Morris tribune., 1892-02-10
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
A postoffice has been established at
Lalone, Carlton county.

Madelia is to have a new high school
building, to cost $26,600
At the city election in Duluth last
week Charles DAutremont, Dem, was
elected mayor.
The percentage of pauperism in Min
nesota is shown to be much lower than
in the rest of the United States.
The president has appointed Captain
Henry A. Castle postmaster at st. Paul,
and John Boreen at Saltwater.
John P. Kelly, Of Winona. wants
81, 800 from that city for broken wrist
received from a fall on a slippery side
walk. -
A hermit named Williams, who has
resided near Pine CITY for the past
twenty years, has mysteriously disap-
peared.
Winnipeg took the tankard in the in
| ternational curling match at St. Paul
! last week. st. Paul has held it for two
years. ~.
There is to be another elecric line be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis. It
will be an extension IF the St. Anthony
Park line.
Peter Olson, who tried to thaw out a
can OF dynamite on a stove at Sauk
Rapids, died from the effects of the ex-
plosion that resulted.
The auditing department of the Wis
consln Central road is to be removed
from Chicago to st. Paul. and merged
into that OF the Northern Pacific.
Attorney General Miller has appointed
Robert e. Evans Of Minneapolis, special
assistant attorney in the prosecution of
suits against the Northern Pacific rail-
road.
The Minneapolis Eastern Railway
company reports its gross earnings for
the year 1891 as s4l. .605.75 the tax on
winch, at per cent, amounts to ST.
2AS.17. '
Charles D. Eveney, a prominent
farmer of Wheaton, has been sued for
$4,000 damages by the wife of A. Du-
mont, a saloon keeper, for defamation
of character.
Olof Johnson, Scandinavian carpen-
ter, who went to visit with his friend.
John Anderson, Of WayZata, over Christ
mas, dlsappeared on the evening of Dec.
y and has not been seen since.
A SANDER suit involving $40, 900 has
been begun in the district court of Fari-
bault county by Rev. Theodore Venn
against Rev. Robert Hughes. The lat
ter succeeds the former as pastor.
Professor Fl. P. Judson, of the state
university, has just been elected profess
sor OF history and dean of the under
graduate department of the University
of Chicago. He will assume the duties
OF his new position.
The Duluth chamber of commerce has
passed resolution asking the Minnesota
members of congress to favor the in
Guiding in tie new river and harbor bill
or an appropriation for dredging the
upper bay from West Duluth to the foot
of the dalles.
The montgomery, LIE Sueuer county,
messenger was awarded the county
printing, but an Injunction was issued
because the paper had missed one issue
during the year. The Injunction suit
was dismissed by the district cou
and the award of the commissioners
confirmed.
Mrs. Michael Brady died last week at
Carlton. She had been seriously i'll for
several weeks, and the money from her
saloon was sent to her house. On the
day Of her death, while she was in
dying condition, unknown parties en-
tered rthe house and carried off the
whole sum, about 81, 500.
j. A. Lawrence, assistant food and
dairy commissioner, states that there is
general misapprehension in regard to
the use OF Oleomragarine in hotels, res
taurants, etc. Whenever found in such
places by the inspectors, oleomargarine
is invariably seized and confscated, re-
gardless of the presence of the govern
ment stamp on the package, or any
other qualifying circumstance.
Tuesday afternoon threshing engine
owned by H. H. Finroe, and used in
running a saw mill six miles south of
Lake Park, burst, and killed two men
and injured one other. Torger Nestlebv,
the sawyer, was struck by the front
door of the boiler and killed. Godfred
Lien, the engineer, who was standing
by the boiler when it exploded, was
hoisted into the air fifty feet and badly
manGled.
The members of the Democratic state
central committee will meet in St. Paul
at o'clock in the afternoon of Tues
day, Feb. Is, to hear the reports
of the Minnesota Democratic asso-
citation and to fix date for the
holding of the state convention that will
chose delegates to the coming national
convention. The annual meeting of the
Minnesota Democratic association will
be held on the same day, calls for this
meeting having just been sent out by
Secretary Smalley
There has just come to light at Pine
City one of the most atrocious and
brutal acts ever committed. William
Francey, p farmer living two miles
south OF this place, became crazed at
the sight Of G. A. Robinson's cattle
travelling through his farm for water.
and chopped two ribs out of one with an
axe. cut ones leg, split another's horn,
and made cut fourteen inches long in
another. No explanation is given for
the crime. Intense indignation is ex-
pressed by farmers and citizens,
The Mankato Review exposes at
length the operations of the so-calied
"Alliance Fence company" of Mime
apolis, who are said to be swindling the
farmers of that part of the state through
agents. They manage to sell several
yards of fence, and then they lay wires
for entrapping their victims, and many
of them bite" In glowing terms they
tell how much money is made at the
business, and wind up by offering to
make the deluded citizen an agent He
finally agrees and signs, what he sup
poses is an agreement to do all he can
for the company, but in few days he
wakes up to find that what he did was
to sign G note to pay all the way from
$25 to 500.
Say They're Not Rivals.
WASHINGTON, Feb. SIN the fresh
political gossip mention is made of the
fact that Governor Merriam, of Mime