Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-09-16
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS


81, 900 court house for Traverse county.
Koenig's elevator at Plainview has
been destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000;
no insurance.
Burglars blew open the safe of Berg
Bros. at jackson, Mimi, and secured
about 800 in cash.
The population Mt the Saltwater pris-
on numbers SOL and is as low as it has
been for many years.
Eugene L. Emery, president of the ST.
Louis River Water Power company,
died at Duluth Saturday.
The president has appointed Fannie
Van Dyke. vice James IA. Van Dyke, de-
ceased, postmistress at Alexandria.
The ninth annual convention of the
Roa6inastars Association of America
was held in Minneapolis last week.
Governor Merriam has set Oct. IL as
the day for the execution of William
Rose, the Redwood Falls murderer. !
At a meeting of the directors of the
Pine county Agricultural society it was
decided to hold the third annual fair on
Oct. 1, , and 3.
Anton johnson, st. Paul and Duluth
railroad hand, was run over by pas
senger car at Duluth. Both legs were
crushed and he soon died.
Daniel Callahan an inmate of the st.
Clound reformatory, made his escape
from the stone quarry connected with
that institution Saturday.
Five large stacks of grain belonging
to William Hill. farmer west of Pipe
stone, We're accidentally set on fire by
hunters and burned. Loss 5000.
Adiutant Edward Thomas, COM
mander Of the Minneapolis corps of the
Salvation Army was drowned Friday
in Gilbert's lake, near Brainerd.
The rear of the $50, 900, 900 log drive,
in charge of the Mississippi and Rum
River Boom company, has reached Sauk
Rapids. They have a crew of $50 men.
While out hunting prairie chickens
near Sank Rapids J. B. Beatty captured
two black bears, one weighing two hun
dred pounds and the other sixty-fve
pounds.
The third annual convention of the
International Association of Ticket
Agents met in st. Paul last week. About
400 delegates were present. The session
lasted four days.
Secretary of War Proctor passed
through st. Paul Saturday on his way
! to Fort keogh. He was accompanied
| by Governor Page, of Vermont, and
several army officers.
The 5-year-old daughter of Bent Erick-
son, living five miles west of Slayton,
was accidently shot by her 7-year-old
brother while playing with gun. She
| died in few minutes.
Stephen Jo1lrdant has begun a suit
| against the St. Paul chamber Of COM
merce for $40, GOO damages for neglect
ing to keep the roof of it's building free
of ice last winter, when a piece fell and
killed the plaintiffs wife.
A large concourse of people, many of
them from abroad, attended the opening
| and dedication of Villa Maria convent
! and academy at Frontenac last Tuesday
| morning. Archbishop Ireland was pres
ent and delivered an address.
i. H. Blaisdells store at Kent was
robbed one evening last week. A clerk
was putting out the lights when he was
seized, tied and gagged, and the safe
robbed of $4,000 placed there for safe
keeping by farm hands and others.
The 14-year-old son of James Peter
son, living at Bath, ten miles from Al
bert Lea, was killed while asleep in bed
by bolt of lightning. His brother,
asleep beside him, was not injured,
! neither was any damage done to the
! house or contents.
While trying to make an old gun
work, the 9-year-old son of Nels Marka-
son of Buffalo, put the butt end into the
stove and then tried to blow the dust
out by putting his mouth over the bar
rel. The gun went off, tearing away
the entire back of his head.
What appears to be oil of some kind
began bubbling out of the casing of the
water works well, at Albert Lea Wednes-
day. from a depth of $40 feet in the
Trenton formation. A skilled chemist
pronounces it petroleum, and it certainly
smells and tastes exactly like it.
A 6-year-old child of Jessie Harmer
of Faribault was burned to death while
playing near an old burning building.
Mrs. Harmer is now lying at the point
of death from injuries received in trying
to save her child. If she lives both her
arms will have to be amputated.
! A bloody fight occurred on Snake
drunken Chippewa Indians, in which
one had his eye gouged out and his fin
ger bitten off. The tribe to which they
belonged have been picking rice, and
| the men had an argument over the pos
session of some rice.
At the meeting of the grand lodge
Knights of Pythias at Duluth last week
resolution was passed looking to the
removal of banners from in front of sa-
looms. The section prohibiting people
engaged in the liquor traffic from be-
coming members of the order in this
state was placed in the new constitution.
P. P. Scott, assisted by about fifty
men, killed bear weighing about 800
pounds at Thorson, a village near Glen
wood. This is something unusual, as it
is good many years since such an ami
NAL has shown itself in these parts, and
especially on a crowded street of vii
lage.
The Minnesota Pharmaceutical asso-
citation met in annual session at st.
Paul last week. About 100 members
were present. The following officers
were elected: President, Samuel F.
Boyce; vice presidents, f. II. Halnert,
st. Paul Edward, ,Shumpik, Minneapolis;
J. Grinnell, KassOn; treasurer and Sec
retary, G. T. Heller, st. Paul.
Miss Mary Muschette Sius, of Min
neapolis, committed suicide in Washing
ton last week. With a razor's point she
cut the left side of her throat from ear
to windpipe, completely severing the
; jugular vein and nearly severing the
carotid artery. Death must have re-
; suited almost instantly. No reason
can be assigned for the rash act
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has sued the pub
fishers Of her husbands memoirs, claim
ing shortage of $4,000 in her share of
the profits.
A gang of counterfeiters has been
broken up near Lawrence, Kan, by the
ar.ast nf the nrincina1s--(4eoroe K, Neil