Morris tribune., 1890-05-28
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

aged 81 500 by fire.
The Methodist state camp meeting at
Red Rock will open June 13 and close
June 30.
Duluth is to have a 5000, 1000 renais-
sance union depot, to be completed by
December.
The grievances of the Minneapolis
printers are to be settled by the Inter-
national union.
E. Allen & Co., the failed st. Paul
dry goods dealers, are pronounced guilty
of fraudulent practices by Judge Otis.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, has of
fered an amendment to the tariff bill
placing binding twine on the free list.
A. Collins, of Benson, took swallow
of carbolic acid by mistake. Two doc
tors and a stomach pump couldn't save
him.
Over 200 delegates attended the state
Sunday school convention at Winona
last week. Duluth was selected as the
next place of meeting, er
T. J. Mcmahon, prominent farmer
living near Green Isle, called ON his
wife who had left him, and shot her
fatally. He then shot himself and will
die.
A cow belonging to Norwegian,
near Luverne gave birth to FIVE calves
last week. The calves are all but little
larger than dogs, but are all alive and
frisky.
Peter Schroeder has been found guilty
of selling liquor at Henning without
license in eigLt-gallon packages. The
hn fo
court for final decision.
The encampment of the district G. A.
r. to be held in Albert Lea, Mimi, has
been fixed for July 2, and 4. The citi-
zens are at work arranging for big
Fourth of July celebration.
George Buchan, whot J. w. Ander-
son on the streets of Minneapolis, short
time since, was not indicted by the
grand jury. Anderson's wife that
Buchan was not the aggressor.
The Lac Qui Parle Independent will
be moved to Madison, same county,
where it will continue publication by
Jacobs & Hisole. The paper will be
Republican in politics hereafter.
Gov. Merriam has fixed Friday, June
81, as the day for the execution of Cliff
ton Holden, who was sentenced to die
for the murder of his cousin, Frank
Dodge, near Redwood Falls on Nov. 90,
1888.
A peculiar accident befell William F.
Miller, of Winona, which resulted
fatally. He started to run across a
railroad track, tripped and fell, striking
his neck on the rail, breaking his wind
pipe.
Some st. Paul firms are preparing to
deal in oleomargarine. They will handle
it only in original packages" and rely
on the liquor decision to protect them.
State Dairy Commissioner Ives will fight
the sale to the end.
The dead body of John Flamm, we'll
to-do Lac Qui Parle county farmer, was
found in a creek Sunday morning. Con-
tusions on his forehead and other marks
indicated foul play. He was last seen
with neighbor with whom he had
quarrelled.
Trouble is expected at Tower, Mimi,
on account of the open selling of whisky
to Indians by saloonkeepers. Two Indi-
ans who were intoxicated, were drowned
Saturday night, one of them being the
son of Chief Met-way-way-groan. A
number of arrests are expected.
A little daughter of Henry Harkins. of
Duluth, secured some matches and
went up stairs to play with them. After
time her mother smelled smoke, and
rushing up stairs found the child envel-
oped in flames. She died a half-hour
later.
A. M. Miller will begin at once the
erection of a seven-story freproof busi-
ano1h loaIx ofn n17I1 F1,or
will be the finest opera house in the
Northwest. The upper stories will be
fitted up for offices. The building will
cost $500, 900.
State Auditor Braden held sale at
Wheaton, Thursday, of Traverse county
school lands. There was large attend
1900 acres were sold, mostly to actual
residents. A good deal of the land sold
from $40 to $15 per acre.
The Minnesota Iron Car company, of
Duluth, will ask for a receiver. This is
made necessary owing to the large
amount of work On hand, which must
be done with material which belongs to
the Eastern Iron Car company, and
which is now in the care of the sheriff on
several attachments of creditors of the
Eastern company.
White Cloud, chief of the Chippewa
Indians on the White Earth reservation,
accompanied, by G. FL. Beaulieu as in
terpreter, called upon Gov Merriam
last week to lay before that official
certain grievances of his people and to
gain information concerning the various
provisions of the recent severalty act.
White Cloud reports that inasmuch as
the annuities formerly paid to the mem
bers of his tribe have been stopped since
the consummation of the recent treaty
it is important that the money due them
under the severalty act be soon paid, as
many of them are in destitute circum-
stances. Although these matters are
| not of nature to be settled by the
governor, the chief was assured by him
that he would interest himself in be-
| half of the Indians.