Morris tribune., 1890-06-04
MORRIS, MIMI, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4. 1890.
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

ing of their big new hotel, the Winona.
The agricultural editors of the country
will visit Minneapolis on their annual
outing about June 10.
At Campbell, Mimi, a hail storm de-
molished nearly all the glass on the east
side of every building.
The Minnesota State Medical society
will meet in annual convention at the
state house on June 10.
Tall and Thayden, the st. Paul real
estate forgers, have received sentences
of ten years each at Saltwater.
The annual conference of the Congre-
cation society for the Winona district
held three days session at Mazeppa
last week.
At Bloomington cemetary, thirteen
miles south of Minneapolis, there was
unveiled the first soldiers monument
ever erected in Minnesota.
Over $50 editors of the state have sig
nified their intention of going on the ex.
cursion to Washington next week. They
will have special train from Chicago
over the Baltimore and Ohio.
Minnesota has female lawyer. Mrs.
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N. McGindlev, of Duluth, was admitted
to the bar Friday. She is said to have
passed most creditable examination.
The foot race for the championship of
Minnesota and Dakota, which took place
at Detroit. Mimi, between Con Kesfe,
of Fargo, and Robert Morrison, of White
Earth, was won by Keefe in 10t seconds.
Duluth is to have an afternoon news
paper. 1t will make its appearance in
week and will be called The Times. w.
H. Burke, formerly of The Duluth
News, is the manager of the new ven-
ture.
The final graduating exercises of the
state normal schools took place Wednes-
day. At st. Cloud over thirty students
were graduated. At the Mankato school
thirty-six received their diplomas. At
Winona fifty were in the graduating
class.
Auditor Lutz, of Stearns county, has
left the state. He will not be apt to re-
turn unless compelled to, ON account of
various crookednesses. Governor Mer-
riam will probably declare the office
vacant, and the county commissioners
will appoint successor.
"Holy Joe," who for two or three years
has walked the streets of St. Paul bare
headed and barefooted and praying, has
been declared insane by Drs. Riggs,
Stamm, Van Slyke and Markoe, and
committed to Rochester. He has always
claimed he is doing penance for the souls
in purgatory.
William Gardner, of Chatfeld, Mimi,
has been arrested for bigamy at the in
stance of his wife number one, whom he
deserted forty years ago in Ireland. He
came to Chatfield thirty years ago with
his present wife and has raised family
of children, who are now settled in that
vicinity. The arrest is a surprise to
everyone.
The regular May musical festival at ST.
Paul, under the auspices of the Gounod
sudden end, owing to the failure to pay
big failure financially, and Saturday
notices were posted saying that the mat
inee and evening performances would
not be given. The shortage the first
four nights was about So, 900.
Ten prisoners in the Aitkin Jail, Sat-
urday, made an attempt to escape. They
sand-bagged the sheriff and six of them
made for the woods. Three of them
were recaptured, however, during the
day and the other three will have hard
time to escape, as they were without
hats, coats or shoes. The sandbag used
was made from sand scraped from the
Jail floor and tinfoil off smoking tobacco
packages. A stocking was used for a
bag.
James Degaun, recently arrived from
Spokane Falls, snatched purse from
Mrs. Mary Casserly while she was on
Fourth street, between Robert and
Jackson, ST. Paul. The purse contained
$605. An exciting chase followed, and
several shots were exchanged between
thief and officers. He was finally cap
tured, and the money recovered. De-
gaun was bound over in the sum of
5000.
A ST. Paul man named Louis Kline
felter, whose wife recently died, got the
impression that life still remained in the
inanimate body and had it disinterred,
A physician examined the body and said
that life was extinct, whereupon Sec
ond internent took place. Again the
husband felt impelled to disinter the re-
mains, upon the statement of girl COM
panion Of the dead woman, who said the
latter had several times told her that
| when she was girl she was two or
| three times supposed to have died, and
came near being buried once or twice
| before she came back to life. At last
accounts the body was In the receiving
vault to await developments.