Morris tribune., 1890-01-15
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


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The Minneapolis coopers are said to be
preparing for strike.
NJ. d. Kenyon, of ST. Paul, has been
reappointed state bank examiner.
l. Walfield has been appointed receiver
of the Taylors Falls land office.
Steele county is agitating the erection
Of a $40, 900 court house at Owatonna.
Gen. Greely has recommended q signal
station to be established at Minneapolis.
Three children of Herman Meyer, of
Empire, Dakota county, have died of
diphtheria.
The senate committee makes favor
able report on the bin for public build
ing in st. Paul.
The Straight river Touring mill at
Faribault, has started up after having
been idle several years.
The Lake City wagon works turned
out about 500 wagons during 1889, and
paid in wages about $1,000.
The plant of the Winona Harvester
works has been sold to John Kendall,
subject to mortgage of $4,000.
Judge Williams, of Fergus Falls, has
been reappointed railroad commissioner
for three years by Governor Merriam.
Secretary Noble decides that the action
of the Chippewa Indian commission
must be approved before settlers can
take land.
Isadore Menasch, ex-secretary of the
Turner Building association, of Mime
apolis, has been arrested, charged with
embeZZlement.
w. A. Chapman, editor of The st.
James Journal, died last Wednesday
night of intianatory rheumatism, fol-
lowed by blood poisoning.
The executive committe of the Mime
sofa Editorial association met in st. Paul
last week and arranged for the mid
winter meeting on Feb. II and Is.
Mr.. w. NJ. Bushnell has definitely de-
cided not to accept a denomination to the
presidency of the State Agricultural So
ciety. Fred z. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis,
will probably succeed him.
r. N. butcher, the station agent at
Herman, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with a revol-
ver He leaves a wife and five children.
Financial trouble was the supposed
cause.
The water in the lakes at Renville and
also in the Minnesota river is lower than
was ever known before. Wells that
have always furnished an abundance of
water are dried up. and many farmers
are digging new wells.
E. F. Drake, St. Paul capitalist has
offered So, 900 toward fund of $1,000
to build public library for the city. st,
Paul needs public library real bad now
that Minneapolis has one, and no doubt
Mr.. Brakes suggestion will meet with
hearty cooperation.
A number of people are still very i'll
with trichinosis at Brownsville near
Austin. The total number of sufferers
is about 230, but only 20 or 80 are dan
gerously i'll. The doctors say it will be
some days before the disease will de-
velop itself SO they can fortell the out
come.
Thomas Lowry has announced his in
tention to put electric motor power on
all his st. Paul and Minneapolis street
car and cable lines, except the Selby
avenue line in st. Paul, where the grade
is too steep. The experimental line in
Minneapolis is much more satisfactory
than. was expected.
Fire was discovered in the Peoples
elevator at New York mills. at II o'clock
Saturday night, and the flames gained
such headway that the village fire de-
partment could do nothing, except pre-
vent the destruction of adjoining prop
erty. The loss is estimated at $25, 900,
with an insurance of 10,000. ..
Alvah Eastman, editor of The Anoka
Herald. has been appointed by Senator
Washburn internal revenue agent, po-
sition which somewhat corresponds in
the revenue service to that of inspector
in the postoffice department.. The Anoka
Union says the place is worth 81, 500. His
headquarters Will, for the present, be at
Louisville, Ky. -.
Silas Wilcox, farmer near Renville,
dug well recently which has very
peculiar feature connected with it.
When the wind is in the southeast there
is an abundance of water, but when the
wind is in the northeast there is scarcely
any. The Minnesota river is twelve
miles distant, and there is no body of
water of any account within twenty
miles. -.-------.-.- , - -
The state treasurers report for the year
ending July 81, 1889, is published. The
total receipts from all sources during the
year were 81 ,70S, ,807, of which So S,079, :
$50. 33 was the revenue fund. The rail-
road tax yielded total of $683, ,433. 02.
The stumpage on state land amounted
to $8Se775. 80. The insurance company
fees and taxes, $113, ,S57.21, and from
miscellaneous sources $685., ,341 .4S. The
expenditures amounted TO y, OH ,341. 16.
Governor Merriam has made the fol-
lowing appointments: Ex-Governor J.
S. PiHsbury, of Minneapolis, and Hon.
Knute Nelson, of Alexandra, regents Of
the state university, William A. Frost,
of st. Paul, member of the state board of
pharmacy; L. W. Lyons, st. Paul, mem
Der of the state board of dental exam
iners; III. s.. Griswold, Chatfield, a man
ager of the state reformatory at St. Cloud;
Edwin Dunn, Eyota, member of the
state prison board; Charles n. Dorion,
st. Paul; Hon. P. M. Hall, Minneapolis,
and Hon. G.. w. Ward, Faribault, mem
bers of the state board of medical exam
iners; r. O. Sweeney, st. Paul; Hon.
Niles Carpenter, Rushford, and Capt.
William Bird, Farlbault, members of the
state fish commission; DIR. j. +. Fullerton,
St. Paul: Hon. A. 7. StebbinS, Roebes-
ter; Hon. A. Barto; Sauk Centre, trus-
tees of the Minnesota hospitals for the
insane; Hon. T.. Clement, Faribault, di-
rector of the Minnesota institute for de-
fectives; Rev. Samuel G.. Smith, st. Paul,
and Hon. George A. Brackett, Minneap-
oils, members of the state. board of cor
rections and charities; NJ. D. Kenyon,
public examiner; John p. Williams, rail-
way commissioner. Many of the above
are reappointments.
An Ex-Governor Gone.