Morris tribune., 1892-09-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.


water.
Judge Kelly has decided that the
Commercial bank, of st. Paul, may re.
sumo business.
, The custom collections at st. Paul for
August amounted to $4,000 and the
revenue to $2a4,000.
Republicans of the Seventh district
have nominated Henry Feig, of Kandi-
yohi county, for congress.
James w. Lawrence, of Minneapolis,
has been nominated by the Democrats
of the Fifth district for congress.
Minneapolis has two girl burglars
aged Is and l6. They were captured
coming out of residence, loaded down
with plumber.
A. Detle, q shoemaker Of Jordan, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in his
shop. Domestic troubles are supposed
to be the cause.
Scarlet fever is so prevalent in West
Duluth that the opening of the Fair
mount, Irving ands Longfellow schools
has been postponed.
Lightning struck the barn of Gustav
Hartkopf, near Ortonville, burning the
building and killing fve horses and
thirty-hve or forty head of sheep.
The survivors of the battle of Birch
Coolie, fought against the Indians in
1852, held IL reunion at the Merchants
hotel, st. Paul, to celebrate its thirtieth
anniversary Of that event.
A meeting of grain dealers of South
ern Minnesota and Northern Iowa was
held at Winona last week. Tho object
OF the meeting was to fix grades and
transact other business preparatory to
handling this years crop. T..
The new directory of Winona, Just
issued, contains 5000 names, an increase
of 800 in two years. Using the mul-
tiple of 2 1-2, customary in this kind of
calculation, the population of the city
is now 10000, as against 1S, ,543 two years
ago.
M. U. Bower, of Maukato, employed
on the farm Of A. Clark, just west of
Redwood Falls, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed and two men stand
ing near him were knocked senseless and
terribly shocked Two horses were alsc
killed.
The government has bought out all
the contractors upon the river work in
the vicinity of Hastings and will under
take the job in person under the eight
hour law. 1t viii cost, probably, about
| double the amount paid under the old
! system.
Advance sheets of Polk's new Duluth
directory show "a, ,072 names, an increase
OF ], ,e52 for the year. 1t uses 2 rs as a
multiple, showing population Of SO, POT,
an increase of 5,55S over last year. This
| includes West Duluth, Lakeside and
other suburbs. -..- -..- .-. ... ..
The "face in the glass" in the Catho-
lie church in Canton, is still al tractine
the credulous from far and near. Last
Sunday not less than thousand people
visited Canton to see what some claim
to be picture of Mary with the Child
Jesus" in her arms.
President Hill, of the Great Northern,
has given his check to agents of a New
York life insurance company for $780,
$50 for a policy of $1e0, 900 and an extra
annuity beginning ten years from date
Of So, 200. This is said to be the largest
single premium for life insurance ever
paid in the United States.
ALI the elevators belonging to the
Lake Superior Elevator company and
Union Improvement and Elevator COM
pany are now operated as private ware
houses. This action results primarily
from the annoyance and Inconvenience
caused the elevator companies by the
action of the wheat investigating COM
mittee last winter.
A pardon has been granten to LLOYD
Porter, editor of The Prison Mirror. He
was sent up in November, 1884, for
murder, to serve a life sentence. While
intoxicated he endeaYored to shoot a
man with whom he had quarreled, and
hit and killed another man standing
near, who was looking on. He is IS
years old and printer.
William Henry Allen, an inmate of
the Minnesota Soldiers Home, has re-
ceived notice that by the death of a
brother in California, he has fallen heir
to large slice of an estate valued at
from $10,0UU,000 to 10000, 900. A
nephew of the deceased gets the larger
slice of it, but as William Henry's Dor
ton amounts to about $6,0OO,OOO he
thinks that by rigid economy he may
manage to get along during the remain
der of his natural life.
William Cunningham, of Crookston,
has crab apple tree in his garden that
is 25 feet high. It's branches spread over
80 feet of ground, and it has over 10
bushels of fruit upon it. From a limb
II inches long "a apples were picked.
For tree grown in Northern Minnesota
this is prodigious growth, and proves
that fruit trees can be successfully cult
waited in this region of country. Those
who have seen the tree say that it con-
tains more fruit than they ever saw on
tree of its class before in this state, or
the Northwest. From three trees in his
yard he expects to pick over 20 bushels
of apples.
Partial investigation of the so-called
Canton window miracles has been made
under the direction of Bishop Cotter by
a priest who has devoted some time to
scientific studies. The priest says faint
image Of young woman, smiling and
showing her teeth, appears in the lower
left-hand quadrant, while to the right of
this, very indistinct, is an object that
appears like doll. The priest explains
the appearance of these images on the
ground of molecular polarization, some
living image of a young woman having
been cast upon the glass when It was
heated in making. The action of sun
Light on the glass has made clear the
outline of her figure.
The retail coal dealers of Brooklyn
have decided to raise the price of coal
so cents ton, from $5.25 to 1915. The
New Jersey Coal exchange notified all
dealers in Newark, N j., that the price
of Lehigh had been raised to So, and free
burning coal to 1915.