Morris tribune., 1891-12-02

The new Lyon county court house at
Marshall will be dedicated Jan. 1, 1899,
by the local G.. A. R. post.
The Fergus Falls board of education
will on Jan. next have $50, 900 worth
of school bonds to dispose of.
Lewis Davis, we'll known business
man of LeSueur, dropped dead from
heart disease Saturday night.
State Superintendent Kiehl reports
that there are 100000 pupils enrolled in
the pnblic schools of Minnesota.
D. T. Markham Post, G. A. R., of
Marshall, Lyon county, is claimed to be
the best working post in the state.
Mankato's share of the state worlds
fair fund is 5000, and the money was
easily raised among the merchants.
The big blast furnace at West Duluth
Is IN operation, and the daily output of
Bessemer iron will be about 100 tons.
J. Q. A. Marsh, who recently failed at
Mankato, has certified to the district
court that his assets amount to $39,646
Ignatius Donnelly has been sued by
Peale & Co., of Chicago, for $4,000,
money borrowed to publish the Cryptic
gram.
The Cincinnati Mining company, of
Duluth, has incorporated with capital
stock of $3,O00,000, to handle iron mines
and iron ore.
An artesian we'll has been sunk at
T o1y :al>
900 gallons of water flows daily, through
six-inch pipe.
The single case of diphtheria at Sauk
Rapids has been cured and the city
schools are open again, after being
closed one week.
Warden Garvin, of the Saltwater
penitentiary, has bought thirty tons of
fibre at Heron Lake, which will be made
into twine at the prison.
G. E. Stefins was convicted of forgery
in the second degree at st. Paul, and his
sentence is five years at hard labor in
the Saltwater penitentiary.
The Kent Writing Machine company
has incorporated in Washington county
with capital stock of $5OO,OOO and
L a.
The Laird g. Norton lumber mill at
Winona operated 1876, days this year, and
broke down when only 5000 logs re-
mained in their boom to be cut.
Analysis of sugar beets raised near
Red Wing which were made at the
state experimental farm, show them to
contain about 324 pounds of sugar to the
ton of beets.
The Itasca County Improvement
union has been organized at Grand Rap
ids, having for its object the building
up of Itasca county and the village Of
Grand Rapids.
James O'Neil has been indicted for
murder in the first degree at Henderson.
Sibley county. He killed Thomas Coli
Inns last September during a quarrel
over an old well.
Duluth people object TO the govern
ment taking 5000, 900 acres of valuable
pine lands in Northern Minnesota for
another national park and a protest
will be made to congress.
The Waseca board of education has
ordered the compulsory school law to
be enforced in that city which means
that children of school age, from to 16,
shall attend school twelve weeks in the
year.
The Minnesota Soldiers Home at st.
Paul is now prepared to receive all
worthy and eligible applicants for ad-
mission. The new buildings authorized
by the'last legislature are approaching
completion.
At Gentilly, Polk county, James
Westover got into trouble with one of
his farm hands, and when the fight
ended Mr.. Westover had broken nose,
a broken jaw, and his face was pounded
all out of shape. He tried to shoot his
assailant but was disarmed.
Special Agent J. J. Crowley. of the
treasury department, has been stationed
at st. Paul to take special charge of the
northern boundary of the United States,
so far as Minnesota, North Dakota,
view to preventing the smuggling of
opium and violations of the Chinese ex-
clusion act.
st. Paul will insure her own public
buildings. A fund will be created in
this way: The city comptroller shall
include in his annual tax estimate $5. 900
which shall be set aside as an insurance
fund to be used exclusively for the pur-
pose of reconstructing or repairing all
public buildings owned by the city and
damaged by fire, but whenever this
fund reaches SIS, 900 the council may
use $50, 900 of the same for the erection
new school building. The insurance
fund may also be invested in city certif-
Gates of indebtedness.
Thomas Hetferen, of Minneapolis, a
minor, has sued the Northern Pacific
railroad for $4,000 damages, In 1885
young HeTeren was working in the COM
panys shop at Brainerd, and piece Of
steel flew from 'side set and struck
him in his right eye. The pain from the
wound caused him to go insane and he
was confined in the st. Peter asylum
four months. He also lost the eye, The
boys father sues the railroad company
for nearly $6, ,00O-money paid for med
ical aid and for lost time in attending
the boy while sick and insane.
The American ship Rappahannock
was burned at the South Pacific Islands
Nov. II. The crew escaped.
Baroness Waideck, morganatic wife
of Archduke Henry, died Sunday at