Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-06-29
NEWS.

st. Clouds new electric line started
up Saturday Everything worked to
perfection.
Archbishop Ireland took luncheon
Wednesday with President and Mime.
Carnot in Paris.
Daylight robbers attempted to hold up
a coaehman for team and carriage at
st. Paul Sunday.
The earnings of the Minnesota grain
inspection department for the month of
May amounted to S13,0S5.05.
The creamery at Manchester, few
miles north of Albert Lea, burned Sat
urday with all its contents. The loss Is
fully S5, 900; partly insured.
The detectives have as yet secured nc
clue to the whereabouts of Mamie
Schwartz, the 5-year-old girl who was
abducted at st. Paul last week.
Great excitement has been produced
at Staples by the discovery of petroleum.
An expert from the oil regions of Penn
sylyanis has arrived, and boring for oil
is progressing.
Hans Ungman, aged So, a well-to-do
farmer Of North Branch, committed
suicide by hanging himself to tree
with barbed wire. The cause of the
act is unknown.
An order from the mayor of St. Paul,
directing the closing of all saloons at
midnight and the strict enforcement of
the law prohibiting the sale of liquors to
minors, has gone into effect.
W. W. Blackshaw, proprietor of a
bakery at Duluth, has left town, taking
his books with him, and creditors to the
amount OF $3, 600 are mourning his sud-
den departure The assets left in the
bakery are small.
Gus johnson, saw mill man, en-
ployed at Longs mill, at Curtis, was cut
in two by the circular saw, death
being instantaneous. He was unmar-
ried, and has relatives living near
Duluth.
Levi n. Patterson, Minneapolis
druggist, drove over an embankment on
Fourth avenue in that city, falling to
the railroad tracks below, a distance of
thirty five feet. The horse was instantly
killed and Mr.. Patterson so badly in
jured that he lived but few hours.
George Hanson, young man living
in HavelOck, near Montevideo, ac-
cidentally shot and killed his aged
mother with a musket. She handed the
gun to him stock first, and it is thought
that the screen caught the hammer and
fired the gun. Her head was nearly
severed from the body.
There is prospect of the removal Of
the Lutheran church college from Alton,
n. D., to st. Paul. The synod, which
is now in session in St. Paul, will con-
slider the matter. An effort will be
made to secure the unused reform school
buildings near Kittsondale and remodel
them to meet the necessities of the col
lege.
J. A. Ebel, who was formerly a street
car conductor, has Eeen arrested at ST.
Paul on warrant charging him with
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Ebel is accused Of having issued several
checks for small amounts on banks
where he had no deposit, and is said to
have obtained considerable sum Of
money in that way.
Fred Langer1nan and wife, of Rush
City, after putting their children. three
little boys, to bed and locking the house,
went to a brickyard some two miles
from town. On returning they found
that one of the boys, Henry, a lad of s,
had been shot while lying in bed asleep.
The other children heard the discharge
of the gun, but saw no one about.
Mrs. Ole Nelson and an infant child
were killed by a wind storm in Rock
county last week. Mrs. Nelson had two
children in her arms and was walking to
the barn when the house collapsed kill
ing her instantly and injuring both
children, one of whom since died The
The loss of crops by the storm will be
nearly total in the southern tier of town.
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