Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-12-23
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

City, is dead
Two libel suits were filed against the
Duluth News Saturday.
The new system of water works at
Saltwater will be completed Jan. I.
Last weeks output of flour at the
Minneapolis mills was 1872, 194 barrels.
Twenty-Five per cent. of the wheat
! around st. Vincent is still unthreshed.
The West Seventh street car barns ct
st. Paul were destroyed by fire Satur-
day night.
Miss Hattie Anderson, young lady
OF Minneapolis, was drowned Thursday
evening while skating.
| By the premature explosion of dyna-
| cartridge Ira L. Bell and z. G. Gordon
were killed near Graceville. They were
drilling well.
A Davenport firm proposes to buy out
| the Saltwater. street railway, double the
mileage of the system and light the city
by electricity.
Elmer H. Dearth. deputy insurance
commissioner of Minnesota, has re-
signed. He will be succeeded by D. N.
Lightbourne, of Ada.
| G.. A. Bartlett, of Minneapolis, deputy
United States land surveyor, was run
over by the cars near Duluth Friday
and died the following day.
A Great Northern train was derailed
Saturday near Sank Center and eighteen
cars loaded with wheat were somewhat
damaged. No one was injured.
Mrs. Owen Herbert, living four miles
| south of Mankato committed suicide
Saturday by hanging. Her mind had
been unsound for several months.
Senator Washburn Monday presented
a bill which provides for all appropria-
ton of 100000 for the purchase of q
site and the erection of a public build
ing at Saltwater.
The city of Jordan has given bonus
of $35, 900 and five acres of land to the
Wilford & Northway Manufacturing
company, of Minneapolis, as an induce
ment to locate there.
T. E. Byrnes, the noted Minnesota
| politician, was arraigned in court at
Minneapolis Tuesday on the charge Of
! forgery. He pleaded not guilty and his
| trial was set for Feb. Is.
Edward Russell, we'll known resi-
dent of Minneapolis died Saturday, aged
| 81. For twenty years he was editor of
| the Davenport Qa.) Gazette and took an
active part in Iowa politics.
Superintendent L. P. Hunt, of the
| worlds fair commission, reports that
! just half the counties in the state have
| reported their apportionment, and the
| rest are coming to the front.
| The state university closed for the
| Christmas vacation last Friday. The
total registration for term was 1,240, an
increase of 1877 over the figures of the
corresponding term of last year.
Four boys narrowly escaped drowning
Sunday evening at Red Wing. They
were playing on the ice, when cake
broke loose, carrying them down the
river. They were rescued in boats.
21-ssir wa oonILc1oIICru OUG or
$25 at the st. Paul Union depot Friday.
| He loaned the amount to stranger who
was unloading car of furniture" and
accepted as collateral worthless check
for $4O0.
! Among the presidential appointments
confirmed by the senate last week were
the following Minnesota postmasters:
W. A. Wright at Cloquet, William Dur
ham at Brainerd, Alex Fides at Jackson,
II. @. Kelly at Ely, Fannie Vandyke at
Alexandria, and A. T. Koerner at Litch-
field.
The St. Paul board of aldermen.
by an unanimous vote. has passed the
tax levy for 1892, including the 1 mill
tax for the remodeling of the Market
house property into an auditorium.
It also passed the assembly resolution
calling for special committee to go on
with the work of remodeling.
The business men of Mankato held a
mass meeting last week for the purpose
of organizing railroad company to be
called the Mankato and Northwestern
Railroad company. The road which
they propose to build will run from
Mankato to Kasota, from there to Mont.
gomery, and thence to Pennington.
| The Northern Pacific Railroad com.
pany in the spring is to put on the mar
ket all Of the railroad lands owned by
the company in Clay and Norman coun-
ties, the title to which has been vested
in the Northern Pacific by late deci
sion of the United States supreme court.
This land is within the ten-mile strip on
either side of the Great Northern road.
| A bold attempt at robbery occurred at
Minneapolis one day last week. While
Charles A. Trask, cashier of the West
hotel, was on his way to the bank with
about $500 in specie in hand satchel,
three men appeared on the scene and
managed to get the grip. A lively chase
followed, resulting in the capture OF
two of the robbers. The satchel con.
tanning the money was also secured,
The ST. Paul chamber of commerce
has declared in loud voice against the
plan of the American Forestry associa-
tion to establish vast forest reservation
in the northern part of Minnesota. The
claim is that the section to be used com
prises about one-third Of the area of che
state and contains valuable iron de-
posits, timber tracts and much good
farming land, and should be left open
to settlement.
The Republican state central commit
tee met Saturday in st. Paul and ar
| tees for the seven congressional districts
|
chairmen of the district committees;
First, j. M. Diment, Owatonna; second,
A. Blanchard, New Ulm; third, H. L.
Simons, Glencoe; fourth, Stanford New.
ell, st. Paul; Fifth, Robert Jamison,
Minneapolis; sixth, G.. S. Benson, st.
Cloud; seventh, H. w. Donaldson, Kilt,
| son .-.. .. ...... ...
An artesian well has been successfully
completed by S.. Swanson for the Mime
apolis Brewing company. The well is
346 feet in depth, over 300 of which was
drilled through the ordinary quartz
rock. 1t has 1O-inch pipe and is claimed
by the contractor to be the largest well
in the Twin Cities. The flow of water
completely fills the pipe and has a head
of eight feet above the outlet. It's
capacity is over 1000 900 of gallons PEI
twenty-folr hours, and the supply is
apparently inexhaustible.
John G. Davis, a prominent churcl
an, Ir,oc +c5 OF Ra1oiuh NJ