Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-07-01
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
Fairmount has voted for waterworks
and electric lights.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are ro-
ported at Northtield.
A party of FIVE are prospecting for
The Pillsbury syndicate it is reported
will build large mills at Great Falls,
Mon.
Chambers are raging at Slayton. -Four
horses have been shot during the past
week.
The annual W. G. I. U. convention
| for the First distrit was held at Lake
Benton last week.
The First Minnesota volunteers held
their twenty-fourth annual reunion at
Winona Thursday.
One hundred and fifty dollars was
stolen Tuesday night, at Winona, Mimi,
from the saloon Of Artz Hres.
Application has been raade for the es.
| tablishment of new postoffics within
six miles Of Doerwood, Crow Wing
county.
| Fire consumed the entire Foley row
and other buildings at Aitkin. The
loss is almost total, but the owners will
rebuild.
| The Chippewa maidens of Leech lake,
have presented Governor Merriam with
a nicely woven straw mat, four by eight
| feet in size.
At Owatopna, Mimi, the corner stone
of the new Catholic church was laid
with imposing ceremonies. Bishop
Cotter of Winona had charge of the
exercises.
| The body of August Jackson, the
missing st. Paul contractor, was found
last week in badly decomposed condi-
ton in Bass lake. The indications point
| to suicide.
The Salvation Army and the police
had street fight at N Northfeld, Mimi,
| Thursday. The city has passed an ordi-
nance prohibiting the beating of drums
in the street.
The annual camp meeting of differ
ent denominations of Swedish churches
has opened at Cambridge, MINI, in a
large tent on the base ball grounds, and
| Will continue four days.
The annual convention of the Ancient |
Order Of Hibernians' life insurance
| fund of Minnesota held two days ses-
sion at St. Paul last week. Accounts |
of the fund &aEo audited and officers
elected.
The Swedish J.itheran Augustana
synod, which has been in session at
Center City for some time, has ad-
journed to meet at Lindborg, Kan,
June l next,
The board of directors have leased the |
state fair grounds to the Twin City |
Jockey club for one meeting each year |
for fourteen years. The sum paid is |
$4,000, all to be expended in buildings |
this year,
4 telegram has been received at |
Glencoe announcing the death of Lib |
erty Hall, which occurred at Denver,
Colo. Deceased was editor and proprie- |
tor of the Glencoe Register for twenty
years.
A cyclone swept over the east portion |
of Mower county Wednesday, wrecking
several houses, barns, ETC., in its way
At Marshall 4 house was blown to atom
and Mrs. Fordahl and her daughter se= |
yerely injured:
While driving with her s-year-old |
child near Morris. Mrs. Reagan's buggy
was struck by wagon driven by John
Lenz, who was Intoxicated. The child
was thrown out and crushed to death |
by the wheels.
! It is understood that Carlson. of Co.
kato, will soon make arrangements for
the erection of 600 Touring mill
and elevator at Buffalo, Mimi. to take
the place of the Heller mill which
burned down q short time ago.
Will Davenport and Joe johnson.
aged respectively IL and l3, were
drowned at Northfeld last week. The
boys were playing in canoe, which aa.
cidentally broke loose, and they became
frightened and jumped into the water.
At Window William Grimes has been
arraigned on a charge OF arson III the
first degree and burglary; Bert Rolph
on three charges OF arson and one of
burglary; Frank Nolan, arson; Robert
Nolan, arson and burglary.
Work has been begun with large
force On the Rainy river extension of
the Duluth and Winnipeg, which is be:
ing built by the Itasea Lumber COM
pany,, Of Minneapolis. Ten to twenty
miles will be built as soon as men and
material can do it,
A boy in charge of Sheriff Billings
stock at bis farm near Fergus Falls
heard a noise in the barn at 2 a. M.
He went to investigate and found three
horse thieves about to mount horses.
They fired two shots and fled, leaving
the horses. One shot went through the
boys hat and the other took effect in his
hand.
A meeting of citizens was held at Du-
luth to discuss the plan Of the National
! Forestry association to set aside from
the public domain some z, 000, 900 acres
in st. Louis, Carlton and Lake counties
as a timber reserve. A committee was
appointed to draw up resolutions pro-
testing against it, to be sent to Wash
ington.
The draw span of the new railway
bridge at Wintna, Mimi, which has
been under construction by the ~Winona
Bridge Railway company since Aug. 1,
| 1890, has been swung into place. The
new bridge will be used by the Winona
and Southwestern Railway company,
the Chicago, Burlington and Northern,
and the Green Bay, Winona and st.
Paul.
| About o'clock one morning last
week Michael Murphy, q farmer lif-
ing four or Ave miles east Of ST. Peter,
was called up to- doctor a sick horse.
On opening the door of his residence he
was seized by four masked men, thrown
to the ground and covered with coat
of tar and feathers. The party then
rushed into the house and treated his
housekeeper, who was in bed, to the
same kind Of a dose. :"
Hastings & McMullen, Of Minneapo-
lis, who few months since purchased
i large tract of land in the towns Of
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