Morris tribune., 1891-06-24
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
A Knights of Pythias lodge has been
organized at Cloquet.
The Second regiment, NJ. N. g., hsa
gone into camp at Lake City.
Anoka county has lady deputy sher-
iff. She is the sheriff's wife.
Otter Tail county commissioners have
begun war of determination on the
grasshoppers.
The Third regiment, M. N. g., has
been reinstated and viii go into camp at
Lakeview, June 27.
According to the Granite Falls Trib-
rne coal of good qvality has been found
in Yellow Medicine county.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
! first settlement of Renyille connty was
| celebrated at Sacred Heart Monday.
The Methodist camp meeting at Red
| Rock, near ST. Paul, is now in full blast.
| This is the twenty-third annual meeting.
Arrangements are being made for a
chorus of 1000 children at the conYen-
tion of the Y. P. S. G. Z. at Minneapo-
lis.
The 2-year-old son of County Com
missioner Vingen, of Otter Tail county,
was drowned in tank for watering
cattle.
There is said to be an effert on foot at
Minneapolis to form low Tariff Re-
publican league for the state of Mime
sofa.
The Fort Smelling garrison has been
ordered to camp with the Wisconsin
troops at Camp Douglass in August,
and march both ways.
The payment of pensions for the Da-
kotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin will be
made at Milwaukee July and every
three months thereafter.
The annual conference of the Norwe-
gian Lutheran church was held at Ken
yon last week. Over 900 delegates and
clergymen were present.
The convention of the Catholic Total
Abstinence union of Minnesota, held at
st. Paul, has closed. A. W. Gutridge
of st. Peul was elected president.
The grist mill, Northern Pacific ele-
vator and two box cars that were stand
ing on the track We're burned at Clith-
erall. The fire started in the mill.
The elevator at Brownton, Mimi,
owned by Chiids and Hinreichs, burned
with several thousand bushels of wheat.
The building and grain were insured.
Thursday $4,000 worth of Carlton
county MINI. bonds were placed upon the
market and found ready purchasers at 3
A
Eastern firms.
The great northwestern Turnfest was
held Saturday and Sunday at st. Paul. |
The Sunday exercises were held at the |
Stote Fair grounds. About 5000 Turn |
ers were present.
The wife and daughter of John Will
son, Of st. George, near Sank Rapids,
Mimi, were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured by being thrown from wagon by |
a runaway team.
The striking stonecutters in the Coats
Bros q Cross quarry at ST. Cloud, went |
back to work Saturday. The foreman
settled the matter.
Governor Merriam has appointed DIR. |
G. N. Hewitt Of Red Wing a delegate to |
represent Minnesota at the international |
congress OF hygiene and demography to
be held at London, England, Aug. 1917.
w Fl. Truesdale, receiver of the Min
apolis and ST. Louis road, has resigned. |
The general uncertainty of the roads |
future and the number of brilliant Of |
fers made him by Eastern roads is given
out as reason.
The Imperial Flour Mill company at
Duluth has contracted with the Har.
wood Manufacturing and Storage COM
pany OF Minneapolis to put up cooper
shops near their mill to manufacture |
1000 barrels a day.
The Minnesota labor department has
sent a communication to all newspapers
in the state asking that copies of papers
be sent to that Office. They will be pre-
served for reference and information on
labor matters throughout the state.
Hydrophobia is still prevalent at Chat
field, MINI. Thus far two horses, two
cows and several hogs have died from
its effects. 1t is believed that on one
farm a herd of thirty-fve hogs would
have to be killed. A war of extermina-
ton is being carried on against all dogs.
August Vogt, of Ottawa, Mimi, made
desperate effort to kill his wife. Both |
had gone to bed, when Vogt got up in |
the dark and got hatchet and struck
his wife twelve times, cutting nine
gashes in her head and three on her
shoulder. He then hanged himself. The
woman may possibly recover.
Great efforts are being made by the
farmers and business men of Polk |
county to INDUCE the Duluth and
Winnipeg railway people to change
the proposed bee line route from
Duluth to Winnipeg, and deviate so as
to run into Crookston and through the
BED river valley. There is large dele
cation here working for that end.
Members of the directorate of the
Duluth, Red Wing and Southern Rail
way company state that East Superior |
capitalists will form company with |
53lem to build road from Red Wing to |
shat point. The scheme is to bridge |
the natural entry from Lake Superior at |
the old town ana cross along Park point
over the Duluth bridge into Duluth
August Dommer, the man who was
shot by Officer Vincent Kukowski at
Winona early on the morning Of the |
9Th inst, died Friday at the hospital.
Coroner Stewart, Immediately after
Dommer's death, summoned jury and
began a post mortem examination. The
surgeons were unable to locate the bull
let. The jury returned verdict that |
Dommer came to his death from the
effects of bullet wound inflicted June
8, by Officer Kukowski.
The earl of Clonmel. John Henry |
Reginald, is dead at the age of 52 years.
The Comte De Launay, Italian am
bassador at Berlin since 1871, has been
recalled.
The International Institute of Home
opathy ended their congress at Atlantic
City Monday. The next 1aea meeting will
be held in England in 1896.