Morris tribune., 1891-06-17
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

r Faribault is to have wire fence fac
:. tory.
I A farmers institute was held at Alex
andria last week
!, The Eighth Minnesota held a reunion
T at Pennington Thursday last.
The st. Paul ball club will be trans
ferred to Duluth July 4, it is said.
y Worthington's waterworks will cost
i $4,000, The contract has been let.
! The state supreme court has decided
that the lien law of 1889 is constitu-
tional.
$ Blue Earth's militia company has
been mustered out. 1t fell below the
/ standard.
; The twenty-fourth annual reunion of
the First Minnesota will be held at
Winona June 2S.
At Pipestone Walter Smiley was shot
in the thigh by Marshal Walkup, out of
mistake for burglar.
The work Of deepening the channel of
the Mississippi between st. Paul and
Minneapolis has been begun.
The State Fircmens association met
Ks
Three hnndSed delegates were present.
Otter Tail county citizens complain
loudly of illegal seining in the lakes of
that county. They want deputy game
warden.
The Shakopee Mill company has made
an assignment. Assets, $50, 900; iabil- |
titles, $4,000. Insufficient working
capital is the principal cause.
/ At the annual meetings of the Duluth |
and Iron Range Railroad company and |
! the Minnesota Iron company, H. r. |
Bishop was elected president.
Engineer De La Barre, of the st. An
thony Falls Water Power company, has
! already begun work on the preliminary |
surveys for the new dam at Minneapolis.
The Winona, Mimi, city council has
| decided to advertise for bids for build
ing new high bridge between Winona
and the Wisconsin side of the Missis-
sippi.
The bodies of Charley Coles and
Edward Berg, at Bird Island, whose
fate was uncertain, have been found
in the lake. They were drowned while
fishing.
| Col Willis, who was Oil inspector un-
| der Governor McGill, has been ap-
| pointed oil inspector to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Sam
Nichols.
Grand Rapids, Mimi, has voted on
Incorporating as a village by nearly a
unanimous vote. The election was con-
Quoted under the Australian law, and it
worked finely.
The Beauford woods, five miles north
of Mapleton, have the appearance of
winter, the army of caterpillars having
taken the leaves off of every kind of tree
except the butternut. In some places
they are over an inch thick on the
trees.
In the case of Jack Koch and Bob
Wood, charged with the murder of
John Bauer, at Eden Valley, last Fen !
ruary, the jury brought -
of manslaughter in III"
a motioa6
mag ~
il s. tone of the new high
schCar 5uilulns at Duluth was laid
Monday. 1gnatius Donnelly delivered
an address and other appropriate cere-
monies followed. The building will
cost 100000.
At Beaver Falls, Mimi, the barns
and stables connected with the Syndi-
cate house were burned with three val =
liable horses, COWS, cutters, harness,
etc. No insurance. The fire was of
incendiary origin.
The Winona city council has sus-
pended Fire Marshal J. w. Ryan and \
preferred charges of intoxication and
miSappropriation of funds amounting to
over $500, given him by the iremen for
the purchase of uniforms.
Max Giniski, aged 5, and L. Katz.
aged 4, were run over and killed by
motor train on the West side, st. Paul.
They were playing on the street cross 4
ing the track. The bodies We're terribly {
mangled.
The directors of the Little Falls, =
Mimi, roller mill company, whose flour |
mill was destroyed by fire last week,
have decided to rebuild as soon as pos
sible. The new plant will have
capacity Of 700 barrels and only the
most improved machinery will be used
The thirty-fourth annual convention .
of the Minnesota grand lodge, I. o. G..
T., was held at Masonic Temple, Mime
apolis, last week. The secretary's re-
port shows a membership of 7,025, an
increase of 1000 during the year About ]
100 delegates were in attendance.
A Christian convention will be held
on Rest island, near Lake City, under 9
the auspices Of John G. Woolley, July =
19 to 26 inclusive MI. Woolley an
nounces that the convention will be "as
democratic as alcohol, as bipartisan as
poverty, and as unsectarian as sim" 5" !
Able speakers have been engaged
The G. A. r. encampmen5, which /
has been IN session the past week |
at ST. Cloud, closed Saturday. Tha
place selected for holding the
encalnpment is MeiEas@ .oxr
lneAt sieete'' Ane encamp-
'. Ell. Harris, of Frank
-.ggett post, Litchfeld, district COM
mander, with A. Ct. Jaques, of Sauk
Center senior vice and Manning Can
field, of Long Prarie, junior vice.
A man whose identity up to this time
is not established, made a ferociouS
assault with knife upon two women |
who were entering their living rooms,
up stairs, at 249 Third avenue south,
Minneapolis. Neither woman was
dangerously wounded, although their
escape is somewhat wonderful. Their
names are Lottie Wheeler and Lille
Cameron.
A. man living at Roodhouse, uls.,
has a deed to St. Paul and Minneapolis
City Attorney Russell. of Minneapolis,
has received letter from him. His
deed was given by an Indian chief
in 1867 to tract of land beginning at
ST. Anthony falls, and running south to
the Chippewa river, thence east 100
miles, thence north 100 miles, and
thence west to the place Of beginning.
This deed covers all of st. Paul, part of
Minneapolis and the country immedi-
ately south and east for 100 miles.
Whether the deed is worth anything or
not the city attorney of course does not
know. Mr.. Russell has so written to
the man. It seems that the matter has
been referred to government officials a.
Washington.
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