Morris tribune., 1890-09-17
MINNESOTA MATTERS.

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st. Paul Sunday.
John Lathrop, secretary of the FARM
er's Alliance, has resigned.
The Minnesota team won the inter-
state rifle contest at Camp Douglas, Wis.
Martin Rosman. the Ely murderer,
was taken to Duluth and lodged in Jail.
| A st. Paul man, in good health, has
bought mis- coffin and paid his funeral
expenses.
/ The total enrolment of the Duluth
public schools is 2,649, gain over last
year of 3f6.
The Duluth, Northwestern and Winni-
j peg will be known as the Duluth, Red
Falls and Northern railway.
| The Lake Superior Catholic at Dus
luth has been purchased by DR.. Thomas
| O'Hagin and Jacob Laux.
The census Office has announced the
result of the recount of Minneapolis at
164, ,73S, and st. Paul at 133 ,301.
The Democrats of the Second congress
sional district have nominated 0. M.
Hall, of Red Wing, for congress,
Lightning struck the st. Cloud gas
works, igniting the gas. No particular
damage was done to the building.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed Charles FL. Brush, of Camp
bell IAN examiner of national banks.
The Saltwater prison managers have
gone East to purchase machinery for the
binding twine factory to be built at the
prison.
The Fiftieth legislative district Dema.
cratic conventiop-Clay, Becker and
head, Sept rs.
Denny Kelliher, the Boston middle
weight, is in Minneapolis. He will meet
the "Black Pearl" about Sept. %, at the
Twin City club.
W. M. Campbell, late United States
marshal for Minnesota, mas been APP
| pointed chairman of the Democratic
| state central committee.
The Hurd Refrigerator company has
| just been incorporated ut Duluth, with
a capital stock of 5000, 900, for the puF.
pose of nufacturing Alaska Eefrigera-
tors at Duluth.
About 10 o'clock Wednesday evening
lightning struck and burned seven large
barns at the Bull farm, owned by the
Minnesota Agricultural company; loss
estimated at $4,000; insurance not
known.
The first one of the refrigerator cars
of the celebrated Arnold make, was
brought to Duluth Friday. Negotiations
are in progress with the Iron Car Equip
ment company to manufacture them at
their works at Wes. Duluth.
The total population of the First Min
nesota district is 347, ia; increase, 67,-
733. The population of some of the
cities and towns in that district is as
follows: Winona, 18,20S, increase:
5000; Mankato, 8,S05; increase, 1886;
Rochester, 5,321; increase, 21S.
The Minnesota Historical society re-
ceived q few days ago, from a gentle
man in Philadelphia, a copperplate en-
craving entitled Saint Anthony Falls,
Minnesota. The engraving is about
9x12 inches and shows by its general ap-
pearance that it was made probably
sixty or seventy years ago.
While the race between Miss Villa
Poole, of Dakota, and Miss Jennie Rush.
of Kentucky, was in progress at the
state fair grounds at Hamline Wednes-
day the horse which Miss Rush rode
bolted the track, and threw her against
the fence, rendering her unconscious for
time. This happened in the sixth
mile. =
The Farmers Review, of Chicago,
says: Threshing returns make the yield
Of spring wheat in twenty-five Mime
sofa counties twelve bushels per acre.
In Iowa eleven bushels per acre in twen-
ty-one counties. In Nebraska twelve
bushels per acre in seventeen counties,
and in the Dakotas ten bushels per acre
in twenty-five counties.
The Duluth land Office has received
communication from the secretary of
the interior, containing findings based
on the report of government agent
and two surveyors who examined the
supposed swamp lands of the Duluth
district. Of 1915 acres of land in
township SO, north ranges SO. 10 and II
west, 6, ,497 acres were found to be dry
land. The secretary revokes the ap-
proyal of the list and throws the land
open to settlement.
The Minnesota Grand Lodge knights
of Pythias held their annual meeting at
Mankata last week. The report of Grand
Keeper of Record and Seals G.. M. Orr
showed that during the year ended June
30, eighteen new lodges had been in
stituted in the state and the member
ship increased by 966. The total num-
bership of 8,S77. Financially the grand
lodge is in good shape:
Convict Douglass, from Minneapolis,
who has twice escaped from the state
prison, gave the authorities another
anxious time Wednesday. Soon after
noon he disappeared, and after search
ing some time all the convicts were
locked in their cells and the shops all
shut down so thorough search could
hs made. He was found under one a
the floors, and in a place where 1t was
hardly possible for any man to be Sc
creted.
A novel suit for insurance has been in
stituted in the st. Paul courts. Some
years Andrew J. Hall and George w.
Hall, of Red Wing, insured their lives
for 81 600 each, and agreed that the one
who died first should leave the benefit
OF the insurance to the other. Andrew
j. Hall died, but left the benefit of the
policy held in the Northwestern Endow-
ment and Legacy association Of Red
Wing to local Masonic lodge. George
trict court to prevent the company pay
ing the money to anyone but himself.
N. A. Cadwallader, Of Earibanlt, has
gone to Ohio to look after his interest in
rare find that has been made in the old
homestead of his father, now dead, at
Fostoria, Ohio. The story Is that
when Mr.. Cadwallader was boy he
was looking around in the garret and
came across box which he tried to
move but could not. Upon asking his
mother about it she told him to keep it
quiet. The box was never again heard
from, until recently II was found IN d