Morris tribune., 1891-11-18
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
owatonna wants a woolen mill.


Deer are numerous around Pine City.
Murray county voted to bond to build
a court house.
Minneapolis saw mills have shut
down for the season.
Hutchinson claims the larges artesian
gusher in Minnesota.
The tax levy for st. Paul for 1892 is
estimated at 81, ,707, $1,000.
Park Rapids new hotel has been
formally opened to the public.
The Carlton city hall and Jail have
been entirely destroyed by fire.
Charles Berkner will erect seventy
five barrel -four mill at Buffalo.
Fire at Worthington destroyed four
barns, causing loss of about %, 900.
st. Paul is to have a new life insur-
ance company, backed by heavy capital.
Mrs. Bryan, of Luverne, has acquired
title to Chicago land valued at $500, 900.
g Two Germans We're seriously injured
in a cave-in at Worthington. One will
die.
w. A. Foote was fined $50 and costs
at Duluth for selling Louisiana lottery
tickets.
Work on the new electric line at st.
Cloud is being pushed with phenomenal
rapidity.
Robert Westbury, aged 19, was
drowned at Waterville by the overturn-
ing of a boat.
John J. Erin, a Winona engineer,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the temple.
A plant for the manufacture of
steam heating apparatus has been To-
Gated at Winona.
Captain Pabst, of Milwaukee has de-
clded not to erect an opera house in
Winona at present.
The First Baptist church at Window
was dedicated Sunday, $917 being do
mated by the audience.
Burglars secured $40O in cash from
the safe of D. G. Young & Co. at Ait
ken Wednesday night.
Mrs. Mary Mckay, of st. Paul, was
fatally burned by the explosion of
kerosene lamp Friday night.
The Minneapolis city council has unan-
imously decided against the repeal of
the Sunday saloon ordinance.
The Milwaukee Car Wheel and
boundary company, which employs 100
men, is to be transferred to st. Paul.
A 4-year-old son of J. B. Mason, a
farmer residing near Minneota, was ac-
cidently shot by his 6-year-old brother.
The total enrolment of pupils in Min
nesota is in the neighborhood of 260, 900,
of which 227 ,y66 are entitled to state
school apportionment.
Mankato's new packing house will be
will slaughter 200 hogs daily, besides
beef cattle and sheep.
The first house built in Minneapolis
in 1S49 is to be purchased and placed in
park, where it will be fitted up as
sort of depository for relics of early
days.
Chief Grain Inspector Clausen states
that the Duluth wheat receipts on Mon
day, 1,605 cars, were the largest ever
handled in one day in any market on
earth.
Rasmus and Mannus Olson and Rich
ard Skai, aged 7, 8 and II respectively,
were drowned in Solomon lake, fear
Wilmar, while trying to secure goose
they had shot.
Three hundred and sixty-fve tubs of
bogus putter belonging to Armour q
Co. were seized at Duluth Thursday by
Inspectors Wilson and Lawrence of the
state dairy commission.
Thomas F. Hynes, young buglar of
the Third infantry, U. S. A., shot him
self at the Clarendon hotel, st. Paul,
dying shortly afterward. Disappoint-
ment in love was the cause.
Walter Drisson, 10 years old, a car
penter employed in the grand stand at
the state fair grounds, fell from the
roof to the ground, breaking his back.
He died on the way to the hospital.
Colver Tauber, farmer near Red
wood Falls. made an unsuccessful at
tempt to slay his mother-in-law with a.
revolver. He then tried to kill his
brother, who had him arrested. The
old lady will recover.
Fragments of skull of a mastedon
were found at Mankato by workmen
digging sewer. One of the teeth is
almost entire and measures 10 inches
long, inches wide and 81 inches from
the point of the longest prong to the
top. s~.
The preliminary trial of Engineer
Smith and Conductor Woodson, who
were arrested, charged with criminal
carelessness in regard to the wreck at
Thorson, Oct. 26, where six persons lost
their lives, has closed. Engineer Smith
was bound over to the grand jury and
Conductor Woodson discharged.