Morris tribune., 1891-06-17
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
Faribault is to have wire fence fac

tory.
A farmers institute was held at Alex
andria last week.
The Eighth Minnesota held reunion
at Pennington Thursday last.
The st. Paul ball club will be trans
ferred to Duluth July 4, it is said.
Worthington's waterworks will cost
$4,000, The contract has been let.
The state supreme court has decided
that the lien law of 1889 is constitu-
tional
Blue Earths militia company has
been mustered out. 1t fell below the
standard.
The twenty-fourth annual reunion of
the First Minnesota will be held at
Winona June 2S.
At Pipestone Walter Smiley was shot
in the thigh by Marshal Walkup, out OF
mistake for burglar.
The work of deepening the channel of
the Mississippi between st. Paul and
Minneapolis has been begun.
The State Firelnens association met
in annual session at. Jordan last week.
Three hnndRed delegates were present.
Otter Tail county citizens complain
loudly of illegal seining in the lakes of
that county. They want deputy game
warden.
The Shakopee Mill company has made
an assignment. Assets, $1,000; liabil-
tiles, 1000. Insufficient working
capital is the principal cause.
At the annual meetings of the Duluth
the Minnesota Iron company, III. R.
Bishop was elected president
Engineer De La Barre, of the st. An
thouy Falls Water Power company, has
already begun work on the preliminary
surveys for the new dam at Minneapolis.
The Winona, Mimi, city council has
decided to advertise for bids for build
ing new high bridge between Winona
and the Wisconsin side of the Missis-
sippi,
The bodies of Charley Coles and
Edward Berg, at Bird Island, whose
fate was uncertain, have been found
in the lake. They were drowned while
fishing.
Col. Willis, who was oil inspector un-
der Governor McGill, has been ap-
pointed oil inspector to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Sam
Nichols.
Grand Rapids, Mimi, has voted on
incorporating as a village by nearly a
unanimous vote. The election was con-
Quoted under the Australian law, and it
worked finely.
The Beauford woods, five miles north
of Mapleton, have the appearance of
winter, the army Of caterpillars having
taken the leaves off of every kind of tree
except the butternut. In some places
! they are over an inch thick on the
trees.
| In the case of Jack Koch and Bob
| Wood, charged with the murder of
John Bauer, at Eden Valley, last Feb
ruary, the jury brought in a verdict
of manslaughter in the second degree.
A motion for a new trial was at once
made.
The corner stone of the new high
school building at Duluth was laid
Monday. Ignatius Donnelly delivered
an address and other appropriate cere-
monies followed. The building will
cost $300,000.
At Beaver Falls, Mimi, the barns
and stables connected with the Syndi-
cate house were burned with three val
liable horses, COWS, cutters, harness,
etc. No insurance. The fire was of
incendiary origin.
The Winona city council has sus-
pended Fire Marshal J. W. Ryan and
| preferred charges Of intoxication' and
misrepresentation Of funds amounting to
over $400, given him by the fremen for
the purchase of uniforms.
Max Giniski, aged 5, and L. Katz,
aged 4, were ruin over and killed by q
motor train on the West side,S ST, Paul,
They were playing on the street cross.
ing the track. The bodies We're terribly
mangled:
The directors Of the Little Falls,
Mimi, roller mill company, whose flour
mill was destroyed by fire last week,
have decided to rebuild as soon as pos
sible. The new plant will have a
capacity of 750 barrels and only the
most improved machinery will be used
The thirty fourth annual convention
of the Minnesota grand lodge, I. 0. G
| L., WAS LSlu StU N1aSOIlC -ASufD4Cs Nlll1AS
apolis, last week. The 'secretary's re
increase of 1000 during the year, About
100 delegates were in attendance. -
4 Christian ~~---
Az -v..vention will be helt
- -.esJ island, near Lake City, unde
the auspices Of John Ct. Woolley, Jul,
| IS to 26 inclusive. Mr.. Woolley an
nounces that the convention will be "a
; democratic as alcohol, as bipartisan a
poverty, and as unsectarian as sin.
Able speakers have been engaged.
The G. A. R. encampment, whicl
has been in session the past weel
at ST. Cloud, closed Saturday. Th
place selected for holding the mex
encampment is Melrose. The encamp
ment elected V. Fl. Harris, of Franl
Daggett post, Litchfeld, district com
mander, with A. Ct. Jaques, of Saul
Center senior vice and Manning Can
field, of Long Prarie, junior vice.
A man whose identity up to this tim,
!; is not established, made ferociou
\. assault with knife upon two womel
. who were entering their living rooms
up stairs, at 249 Third avenue south
Minneapolis. Neither woman wa,
! dangerously wounded, although theil
escape is somewhat wonderful. Theil
names are Lottie Wheeler and Lilli,
4 Cameron.
J A man living at Roodhouse, Ills.
| has deed to st. Paul and Minneapolis
City Attorney Russell, of Minneapolis
} has received a letter from him. Hi
! deed was given by an Indian chic
in 1867 to tract of land beginning a
St. Anthony falls, and running south t.
the Chippewa river, thence east 1O'
) miles, thence north 100 miles, ant
thence west to the place of beginning
This deed covers all Of st. Paul, part o
Minneapolis and the country immedi
i ately south and east for 100 miles
Whether the deed is worth anything O.
not the city attorney of course does no
know. Mr.. Russell has so written t,
. the man. 1T seems that the matter ha
. been referred to government officials q
Washington.
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