Morris tribune., 1890-11-26
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Lake Benton will have national
bank.
All Of the saw mills at saltwater have
closed down.
Blue Earth county has lady super
intendent of schools.
The Duluth city council is at war with
the gas and water companies.
Farmers in the vicinity of Faribault
complain of a scarcity of labor.
Senator WashburH is talking up beet
sugar factory with Anoka citizens.
Winona will have paper mill. which
will employ about seventy five men.
Burglars rified the postoffice at Bar
mum and carried off $105 in stamps and
$12 in money.
The total expense of the election in ST.
Paul under the Australian system was
about $3.50
The annual state convention of Min
nesota women suffragists was held in ST.
Paul last week.
Scarlet fever has broken out &c Gale
edonia Quarantine is being used TO
prevent its spread.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the State Dairy association will be held
at Glencoe Dec. 0, 10 and IL.
Minneapolis mills last week ground
1S1. .075 barrels of -four, next to the
largest weeks output on record.
The Lake City starch factory has shut
down after an experimental run. About
10000 bushels of potatoes were used.
Some one attempted to wreck Cedar
Rapids train at Worthington. w. A.
Scheifer is under arrest on suspicion.
The state fair books have been bal
anced and show about $4,000 on the
right side, for business of the past sea-
son.
Enoch Ray, the Minneapolis license
inspector accused of appropriating &, 900
OF license money to his own use, has
been acquitted.
William P. Landon, of St. Paul, is the
new president of the state Christian En-
deavor societies. Mankato gets the fifth
annual convention.
Dredge work has ceased on the chan
mel between Rice's Point, Mimi, and
Connor's Point, Wis The first boat
was sent through Sunday.
A little girl named Penner, at Carlos,
played with matches one day last week,
Her clothing caught fire and she was SO
badly burned that she has since died.
Defeated Republican canditions for
county Offices in Ramsey county have
filed formal notice of contest. They
allege that votes were counted illegally.
The postofce at Lyman, Stearns
county. will be discontinued Nov. 90;
also star service between Racine and
Grand Meadow and Grand Rapids and
La Prairie.
A consignment of steel rails has lust
been received at Winona for the Wi
mona and Southwestern road. The
weight was 2.579, $50 pounds or ninety
carloads.
The Minnesota state forestry bounties
were sent out Friday by the state audi
tor. They We're at the rate of So 10 per
acre and amounted to $19.715.89 on
3 ,Ga9 claims.
James f. Wade, of the Fifth United
States cavalry, and Henry p. VIDE,
sons of B.F. Wade, of Jefferson, Ohio.
have presented the Duluth public IL
brary their fathers excellent congress-
ional library.
The 9-year-old child of John A. Gra-
bow. living near Renville, In Renvllle
county, was taken i'll, and to all appear
ances died. Three days later, when the
funeral was being held, the child sud-
denly came to life, and is now well.
Oscar Olson, of st. Paul, wants to
change his name to Oscar Alling. He
says there are already 450 O. Olsons in
ST. Paul and vicinity, which fact makes
it difficult to get his mail before it is
handled by some 200 or 300 other Olsons.
P. j. Smalley. late secretary of the
Democratic state senatorial committee.
has sold his Caledonia Argus to w. J.
Belden, who managed Congressman.
elect Harries' campaign. Mr.. SmalleY
will enter the newspaper field at st,
Paul.
The seni-annual convocation for the
northern district of Minnesota, which
had been in session in the Episcopal
church lii Fergus Falls for two days.
adjourned at noon Thursday. The ses-
sions were devoted to addresses and dis
cussions. The convocation is not bus
mess bo0y so much as one for mutual
Improvement.
A very interesting archaeological spec-
linen, relic of the prehistoric races of
Lake Superior, has been discovered in
loose gravel near the mouth of Iron
river, Minnesota. It is knife or cut
ting instrument of copper, with blade
three inches long and sharp handle to
be inserted in wood about the same
length. The blade is tempered, an art
now said to be lost. 1t was discovered.
| together with flint implements, in ex.
cayating a tramway to a stone quarry,