Morris tribune., 1891-08-12


eral commanding.
The mail service on electric cars be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis has been
inaugurated.
The work of removing the state re-
form school from st. Paul to Red Wing
is in progress.
Two men were drowned near St.
Cloud, one perishing in an attempt to
save the other.
The Duluth and Winnipeg extension
of it's main line will be built to Deer
River this season.
William J. Pringle, of Elmwood, Ills,
has been elected superintendent OF
schools at Northfield
liver Olson, section foreman, living at
Renville, was sunstruck Saturday and
died within one hour.
The fourteen creameries Of Freeborn
county are estimated to pay out not less
than $300,O per year.
Phillip Diedrick, of Wakefield, while
watching the starting OF new binder
was ca71ght in the sickle and killed.
|. The Great Northern will be built into
Red Lake Falls this fall and shipping
facilities Will accordingly be excellent.
David Buskirk, a citizen of Hubbard.
was instantly killed at Wadena while
attsinptipg to board the train at that
point.
The stonecutters In all the quarries at
Sauk Rapids are on a strike, They de-
mand better sheds to work III or extra
nav for outside labor.
The people of Sebeka, petition for
the esta abisillnept of postoffice nine
miles north of Wadena on the Wadena
and Park Rapids railroad.
John Witt and son, living near Worth
ington, were run over by a reaper last
week, receiving injuries from which
they have since died.
Bishop Cotter, of Winona. was unani-
mously reelected president Of the Cath
olic Total Abstinence Union of Amer
ica at their recent convention.
Vessel tonnage for July at Duluth
was $50, 1872 tons, 10000 in excess OF the
same month last year: and the heaviest
| month here so far this season.
Adelbert Goheen, of Fergus Falls,
| convicted of the murder Of Rosa Bray,
| saws his brother Anderson committed
| the crime Anderson has been arrested.
James Bale, .Tr., of Duluth, was
drowned Thursday in Fall lake, four
| miles east of Ely. He was student IN
the medical department OF the state
university.
| The Thompson Houston Electric eoHas
| pany, of ST. Paul, has taken an option
on the St. Cloud street railway until
| Oct. l. 1t is expected that the sale will
be completed soon.
Charles Crust, of Brainerd, was
drowned in Miila Lacs lake Thursday
while bathing. MI. Crust was married
| the previous Saturday and W4g spending
| his honeymoon at the lake.
Moritz l.. Weisser, an architect, was
! shot and killed by christopher Koran
| Saturday. Koran claims Weisser was
unduly intimate with his wife, He
gave himself up to the police.
Mis-. Charles Peshert, living a few
miles west of Marshall. accidentally
scalded two of her children with boiling
/ water. One, girl of 8, died soon after,
but the other child will recover.
Adolph Wagner, who is said to live in
St. Paul, was bound over to the grano
Jury in the sum of 5000 ON the charge
Sf stealing horse owned by John E.
Kelly, a farmer residing near Farming
ton, ..-
| A shovei-aDsed sturgeon was caught
in Lake Pepin last week whose heat
weighed 16 pounds, and the estimated
weight of the fish Is s5 pounds, Tht
head will be preserved as the larges
ever seen here.
Albert Lea Standard: The state fai,
Is being billed and advertised by corp
of bieyclists who will visit every county
The money that this costs if expended
through the local papers would accom-
plish twenty times aaa9re good. ,
! An effort is being mads to have th'
| CITY pontoon bridge between sHllwatel
and the Wisconsin shore OF Lake st
| Croix made free to the public At pres
ent Is cents toll is charged for team
and the Saltwater merchants claim TIN
keeps considerable business out OF tn
city.
At Hincklev Saturday while crev
OF men who were building a dam a
Grinastone lake were putting ,sp tn
frame work it fell onthem, killing WIZ
| lam LABEL instantly. Dick Welch wa
pinned down by the falling timbers ant
had both legs badly crushed; AL Brow
was struck On the bead and picked Vi
unconscious, but will Fecover.
The district court Of st. Louis count,
has appointed Townsend v, H9ope
receiver of the Duluth Street RailWaa!
company's property and franchises 81
Che application of the company, for tn
benefit of all it's creditors, under resolu
ton of it's board of directors and stock
holders duly passed after ,conferenc
with some of the principal creditor
over the finaRcial situation.