Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-08-26

week.
William Binter, boy of IA, was
drowned in the Mississippi at Winona
last week.
City Sewer Inspector Bridgman, of
Minneapolis, was killed by the caving in
of sewer last week.
The State German sangerfest met in
Mankato last week. About 5000 people
were in attendance
John Maier, son of County Surveyor
Maier, and Robert JinlSsley were killed
by lightning at Barnesville Wednesday.
The annual reunion Of the Ninth Min
nesota volunteer infantry will be held in
Morgan Post hall, Minneapolis, ON Sept.
8, at 10 a. m.
Mankato is to have an extensive pork
packing house. The, building will be
200 feet in length, two stories high and
built of brick. ..-... ...
The scheme of bonding Polk county for
SEQ, 900 to aid the Duluth and Winnie
peg road has been withdrawn and will
not be voted on.
The safe in the postoffice at Zumbrota
was blown open Wednesday of last week
and robbed of $500 in money and $4OO
worth Of stamps.
The high court of Minnesota Foresters
met in St. Paul last week. An increase
of over 800 per cent. in membership for
the past year was reported.
A 6-year-old girl of Lewis Basel, of
Henderson, was accidentally shot and
killed Tuesday afternoon by her 11-year-
old brother, while playing with gun.
The dedication and opening of Villa
Maria convent in Frontenac will occur
on Tuesday, Sept. s. Archbishop I
land will preach the dedicatory sermon.
Frank Quipp, farmer at Ball Bluff,
drowned while swimming a horse across
the Mississippi river near his farm last
Saturday.
The Winona city council has awarded
the contract for constructing the wagon
bridge across the Mississippi river to
the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company
for $93.7
John Miller, saloon keeper at Nicol-
let, was killed Saturday night by his di-
vorced wife, Mrs. Mary Miller, who had
entered the house through the cellar and
hid in a closet.
The hailstorm in the vicinity of Wa
dena completely destroyed about $4,000
acres Of wheat. J. j. Bolton alone lost
the entire crop of 600 acres. The grain
was just about ready to cut.
Managing Editor Costello, of the St..
Paul Dispatch, will assume editorial
management Of the Duluth Tribune on
or about Sept. 1, having become fnan-
cially interested in the paper.
The strike of packers and nailers in
the Minneapolis mills last week was of
short duration. Several mills granted
the raise without delay, and in no case
were the men out more than three hours.
Samuel Wicks and Mrs. Jennie Nc
Cam were arrested at Redwood Falls
Wednesday by Sheriff Mead. The
couple eloped from Rochester Aug. 5.
Mrs. McCann had two of her children
with her.
General Pfaender, of the First battery,
Minnesota Light artillery, has issued a
call for reunion Of the battery at the
senate chamber, st. Paul, Sept. 10, at 10
a. M This is the thirtieth annual re-
| union.
Early Monday morning the store of D.
J. Miller, of Stockbridge, a small town
on Lake Winnebago, was entered and
the safe robbed Of over 81 900 which had
been deposited there by several parties.
| No clue to the robbers has yet been
| found.
The bodies of Mrs. Maria Dickin-
son and her 12-year-old daughter were
| found floating in New Auburn lake near
Glencoe last Wednesday. A handker-
| chief tied around their wrists bound the
| two bodies together. It is supposed to
be a case Of double suicide.
Two freight trains collided in cut
one and One-fourth miles east of Alex.
andria Tuesday. The east-bound train
had six cars ditched and the engine de.
rallied so that the tender laid under the
| driver The westbound train had its
engine pilot smashed. No one was in
| jured.
Sister Oswalder, O. S. F., connected
with st. Joseph's Catholic school at Wa
| coma, was drowned in cistern last
| Sunday evening She went to draw a
bucket of water and it is supposed that
she was overcome by an attack of ver-
tigo, from which she suffered, and fell
into the cistern.
Secretary Hart, of the Minnesota State
| Board of Corrections and Charities, has
prepared the annual statement of the
| population of the various state institu.
| tiOns which come under their supervi
sion officially. The average number fol
the year was 1886, as compared with
1926 for 1890.
The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani
toba Railway company has filed with
the secretary of state a resolution passed
by the board of directors of that road
| providing for the construction of a
branch line from Alton, N. D., through
Trail county to Halstad station, in Nor.
man county, Mimi.
About 10 o'clock Wednesday night
Mrs. Peterson, wife of E. L. Peterson
residing near Worthington, was killed
by lightning while lying in her bed
Her husband was badly stunned by the
stroke. but recovered to find his wife
dead. The house was shattered and the
other members of the family more OF
less affected by the shock.
The secretary of the interior has sci
aside $40, 900 for surveys in the Red Lake
reservation to cover all expenses con
nected with the work. These lands viii
be surveyed into forty-acre tracts, ant
the surveyor general of Minnesota has
been notified to commence his surveys
of pine timber land first and make re
ports concerning the progress and com
pletion of the work.
Governor Merriam has received tn,
formal requests for the Communication
of the death sentence of William
Roee to imprisonment for life. Rose
is the man convicted of the murdel
Of Moses L. Lufin. In addition to tht
petitions, which are quite numerously
signed, there is also plea from the con
demned man himself and notification
from the prosecuting attorney that NJ
would not oppose the changing of th'
| dao+b ,,ana14v to imDrison1nent for life