Morris tribune., 1891-10-28
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

A new directory of Blue Earth county
Is being prepared.
Minneapolis mills last week turned
out 1876, 600 barrels of flour.
Fifty acres of land near GAINESVILLE re-
Gently sold for $4,000.
Duluth police are running down peo-
pie who sell cigarettes to minors.
Odd Fellows of st. Paul are consider
ing plans for ten-story building.
Pabst, the Milwaukee brewer, may
build an opera house ut Winona to cost
$4,000.
Eardwell, Robinson &--Co., of Mime
apolis, lost $65, 900 by fire in their plan
ing mill
The agricultural department of the
Minnesota state university has opened
for the winter
The state grain inspection receipts for
September were $40, ,000-the largest for
any month yet.
John Black, wealthy Wadena far
mer, blew the top of his head off with
a Al caliber revolver.
The new postofice and government
building at Winona is occupied and the
whole town is happy.
Winona people are trying to raise
$4,000 with which to build large build
ing for athletic sports.
Hon. S. P. Jennison, of Red Wing,
announces publicly that he does mot
want to go TO congress.
st. Paul saloonkeepers are being pros
ecuted for having wine rooms attached
and violating the closing law.
The Great Northern has four 75-ton
engines on its Fergus Falls division to
haul grain, and more will be put on.
Fergus Falls people are kicking be-
cause COWS run at large and the pound
master kicks because the kickers kick.
St. Paul Republicans have appointed
committee of fifty to help Minneapolis.
secure the next Republican national
convention.
John Jacobs, wealthy farmer of Lu-
verne, has disappeared with large sum
of money, part of which, it is claimed,
came from school funds.
Minneapolis has twenty-five miles of
condrits which contain 5000 miles of
electric wires. More of the wires are
being put under ground.
Red Lake Falls will not get branch
of the Great Northern railway this
year. The right of way agent thought
was held too high.
W. NJ. West, superintendent of the
Faribault schools for eight years. has re-
signed and has accepted a professol:ship
in the North Dakota university.
The Red Wing Argus says a wom man
of that neighborhood recently found an
egg that contained inside it's yolk an
other egg, shell and all complete.
James E. Murphy, a plumber 90 years
old, tried to cross the track in Duluth
in front of an engine and had both legs
taken off below the knee. He died.
K. Fl. MCGEE, Of Wyoming, offered.
send several Thousand bushels of Pine
county potatoes to the sufferers of Rus
sia, but the offer was declined.
Sunday night performances have been
at the Grand opera house
in Minneapolis on account of light pat
ronage. The people settled the question
without the aid of Sunday laws.
A broom in the hands of Mrs.
Thomas Olin, aged II, of Minneapolis,
was set on fire from q spark that few
out of the cook stove. Her dress caught
fire and she ran out doors with her
dress all ablaze. Before the flames
were put out she was fatally burned and
died in great agony.
Miss Lillian B. Perry, of Covington,
Tenn, wrote prize essay on ''The
Model Husband. It attracted the at
tention of Fremont Reed, wealthy
banker and business man of Minneapo-
lis, and he was much impressed with
the beautiful sentiments the essay con-
tained. He declared his love by letter,
and Tuesday the couple were married
at the brides Tennessee home. The
bride is a typical southern beauty and
comes of good family.