Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-03-02
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

A mining exchange has been or
ganized at Duluth.
A Duluth syndicate has secured tho
Keely cure franchise for Russia.
The Kimball Prairie, Stearns county,
News is recent newspaper venture.
About two hundred attended the
farmers institute at Window last week.
Work has been commenced on the new
Pabst Brewing company's building at
Moorhead.
A grand wolf drive will occur in the
northwestern part of Otter Tail county
March II.
The Rainy river commission will re-
port large thetts of timber by Canadians
on Minnesota territory.
A company has been formed at Pine
City to build steamboat TO ply between
Pine City and Brunswick.
The trial of Tim Byrnes, of Mime
apolis, charged with forgery, resulted
in a verdict for the defendant.
A brakeman named Graham had his
right arm cut off near the shoulder
under the cars at Kasota Friday.
Tim Byrnes was acquitted of the
charge Of forgery at Minneapolis. The
case has been on trial for several days.
The drivers and other employees of the
street Car company at Saltwater are on
strike for wages due them since Jan. l.
Indian Agent Leahy distributed be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 among the
Indians on the Fond du Lac reservation
last week.
The st. Paul assembly has instructed
the joint committee on auditorium to
proceed with the building on the market
house site.
A six-day walking match between
Mlle. Armaindo, the noted bicyclist,
and Henry Arbuckle, begun at Fari-
bault Wednesday.
F. A. Dole, Of Superior, has secured a
contract on the Mesaba road from
Oneota to the main line, fourteen miles,
at a cost of $175,0Oo.
A wild timber wolf was killed not far
from the st. Paul Stove Works on the
West side, by Frank j. Sieger, of the
railway mail service.
The fire in shaft No. of the Chandler
mines at Ely has been extinguished
One of the miners sent down to fight
the flames has since died.
The truth of published rumor of the
intention of Fl. R. Brill, of St. Paul, to
resign his position as district judge is
denied by the gentleman himself.
Congressman Lind, it is said has
withdrawn his objections and if the
Republican state convention of Mime
sofa thinks best to nominate him for
governor, he will accept.
Citizens of Saltwater have protested
to the board of education against the
employment of nuns as teachers. The
county authorities are to be enjoined
from paying over school funds.
Valentine Katzung, who was ap-
pointed postmaster of Mansfield, Free
born county, has declined the position
and the old postmaster hasIbeeff COM
PEELED to withdraw his resignation.
Judge Ira B. Mills, of the Four
teenth judicial district, has been
requested by the county Alliance of
Marshall county to become an indie
pendent candidate for judge for that
district.
The city council of of Redwood Falls
have made contract for the perpetual
right to use water from the mineral
springs, one mile above the city. The
water has been analyzed and is excep-
tionally pure.
The entire weekly edition of the
Adrian citizen, an Alliance paper, and
The Mobiles County Democrat, were re-
fused at the postofnce at Adrian last
week because of lottery advertisement
by Times Bros. & Co., general mer-
chants of that place.
w. Fl. Taylor, editor of the New
Prague (Minn.) Times, and T. W. Ho-
varka, were arrested for riding bicycles
on the sidewalk. There being no Or
dinance regulating bicycle riding, the
defendants were dismissed and will now
sue the city for $1,000 for false impris-
onment.
The Minneapolis Iron company has
filed articlee of incorporation with the
secretary Of state. The capital stock is
$o,ovo.oVo' liz CoIpOIdtOiS aIe ". L.
Becker, St. Paul; A. R. McGill, Car
Ankeney, Minneapolis; Walter S. Mil
Humphreys, Charleston.
Bay-baum-che-ma-sh the Indian
who was on trial for numbering another
Indian in St. Paul last July, died re-
Gently at his home on White Earth res
ervation. Influenza is said to have been
the cause. He left large amount of
property, among which is whole town
ship of land in Beltrami county, pre-
sented him by President Andrew John
son for his friendly acts towards white
settlers.
A terrible accident occurred Friday
about eight miles northwest of Kerk-
haven. Oliver Olson & Bro, well bor-
ers, were engaged in boring well,
when some dynamite, used in breaking
rocks, exploded, instantly killing Toilet
Olson and hired man, and fatally in
juring Oliver Olson and a farmer whose
name has not yet been learned. Oliver
| Olson is one of the prominent young
| farmers of Swift county, and highly re-
| spected.
News was received at Little Falls
| Thursday Of the accidental shooting of
farmer named Barnard Rosede. He
was hunting rabbits with q rife when
! the load some way became discharged
and the bullet tore hole through his
head from the chin to the top of the
skull. He had been holding the gun in
front of him with the muzzle up, and
he fell upon it when he was shot, the
barrel entering his head and extending
through the hole made by the charge
and out of the skull at the top.