Morris tribune., 1891-06-24
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

organized at Cloquet.
The Second regiment, M. N. G., hsa
gone into camp at Lake City.
Anoka county has lady deputy sher-
iff. She is the sheriffs wife.
Otter Tail county commissioners have
begun war of determination on the
grasshoppers.
The Third regiment, M. n. G., has
been reinstated and will go into camp at
Lakeview, June 81.
According to the Granite Falls Trib-
Cne coal of good qyality has been found
in Yellow Medicine county.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
first settlement OF Renville county was
celebrated at Sacred Heart Monday.
The Methodist camp meeting at Red
Rock, near st. Paul, is now in full blast.
This is the twenty-third annual meeting.
Arrangements are being made for
chorus of / 600 children at the conyen-
ton of the Y. P. S. g. e. at Minneapo-
lis.
The 2-year-old son of County Com
missioner Vingen, of Otter Tail county,
cattle.
There is said to be an effert on foot at
Minneapolis to form low Tariff Re-
publican league for the state of Mime
sofa.
The Fort Smelling garrison has been
ordered to camp with the Wisconsin
troops at Camp Douglass in August,
and march both ways.
The payment of pensions for the Da-
kotaS, Minnesota and Wisconsin will be
made at Milwaukee July and every
three months thereafter.
The annual conference of the Norwe-
gian Lutheran church was held at Ken
yon last week. Over 800 delegates and
clergymen were present.
The convention of the Catholic Total
Abstinence union of Minnesota, held at
st. Paul, has closed A. W. Gutridge
of St. Pgul was elected president.
The grist mill, Northern Pacific ele-
vator and two box cars that were stand
ing on the track were burned at Clith-
erail. The fire started in the mill.
The elevator at Brownton, Mimi,
owned by Childs and Hinreichs, burned
with several thousand bushels of wheat
The building and grain were insured
Thursday 5,0O0 worth of Carlton
county MINI. bonds were placed upon the
market and found ready purchasers at 2
per cent. premium. All were taken by
Eastern firms.
The great Northwestern funniest was
held Saturday and Sunday at st. Paul
The Sunday exercises were held at the
Stote Fair grounds. About 5000 Turn
els were present.
The wife and daughter of John Will
son, of st. George, near Sauk Rapids,
Mimi, were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured by being thrown from a wagon by
runaway team.
The striking stonecutters in the Coats
Bros q Cross quarry at St. Cloud, went
back to work Saturday. The foreman
paid S25 line imposed by the union and
settled the matter.
Governor Merriam has appointed D..
G. n. Hewitt Of Red Wing delegate to
represent Minnesota at the international |
congress OF hygiene and demography to
be held at London, England, Aug. 1917. |
W. H. Truesdale, receiver of the Min
apolis and st. Louis road, has resigned. |
The general uncertainty Of the roads
future and the number Of brilliant of
fers made him by Eastern roads is given
out as reason.
The Imperial Flour Mill company at
Duluth has contracted with the Har-
wood Manufacturing and Storage COM
pany of Minneapolis to put up cooper
shops near their mill to manufacture
1000 barrels day.
The Minnesota labor department has
sent a communication to all newspapers
in the state asking that copies Of papers
be sent to that Office. They will be pre-
served for reference and information on
labor matters throughout the state.
Hydrophobiai is still prevalent at Chat
field, MINI. Thus far two horses, two
COWS and several hogs have died from
its effects. It is believed that on one
farm a herd Of thirty-five hogs would
have to be killed. A war Of extermina-
ton is being carried on against all dogs.
August Vogt, of Ottawa, Mimi, made
desperate effort to kill his wife. Both
had gone to bed, when Vogt got up in
the dark and got a hatchet and struck
his wife twelve times, cutting nine
SlSEeS III Her ESdu anu Gnr6e on 06r
shoulder. He then hanged himself The
woman may possibly recover.
Great efforts are being made by the
farmers and business men of Polk
county to induce the Duluth and
Winnipeg railway people to change
the proposed bee line route from
Duluth to Winnipeg, and deviate so as
to run into Crookston and through the
Red river valley. There is a large dele
cation here working for that end.
Members Of the directorate of the
Duluth, Red Wing and Southern Rail-
way company state that East Superior
capitalists VIII form company with
them to build road from Red Wing to
that point. The scheme is to bridge
che natural entry from Lake Superior at
the old town and cross along Park point
over the Duluth bridge into Duluth.
August Dommer, the man who was
shot by Officer Vincent Kukowski at
Winona early on the morning Of the
9th inst, died Friday at the hospital.
Coroner Stewart, Immediately after
Dommer's death, summoned a jury and
began post mortem examination. The
surgeons were unable to locate the bull
let. The jury returned verdict that
Dommer came to his death from the
effects of q bullet wound inflicted June
g. by Officer KukoWSki,