Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-05-07
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Duluth grows. Look at this: Deaths
during April, 10; births. 81.
The state normal school at Mankato
closes May 2S and the Moorhead school
on the 30th
st. Paul bricklayers have demanded
40 cents an hour. Some contractors
have paid only 80.
The Moorhead Driving Park associa-
ton will have their regular pring races
June 16, II and Is.
The Farmers Alliance in the Fifth
district will hold their annual meeting
at Fergus Falls June 10 and Is.
One day last week G. A. Pillsbury 81
Co., of Minneapolis, signed checks for
81 900, 900 in payment for wheat.
A Denver insurance company, called
the Equitable Accident of Colorado, has
been given permission to do business IN
Minnesota.
The senate has passed the house bill
granting the Little Falls and Lake Su-
perior railway right of way through the
Mile Lacs Indian reservation.
The next annual exhibition of the
Minnesota Poultry association will be
held in Minneapolis Feb. 2, 1891. w. A.
Gates, of st. Paul, has been elected pres
ident of the association.
Three thousand men will be set at
work within few days grading the
streets and laying tracks for the new
electric car line bet ween st. Paul and
Minneapolis. Cars will be running by
July 1.
The Red Wing Argus assures its read
ers that the city park is not to be
planted with cabbages this year, simply
because seven Germans have been
elected to the council, while only two
Norwegians got there.
The Grand Lodge of Minnesota, An
cient Order of United Workmen, held
its annual meeting in st. Paul this week,
commencing Tuesday. About 300 dele
gates were present, representing lodges
in almost every county in the state.
Conrad c. Miller, route agent on the
Northern Pacific between Duluth and
Staples, has been returned to Ramsey
county from Chicago on charge of hav-
ing stolen from the mails. Miller went
to Chicago and was nabbed there.
A small steamer belonging to the gov
ernment carried a party of gentlemen
from st. Paul up the Mississippi to st.
Anthony falls Friday. This is the first
time in eighteen years that the trip has
been made by steamer-large or small.
The interstate oratorical contest places
the states participating in this order:
Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado. The
next contest will be held the first Tues
day in May, 1891, at Drake university,
Des Moines.
In Glencoe, May 13, a special election
will be held to decide whether or not the
city shall be bonded to raise funds for
an artesian well. It is believed this sort
of well would afford splendid facilities
for fighting fres-something that Glen
coe needs very much.
The citizens of New Ulm are very
anxious to have the annual state en-
campment of the Minnesota national
guard at that place, and have sent to
Adjt. Gen. Mullen communication Of
fering 1000 as an inducement to come
there. No decision has as yet been
reached in the matter.
Girard's island, in the Mississippi at
Lake City has been purchased by J. Ct,
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spent by citizens in improving the
grounds preparatory to the immediate
establishment of non-sectarian reli-
gious school, with summer meetings
only.
A week ago Theodore Weinhaus dis
appeared from ST. Cloud, He was super
intendent Of the city water works and
competent man. His wife and three
children were left behind in embarass-
ing circumstances. Forged checks for
small amounts and debts here and there
make his shortages amount to about
$4,000. He is believed to be in Canada.
After an unusually heavy blast q
hanging wall on the third level of No. 8
shaft at Tower, was discovered to
be in an unsafe condition, and liable
to cave in. The miners We're ordered
out and all tools, etc., were Immediately
brought up. One miner was caught by
the cave-in and his body mashed to
jelly. The fall of rock has made the
permanent closing of that level neces-
Sary.