Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-12-02

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The new Lyon county court house at
Marshall will be dedicated Jan. I, 1892,
by the local G.. A. R. post.
The Fergus Falls board of education
will on Jan. l next have $50, 900 worth
of school bor.ds to dispose of.
Lewis Davis, a we'll known business
man of LeSueur, dropped dead from
heart disease Saturday night.
State Superintendent Kiehl reports
that there are 26e, 900 pupils enrolled in
the pnblic schools of Minnesota.
D. F. Markham Post, G. A. R., of
Marshall, Lyon county, is claimed to be
the best working post in the state.
Mankato's share of the state worlds
fair fund is 5000, and the money was
easily raised among the merchants.
The big blast furnace at West Duluth
is in operation, and the daily output Of
Bessemer iron will be about 100 tons.
j.. A. Marsh, who recently failed at
Mankato, has certified to the district
court that his assets amount to $39, ,646.
Ignatius Donnelly has been sued by
Peale & Co., of Chicago, fer $4,000,
money borrowed to publish the Cryptic
gram.
The Cincinnati Mining conn ,any, Of
Duluth, has incorporated with capital
stock of $1,000, 900, to handle IRON mines
and iron ore.
An artesian well has been sunk: at
Lake Como, st. Paul, from whi ch 600,-
600 gallons of water flows daily, through
a six-inch pipe.
The single case of diphtheria at Sank
Rapids has been cured and the city
schools are open again, after bein. g
closed one week.
Warden Garvin, of the Saltwater
penitentiary, has bought thirty tons of
fibre at Heron Lake, which. will be made
into twine at the prison.
C.E. Stefins was convicted of forgery
in the second degree at St. Paul, and his
sentence is five years at hard labor in
the Saltwater penitentiar y. ....,
The Kent Writing Mac ;hine company
has incorporated in Wasl lington county
with capital stock Of $5O0,OOO and
headquarters at St. Paul Park.
The Laird & Norton lumber mill at
Winona operated 1873 days this year, and
broke down when only 5000 logs re-
manned in their boom to be cut.
Analysis of sugar beets raised near
Red Wing which were made at the
state experimental farm, show them to
contain about 324 pounds of sugar to the
ton of beets.
The Itasca County Improvement
union has been organized at Grand Rap
ids, having for its object the building
up of Itasca county and the village OF
Grand Rapids.
James O'Neil has been indicted for
murder in the first degree at Henderson,
Sibley county. He killed Thomas Col
lins last September during a quarrel
over an old well.
Duluth people object to the govern,
ment taking 100000 acres Of valuable
pine lands in Northern Minnesota fo1
| another national park and a protest
will be made to congress.
The Waseca board of education has
| ordered the compulsory school law tc
| be enforced in that city which means
| that children Of school age, from s to 49,
| shall attend school twelve weeks in the
year.
The Minnesota Soldiers Home at st.
Paul is now prspared to receive all
worthy and eligible applicants Tor ad
mission The new buildings authorized
by the last legislature are approaching
completion.
At Gentilly, Polk county, James
Westover got into trouble with one O.
| his farm hands, and when the fght
4 ended Mr.. Westover had broken nose
4 broken jaw, and his face was pounded
! all out of shape. He tried to ssloot hi
! assailant but was disarmed.
Special Agent J. J. Crowley. of tht
| treasury department, has been sta tione(
| at St. Paul to take special charge of tn
northern boundary Of the United tates
so far as Minnesota, North Da kota
Montana and Idaho are concerned, will
| view to preventing the smuggling o
opium and violations of the Chinese, ex
clusion act.
st. Paul will insure her own publi
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this way: The city comptroller shal
include in his annual tax estimate $500
which shall be set aside as an insuranc
| fund to be used exclusively for the pur
| pose of reconstructing or repairing al
public buildings owned by the city ant
| damaged by fire, but whenever thi
| fund reaches 5000 the council ma
use S2O, 900 of the same for the erection
new school building. The insuranc
i'und may also be invested in city certitl
Gates of Indebtedness.
Thomas Hefferen, of Minneapolis,
minor, has sued the Northern Pacifi
railroad for 100000 damages. In lSS
youns: Hefferen was working in the com
pany's shop at Brainerd, and piece Q
4 steel flew from 'side set'' and struc
him in his right eye. The pain from tn
wound caused him to go insane and h
was confined in the st. Peter asylum
four months. He also lost the eye. TIL
} bows father sues the railroad compan,
t for nearly Sc, ,OO0-money paid for med
' ical aid and for lost time in attendin,
the boy while sick and insane.
The American ship Rappahannoc
was burned at the South Pacific Island
Nov. II. The crew escaped.
Baroness Waideck, morganatic wifi
of Archduke Henry, died Sunday a
Vienna. Twelve hours later the arch
duke passed away.
Tennessee convicts will be returne
, to the mines.
: New York state canals have shu
down for the season.
Two shocks of earthquake were felt a