Morris tribune., 1891-11-11
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

A starch factory is to be built at
Zulnbrota.
Eleven artesian wells are in use in
Hutchinson.
Governor Merriam visited the new re.
form school at Red Wing Saturday.
A slate mill, employing thirty-fye,
VIII soon be In operation at Duluth.
The Pipestone Creamery company has
Incorporated. Capital stock $4,000.
Over $4,000 loaded freight cars went
into Duluth during the month of Octo-
| Der.
Murray county has voted to Issue
court house bonds to the amount OF
| $4,000.
West Duluth has an athletic club that
is right up with the best Of them in all
sports.
Three separate disappearance of
young girls occurred in st. Paul one
day last week.
During October 3SS ! vessels entered
and cleared from9 Duluth, with 3Sl, ,sf9
tons of freight.
During the month of October there
We're 354 births in st. Paul, 100 deaths
and 129 marriages.
jackson has voted to issue bonds for
$4,000 to put in and maintain sys-
tenn of water works.
The grand jury at Duluth ks- found
indictments against tobacconists for
selling cigarettes to minors.
Almost million tons of iron ore
were shipped this season by boat from
Two Harbors, near Duluth.
Ex-Governor Yale has been in Rock
county selling land for $25 per acre,
for which he paid $40 few years ago.
The district court of Otter Tail
county is in session at Fergus Falls and
there is another murder case on the
calendar.
Flour at New Ulm has dropped to
$1.90 per hundred. Never before has it
been so cheap, and the fight promises to
continue all winter.
A. J. Demeules, Brainerd's city treas
urer, has returned and will square his
accounts with the city. He was short
few hundred dollars.
Gustav johnson, near Granite Falls,
threshed thirty acres of wheat that av-
eraged forty and one-fifth bushels per
acre, machine measure.
In Rosemount, Dakota county,
George Manners threshed s,4Oo bushels
of oats, 800 of faxseed and 180 of buck.
wheat in three and one-half days.
Clay, which experts claim to contain
fire brick qualities, has been unearthed
on the shores of Lake Pokegama, three
miles from Pine City, Mimi Chicago
experts rate it A and a large manu-
factory will be started at once.
The Winona board of trade has ap-
pointed committees to secure the
county's quota, $1,000, for the worlds
fair fund, and to consider the PROPOSE
tion of Captain Pabst, of Milwaukee,
for building an opera house.
A team, wagon, driver and big load of
wood dropped several feet into a hole in
Winona while crossing sidewalk, and
the driver, when he found himself, team
and wagon 0. K, kicked because the
wood was so badly scattered.
The cultivation of vaccine virus at the
Barrows farm near Winona, under the
direction of Secretary Hewitt, of the
state board of health, is in progress and
will be continued on scale proportions
ate to the demand for the material.
Superintendent Gilbert, of the st.
Paul public schools, has issued circu-
lar to parents informing them that all
children of school age must attend
school, and gives it out plainly that he
will see that parents attend to their du-
ties in this respect.
A work train and freight train on
the Great Northern colided at st. Cloud
Saturday and two passengers were Sc
riously injured. The work train had on
board about 180 workmen and their es-
cape from death under the circum-
stances looks like a miracle.
At Pennington, Saturday, lad
named Barney Franham, aged 10, was
holding team of horses belonging to
his father when the horses suddenly be-
came scared and dashed towards a barn,
dragging the boy along. The pole was
driven clean through the lads breast,
death being instantaneous.
The building formerly occupied by the
Red Wing Wagon factory is rapidly be-
ing turned into shape to accommodate
the plant of the new sewer pipe COM
pany recently formed there. Work has
progressed to a considerable extent on
the kilns, and prospects seem good that
some Of them will be ready to use this
fall.
At st. Paul, Friday evening, Ernest
Schroeder shot and killed Annie Bree,
young German domestic in the EN-.
ploy of Andrew Kohler. The murderer
managed to elude the police until next
evening, and while being pursued by the
town marshal of North St. Paul, drew
a revolver from his pocket and com
mitted suicide. The refusal of the girl
to marry him is supposed to be the
cause of the tragedy.
Negotiations have been going on for
some time between the Brighton Land
company, of Duluth, and the Christian
Educational association, of Minnesota,
in regard to the location at Lakeside,
near Duluth, of a college similar to the
one now in successful operation at Des
Moines, Ia,, which has now over / 100
students. The object of the Minnesota
association is to locate college there
which will draw for its support upon
the four states of Minnesota, Wisconsin
and the two Dakotas. The buildings,
when completed, will cost over 5000, 900.
The matter is not yet fully settled, but
will be soon,
A NEW CAPITOL.
Fhe Senatorial Commission VIII Recon-
r