Morris tribune., 1891-06-03
MINNESOTA'NEW ITEMS

AeIhSHb WOEhS W SiipiuJ ~uo Iuel VIII
be started at Austin.
A state bank will be started at Lam
berton, to begin business July l.
The Minnesota W. C. Z. u. annual
convention will be held at Mapleton
June 3 and 10.
The new telescope at Carleton college
is icing put i'll place. Its total weight
is $4,000 pounds.
The flax, lumber and excelsior mills
recently burned at Alma, Mich, will be
rebuilt at Duluth.
Blue Earth County Farmers alliance
met at Good Thunder to purchase twine
for the coming harvest.
The Northern Pacific railroad en-
ployes will run an excursion to Detroit
June %. About l 200 are expected.
At the sale of school lands for Lin
coin county. Minn., State Auditor Bier
man sold LOO acres. The attendance
was good
Hon. o. O. Huset, member OF the last
legislature, died at his home in Wana-
mingo, Goodhue county, after a two
weeks illness.
The Occidental hotel and Swenson's
two-story story building at Wheaton
burned to the ground. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $2.700.
Trains between Mankato and Wells,
Mimi, have been obstructed part of the
way by the number of caterpillars that
gathered on the tracks.
AT a special election on the question
Of
works, at WlnnebaSo, Mimi, 121 votes
were polled for and 80 against.
A man named John Zewald has con-
fessed, at Sacramento, Cal, that he
killed two wives, one of the murders
occurring at Anoha, this state. Poison
was the agent.
Two and one-half million wall-eyed
pike have been placed in the Minnesota
river at Mankato. and 100000 be-
tween Fort Smelling and that city, by
the state fish hatchery.
A fremens tournament will be held
i'll Pipestone, Mimi, on July 2, 3 and 4.
Over $1,000 in cash will be given in
purses. Over 200 fremen from sur
rounding towns are expected.
An 1o-months- old babe of John Am
brose was playing on the railroad track
east of the station at jackson, Mimi.
and had both legs e',t ssff by q passenger
TAIN.
Fred Berg, student of Moorhead
normal school, was run over by the
Great Northern passenger train at
Argusville, N. D., and had both legs
cut off below the knee. He died soon
after.
An unknown man threw himself
under train at Randall, Mimi, on the
Northern Pacific, and had his body cut
completely in twain. He was about
80 years Of age, and said to be from ST.
Louis.
The new telescope for Carleton's OBJ
servatory has arrived at Northfeld.
With the addition of this telescope
Carleton will have one of the best
| equipped observatories in the United
! States.
The Duluth, Mesabi and Northern
! Railway company has filed articles with
| the secretary of state. The tax paid on
| the capital stock was the largest sum
ever paid to the state in this way. The
amount is $2,525.
| Y,
while attempting to board a freight
train at Miller was thrown under the
train and literally ground to shreds.
What was left of him was brought
| home for interment.
The funeral of DR.. E. M. Morehouse,
| late mayor of Owatonna, Mimi, was
| held in the park at that city. About
| 2,GO0 people were present from all over
the county. 1t was the largest funeral
ever held in that city.
The thirty-fourth annual council of
the Protestant Episcopal church in the
i diocese of Minnesota, met at Faribault
| Wednesday. In the absence of Bishop
Wbipple, Assistant Bishop Gilbert, OF
st. Paul, is the president of the council.
The contract for the erection of the
first of the eleven Columbian palaces
for the worlds fair has been given tc
Minneapolis firm, Barnett, Record
& Chapman. The building is for mines
and the carpenter contract amounts te
800, 800.
Two and half million wail-eyeG
) pike have been placed in the Minnesota
liver at Mankato by S. S. Watkins
superintendent of the state fish hatchery
of st. Paul Ten million were placed
, in the river between Fort Smelling anC
Mankato.
A four-foot rope with moose in on,
end was found in Murderer Goheen'.
J cell at Fergus Falls one day last week
1t is the supposition that he contem
plated saving the state the expense O.
, hanging him. The rope had been taker
from his cell hammock,
Governor Merriam has received re
port from the special committee ap
pointed to examine the case of Mrs
Sophronia Northrup, or any other al
legged committals without due process
| of law, to the first hospital for insan
at st. Peter Mrs. Northrup wa
!, committed Sept 6, 1890, after an in
7 formal but unofficial examination b,
Judge Schaler of Carver and two loca
! physicians, who pronounced her not in
= sane. She was taken to the hospita
the same day by her son, DR.. $. J
Northrup. who on Sept. 30 procured pa
pers Ct commitment from Judge Schale1
The report made by the committe
? roasts DR.. S. J. Northrup severely, ant
{ also finds Judge Schaler and DIR. North
3 rup guilty of irregular conduct. Tn
a report is especially severe on the pres
3 ent system of committing insane peopl
in the hospitals,
Rudini Interviewed Porter.
ROME, May 81 The Fanfulla say
: the statement that the pope was tryin