Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-12-23
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

lne uoW system OF water works
saltwater will be completed jan. /.
Last weeks output of flour at til
Minneapolis mills was 1872, 1914 barrels.
Twenty-Five per cent. of the whes
around st. Vincent is still unthreshet
The West Seventh street car barns 9
st. Paul We're destroyed by fire Satul
day night.
Miss Hattie Anderson. Young lad
or minneapolis, was drowned Thursda
evening while skating.
By the premature explosion of dyns
cartridge Ira L. Bell and e. G.. Gordo
We're killed near Graceville. They wer
drilling we'll.
A Davenport firm proposes to buy on
the saltwater street railway, double tn
mileage OF the system and light the cit
by electricity.
Elmer II. Dearth, deputy INSURANCE
COMMISSIONER of Minnesota, has re
signed. He will be succeeded by D. N
Lightbourne, of Ada.
Z. A. Bartlett, of Minneapolis, deput,
United States land surveyor, was rul
over by the cars near Duluth Frida,
and died the following day.
A Great Northern train was deraile,
Saturday near Sauk Center and eighteen
cars loaded with wheat were somevha
damaged. No one was injured.
Mrs. Owen Herbert, living four mile,
south of Mankato, committed suicid,
saturday by hanging. Her mind has
been unsound for several months.
Senator Washburn Monday presented
bill which provides for an appropria
ton of 100000 for the purchase of -,
site and the erection of a public build
ing at Saltwater.
The city of Jordan has given a bonn,
OF $35, 600 and five acres of land to thu
Wntord q Northway Manufacturing
company, of Minneapolis, as an induce
ment to locate there.
T. E. Byrnes, the noted Minnesota
polltlclan, was arraigned in court al
minneapolis Tuesday on the charge OF
forgery. He pleaded not guilty and his
trial was set for Feb. Is.
Edward Russell, we'll known resi-.
dent of Minneapolis died Saturday, AGED
81. For twenty years he was editor OF
the Davenport Qa.) Gazette and took an
active part in Iowa politics.
Superintendent L. P. Hunt. of the
worlds fair commission, reports that
just half the counties in the state have
reported their apportionment, and the
rest are coming to the front.
The state university closed for the
Christmas vacation last Friday. The
total registration for term was 1910. an
increase of 1877 over the figures of the
corresponding term of last year.
Four boys narrowly escaped drowning
Sunday evening at Red Wing. They
were playing on the ice, when a cake
broke loose, carrying them down the
river. They were rescued in boats.
A countryman was confdenced out of
$25 at the st. Paul Union depot FRIDAY.
He loaned the amouneto a stranger who
was unloading car of furniture" !" and
accepted as collateral a worthless check
for $400.
Among the presidential appointments
confirmed by the senate last week were
the following Minnesota postmasters.
w. A. Wright at Cloquet, William Dur.
ham at Brainerd, Alex Fides at :fackson
Il: Z. Kelly at Ely, Fannie Vandyke at
Alexandria, and A. T. Koerner at Litch-
field.
The st. Paul board of aldermen
by an unanimous vote. has passed the
tax levy for 1892, including the l mill
tax for the remodeling of the Market
house property into an auditorium.
1t also passed the assembly resolution
calling for special committee to 90 ON
with the work of remodeling.
The business men of Mankato held a
mass meeting last week for the purpose
OF organizing railroad company to be
called the Mankato and Northwestern
Railroad company. The road which
they propose to build will run from
Mankato to Kasota, from there to Mont
gomery, and thence to Pennington.
The Northern Pacific Railroad com.
pany in the spring is to put on the mar
ket all of the railroad lands owned bv
the company in Clay and Norman coun-
ties, the title to which has been vested
in the Northern Pacific by late deci !.
sion of the United States supreme court
This land is within the ten-mile strin on
either side of the Great Northern road.
A bold attempt at robbery occurred at
one day last week. While
Charles A. Trask, cashier of the West
hotel, was on his way to the bank with
about $500 in specie in hand satchel
three men appeared on the scene and
managed to get the grip. A lively chase
followed, resulting in the capture of
two OF the robbers. The satchel con-
tanning the money was also secured.
The st. Paul chamber ,f ,oro,,oros
has declared in a loud voice against the m
plan OF the Amer. can Forestry associa-
!lon W esbA .4lsh vast forest reservation
II = northern part of Minnesota. The
claim is that the section to be used com.
prises about one-third of the area of che
state and contains valuable iron de-
posits, timber tracts and much good
farming land, and should be left open
to settlement.
The Republican state central commit
GCO uCU ObLuIudJ III Ot. RAUL anu ar
ranged the new congressional commit
tees for the seven congressional districts
of the state. The following are the
chairmen of the district committees:
First, J. M. Diment, Owatonna; second,
A. Blanchard, New Ulm; third, Ell. L.
Simons, Glencoe; fourth, Stanford New
ell, st. Paul; Fifth, Robert Jamison.
Minneapolis; sixth, G. S. Benson, st.
Cloud; seventh, FL. W. Donaldson, Kilt
son
An artesian well has been successful .
by S. Swanson for the Miy me-
apolis Brewing company. The v, ell il
346 feet in depth, over 300 of VIII cb was
drilled through the ordinary onartz
rock. 1t has 10-inch pipe and IS claimed
by the contractor to be the largest we'll
IN the Twin Cities. The flow of water
fills the pipe and has head
Of eighT feet above Rne outlet. Jts
capacity is over 1000. 600 of gallons ner
Jwenty-four hours, and the snnolv i
apparently inexhaustible.
john G. Davis, q prominent ehurch
member, was arrested at Raleigh. N. G.
charged with eclbezzling 5000 600
mostly church funds.
- The work Of allotting land to the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in sew,
crafty is suspended, owing to q short, ,oe
Of ~ssoS