Morris tribune., 1890-06-18
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES


ing their annual encampment at Whit
Bear lake.
Archbishop Ireland, assisted by fivl
priests, confirmed over 400 people a.
Montgomery Sunday.
The work of deepening the tail race
at the Minneapolis mills has been fin
ished. 1t increases the power third.
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth al
complain about the great number of per
sons missed by the census enumeratorl
in their respective cities.
The Farmers Alliance of Redwood
county, Mimi, has decided not to nom
mate ticket, but will unite on one oi
their number for representative.
Machinery has arrived and work will
begin at once for two artesian wells al
Red Wing, to test the amount of water
that can be obtained for the city water
works.
The closing exercises of the Sisters
Academy, II. G, j., at Waseca, occurred
Wednesday evening, There were seven
graduates. Bishop Cotter presented the
diplomas.
There is much complaint of the rava.
| ges of the cut worm in the locality OF
Chatfeld, MINI. One entire field OF
flax, sown on clover sod, has been de,
stroyed by the pest.
The Republican committee of the
Fifth Minnesota congressional district
which met at ST. Cloud, selected Little
Falls as the place for holding its next
convention, to be held Sept. 4.
cinity of Northern Pacific Junction,
which have been idle since 1870, are to
be worked again. A company with
abundant capital has been formed for
that purpose.
At the eighteenth annual meeting of
the Minnesota State Fair association at
Brainerd, closed its labors and ad-
journed Wednesday, after very sue
cessful session. Fifty towns and cities
IN the state were represented.
During a thunder storm the school
house in district No. 81, in the village of
Wheeling, about seven miles from Fari-
bault, was struck by lightning and Will
Vierkaid, one of the pupils, aged II
years, was instantly killed.
The Otter Tail County Farmers al
lance met at Fergus Falls and adopted
resolutions condemning the Mckinley
bill, and declaring for government own
ership of railroads, lower interest, etc.
The alliance nominated full legislative
and county ticket.
Archbishop Ireland will speak at the
National Educational Association meet.
Ing at st. Paul after all, the difficulty
over his address having been patched up.
The subject will be: "The State and the
Parish School: Is Union Between Them
Impossible?"
Mae Clark, divorced wife of A. j.
Whiteman, Duluth, brought suit for
support of child born after the divorce
and which she claims as his. She was
an actress. The suit was brought. it is
claimed by Mr.. Whiteman, to extort
money. The judge dismissed it.
Information has been received at
Madrid that at Puebla de Rugat, in the
Province of Valencia, fourteen deaths
from Asiatic cholera have occurred. It
Is believed that the pestilence was
brought into the province by soldiers
recently from the North African gar
rison.
The Minnesota commandery of the
Loyal Legion celebrated its fifth ami
Yersary in magnificent style in St. Paul
ABOUT 200 members gathered at the
Ryan, accompanied by ladies, and at
9:30 sat down to a sumptuous feast in
the banquet hall. Three new members
were admitted.
At Kasson suit was brought by
young Slingerland to enforce specific
performance of an agreement to convey
to him on his wedding day about 500
acres of land worth 81 900 or s., 900, and
on the first trial the young man was de-
feated. He appealed TO the supreme
Court, where the Judgment was reversed.
A census enumerator at Richmond,
Va, found colored woman named
Martha Gray who has had thirty seven
children since 1858. She has given birth
to triplets six times, to twins six times
others singly. She is now
living with her third husband, anu VI
the thirty-seven children but one sur
wives.
Governor Merriam was much vexed
on account of the premature publication
of an alleged report Of the investigation
of the binding twine industry. A con-
until next Monday, when it will be
greatly revised. President Hall says too
much credence should not be placed on
the report as published, because it is not
complete and will be considerably
changed.
The most important meeting the Min
nesota Eight Hour league has held this
year occurred Sunday afternoon at labor
headquarters, ST. Paul. Delegates were
present from Minneapolis, Duluth, Wi
mona, Saltwater and smaller towns.
They decided in response to the ex-
pressed desire of organized labor
throughout the state to issue call for
convention to meet July 13, in st. Paul,
for the purpose of organizinga a state fed
Grafton of labor. The basis of represent
alton is to be delegates from the
State trades and labor assemblies, 10
from the Eight Hour league, 10 from the
state railroad organizations, 10 from the
Knights of Labor and 10 from the Farm
ers' alliance,
An inter ssting relic of the aboriginal
Indians who roamed at will about the
primeval falls of st. Anthony was un-
earthed the other day by gang of work.
men near the Crocker, Fisk & Co. mill.
Hidden under pile of immense blocks
of limestone and boulders, about twenty
feet below the surface, the men stuck
their picks into an old dugout canoe of
primitive fashion. The ancient craft
was about eighteen feet in length and
still bore the traces of the work of its
rude architects. 1t had evidently been
made by the use of fire and primitive
tools from the trunk of a large oak. tree.
Efforts were made to preserve the boat
in its original form, but the rocks were
too heavy to be moved, and section
about six feet in length was the largest
piece preserved, The relic is highly
priced by the mill owners and will be
preserved.
The Louisiana lottery fight has as
sumed new phase, and one which
would puzzle severer moralists than
average humanity. The lottery company
propose to pay to the state an annual
license fee of $1,O00,O0O, to be expended
for education, public works and chari-
ties. Among other items it will pay
S50, 900 a year In pensions To disah1ad