Morris tribune., 1891-09-02
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Farlbanlt Is TO nave Tree 1nall uellVery |
Oct 1.
The Minneapolis exposition opened |
Wednesday last,
There We're 46l 500 horses in Mime
sofa June |. 1890.
John Magarln, of Melrose. is under ar
rest on charge of rape.
Mankato Is 10 have IN extensive pork
packing house to be built of brick.
Minnesota has 3,:i39, oS3 acres of wheat,
466, ,6l2 of flax, l,l57, 1865 OF oats, and
6S3, l6 OF corn.
p =, Bursand. Of Blooming Prairie,
had seven stacks of barley destroyed by
fire Saturday. Loss, $500.
Chatles Gcbhatd aged 81 years. COM
mitted suicide at Morthtield Thursday
bv Shooting himself through the temple.
AT Monticello Sunday, the Monticello
Starch factory and residence of Il. B.
McCord were destroyed by fire. Loss
about $lG 900.
About one third of the Canadian news
papers received at the Duluth postoffice
are seized and sent to the dead letter
office because of lottery advertisements.
The steamer City of st Paul was COM
PEELED to lay TO at Winona Tuesday ON
account oC the low water and arrange
Ton Il NlH'riaI tIaiu to transport the pas
SenS"iS further north.
a Sua$tIu occurred on the Grants
burg hrauch nt the St. Panl and Duluth
rallrOa'! I've miles from Grantsburg
Thursday morning. Five passengers
Were io'r,iy injured.
John Erickson, il section hand on the
Northern Pacific railroad. committed
suicide at Carlton He threw himself
under the wrst-hound passenger train
and WAS cut tV pieces.
Mrs. tIua MaltSon. mother of ex-Sec-
retary of State Hams Mattson, died
Thursday at her home in Vasu, Good
hue county, aged IS years. She had
lived here since the pioueer days.
lightning struck and set fire to the
barn Of w. Schupp, Il farmer two miles
barn and many grain stacks near by
81 500.
At Sleepy Eye DIR. August Brodda and
his niece, Augusta KunZ. have been held
to the grand jury on the charge of
starving their illegitimate child. The
1u;tn is 60 years of age aud the woman
90 years.
The tenth annual encampment of
Sons Of Veterans was held in Minneap-
oils last week St. Paul Camp No. l
won the prize drill. Helena was chosen
as the place for holding the next en-
ca1npncnt.
The signal service office which was es-
tablished at Red Wing last fall has now,
by order of the chief of the weather
bureau. been made predicting station.
This is done for the service Of river lnen
principally.
The body of George J. Osborn. who
disappeared from Minneapolis about
week ago. has been found in the river at
St. Paul terribly decomposed and dis
figured He was short in his accounts
to the extent of bl5, 600 or more.
At CEopret Lewis La Prairie, an
Indian, while drunk made muir
derous attack on J. S. Stack, until
lately the Indian farmer of the Fond du
Lac reservation. He fired two shots at
Stack, but WIS disarmed before hitting
his man.
John j. West, head dynamo tender at
the Brush electric light station at Min
neapolis was inrtantly killed Thursday
evening by an electric shock There
was no one in the room at the time of
the accident and it is not known Just
how it occurred.
According to Washington dispatch
the name Of Hon. Thomas Wilson, of
Winona, is prominently mentioned in
department circles as the successor of
General Bragg, the deceased member of
the interstate commission, who was a
resident Of Alabama.
The corner stone of st. Gabriels hos
pital, at Little Falls, was laid last
Sunday with imposing ceremonies
The building is to cost $4,000. During
the services the S-year-old son of Joseph
Brooms fell twenty-five feet to the
ground and was picked up unconscious.
The Eersey e Bean mill at Saltwater
shut down Saturday night, owing to the
scarcity of logs. There are plenty of
logs in the dam and boom, but the
tlcltNy " lICttH nave
sight for the remainder of this season.
The mill employs 250 men, and has cut
this year 21.O0OOOO feet of lumber
$500, 900 lath and II, 900, 900 shingles.
Mrs. George A. Camp, of Minneapo-
lis. the wife of Major Camp, formerly
connected in an extensive lumber bust
ness in Minneapolis with T. B. Walker,
committed suicide by jumping into
Minnetonka lake in front of their pleas
ant summer cottage 1t happened at
about o'clock Friday morning, as far
as can be ascertained. Mrs. Camp was
a sufferer from nervous prostration,
which is supposed to be the cause of the
deed.
Rev. Father Conway, of Faribault,
has turned over the use of the Catholic
parochial school buildings in that city to
the board Of trustees of the public
schools Of that district in consideration
of 81, to be used Internationally for
| school purposes and the board has &C
| cepted. This is a magnificent gift, as
! the Catholics have many thousands of
| dollars invested in school buildings in
| that city, and all this is now to be used
for the benefit of the public schools.
The railway employees of the state held
a convention at the capitol in St. Paul
last week for the purpose of discussing
| the political situation and organizing to
| defeat those candidates for the legisla-
ture who are hostile to the interests of
railway corporations. The employees be-
lieve that legislation hostile to the inter-
| ests of the railroads is bound to react on
the employees, either in reduced wages
or reduction in the number of men
employed. A state central committee
to look after matters of interest to the
railroad men was appointed.