Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-12-30
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Lakeville was visited by $95, 600 fire
last week.
A Democratic club has been organized
at Winthrop.
Moorhead will substitute electric light
for gas after Jan. /.
Samuel Flsishman, Winona cloth
ier, has failed for $4,000.
The Saltwater prison population is
S5l, the highest number for several
years.
Minneapolis has citizen who glories
in the record of no sentences to the city
workhouse.
A. j. Myers, late of the Mazeppa
Tribune, has purchased the Lake CITY
Graphic-Sentinel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Demo, aged Sc wears
wife of Representative Anthony Demo
of Hokah, is dead.
Raymond Lussier,r of MINNEAPOLIS.
died suddenly, while attending mass at
Holy Rosary church.
Public Examiner Kenyon has issued a
certificate of authority to the State Bank
OF Springfield, Brown county.
The United States express Office at
Mankato was burglarized and several
packages, amounting to $40, taken.
The Minnesota State Federation of
Labor will meet in Minneapolis during
the latter part Of the month of January.
The Cambridge, Minneapolis and Du-
lutn RailWay company has been incor-
porated with capital stock of $500, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McGleason, of
Minneapolis, have had two unknown
babes left on their door step inside Of a
week.
Raining Day, noted Indian charac-
ter, has been arrested on the charge of
selling liquor On the White Earth reser-
vation.
AT St. Paul, Christmas eve, Louis.
the eldest son of Judge John B. Oliver.
was killed by fall upon the sidewalk.
He was 81 years Of age.
A large meeting of leading farmers
and others was held last week at Albert
Lea, and preliminaries arranged to build
a Large creamery in that city immedi-
ately.
Sir Edwin Arnold, on his recent visit
to st. Paul, was formally entertained
by the Press club of that CITY, at the
residence of Mr.. Louis Baker of The
Globe.
The school in the Chase district. near
Hokah, Is closed On account Of black
dlphtherla, which prevails among the
scholars One death and several cases
are reported.
After being out thirteen hours the
jury in the Mazue case, at Buffalo.
found a verdict of mot guilty." Mazue
was accused of the murder of 16-year-
old Annie Brunder. =
Fred Brooks, who is supposed to have
placed an obstruction on the track OF
the Omaha railroad at Mankato about a
week ago, has been bound over till the
next term of court.
A 12-year-old daughter of August
Avery, of Hastings, was severely burned
last week. Her mother also had her
hands badly burned while attempting to
e1tinguish the flames. - 77
During the snow storm which ragged
all day Friday man was frozen to
death near Elton, ten miles west of
Lake Benton. He was going to Elton
to get a coffin when he perished in the
storm.
The suicide of Captain E. L. Baker, of
Racine, Wis, caused great shock
among the people of Red Wing. Baker
was for many years president of the Red
Wing mills, very large corporation,
and a leading citizen.
There will be an annual meeting of
the Minnesota State Agricultural associ-
alton, Tuesday, Jan. 10, at St. Paul, to
elect president, two vice presidents,
and two members of the board of direc-
tors.
The village of Brownsdale has depos-
tied money to pay her portion of the
bonds given twenty years ago by the
township of Red Rock, in Mower
county, to aid in building the Southern
Minnesota railroad.
New Ulm has passed an ordinance
making it a misdemeanor to build a
fence in whole or in part of barbed
wire, within its corporate limits.
Barbed wire fences now in existence in
that city have been declared nuisances.
Jerome A. Oblinger, the defaulting
postmaster of Arlington, has been ar
rested by federal officers and brought to
Indianapolis, Ind. Oblinger was law
yer and banker at Arlington and he
says he is now ready to make good his
shortage.
The number of Sunday schools in the
state is 4,574, two-thirds of which con-
tinue the entire year. The total enroll
ment of those in attendance is 355, ,451,
which is only about 40 per cent. of the
population of the state. Fremont
county has the largest per cent. 49,.
DR.. Sweeney, of the state fish hatch
cry, has received 500, 900 lake trout eggs
from Isle Royale. He expects another
similar assignment soon. DR.. Sweeney
expects to care for $4,000, 900 white fish
eggs, but they will not be in jars before
February. They will come from Michi-
gan points.
The other night at Fairmount the
heating stove in car on the Milwaukee
road exploded, making a terrific noise
and blowing the top of the car open and
breaking the windows and side of the
car, throwing pieces of the car dis
tance of fifteen rods. A lady was in
jured on the head, but not dangerously.
John Spoden George, farmer in the
town of Rockville, near St. Cloud,
was found hanging to tree on his farm
Thursday morning. Tuesday night his
barn was burned and since then he had
not been seen. It is believed that he
fired the building and afterwards COM
lnitted suicide. The cause is attributed
to drinking.
VIII Be Rush.
Browns VALLEY, Mimi, Dec. 25. =
There is every Indication that there will
be an unprecedented rush for the Sisse-
ton reservation land when it is opened,
and it is reasonable that there should be
as the land is eminently desirable for
stock and grain raising. and is nearer to