Morris tribune., 1892-01-13
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

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Republicans of Sank Rapids have or.
ganized a club.
Jesse Welch, ex.chief Of police Of
Mankato and an old settler, is dead.
The State Federation of Labor will
convene in st. Paul on Sunday, Jan. u.
Basil w. Armstrong, deputy clerk Of
the Ramsey county district court, Is
| dead.
The Pillsbury academy at Owatonna
has an attendance of about 275, the
largest in its history.
The wheat investigating committee
has postponed its inquiry into the con-
duct of the elevators until March 8.
Melchor Herman died Saturday at st.
George, aged SO. He was drummer
boy in Napoleon's army in the battle of
Waterloo.
Redwood Falls has voted in favor Of
issuing bonds to the amount Of $25, 900
to be used in putting in q system Of
water works. V
The Model Shoe store, one of the finest
in Duluth, has failed. The assets are
about $40, 900, while the liabilities are
not over $500. :. .E t. 81 4
The late Lieutenant Governor Thorn.
as II. Armstrong; will has been filed
for probate. The estate is estimated to
be worth 100000. III "s.'. . 90. &
The postmaster at West Concord has
been removed owing to an irregularity
in his accounts amounting to over $500.
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George Murth, lineman employed
by the Minneapolis Street Railway COM
pany, fell from the top of a telegraph
pole and was instantly killed.
Ernest Fruchting, young man living
Homestead township, Otter Tail
county, was buried in we'll in which
he was at work removing the curbing.
His body has not been recovered.
John M. Derby, an attorney, was
found dead in his bed in Duluth. The
l coroner's jury returned a verdict that
death was caused by an overdose of a
certain patent medicine he was taking
for cold.
Mrs. Ellen T. Window, of Winona,
who is the Administrative of the estate
of her dead husband, has made an ap-
plication for the final settlement of the
estate and the division of the property
among the heirs. There is about $170.-
] 900 in the estate.
In row at the Bethel settlement,
near Janesville, Frank Weber was
shot and killed by a German named
William Kubnee. Webber boarded
with Kubnee, and the latter claims he
was attacked without provocation and
shot Webber in self defense.
A sad case of destitution and domes-
1 tic sorrow was recently brought to
light at Redwood Falls. A woman
named Morrison was found dead in a
house in the outskirts of the town.
I Her husband had deserted her, and ow-
ing to lack of proper food she became an
easy victim to diphtheria.
The county commissioners of Winona
| county unanimously passed resolution
providing for the raising of that coun-
| ty's share of the worlds fair fund
$2,O27. The town boards of the town
| money and send it to the county COM
| missioners. -.-'
On land owned by Wright & Davis
l north of La Prairie there has been
| struck by Longyear, the expert miner.
vein of iron ore, of the very finest
1 quality, five feet thick. Mr.. Longyear
4 is highly elated, as the problem Of ore
and plenty of it in the vicinity of La
I Prairie is practically settled, and there
will be no difficulty in following this
vein to the pocket.
Gates A. johnson, for eight years
building inspector of st. Paul, was re-
Gently asked to hand in his resignation.
This he refused to do. A successor was
appointed, but johnson still refused tt
give up the Office. Mayor Smith ther
ordered Chief of Police Clark to eject
johnson and Thursday the chief tool
the ex-inspector in his arms and carried
him out.
| The state bureau of public instruction
is preparing q circular, in conformity
with the discussion held in the latt
meeting of the educational association
with reference to uniform system o.
examinations of teachers. The CIRCULAR
will be sent to all county superintend
ents of the state, with view to secur
ing their cooperation in establishing
such system. ,'t .'... '..:. :.7"
| The Duluth and Iron Range road
has started an engineer corps from
Mesaba Station, forty miles nortl
Of Duluth; to run a branch linz
| along the new Mesaba iron range
which has lately proved to be one of tn,
richest iron deposits In the world. Thii
| will make two roads along the range, al
the Duluth, Mesaba and Northern il
now building into the mines. .....'-.
| Mrs. Mary johnson, wife of black
smith of Paynesville, has been com
mitted to the insane asylum by the. pro
bate court. She has been firm believ
er in Christian science and had treated
several of her children with the usua
methods of the ''science" until medica
aid had proven futile and they had died
The matter preyed SO much upon he
mind that she became insane. 49,.
Secretary Harris report, presented a
the quarterly meeting of the state boart
of corrections and charities, showed a,
increase of S.S per cent. in the numbe
of inmates of the insane hospitals of tn
state during the past year. This is al
increase of 1.8 per cent. over the average
| for the past four years. The secretsr!
} urged the necessity of the next legisla
ture providing for fourth hospital.
It is estimated that by the time th
Red Lake Indian reservation comes int
market it will contain the enormou
amount of 10, 600, ,000, 900 feet Of choic
pine lumber. OF this amount one
eighteenth, or, in round numbers
$50, ,O00, 900 feet will become the propert
of the state school fund. At an e1
tremelv low estimate this will ad,
eventually $1,000, 900 to the state schoc
. fund. -"- t1@ ....
New Court Hofse Burned.
MARSHALL, Mimi, Jan. II. -Lyol
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