Morris tribune., 1891-09-02
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

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The Minneapolis exposition opened
Wednesday last.
There We're 461 500 horses in Mime
sofa June /. 1890.
John Magarn, of Melrose, is under ar
rest on charge OF rape.
M;tnkato Is to have in extensive pork
packing house to be built of brick.
Minnesota has $3.50 ,9S3 acres of wheat,
466,6l2 OF flax, l.457, lG6 of oats. and
6S3, ,4l6 Of corn.
=. +. Burgland Of Blooming Prairie,
had seven stacks of barley destroyed by
lire Saturday. Loss, $500.
Charles Grhhard aged 81 years. COM
mltted suicide ut Northfield Thursday
by shooting himself through the temple.
At Monticello Sunday, the Monticello
Starch factory and residence of L. B.
McCord were destroyed by fire. Loss
abont Sl6 O00
About one third of the Canadian news
papers received at the Duluth postoffice
are StlZcd and sent To the dead letter
office because of lottery advertisements.
The steamer City OF st. Paul was COM
pelied to lay to at Winona Tuesday on
account nf the low water and arrange
Tor II special train to transport the pas
senSsiS further north.
A smashup occurred on the Grants
hutG branch nt the St Paul and Duluth
rallroad, five miles from Grantsburg
Thursday morning. Five passengers
Were seriously injured.
John Erickson, a section hand on the
Northern Pacific railroad. committed
suicide ut Carlton. He threw himself
under the west-hound passenger train
and WAS cut to pieces.
Mrs. Elna MattSon mother of ex-Sec-
rctary Of State Hans Mattson. died
Thursday at her home in Vasa. Good
hue county. aged IS years She had
lived here since the pioneer days.
lightning struck and set fire to the
lnIrn of w Schupp. IL farmer two miles
north of Young America, Sunday. The
barn and many grain stacks near by
We're consumed by fire. Loss about
81 800.
AT Sleepy Eye DIR. August BrOdda and
his Niece, Augusta KunZ, have been held
TO the grand jury on the charge of
starving their illegitimate child. The
man Is 90 years of age and the woman
80 wears.
The tenth annual encampment of
Sons of Veterans was held in Minneap-
oils last week St. Paul Camp No. l
won the prize drill. Helena was chosen
as the place for holding the next en-
Catnpmcut.
The signal service office which was es-
tablishe'l at Red Wing last fall has now,
by order of the chief of the weather
bureau, been made IL predicting station.
This is done for the service of river men
principally.
The body Of George !. Osborn. who
disappeared from Minneapolis about a
week ago. has been found i'm the river at
st. Paul. terribly decomposed and dis
figured He WAS short in his accounts
to the extent Of $l5, ,0G0 or more.
At ChqHet Lewis LA Prairie, I'm
Indian, while drunk made mur-
derous attack on J. S. Stack. until
lately the Indian farmer of the Fond du
Lac reservation. He fired two shots at
Stack, but WAS disarmed before hitting
his man.
John !. West, head dynamo tender at
the Brush electric light station at Min
neapoIs was inrtantly killed Thursday
evening by an electric shock. There
was no one in the room at the time of
the accident and it is not known lust
how it occurred.
According to Washington dispatch
the name of Hon. Thomas Wilson. of
Winona. is prominently mentioned in
department circles us the successor of
General Bragg, the deceased member of
the interstate commission, who was a
resident of Alabama.
The corner stone of st. Gabriel's hos
pital at Little Falls, was laid last
Sunday with imposing ceremonies
The building is to cost $80,000. During
the services the S-year-old son of Joseph
Brooms fell twenty-five feet to the
ground and was picked up unconscious.
The Hersey & Bean mill at Saltwater
shut down Saturday night. owing to the
scarcity of logs. There are plenty of
logs in the dam and boom, but the
Hersey & Bean people have none in
sight for the remainder Of this season.
The mill employs 250 men, and has cut
this year 21.000.000 feet of lumber,
$780, 900 lath and II 900, 900 shingles.
Mrs. George A. Camp, of Minneapo-
lis, the wife of Major Camp, formerly
connected III an extensive lumber busi-
ness in Minneapolis with T. B. Walker,
committed suicide by jumping into
Minnetonka lake in front of their pleas
ant summer cottage. 1t happened at
about 6 o'clock Friday morning, as far
as can be ascertained. Mrs. Camp was
sufferer from nervous prostration,
which is supposed to be the cause of the
deed
Rev. Father Conway, of Faribault,
has turned over the use of the Catholic
parochial school buildings in that city to
the board of trustees of the public
schools of that district in consideration
| of 81, to be used Internationally for
school purposes and the board has ac-
cepted. This is a magnificent gift, as
| the Catholics have many thousands of
| dollars invested in school buildings in
| that city, and all this is now to be used
for the benefit of the public schools.
The railway employees of the state held
| d CO1lNeHI Uu6 Ill
| last week for the purpose of discussing
the political situation and organizing to
defeat those candidates for the legisla-
ture who are hostile to the interests of
railway corporations. The employees be-
lieve that legislation hostile to the inter-
ests of the railroads is bound to react on
the employees, either in reduced wages
| or reduction in the number of men
employed. A state central committee
to look after matters of interest to the
railroad men was appointed.