Morris tribune., 1891-12-09
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS


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Operations on Mankato's new packing
house have commenced.
A new bridge is to be built across the
Zumbro river at Kenyon.
The public schools of Dover are closed
on account of diphtheria.
Eden Valley business men are making
an effort to start paper.
The river closed at Winona earlier
this season than any year since 1881.
Andrew J. Ellested, aged 10, living
near Mabel, poisoned himself Friday.
Washington countys share of the
worlds fair fund has been raised by
joint notes.
The Buffalo schools have reopened
after being closed three weeks on &C
count of diphtheria.
Annie Johnson was accidentally shot
in the back by o companion at ZINE
City. She cannot recover.
An athletic club has been organized
in Winona, with Charles Moth, the
wrestler, as instructor.
Citizens of Cannon Falls have organ
lied for the purpose of inducing manu-
facturers to locate there.
Henry Annis, a ''trusty" convict at
the st. Cloud reformatory, made his es-
cape from that institution Friday.
A wholesale arrest of saloon keepers
occurred at Minneapolis last week on
the charge of keeping open on Sunday.
Annie Olson, 15-year-old Minneapolis
girl, suicided last week because her
parents insisted on her attending night
school.
The horse which Cole Younger rode
at the time of the raid on the Northtleld
bank is still alive and owned in LIE Sueur
county.
The foreman of the railway bridge at
Hastings reports that SOB boats, sol
barges and 40 RATS passed up and down
the river the past season.
Ernest Damuth, known as the hermit
fisherman of Pokegama lake, was
drowned while on his way from Pine
City to his home on the lake shore.
Fire at Argyle Friday night burned
an entire block of buildings, causing
loss of $37, 900. The wind was blowing
thirty-five miles an hour at the time.
st. Paul has secured branch of the
Walter A. Wood Harvester company's
plant now located at Hoosac Falls, N.
Y. 1t will give employment to 1900
men.
An Eastern capitalist will build a
large opera house in Albert Lea next
spring. A local business man has agreed
to rent the lower floor for big fair
store.
The Rev. Ransom Waite, one of the
pioneers of Lyon county, and the Rev.
Mr.. Jamison, of Luverne, are about to
start on visit to Palestine, where they
will remain some two or three months.
At Albert Lea Frank Holland plead
guilty to grand larceny, and Judge
Farmer gave him five years in the peni-
Tertiary. Philip Bladen got the same
sentence for for gerry, he also pleading
guilty.
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ing preparations to issue 10000 boom
pamphlets of over one hundred pages
each, to be sent to all parts of the
country and create boom for Mankato
next year.
The Bears Ear Boom company, Pine
City, has let a contract to drive 1000
piling, to which their new booms will
be tied. This boom is the longest in the
state, and fifty men are constantly en-
ployed by the company.
M. N. Kellogg, the Minnesota prophet,
predicts that the coming winter will be
a warm one. With the exception of
some severe cold days the latter part Of
January, it will be mild, and says he
expects to hang up his fur overcoat for
the winter on Jan. 20.
The $780, Railroad company have
paid Mrs. Brazil File, of Buffalo, the
full amount allowed by law, So 1000, for
the death of her husband, who was
killed in the fatal accident at Thorson.
The company also betrayed all expenses
connected with the funeral.
Governor Merriam has succeeded
in placing with Blair & Co., bank
ing firm of New York city, 81, 900, 900
worth of bonds of the state at 3 per
cent. interest. This amount represents
the repudiated debt of 1857, on which
the state is now paying per cent. inter-
est.
Hastings & Diment's $50 barrel mill
at Owatonna was totally destroyed by
fire, together with about 1000 bushels
of wheat, three Car loads of flour and
two car loads of feed. The fire origin
ated in the purifying room, and nothing
could be done to save it. Loss, $50, 900;
no insurance.
Since the first fall of snow upward of
five hundred deer have been killed on
the reservation, all of which have found
ready market at prices ranging
from to 6 cents per pound without
hide, and : and cents with hide in
cluded. Old settlers say that they have
never known deer to be so plenty as the
present season.
Parties engaged in exhuming bodies
from the old Catholic cemetery at st.
Cloud, and removing them to the new
one, took up the body of Mrs Robischon,
who was buried there about twelve
years ago. The body was found to be
completely petrifed, and presented an
almost snow white appearance. The
weight of the body is estimated at over
200 pounds.
John Colby, who lives near Caledonia
and who last summer came very near
being killed by swarm of bees, was
attacked recently by an ugly bull which
struck Mr.. Colby with such force that
he was sent like ball through q tioht
board fence and was horribly bruised.
The bull undertook to follow his prey
through the fence, but a dog came to
the unfortunate mans rescue and drove
the ferocious animal back.