Morris tribune., 1891-10-07
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

The shipments of iron ore this season
from Two Harbors reaches TAI, ,805 tons.
Governor Merriam has refused to
commute the sentence of William Rose.
Hon. Mark H. Dunnell, of Owatonna.
will go to Ohio to take part in the cam
paign.
August Schenecke, a well digger Of
Henderson, broke his neck by falling
into well.
The next convention of insurance COM
missioners of the United States will be
held at st. Paul.
A company for the manufacture of
sewer pipe has been organized at Red
Wing, with capital of $4,000.
jackson, Jackson county, has been
made a presidential Office, and Hon. Alex
Fiddes reappointed postmaster.
William Mitchell, the fireman who
was severely injured at the recent ele-
vator fire in Minneapolis, died Thursday.
Thomas Elliott, who built the first
house in Mapleton, accidentally fell into
the Maple river Thursday and drowned.
At Moorhead the city council have
decided to discontinue half the gas
lamps and substitute fve electric arc
lamps.
st. Mary's academy, Benedictine
seminary at st. Joseph, Stearns county,
|swill have a sec, 700 brick addition to its
building.
The prison board has decided on tho
purchase of new twine plant to cost
about 200, and employ about forty
convicts.
Vincent P. Kukowski, the Winona
policeman who killed August Dommer
on June 20, has been convicted of man.
slaughter in the second degree.
The fourth annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church Sunday
School association of the diocese cf Min
nesota was held in st. Paul last week.
A novel industry has been incorpor-
ated in St. Paul, being company to
indemnify business men from losses and
reverses. 1t Incorporates for $3.50, 900,
The passenger steamer Winslow, of
the Lake Superior Transit company's
line, burned at her dock at Duluth
Saturday. She was valued at $35, 1000.
The St. Cloud street railway system
has passed into the hands of the Thomp-
son-Houston company of St. Paul. The
present system will be changed to an
electric plant.
Professional burglars broke into A. B.
Hanscom's restaurant, vt Willmar,
drilled hole in the safe ond broke the
ombination, securing $400 in money,
some promissory notes and other valua-
bic papers.
Grading on the Great Northern be-
tween Red Lake Falls and st. Hilaire is
about completed. Work is being pushed
on the line and the southern connection
with the Fosston branch will probably
be made this fall.
Strong q Miller, Of Minneapolis, will
build a new elevator at Hastings on the
burned site of the railroad one on the
levee The capacity will be 75, 900 bushels,
and work upon the building viii be
commenced at once.
w. C. Bredenhagen, president of the
New Ulm and Southwestern, snys that
now there is no longer any question but
menced next spring, so as to have the
road completed by fall.
Fifteen yonng men from Tipperary
and Kilkenny, Ireland, have been Sc
lected by Bishop McGolrick, of Duluth,
as students aspirant for the American
priesthood. They have sailed on board
the Wisconsin for New York, on their
way to Archbishop Ireland at St. Paul.
Superintendent Myers, of the st. Cloud
reformatory, in speaking of the work
done by the inmates of the reformatory
| this past year, said that they has sold
$4,000 worth of stone. Superintendent
| Myers is of the opinion that the reform
atory could furnish within ten years
enough cut stone for a new state capitol.
The steamer China last week unloaded
| the largest consignment of sugar ever
brought to Duluth. The sugar took up
the greater part of the vessels hold and
weighed 800 tons. AS car load is put
| at 16 tons it can be seen that the con-
signment would fill 80 cars. The sugar
was consigned to Duluth and Twin City
jobbers.
A contract for convict labor has been
let to the Minnesota Thresher company
by the board of prison managers. The
company agrees to pay IS cents a day
per convict for $50 oonvicts, and $500 a
| month for the rent of shops and the use
of the machinery, and $625 a month for
power and heat, which are furnished
from the prison boilers. This will make
the entire receipts by the state about
$40,00 year from the thresher COM
pany and about double what has ever
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