Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-08-19
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A bed of porcelain clay has been found
at Albert Lea.
Detroit has voted in favor Of issuing
bonds for wat, works.
Hail did considerable damage in the
vicinity of Lake Benton, last week. I
Sheldon 81 Co., of Cloquet, are maxi
ing arranSeMcnts to open bank at
GRAND Rapids. /
Rev. L. b. Wells, rector of st. Marks
church. Minneapolis, died on his way
home from Japan.
William Cchs, aged II years, was
drowned in the Minnesota river at
Chaska Wednesday.
Hugh q. Harrison, we'll known Min
neapolis bnnHcr and capitalist, died in
that city Wednesday, last.
The First Minnesota Light Artillery
will hold It's 1891 reunion in the senate
chamber, at st. Paul, Thursday, Sept, TO-.
Burglars cracked the safe in the Bird
Island os,oilice last week, but were
frightened away without securing any
thing.
The troubles of the Duluth Street
Railway company have been settled by
the withdrawal of Samuel Hill and A.
S. Chase.
Stephen Lesser, st. Paul carpenter,
fell from Il scatf old to the ground, a
distance of thirty feet, and was in
stantly killed.
The resignation of DR.. James, assist
ant superintendent of the ST. Peter hos
pital for TIE insane, has been accepted
by the board of trustees.
The old Minnesota Iron Car company
has been o.ganiZed at Duluth with a
capital stock vi about 81 100000. 1t
will employ about 800 men.
A. Solomon, special agent, is at Clo-
quet investigating the alleged irregu-
larity in conducting the affairs of the
Fond du Lac Indian reservation.
Frank Vesly, of New Prague, COM
mitted suicide Thursday by jumping
into a cistern. He was 48 years of age
and well-to-do. Whisky was the cause.
The Wadena and Park Rapids rail-
way, Il b. anch of the Great Northern,
from eagle Bend, Todd county, to Park
Rapi,.s, hubbard county, is open for
traffic.
l. II. Beebe has been elected secretary
of the board of Soldiers Home man
ayers tt sutceed O. NJ. Sawyer. Captain
Castle WAS reelected president and
Major Henderson vice president.
In digging cistern in the southern
part of Albert Lea. the workman dis
covered bed of clay which is pro-
nounced by experts to he very valuab BILE.
1t is said it will produce excellent porce.
lain.
A widow with three children, who has
been doing washing for living, at
tempted to drown herself and youngest
child, aged about 2 years, in the mill
pond ut Window. She was gotten out
before life was extinct.
The summer institute at Plainview,
for the training of teachers, which has
been in session just four weeks, closed
Saturday. The enrolment was eighty
nine. The state superintendent was
present AID made an address.
Matthew Marvin, of Winona, who
was appointed to select site for q
monument to the memory of the First
Minnesota ON the Gettysburg battlefield,
CHOoC ~ pOSlG1Oll vi VIC HIOuuu Wu6IS
tho famous charge was made.
Mrs. Alvina Dommer. of Winona,
widow of August Dommer, who was
shot and killed June by Police Officer
Vincent Kirkowski, has presented a de-
mand on the city for $4,000, damages
sustained by the death of her husband.
A 17-year- old son of D. Cole, of Ha.
wick, met with a fatal accident. He
was returning home after days hunt
with his friend, Fred Clough, on a cart.
His gun was accidentally discharged
and the contents entered his heart. kill
ing him instantly.
Julius Strand, a prisoner confined in
the Winona Jail for stealing. watch,
was taken from the Jail and married to
Miss Emma Gulickson, the young lady
to whom he gave the stolen timepiece
After the ceremony the groom was re-
turned to the cell.
The Sank Rapids city council has
passed the ordinance granting the St.
Cloud Street Railway company fran
chise for the use of all the streets in the
city for term of fifty years providing
they build the road connecting the two
cities within three years.
Three St. Paul heavyweights have
started to walk to Madison, Wis, in
the attempt to reduce their flesh. They
are Bernard Lemon, Charles Mathers
and H. D. Driese. The heaviest tips the
beam at 3l5 pounds, and the lightest
bears the scale down for 26O pounds.
The long delayed drive of logs belong
ing to G. A. Smith and Hayward & Co.,
of Minneapolis, containing $4,000. 900
feet, are now being sluiced through
Pokegama dam at Grand Rapids at the
rate of half million per day. This
drive has been hung up in Bear river for
two years.
A 5-year-old boy of Ole Brown, living
near Jackson, set fire to lot Of
straw surrounding his fathers barn.
Discovering what he had done the little
fellow crawled into the barn where the
flames overlook and cremated him. Two
horses, four head of cattle and num-
Der of harnesses were also burned.
A heavy thunder storm passed over
Cloquet one night last week, accom-
panied by the worst hail storm ever wit
messed here. Hundreds of windows in
the town were broken by the stones
which were as large as hen eggs. many
of them weighing four or tlve ounces.
Several persons were rendered insensi-,
bic by being struck, but none danger
ously injured.
The report of the Minnesota state
treasurer is out. The actual state
debt after deducting investments in
sinking fund and cash in redemption
fund, is :,1S5, 1876. The Investments
permanent university fund, $685., 1888. 46;