Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-07-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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The First National bank of Mankato
has increased its capital to Sl50,0OO.
Frederick Raumm, aged rs, one Of
the Oldest settlers of Winona, is dead.
Archbishop Ireland reached st. Paul
from his trip abroad Friday morning.
The Brainerd city council has passed
an ordinance for the erection of an elec-
trio street car line.
T. Borchert, of Renville county, has
been nominated for congress by the
Peoples party II the Third district.
The elevator of the Omaha railroad at
Mankato is to be taken down and re-
moved to st. James 1t has long been
out of use.
H. c. Stivers, chairman, has issued a
call for the Sixth district Democratic
congressional convention, to be held at
Brainerd, Aug. ..
Operations have begun in full force
upon the new electric street railway be-
tween Sauk Rapids and st. Cloud. Cars
are expected to be running within thirty
days.
Hon. T. w. Hoyt, president of the
Duluth, Red Wing and Southern, and
for several terms representative to the
state legislature, died at Red Wing last
week.
Martin T. Stapleton, a Minneapolis
druggist, was assaulted and seriously in
Jured by two burglars one night last
week. They then ransacked the store,
securing about $500.
The second portion of the insane hos
pital at Fergus Falls has been COM
pleted and over 100 patients transferred
to it from the st. Peter asylum, which
was greatly overcrowded.
AS Christopher Schmidt,a carpenter of
South st. Paul, was passing Fort
Smelling some soldiers were shooting at
target. A bullet struck Schmidt in
the head and wounded him fatally.
Judge Chipperfeld, of Brainerd, fined
the members of the Salvation Army of
that place s25 and costs for unlawfully
assembling to the annoyance of the citi-
zens. The case will be appealed.
Some of the Irish Catholic societies
are going to boycott number of dry
goods firms in Minneapolis because the
firms allowed advertisements of an
Orangemen's picnic to be placarded in
their windows.
At Erhard's grove, near Fergus Falls,
Nels Neishem, wife and child were
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Lightning killed the father and child,
but the mother, although between the
other two, escaped uninjured.
St. Cloud quarrymen have made de-
mand for s2 a day, which is raise of
20 cents day over present prices. There
is considerable apprehension among
granite producers that unless the de-
mand is acceded to that there will be
general strike.
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the Peoples party visited the Saltwater
prison Friday, and were shown through
the institution by the warden. Great
interest was taken in the binding twine
plant, and each visitor was presented
with ball Of twine as a sample.
At Litchield last week John Chill
strom and son lost their lives in an old
well from foul air. The young man
went down in the we'll by windlass
and platform, and was seen to fall
over off the platform. The father
then went down to rescue the boy and
he, too, was overcome and lost his life.
Clara Rathgeb, little 4-year-old girl,
was run over and instantly killed by
Grand avenue electric motor at st. Paul
Friday night. She was playing on the
street and stepped from behind buggy
in front of the motor. The head was
nearly severed from the little ones body
and she was terribly bruised about the
chest.
An unusually fine display of northern
lights occurred in portions of Minnesota
Wednesday night OF last week. The
northern horizon was brightly illumina-
ted. Across the zenith from the eastern
to the western horizon, a wavy pathway
of light Travelled, through which the
stars could be plainly seen. The phe-
nomenon lasted half an hour.
At Holds Ford, near St. Cloud, the
4-year-old son of James Hall, of that
place, was playing near an open well
which is sixty-five feet deep, and acci-
dentally fell into it. Miraculously
enough the child was not hurt by the
fall, and clinging to the rope was
pulled out. by its mother who was at
tracted to the spot by the child's play
mates.
At a recent meeting of the board of
state prison managers it was decided to
convert the old hospital apartments in
the main building into dining room
for the convicts. Heretofore the convicts
have taken their meals in their cells, but
when the new dining room is completed
they will march in body and dine
together. The prison population num-
bers 336, Of whom 1877 are first grade
men. ... ..a
The most of the sufferers from the re-
cent cyclone near Wells have rebuilt
their houses, but there is said to be
great deal of want among them although
neighboring farmers and citizens of
w Cllo hdNO given IOlu C1OUU-
ing and money are needed, according to
the report of a lady who last week went
through the district, and visited new
houses with not even chair for the
occupants.
The millionaire lumber firm of
Wright, Davis & Co., of Duluth, have
disposed of one of the largest tracts of
pine lands ever closed out in the entire
West. Besides being heavy owners of
pine in the Duluth district, the firm
owned 4,0O0,OO0,OO0 feet of standing
timber on Swan river, a tributary of the
Mississippi. This has all been sold to
the Pine Tree Lumber company, a
Weyerhauser concern, for sum ap.
proximating 81 100000.
Colonel Samuel Shaffer, of the Ohio
sinking fund commission, died Sunday
at Columbus, age 4S, from wounds
received in the late war. He was for
fifteen years the correspondent for
tho old Cincinnati Gazatta and Tho Co,,,