Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-07-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Three glandered horses We're killed at
Mapleton last week by order of the state
board.
The total personal assessment in Min
neapolis amounts to s2O, 46o, ,556-an in
crease of nearly million as compared
with last year.
Minneapolis is to have new dry goods
house, one of the largest in the North
west. The firm name will be Harrison,
Hopworth & Cross.
Antonio Fratochand, living on Buffalo
river, near Redwood, was shot and in
stantly killed by his uncle while deer
hunting, being mistaken for deer.
The commissioners of Mower county
appropriated $500 at their last meeting
to build a monument to the memory of
the soldiers and sailors of the late war.
Reports from Highland Grove and
Cromwell townships, Clay county, state
much damage resulted to grain by hail
Friday. Most of the farmers are in
sured. -
Between twelve and fifteen teachers
institutes will be opened in various parts
of Minnesota during the month of Au-
gust, which will continue until the
month of October.
Goodhue county's barley crop has
been badly damaged by storms. Senator
Peterson estimates the loss to the farm
ers of the county through the lodging of
grain at s500,00O.
Gustave Hoagland, carpenter living
at Plato. while drunk went to sleep on
the track. He was run over by freight
train and instantly killed, his body be-
ing severed in twain.
A drum corps, composed of seven
brothers named Moore, the oldest aged
20 years, attended the Renville delega-
tion to the Peoples party convention.
and furnished music during the sittings.
T. V. Knavold and Fl. D. Brown,
president of the Albert Lea bank, and
other capitalists have decided to start a
third national bank with capital prob
ably of SIS, 900. Negotiations are pend
ing to erect fine modern building.
Frank c. Best, carpenter of Lake
field, and Henry Rhodes, farmer liv-
ing five miles from there, fell from a
scaffolding while working on barn, ,and
Best was fatally injured, dying within
two hours. Rhodes was not seriously
hurt.
The biennial synod of the Lutheran
II, ~ T,,l
accepted the offer Of St. Paul, and will
move its seminary to that city. St. Paul
has offered seven acres of land and
$1,000. The first outlay for building will
be about $4,000.
At meeting of directors at Red
Wing T. B. Sheldon, of Red Wing, was
elected president of the Duluth, Red
Wing and Southern railway, to succeed
F. W. Hoyt, deceased. Fl. E. Perkins
was elected to fill the vacancy in the
board of directors. -
The twentieth anniversary of the
'Blueberry war" at Brainerd was cele-
brated by banquet at the Metropolitan
hotel, st. Paul, Monday night, nearly
two hundred of the participants were
present. Governor Merriam and several
other notables also lent their presence.
John G.. Woolley will go to Europe in
September, to be gone about three
months. He goes at the request of Lady
Somerset, and will deliver a series of
addresses in England. Mr.. Woolley is
now supervising the proceedings of the
convention at Rest island, in Lake Pepin.
A calf with two mouths, one eye, one
nostril and otherwise deformed head, is
the, present excitement near Stewart
vile, on the farm of James Griffin. The
body is perfectly formed and the calf
healthy. This is the third freak of the
kind Griffin has become possessed of.
He has a good nucleus for side show.
W. T. Mills, until lately a wholesale
dealer in butter and eggs, in Mankato,
has made a voluntary assignment to
Loren Cray, The liabilities amount to
$4,000. The failure is thought to be
due to losses in business sustained sew
eral years ago. Tt is expected that
creditors will be paid dollar for dollar.
The annual summer meeting of the
Minnesota Horticultural society was held
at Lake City last week, about fifty
members being in attendance. There
was a fine exhibit of summer fruits. A
banquet, which included various toasts
and responses, and a ride over the city
and Rest island were given the visitors
by the citizens.
Mrs. Converse and her daughter, Mrs.
Mcclure, were terribly injured in run
away about three miles from town while
on the way home from High Forest. The
back part of the buggy seat tipped over
when the team started. Mrs. Converse
had her collar bone and shoulder frac-
tured. Mrs. Mcclure sustained serious
injuries about the head and shoulders.
The Minnesota commissioners will
prepare a complete exhibit of all the ma
tive grasses in the state at the worlds
fair-about 1870 in number. 1t is also in
tended to make complete entomology
ical collection. Most of the bugs are to
be found in the collections already ex-
LdlD, SO CilcU GllC DLtibO HOUIu DS dU very
little expense in making this collection.
Charles Dablow, farmer near Morris,
and an ex-member of Company D,
Forty-second Illinois volunteer infantry,
in the late war, had musket ball ex-
tracted from his head last week, which
he has carried since the battle of Chick
amauga, Sept. 30, 1863. The bail entered
just above the right temple, and was
taken out just back Of the right ear.
The trustees of the Minneapolis Edu-
cational Endowment association have de-
cided to close its business, provided a
majority Of it's members are in favor of
such measure, and have sent out circu-
lars to all members, giving the reasons
why this course is deemed best for all
concerned, 7; q majority favor it re-
eeiver will be asked for, and the assets,
amounting to s62, ,54S, will be paid back
to shareholders pro rata.
During the prohibition fight at At
lanta some weeks ago saloonist named
Miner chastised Rev. Sam Small and
Lnoo1xad ont ono of his feaah Sam s11ad