Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05

MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

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in operation.
DIR. Hand, who came to st. Paul il
the fifties, is dead.
Northtield's mayor has ordered all un
muzzled dogs shot.
The Nicollet county fair will be helt
Sept. 10, 20 and 81.
Minnesota Baptists held their annual
meeting at Faribault last week.
A vein of excellent polishing powder
has been found near ST. Cloud.
Henry Wilson escaped from the prison
at saltwater by eluding the guard.
The recent discovery of gold at Gran
ite Falls is causing great excitement.
Thomas Kingston, of st. Cloud, claims
to be the oldest man in the state. He is
| 100.
President James B. Angel, of Michi,
gan university, died at Winona last
week.
The sisters of the order of St. Benedict
will erect $4,000 hospital at st.
Cloud.
The county jail at Duluth is said to be
40 bad the celebrated 'black hole" in
Calcutta.
Rush City has no newspaper now, The
Post plant having been removed to
Pierre, 8. D.
Sixty graduates received diplomas at
the Winona normal school commence
ment last week.
The Mankato Review protests against
the habit some people have of taking
their dogs to funerals.
William Frizzle, of Vulkenny, blew
into q gun to see if it was loaded. Will
lam now occupies coffin.
Fairmont people protest against the
wholesale slaughter of snipes by hunters,
who ship them to Eastern markets.
Hog cholera is causing farmers in and
around Caledonia some uneasiness. A
large number Of hogs have already died.
Governor Merriam distributed Wash.
ington centennial medals to each of the
boys at the State Reform school Friday.
After being out Ave days the jury in
the Lufkin murder case at Redwood
Falls failed to agree and was discharged.
Frank Mann, arrested at Minneapolis
under the Scheffer drunkenness law,
will contest the constitutionality Of the
act.
The brickwork of the new Pillsbury
academy at Owatonna is nearly done,
and the roof will be put on in few
days.
Arrangements are under way to es-
tablish state experimental station to
manufacture syrup and sugar at Morris
town.
Adviees from various parts of the
state show that recent frosts have in
jured garden vegetables, but the grain
Is all right;
Clifton Holden was found guilty of
murder at Redwood Falls last week. He
killed his cousin. He will probably get
anew trial.
John Simmons shot and killed David
Cook at Tower Thursday. Cook had
circulated slanderous reports about Sim
mons sistersin-law.
The election held for the removal of
the county seat from Browns Valley to
Wheaton resulted in favor of removal
by between 500 and 600 majority.
A strong vein of natural gas been cir
~culated near Albert Lea. 1t is about
twenty miles from the former finds of
that place, and flows much stronger.
Special Government Agent Neff has
returned to Duluth from the Rainy Lake
region, and will prosecute the men who
have been cutting timber from the gov
ernment lands.
At Jordan farmer and his wife re-
fuse to pay any taxes, claiming that
rything belongs to the Lord. The
sheriff cannot see it in that light, and
has levied on their property.
Active operations have been begun on
the Twin City Union Stock yards at
Long Lake. Several hundred men are
employed, and the slaughter houses will
be ready for the fall shipments.
A stay of proceedings has been granted
by the Minnesota supreme court in the
case of Thomas Brown, sentenced to be
hanged at Moorhead June Z, in order to
allow an appeal for new trial to be
made. .... e.
Charlie Smith, IA years old, is under
arrest at Duluth on a charge of grand
larceny. The little fellow is said to be a
professional sneak thief, and before he
was lodged in Jail gave the detective the
slip three times. ""..
One man fell dead at Benson after
having scrap with neighbor, and
two farmers who "talked back" at each
other were ordered to leave town inside
of ten minutes. Benson appears to be a
bad place for men with pugilistic ten
denotes.
]. Ambrose, q convict in the Saltwater
prison, made a desperate attempt to
murder the deputy warden, j. A. West
by. This prisoner, who has been in Jail
two years, was originally from st. Paul
whence he was sent for term of five
years for forgery.