Morris tribune., 1890-12-31

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agitated. ---.-z,
William O'Mulchay viii be state o.
ditor Bierman's deputy.
A Greek Catholic church has been -
tablished in Minneapolis. 14
About $50 Winona people enjoyed .
steamboat excursion Christmas day.
A Goodhue County Soldiers Menu
ment association is being organized at
Red Wing.
At Lanesboro Mrs. Ingebritt Anker-
son was fatally burned while filing a
kerosene lamp.
Bonniwelrs roller mills, at Howard
Lake, caught fire Saturday and the ma
chinery was lost. Fully insured.
Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, has
issued his proclamation announcing that
the five-sixths jury-law had passed.
The fourteenth annual session of the
Educational Association OF Minnesota,
is being held this week in the capitol.
st. Paul.
The jury in the case of Horton, ae-
cused of drowning his wife in the Mis-
sissippi at St. Paul, brought in verdict
of not guilty.
Louis Sommers, of Hastings, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for life for
the murder of Miss Mary A. Dietzen
last February.
Articles of incorporation of the Clark
Milling company, of Melrose, with Q
capital stock of 500, 900 have been filed
with the secretary of state.
At Hinckley, Mimi, the coroner's
jury returned a verdict that Marshal
Booth was justified in shooting the
Kane boys. He was acquitted.
According to The Northwest Trade
there were 800, 900 acres of fax in Min
nesota and the two Dakotas this year,
while there were but 100000 acres in
Ireland.
Mrs. Lizzie Palies, wanted in st. Paul
for working a confidence game, feigned
sickness while in charge of an officer at
Winona and was taken to hotel. She
escaped.
A.W Lindquist, of Owatonna, Mimi,
skated go miles in hours and 3S nlin-
utes, breaking the worlds record made
by Ennis, of Chicago, 6 hours and 81
minutes. ...-.. ......
Senator Davis will make an effort to
get the Minnesota apportionment in
creased to eight members instead of
seven, as provided by the bill which
passed the house.
The Winona and Southwestern road
gave an excursion to Winona Wednes-
10 o&%
towns along the line, which was COM
pleted last week to Spring Valley.
At St. Paul Christmas morning Silas
Mickels attacked his wife and adopted
daughter, Emma Mcleod, with knife
and revolver The daughter died in .
few moments, but the wife is still alive.
Mickels blew his own brains out.
Fire at Gull River destroyed between
5000, 600 and 5000, 900 feet of dry lum-
Der, besides the Gull River Lumber
company's dry kiln and several build
ings in connection. Eight dwelling
houses, the company's store building
and the postofice were consumed.
The old plant owned by the Winona
Harvester company is about to be sold
to the Green Bay, Winona and st. Paul
Railway company, to be used for repair
shops. The main building is Sox100 feet,
five stories high, besides other large
buildings worth in all 1000.
The new smokestack at the Hill street
electric power house of the st. Paul
street railway, which is just completed,
is one of the tallest and largest in the
world. 1t is 200 feet high and has an
inside diameter at the base of fifteen
feet. It took S75, 900 brick and $4,000
fire brick to build it. It weighs $500
tons and cost $4,000.
The committee to revise the eours.e, Of
ctudy in the graded schools Of the state
met in st. Paul Monday and Tuesday.
The committee appointed by Superir,-
tendent Kiehle, consists of Professor 81.
P. Judson, of the state university: w.
L. West, Faribault; Miss Mabel Law.
renee, ST. Cloud; Miss Mary Han. st.
Paul; r, 2. Denheld, Duluth. and L.
| Bliss, OF Henderson. Theresult of their
work has not yet been made public.
The monument to the brave men who
lost their lives in the New ulm massa.
ere by the Sioux Indians, has been fin.
ished at cost of So, 900. The monument
| is OF white bronze on stone base. 7
feet square by feet high. The plinth
is feet high, s inches square by 3 feet
8 inches high. The spire and cap give Q
total length to the monument of 25 feet.
The north and south plinths show in bas
relief battle scenes, and the east and
west plinths, with four tablets on the
monument show hfe-sized medallion
of Judge Charles E.. Flandrau, with
an inscription giving history of the In
dian massacres and the names Of sol
| diers killed in battle.