This is the
largest amount of damages found by a
jury for many years, and ranks among
the largest in the United States.
r. D. White, the plaintiff in the di-
yorce case which made such sensation
at Redwood Falls last summer, has made
a full retraction of the charges of adul-
terry made against Mrs. White, and on
which decree of divorce was granted
to White. White has since investigated
the charges and found them false.
Mrs. Maria B. Nell, of Anoka, has
turned over all her property to secure
the creditors of the First National bank,
of that place, for the sum of over $40,-
600 for the notes she signed for G.. F.
Pratt, the cashier who absconded with
$780, 900 of the banks funds. The prop
erty is mostly located in ST. Paul and
Minneapolis, and is worth probably $780,
600.
Samuel Cranston. of Ellington, near
Owatonna, dreamed last spring that
he would die after harvest. The dream
weighed on his mind. Wednesday the
fall work was all finished, the last load
of corn placed in the crib, and Thurs
day. after seeing that all the chores were
done, he seated himself in a rocking
chair, near the stove and expired almost
Immediately.
The scale of logs at the Saltwater sur
veyor generals office is close to 800, OOO,-
coo feet. The season has not been a
good one for mill men, the cost of logs
being out of proportion to the value re-
ceived for the lumber after getting it to
the market, and the usual markets in the
West for the product of the mills have
had but little demand for lumber, owing
chiefly to poor crops and low prices.
Warden Randall, of the Minnesota
state prison, has received telegram
from Bavaria that Frank Landers, per-
haps one of the cleverest forgers known
to the American police, has been cap
tured there Landers is probably wanted
in twenty cities for crooked work. For
work in st. Paul he was given twenty
four years, but escaped in October,
1887.
Judge Stearns has given his decision
in the mandamus case of William F.
Phelps against the city of Duluth for
payment of salary as railroad commits
sioner for the city. He decided that the
law creating the office was constitu-
tional but dismissed the mandamus pro-
ceedings as not the proper proceedings
to be taken in the case. He held that
the commissioner had full and complete
remedy in an ordinary civil suit to col
lect the salary. In deciding the case he
held that the legislature had all powers
in passing laws and creating offices not
prohibited by federal or state constitu-