Morris tribune., 1891-11-04
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Sons of Veterans have organized q
post at saltwater.
A lodge of Odd Fellows has been
instituted at Atwater.
1t costs $500 a year to light and clean
st. Paurs court house.
One-legged men will run a bicycle
race in Minneapolis Nov. II.
Last months cash receipts at the Du-
luth land office exceeded $4,000.
A steel bridge is being built acros:
the Fermillion river at Hastings.
Duluth has already received 16,00O,.
900 bushels of this seasons wheat.
Wheat is being shipped in bond from
Manitoba to the old country via Duluth.
a gold watch and $50 were secured by
burglars in hotel at Winnipeg Juno.
tion.
Fifty years ago last Sunday the first
church building in st. Paul was dedi.
Gated.
The most perfect counterfeit 81 bill
ever put out has turned up in Mime
apolis.
st. Paul militia companies have ar.
ranged to play indoor base ball this
winter.
The real and personal property OF
Goodhue county is valued at $9,6S7, ,721
this year.
The Minneapolis exposition people
have decided to abandon Spectacular
side shows.
Gus Winter was overcome by gas
while digging well near Arlington,
Sibley county.
The First Baptist church of Hastings
has new pastor direct from England,
Rev. L. Lewellyn.
Eastern Capitalists have just paid
S65,OOO for two additions to st. Cloud,
comprising 500 lots.
There are fourty-four criminal cases
on the November term of the Ramsey
county district court.
Last week Judge Holland, of Brain
erd, presided at the first term of court
held in Itasca county.
A mass meeting was held at Sleepy
Eye Saturday to raise Brown county's
share of the worlds fair fund.
Minnesota and Iowa matched foot
ball teams at Grinnell, Iowa, Saturday,
and the game was tie-12 to l2.
A. c. Carey, member of threshing
crew. fell from the top of freight car
at Moorehead and died soon after.
The drinking habit was knocked clean
out of J. E. Merritt, we'll known
Minneapolis man, by the gold cuse.
The Monitor Manufacturing company
of Minneapolis has Incorporated to make
farm machinery. Capital $3.50, 900.
The Russ Jones Desk company will
remove from Minneapolis to Shakopee.
The company employs twenty-five men.
The mother of Bishop Gilbert, of st.
Paul, fell from a second story window
of their home and was instantly killed.
The parents, sister and two brothers
of Goheen, rencenty hanged at Fergus
Falls, will make their homes in West
Duluth.
A Franch farmer of Centerville got
his team mixed up with an electric car
in St. Paul, and had to take home a
new wagon.
Nov. ~ Duluth people will vote on the
proposition to buy the gas and water
plants from private companies at valu-
alton of $1,950,000.
Since Sept. 80, 200 threshing outfits
were sent into northern Minnesota and
North Dakota by the efforts of ST. Paul
business men and railroads.
Vice President Clough says $4,000, 900
people can be brought into Minnesota
in ten years if St. Paul will go out of
the ice palace business for time.
Ex-City Clerk Murphy and City
Treasurer Demuels, of Brainerd, are
said to be in some way mixed up with
an alleged shortage of city funds.
A Minneapolis electric car stopped
suddenly, threw the motor man over
the front onto the track, then started
up and crushed the man to death.
Government experts are at work ap-
praising the timber on the White Earth
reservation. The crew of six is in
charge of Ats Staples, of Saltwater.
st. Paul people and banks lost but
very little in the failure of Bushnell g
Bushnell. The liabilities amounted to
$45O.0OO. Most of the paper was held
in the east.
The pastor and trustees of the Ger
man Lutheran church at Red Wing
were sued for $1,000 by S. c. Setback
for alleged ISLANDERS. The jury gave
Setback $500.
Winona's city attorney claims there
is no liability on the part of the city or
any other Minnesota city to pay rent for
armories or drill rooms for state militia,
and the law on that point, he says, is
unconstitutional.
Early in September collision of
electric cars in St. Paul injured several
people. The cars had only 135 passen-
gers & on board, but up to date 253 peo-
pie have filed causes for injuries re-
ceived in that wreck.
Ignatius Donnelly will at once bring
two damage suits in Ramsey county
courts against The Pioneer Press-one
for $50, ,0G0 for calling him an anarchist
and another for 100000 for certain re-
marks editorially, on the verdict for 81
given Donneily against the paper by a
Minneapolis jury.
A Short time ago at Winona, the
parents of Willie Fort sued Miss Jones,
city teacher, for inficting physical
punishment upon the boy. The case
was the first of the kind ever tried in
the state. The judge decided that the
teacher was not guilty of assault, and,
as the reasonable demands of the teacher
had been violated and defed, the boys
punishment was declared to be lawful.
No One Seriously Injured.
ALEXANDRIA, Mimi, Nov. "A col
lision between the east and west bound
nacra,, ora,. t,.airnr on, tho Grant Mo..+l 49,.