Morris tribune., 1892-04-20
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Captain Joe Daniels. well known
| Minnesota veteran, died in Washington
city last Friday.
The Red Wing Daily Independent has
suspended publication. Lack of patron
age the cause.
John Lathrop, ex-secretary of the
Minnesota State Alliance, died last week
at Gary, s. d., of consumption.
About 50, 900 has been subscribed for
the ladies' seminary at Red Wing. The
project is regarded as an accomplished
fact.
The Minneapolis lumbarmen expect
to cut 900, 600, GOO feet during the pres
ent season. large advance over last
year.
The receipts of the Faribault post
Office for the year ending in March
We're Sl1, $780, $500 gain over the pre-
ceding year.
E. Fl. Clinton, boot and shoe dealer
OF Glencoe, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the heart. No
cause known.
Alderman Christian Schneider. of
South st. Paul, has brought all action
for SANDER against Mayor Michael
Gahan, claiming $685.
The house of E. Mertons, town clerk
of Atherton, Wilkin county, was burned
down Tuesday afternoon. The town
records were all destroyed.
The plant of the Winona Herald
Printing company, consisting of daily
and weekly paper and a job printing
office, has been sold at auction for S.
$50.
Sleepy Eye owns its electric plant and
the record of receipts and running ex-
penses for January and February show
a return at the rate of Is per cent.
year on the investment.
In the vicinity of Buffalo, Wright
county, peddlers recently sold to farm.
ers eighty packages of cloth at $S5
package. There isn't any pauperism
among farmers in Wright county.
The agency building at White Earth,
occupied by Indian Agent B. P. Shuler
as a residence, together with the stables
and outhouses in connection with the
premises, has been totally consumed by
fire.
Mrs. Lizzie Bahr, young woman
living near Little Falls, died Wednes-
day under peculiar circumstances. She
lad several teeth pulled Friday and ap-
pareatly died from the effects of the
operation.
The Winona Electric Light company
has been incorporated. Capital stock,
$50, 900. They will compete with the
Thomson company, who are putting in
500, 900 plant there, to furnish power,
heat and light.
AS a result of being squeezed by
Partridge and other smaller Chicago
bears, Charles f. johnson, of the mil
ling firm of G. T. johnson & Co., of
Marshall, has lost over SAC, 900, and he
has turned his property over to his part
ners.
The Imperial FIGURING Mill company,
of Duluth will hold its annual meeting
the last of this month and will declare
~ per cent semi-annual dividend and
divide $4,000 among its employees. Its
earnings for the year have been at the
rate Of about 80 per cent.
At special meeting of the directors,
of the Northern Minnesota Agricultural
and Driving Association it was decided
to hold their summer meeting an Crook
ston, July 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1899, at which
time the grand encanipment of the G.
A. R. will be held there.
A postofice inspector has been inter-
viewing the people Of Spring Valley
and other towns along the line of the
Winona and Southwestern railroad in
order to ascertain the wants Of the
people as to the extension of mail serv-
ice from Spring Valley to Usage, Ia.
Mayor Griebler, of St. Cloud, has de-
cided to contest Mayor Bruckart's elec-
ton on the ground that illegal ballots
were counted for Bruckart and legal
Griebler ballots were thrown out; also
that the polls in the First ward were
kept open until after o'clock. A re-
count will be demanded.
Miss May Beardsley, of Ashby, who
is teaching in the Buran district, in
Wilkin county, attempted to punish a
large pupil for chewing tobacco in
school, when he struck her a blow
which stunned her. Assisted by some
of the other pupils he then proceeded to
pound her severely. Miss Beardsley is
now confined to her bed. ~
At st. Cloud Judge Searle has filed q
decision in favor of the Duluth, Denver
and Huron, in which it was made de-
fendant for payment of amounts aggre-
eating nearly $l00,000 for work done
and material furnished. This decision
releases the defendant from any claims
against it and takes out of the district
court long pending case
Several Sioux Indians appeared be-
fore County Auditor Anderson at Red
wood Falls, carrying seventeen infant
animals, claiming they were wolves.
They were SO young that experts were
puzzled to decide whether they were
wolves or foxes. It was decided they
Were foxes and the disappointed In
dians wended their way homeward
minus the $S5 bounty.
Warren Watkins, farmer near Hub
bard, has a monstrosity in the shape of
a newly born pig. The animal has an
almost human face, and is considered
one of the greatest curiosities ever seen
in that vicinity. The body is naturally
formed and different in no respect from
| the ordinary piglet. 1t is the head
| where nature has got in it's work. A
| side view gives it the appearance of q
! human face, the outline being strikingly
close.
George M. Seymour, of Saltwater,
one Of the most prominent characters in
| Minnesota history, Is dead. Mr.. Sey-
| mour came to Saltwater in 1857 and
worked for some time at day labor.
Later, as a member of the firm of
Webster, Seymour & Co., he contracted
for the prison labor. This firm was
afterward amalgamated into that OF
Sabin & Co., and later into the North
western Gar and Manufacturing COM
pany. He was a member of the house
in 1889.
Joseph Greener, alias Buckskin Joe,
forty years q frontier scout with Kit
Carson, Generals Sheridan, Crook, Gus
ter and Harney, was received at the
Southern Illinois penetentiary yesterday
to serve one year for assuming to be an
officer of the United States.
Mrs. Potter Palmer and nine other
| well-known women connected with the
board of lady managers Of the worlds
fair, have decided to organize under the
name of the Chicago Woman's Dorni-
| torx A Assaciatinn. with the .1,11t,,anro, -