Morris tribune., 1890-09-24
MINNESOTA MATTERS.

| SlDley county is engaged IN county
seat war.
Capitalists are organizing linen fac
tory for Minneapolis.
No more crop bulletins will be issued
for Minnesota this fall.
| Duluth's population is 32,725, an in
crease of 30,0S0 in ten years.
The Grand hotel at Fergus Falls, with
all its furniture, sold for $4,000.
The st. Croix Valley Old Settlers as
sociation met Saturday at Saltwater.
1t is estimated that 10000 people at
tended the Freeborn county fair Satur-
day.
The senate has passed the bill for a
wagon bridge over the Mississippi at
Hastings.
The Fergus Falls public building bill
has passed the senate, but is hung up in
the house.
The census gives Duluth 32,725 peo-
pie. Ten years ago Duluth had 2,645
| population.
Negotiations are pending for the pur-
| chase of the ST. Paul and Duluth by the.
| Northern Pacific.
A vein of iron ore of low grade has
been discovered in the Bay View Heigl ats
addition to Duluth.
Three deaths from diphtheria lave
occurred in family named Ande rson,
near Window, in week.
Mayor Durant, of Saltwater, h. ss been
nominated for the legislature by the
Democrats Of his district.
Rev. M. A. Gold, of Albert Lea. has
bought The Lake Mills Star and viii as
sumo the management Oct. Ia,
Mrs. Duskel, of New Ul,n, committed
suicide by taking rough on rats. She
had quarreled with her hn1 )and.
Fl. G.. Finkle, judge OF probate of
Clay county. and proEn' nent merchant
OF Moorhead, died of ezr ,sipelas Friday.
The University of D .innesota has re-
gained possession of 80 g Iowa meteor over
which there has beer so much litigation.
The Hastings hJ zen mills have been
sold to Sioux 10 lis. S. D., syndicate,
and the transfer of the plant was made
Friday. ~
Inc thztg- fifth annual meeting OF
the GeneraA congregational association
last week
Phlsetp J academy at Owatonna has
opened lith $50 students. James w.
fords " D., of New York, has been en-.
gagea as president.
Ma com McInnis and E. G. Mist were
Sgr@ 81, k by a switch engine at Duluth.
IaF former was killed and the latter is
NO expected to live.
At the state convention of the
Women's Christian Tempet ssaseees union
at Minneapoliss2ast week all the old
omceESSN We're reelected.
The thirty-ffth annual meeting of the
General Congregational Association of
Minnesota was held in Northfield, last
week, with about 300 members present.
i The annual convention of the Associa-
Il tion of Edison Illuminating Companies
! was held in Minneapolis last week. Mr..
/ Edison sent word that he was unable to
4 attend.
Edward Langevin, who resided in ST..
i Paul for upwards of forty years, died
1 Tuesday of last week. Mr.. Langevin
was one of ST. Paul's largest property
owners in the early days.
i A boiler explosion occurred on the
farm of Henry Dieterling, near Hender-
son, MINI. The engineer was fatally
scalded and several of the threshing
crew were seriously injured
A movement is on foot in LIE Sueur
county to secure the pardon of Thomas
GConnor, who is serving a life sentence
at Saltwater for killing Larry Vaughan
eleven years ago. Both were drunk
when the deed was committed.
| G.. w. Knapp's general merchandise
store at Clinton Falls was broken into
by burglars. The safe was opened and
| everything taken. About $3.50 in cur
rency, 500 in checks and $4,000 in notes
were secured.
The grand jury at Little Falls has
| brought in twenty-seven indictments
thus far against the parties interested in
the robbery of the North Dakota eleva-
tor there last spring by the use of forged
wheat checks.
The st. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani
toba Railway company has filed with
the secretary OF state a Pacific extern
sion mortgage to the Central Trust COM
pany, of New York, to the amount of
| 5000, 900 pounds sterling.
The output of the Minneapolis mills
last week was 172, 900 barrels, averaging
1876 barrels daily, against 16O.925 bar
re1s the previous week, and 141 $50 bar
4 1OOc3
and 1853, ITO barrels in 1888. There were
nineteen mills in operation.
The Alliance candidate for state aud
itor. Mr.. P. Ell. Rahilly, of Lake City,
has written letter to the state central
| committee of the Farmers alliance with
drawing his name from the ticket. He
gives as his reason for doing SO that
there is too much internal dissension
in the organization for success.
Surveyors will begin work at Red
| Lake Falls on the Duluth, Red Lake
Falls and Northern this week. They
| will run to Warren, in the Red River
valley, thence to st. Thomas, N. ID.
From Red Lake Falls the road will run
southeast, touching the south shore OF
Leech lake and making as nearly an air
line as possible to Wright, on the North
ern Pacific The company will use the
Northern Pacific tracks from that point
into Duluth.
| Refuse to Take Back the strikers.
| NEW YORK, Sept. 22.:-A special. to
The Sun from Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
says: The following has been posted at
every station on the New York Central
and Hudson River railroad, by order OF
acting Vice President Webb:
aTo all agents: On and after Sept ~
/ any promotions to be made on the roe
| must be made frora men now in II
| ploy of the company. If you
/ men you may hire them. +
are you to employ anv
company 1lu~
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