Morris tribune., 1890-12-17
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

left $500, 900 for public library for st.
Paul.
| Seventeen Sioux ghost-dancers from
Fort Randall are confined at Fort
Smelling.
During the past two years 61S school
houses hare been built in Minnesota, at
a cost of S1,SCs,s
/ The latest carnival idea in st. Paul is
q Russian festival tc take the place Of
Rex Borealis, ct al.
Minnesota horse doctors will ask for q
Estate examining board to the end that
| quacks may be kept out of the state.
The actual cost to the state of print
| ing the history of Minnesota in the
Civil War;" was little over $4,000.
/ The Steele county poultry show oc-
CURED at Owatonna last week. There
We're about ] 900 fowls on exhibition.
DIR. HI. r. Randall died at Winona of
! diphtheria. He was assistant physician
at the Rochester asylum for over .
year.
Ed Finney, st. Paul colored musi.
clan, cut his wife's throat with butcher
knife and then did like job on his own.
ne was jealous.
The First congressional district ALI.
ance has called a meeting at Austin for
Dec. 23 to elect delegates to the annual
convention in st. Paul.
The valuation of stearns county prop
| erty, real and personal, for 1890, is S.
city OF st. Cloud foots up 81, ,652, ,6S8.
The State Horticultural society and
the Minnesota BeeEeepers' association
have both been invited to hold their an
nual meeting this winter in Red Wing.
The biennial report of the secretary
of the State Historical society shows an
increase of II, $50 volumes since 1888,
making the total number of volumes
Al ,632
A Minneapolis jewelry firm is short
two pairs of diamond ear drops. The
traditional two we'll dressed gentlemen
stole them while looking at other dia-
monds.
The claim of Joseph Whitford, Of
Fergus Falls, of $737. 25 for depredations
committed by the Chippewa Indians in
1878, has been allowed by the secretary
of the interior,
Governor Merriam appointed George
w. Ash as surveyor general of logs and
lumber in the Fifth lumber district of
the state to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Alexander Fraser.
A meeting of Duluth capitalists has
been held to reorganize the Bell g.
Eyster bank. 1t is understood that
$3.50, 900 is already pledged by Boston
men for the purpose of making it ma
tional bank.
Representative Lind has secured from
the Units! States fish commissioner
promise that early next year there will
be placed in the Minnesota river, be.
tween Mankato and Granite Falls, 1O,s
100000 wall-eyed pike.
j. P. Gribben, of st. Paul, lost six
thoroughbred horses at the Cloyerdale
stock farm, between Saltwater and
Lake Elmo, Sunday last. They were
being watered when they began pranc-
ing on the ice and broke through, all
being drowned.
The molders. sselke at the Saltwater
prison still hangs on and is apparently
no nearer decided now than two weeks
ago. An offer has been made the strik-
ing molders Of employment at Mime
apolis, and the offer will probably be
accepted unless settlement is speedily
affected.
George 6. Ketcham and Il. E. Blasser,
engineer and conductor of the Omaha
train that caused the accident Wednes-
day, at University station, Minneapolis.
by which three people were killed, have
been charged with criminal negligence
by the corners jury. The former is now
in Jail.
The first installment of the govern
ment appropriation of $4,000 for tshile
Sioux Indians living on Prairie island.
near Red Wing, was distributed Friday,
i'll provisions aud clothing, by Indian
Agent Hinton. TT is the first assistance
Oh, the kind these Indians have ever re-
ceived from the government, and some
of them Were not little nonplussed to
account for it.
The Winona Republican says that the
statement that the Winona Normal
school han fallen off from 622 in 1889 to
419 in 1890 is wholly incorrect and arises
from aItypegraphical error In the foot
ings Of one of the columns in the state
superintendent's report. The enroll
ment for 1889 was 427 and in 1890 419, a
decrease of s, while the average attend
ance for 1890 was slightly in excess of
the preceding year.
Attorney General Clapps biennial re-
port to the legislature says that for the
year ending July 81, 1889, the total
prosecutions were 976, convictions ATT.
acquittals 13S, nolle prossequis 1873, and
pending at date of report 122, showing
a marked decrease in crime as compared
with the two preceding years. Forty
eight criminal CAGES were argued in the |
supreme court during the two years
ending July 81, 1890, and eleven civil
cases. During the year 1889 there were
1852 cases in the state, justice and mu-
nicipal courts, 593 of which were con-
victions, 800 acquittals and 139 dismiss
sals
The supreme court of Minnesota holds
that bank checks are not cash, and do
not possess legal value as money until
cashed. In other words, the giving OF
q check on a bank is not payment when
passed between debtor and creditor, but
only becomes so when the money is re-
ceived on it. The Minnesota court rules
further that in accepting check from
debtor there is no legal presumption
that the creditor takes it in absolute
payment, but only conditionally, or as
written acknowledgment of the debt.
Where goods are sold for cash on deliv-
cry and the purchaser tenders payment
in check or draft on his banker, such
payment is conditional If the check is
dishonored on presentation, the seller
may retake the goods for the purchase
money, even from the possession Of q
third innocent party, unless it can be
shown that the seller has been guilty Of
such negligence as would stop him from
recovering in equity.
The Dun Wiman agency reports con-
siderable increase in failures In Canada
during the last quarter, as compared
with the same period last year.
John Burns, the noted Socialist,
states that on May A, next, there would
be general strike of trades for eight
hours in England.
Henry George is at present lying at
his home in New York suffering from