Morris tribune., 1890-08-20
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

/ Oay.
The Minneapolis exposition opens
| Wednesday.
! Minneapolis mills ground out 1S6, ,s75
barrels of -four last week.
| Lake City people claim to see a mys-
terious light off Central Point. where the
| Sea Wing went down.
! The Third district Democratic con-
gressional convention will be held at
Shakopee Sept. IL.
The annual convention of the Mime
sofa w. c. T. u. will be held in Mime
apolis Sept. 6 to 10.
The German Lutheran Synod of Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Missouri was in
session at st. Paul last week.
The board of managers of the state
reform school has called for bids for the
completion of the cottages for the school
at Red Wing.
The ''105," another of the American
Steel Barge company's whalebacks, was
successfully launched at Duluth Satur-
day. She will carry 5000 tons.
The colonist sleeper on the westbound
Great Northern train was burned at
Ada. The passengers lost everything
and barely escaped with their lives.
The Omaha road has paid into the
state treasury $33, ,996. 90, being its tax on
the gross earnings of the road in Mime
sofa for the six months ending June 80,
1890.
1t is understood that Miss Villa Poole,
of Minot, N. D., and Miss Jennie K.
Rush, of Kentucky, will ride ten mile
race at the Minnesota State fair next
week.
Maj. T. M. Newson bade farewell to
st. Paul Thursday evening, and left for
New York, en- route for Malaga, Spain,
to assume his duties as American consul
at that important port.
Wednesday boy 12 years old. herd
ing cattle on the prairie four miles west
of jackson, was attacked by wolf and
badly bitten. His dog hearing his cries
went to his assistance and succeeded in
driving the wolf off.
Gen. Dumont, of Wisconsin, chief in
spector of steam vessels, has been in st.
Paul for a day or two. He says that the
local inspectors have arrived at decis-
ion in the Sea Wing case, but that he
cannot make their decision public until
it has been received.
At the annual meeting of the Eastern
Minnesota railway the following officers
were elected: President, w. P. Clough;
vice president, N. D. Grover; secretary
and treasurer, Edward Sawyer. The
Sawyer and J. J. Hill, all prominently
identified with the Great Northern.
The report of the state banks for the
quarter ending July 10 has been sum-
married by Public Examiner Kenyon,
and shows that the total resources OF
Minnesota banks at the end of the quar-
ter were sea, ,511 ,213.98. This shows an
increase over the previous quarter, end
ing April 16. of g, ,351 ,430.67. The num-
Der of banks has increased from II to rs.
Cattle thieves put in an appearance at
the farm of Charles L. Gibbs, two miles
and half below Anoka, one night last
week, and butchered an OK in his pas
ture near the house. They next visited
the pasture of 2. f. Hanson, of Coon
Creek. and killed another animal, but
were frightened off before the job was
finished. Suspicion rests on certain
Anoka gang.
Darius Macy was adjudged insane at
st. Paul the other day. His examina-
tion developed the fact that he was
political crank. He believes that he is a
nominee for president of the United
States, and said that President Harri-
son had offered him $4,000, 900 to with
draw from the contest he imagines is in
progress. He thought he would accept
the offer and not longer be a candidate
for election.
Labor Commissioner Lamb has ad-
dressed a letter to State Superintendent
Kiehle, suggesting that the school teach
ers throughout the state compile the
total number of scholars enrolled from
the beginning of the scholastic year,
without reference to the length Of time
they have attended school. The object
is to obtain complete return of every
scholar attending school, though he or
she may attend but for a portion of the
year.
The board Of directors of the Mime
sofa soldiers home at Minnehaha have
decided to ask for an appropriation of
$3.50, 900 for new buildings during the
next two years, and $4,000 for their
support. The present expense of rum
ming the home is about $40, 900 per an
mum. 1t is proposed to erect what the
board calls cottage, which will cost
something like s25, 900. This cottage, it
is intended, will accommodate about
seyenty-fve men. It Is also intended to
build an administration building, in
which the commandant and ether officers
of the home, with their families, shall
be accommodated. The idea is that this
latter building will cost about $75, 900.
An expedition will set out Sept. 1
from Duluth to investigate the alleged
depredations of the Canadian lumber
men along the northern boundary of
the state. The expedition will consist
of four special agents and sixteen men.
An official of the land office says: The
forests of white and Norway pine there
are reckonsd among the finest in the
world. The depredations for the last
year alone are estimated at 180, ,00O, 900
feet. The profits, Of course, are enor-
nous, and the people of this country
are the sufferers in two ways. In the
first place the timber is stolen from
them, and in the second place the sawed
lumber is brought back into the Dako-
tas and other Northwestern States and
brought into competition with the prod
ucts of American mills honestly OBJ,
tanned,