Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-07-16
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

ing tne last nalI or the year.
Burglars went throught the postoffic
at Kellogg, carrying off $500 booty.
| w. w. Gamble, of Stewart, was nom
mated for congress by the Farmers Al
lance at Glencoe.
The Blue Earth County Agriculture
society will hold its twenty-ninth annua
fair at Garden City from Sept. II to 10
The summer hotel at Lake Elmo wa
burned Friday. Nothing was saved
Several wealthy st. Paul and Eastern
people lost much clothing and jewelry
New postoffices have been established
in Minnesota the past week as follows
At Batavia, Todd county, Charles A
Jones; at Rock, Redwood county, Rob
ert Schauberger.
The pontoon bridge of the Milwaukee
and st. Paul bridge at Wabasha is to bs
replaced by new one at point further
down than that now occupied. Surveys
are now being made.
The two sons of Ed Donaldson. trav.
cling salesman from Noyes Bros. & Cut,
Ter, were drowned. at Owatonna willis
swimming in Straight river. The boys
were 10 and IA years of age.
Peterson, the well known California
professional sculler, writes that he will
be in Duluth about July 20. He is, hi
says, trying to arrange match with
Gaudaur, Hanlan and Teemer.
G.. w. Van Dusen g Co. have re.
moved their principl Office from Roches-
ter to Minneapolis. This firm operates
about 100 elevators and warehouses
along the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad
The conference report on the bill
granting the right of way across the
Mile Lacs Indian reservation to the Lit
tie Falls. Mile Lacs and Lake Superior
Railroad company was adopted In the
house Friday.
| At Breckinridge son of John Sim.
! mer, of Wahpeton, was held up by five
| tramps near the Great Northern railroad
bridge and robbed Of his watch and
money. Three of the tramps were after
| wards captured.
The officers of the Minnesota State
Farmers alliance have requested the
| various labor organizations to elect del
egates to meet the State alliance on
| July 16 for the purpose of nominating
a full state ticket for the elections in the
fall.
A class of eighteen young ladies of st.
Benedict's academy, ST. Joseph, Mimi,
took the veil Saturday. Eighteen took
their first vows and an equal number
the eternal vows of the order. The
academy will be removed to St. Cloud
before the next school year.
The assessment Of real and personal
property for the City of Duluth, as
shown by the report of the city assessor,
just completed, Is a total valuation OF
real property, $23, 400, 1T. The valua-
ton of real property at assessment in
1888 was $18, 100, 900, showing an in
crease in two years of 81, ,206, ,297 Total
value of personal property, 81, ,480, 900.
The state auditor has received reports
from the state reformatory and state
prison. In the former the current ex-
pense for the mont amounted to So, $780,
81, while in the state prison the expense
for the month of June was 50, 1852. Of
this sum $500 was for state account,
$2,969.49 for current expense and
$2,o5S.43 for permanent improvements.
A gang Of eight or ten tramps at
Hinckley, Mimi, about a.. M, broke
into the Windsor House and took all the
boarders' clothes they could find and
searched them. They next made an
attempt on the Brennan Lumber COM
panys store. They next broke into DIR.
Collins drug store and stole about $50
worth of jewelry, but were discovered
and four captured before they could get
away.
Judges stearns and Ensign have de-
cided an important land case. Fhe gov
+nG 4o NJ.
nipeg and also to the st. Cloud road
certain so-called swamp lands. The
judges, after giving lengthy review of
the Duluth and Iron Range, which came
into the suit as an interviewer. About
100000 acres were involved. The case
will go to the higher courts.
State Labor Commissioner Lamb has
been collecting statistics of school at
tendance. and is much troubled to dis
cover according to the statistics at hand,
that Minnesota is at the bottom of the
list, as regards school attendance. Mr..
Lamb gathered his information from the
term reports made by the teachers Of the
state. These reports were faaad e :.
u a9. q E yssy bad dana.t,, .,on The ss,,rss ~ ss
,--y unsatisfactory, and well nigh
worthless.
A switch engine was run into by a
special passenger train at Hastings. The
tra1nmen saved themselves by Jumping.
Afterward the switch engine run wild
down the track, dashing into some
freight cars standing by the elevator.
II. w. Freeman, book keeper at the ele-
vator, and laborer, who were in one
OF the cars, We're injured, but not fa-
Tally: The switch engine and the
$4,000.
Judge Searle, of st. Cloud, has made
a decision which sheriffs generally will
not enjoy. The county placed in the
hands of the sheriff certain deline uent
personal property taxes to collect, and
afterwards he put in a bill against the
county for services, claiming that he had
made diligent search and could find no
detainable property. The commission
ers refused to allow the bill, and on an
peal to the district court Judge Searles
sustains the commissioners, saying that
there is no provision for compensation
IN such cases, and holds that when a
man accepts Office he cannot refuse to
perform duties for which no compensa-
oion 10 piOflucus Dut WHICH nc IL re-
quired to perform.
A Washington telegram says that
Henry Keller, of Sank Center, has Just
had two patents signed for his binding
twine machine, one for the method Of
making twine and the other for the ma
chine that makes the twine; that is the
pact that forms the twist. These are
the important patents that he has been
trying to secure and which he has been
working on for two or three weeks. He
expects two mors patents. One for the
machine complete, including the feeders
and the spools for winding the twine
and another for the manufactured
twine. The enthusiasm of the man from
Sank Center is at a high pitch over
his success. He says he will revolu-
tionize twine manufacture for binding
grain.
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