Morris tribune., 1891-06-03
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1891 JUNE. 1891
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MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Cement works to employ 200 men will
be started at Austin.
A state bank will be started at Lam
berton, to begin business July 1.
The Minnesota w. G. T. u. annual
convention will be held at Mapleton
June . and 10.
The new telescope at Carleton college
is teing put in place. Its total weight
is 27, 900 pounds.
The fax, 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 90. About 1000 are expected.
At the sale of school lands for Lin
coin county, Mimi, State Auditor Bier
man sold l,7O0 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 Swensons
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 special election on the question
of issuing $4,000 bonds for water
works, at Winnebago, Mimi, 121 votes
were polled for and SO against.
A man named John Zewald has con-
fessed, at Sacramento, CAL, that he
killed two wives, one of the murders
occurring at Anoka, this state. Poison
was the agent.
Two and one-half million wall-eyed
pike have been placed in the Minnesota
river at Mankato. and 10,000,0 900 be-
tween Fort Smelling and that city, by
the state fish hatchery.
A fremen's tournament will be held
in Pipestone, Mimi, on July 2, and 4.
Over 1000 in cash will be given in
purses. Over 200 firemen 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, MINI.
and had both legs cut off by passenger
train.
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, MINI, 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 Carletons OBJ.
servatory has arrived at Mortified.
| 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 or
| the capital stock was the largest sum
ever paid to the state in this way. The
amount is $2,5s5.
G.. A. Eooth, marshal of Hinckley
| while attempting to board q freigh
| train at Miller was thrown under tn,
| train and literally ground to shreds
! What was left of him was brough
home for interment.
The funeral of DR.. E. nj, Moreheuse
late mayor of Owatonna, Mimi, wa
held in the park at that city. Abou
2,OG0 people were present from all owe
the county. 1t was the largest fupera
ever held in that city.
The thirty-fourth annual council o
the Protestant Episcopal church in tn
diocese of Minnesota, met at Faribaul
Wednesday. In the absence Of Bisho
Wbipple, Assistant Bishop Gilbert, O
St. Paul, is the president of the council
The contract for the erection of tn
first of the eleven Columbian palace
for the worlds fair has been given
& Chapman. The building is for mine
and the carpenter contract amounts t
800, 800.
! Two and a half million wail-eye
pike have been placed in the Minnesot
river at Mankato by S. S. Watkins
superintendent of the state fish hatcher
of st. Paul. Ten million were place
, in the river between Fort Smelling an
Mankatn; : =, :,
A four-foot rope with a moose in on
end was found in Murderer Goheen
cell at Fergus Falls one day last weel
: 1t is the suppositian that he conten
! plated saving the state the expense G
J hanging him. The rope had been take
, from his cell hammock.
Governor Merriam has RECEIVED a r,
! port from the special committee 81
pointed to examine the case of Mr.
Sophronia Northrup, or any other a
legged committals without due proces
| of law, to the first hospital for insan
at st. Peter. Mrs. Northrup wa
!, committed Sept. 6, 1890, after an il
: formal but unofficial examination b
! Judge Schaler of Carver and two loc,
: physicians, who pronounced her not il
y sane. She was taken to the hospit;
the same day by her son, DR.. s.
Northrup, who ON Sept. 39 procured p
pers of commitment from Judge Schale
The report made by the committe
= roasts Dr.. S. j. Northrup severely, an
2 also finds Judge Schaler and DIR. Nortl
8 rup guilty of irregular conduct, tt
3 report is especially severe on the pre-
q | ent system Of committing insane peop
in the hospitals.
Rudini Interviewed Porter.
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