Morris tribune., 1890-07-30
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The Duluth saw mills have cut to date
40, 200, 900 feet of lumber.
The Minneapolis Tribune has another
| $25, 900 libel suit ON hand.
Winona had 800, ,O0C fire Friday. A
dry kiln and sheds burned.
Twenty thousand people attended the
Twin City races on Derby day.
The deal for the Washburn Touring
mills at Minneapolis is said to be off.
John Lind has been renominated for
congress by the Second district Repub-
hcans.
The state board of pharmacy was In
session last week and granted several
licenses.
The citizens of st. Charles, Mimi,
have voted to put free text books into
the city schools.
The Lake Benton Farmers Alliance
Warehouse company has been incorpo-
rated with capital stock of O,0O0.
Michigan editors passed through Min
nesota over the Northern Pacific Thurs
day. They made short stops at st. Paul
and Minneapolis.
The postoffice at Sank Rapids was bur-
glarized last week. A registered letter,
money order and a few postage stamps
was the extent of the plunder.
In an interview with Pioneer Press
reporter Hon. Adolph Bierman says he
would decline the Democratic nomina-
tion for governor if offered him.
Log drivers of the Mississippi and
Rum River Boom company are taking q
ten-days' lay-off. The Minneapolis mills
are unable to take care of all the logs.
There is a rumor, which seems to have
some foundation, that the South st.
Paul stock yards will pass into the hands
of the syndicate which recently bought
the Chicago Union stock yards.
Burglars broke into the postoffice and
Dan Friedman's place at Cold Spring,
Minn., and carried off a quantity of
postal cards, postage stamps, money and
a number of smaller items. No clue
The Brooks Elevator company, Of
Minneapolis, filed articles On Monday
with capital Of Sso0,000. Lester r.
Brooks, OF ST. Paul, and Anson s.
Brooks, of Minneapolis, are the incor-
porators.
Judge Nelson of the United States
district court at st. Paul denied new
trial in the case of Herbert Stout, the
defaulting mail clerk, and sentenced
him to two years in the Saltwater peni-
tentiary.
The Spalding hotel at Duluth has been
sold to a syndicate of four gentlemen
Mr.. Albert Harrington, of Minneapolis:
Mr.. Willard, of Mankato, and two 9TH
ers-at figure far below the original
cost of the property.
Jay La Due, of Luverne, has received
an invitation from the state fair man.
agement to exhibit the four gold medals
he recently received from the Russian
government as breeder of the horse
''Polly," at the fair this fall.
The premiums on insurance compan-
les doing business in the state for the
year 1899 amounted to $2,730,610, one
half the $55 .5S4 tax on the same will be
given by law to the cities, towns and
villages of the state having organized
fire departments,
Secretary Hart of the state board of
charities, says that the cost of caring
for prisoners in the county jails, now
from 81 to $16 per week, is reckless ex-
travagance. He urges that counties
should combine, the prisoners of several
counties being placed in the same
Jail.
During the yacht race at Duluth
Thursday sudden squall came I'D, cap
sizing three of the sailboats. The
Roamer and another boat sank immedi.
ately. The Roamer was sailed by her
owner, Charles Lindner, and with him
were j. w. Clark and Mr.. Purcell. The
two former were drowned, while Pur-
cell was rescued in dying condition.
Tee census In the Fergus Falls district
has been completed and all the returns
have been sent to Washington. Polk
county shows 30,1 against 11,433 in
1880. Marshall county has 9,123 inhab-
itants against 992 in 1880. Kittson has
5,373 people against 905 in 1880. The
eighteen counties in this supervisors
district show 206, 900 people against 9S,-
900 in 1880.
The Northwestern Miller makes the
statement that the -four mills have inn
proved on their output, raising their
figures to an equal with those of the
same time year ago. The aggregate
production OF the seventeen mills rum
ming was 1913, 200 barrels-averaging 90
523 barrels daily-against 80, 100 barrels
the week before, and 49, ,2T0 barrels for
the corresponding time in 1889, and 1877
200 barrels in 1888. ALI except four of
the twenty-five mills in the city are now
running.
The new directory of st, Paul, issued
by r. L. Polk & Co., of Detroit, Mich.
will show 78,271 names, an increase of
nearly 1000 over last year. Applying
the multiple Of 24, commonly used in
such cases, the Sanity City would have
population of 1876, $780, Some other facts
are also CLEANED in connection with the
city which may be of interest. Its
death rate was 10.48 to 1000 inhabi-
tants during the year. The bonded debt
of the city is 1907, $40 and the floating
debt is $2SS, 900, the former bearing 81
per cent interest and the latter 6 per
cent. Within the past year there were
56 miles of streets graded and 8 miles
paved, at an expense of $768, ,286. 60; cas-
miles of plank and two miles of stone
and cement sidewalks were laid, costing
$136, ,888.S1; the sewers built measured
1879 miles and cost $47S, ,3S7. 81; and new
bridges were erected at an expense of
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