Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-05-04
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

George Peck. of Douglass, captured
seventeen wolves one day.
The business men of Henderson have
organized to hold monthly stock fairs.
Burglars secured S400 and two gold
watches from a st. Paul boarding house
Thursday night.
An year-old daughter of Carl
Schult, of Belle Plaine. was killed in a
runaway last week.
At Fulda, Sunday. lightning killed
q Hleben and John Keyer, and severely
injured little girl.
The main building of the state uni
Yerslty was damaged to the extent of
SSo,oo by fire Saturday night.
DR.. G. 81. Halves, one of Hastings'
old and esteemed physicians, died
wednesday of cancer of the throat.
An application has been made in Min
neapohs by one Prouty for the appoint
Snider.
A new town site is to be established
ON she property OF the Mckinley mine
Kinley.
Martin Baumgart was run over and
instantly killed by train on the Mil
Wankee road at Winnebago City,
Wednesday.
Mrs. Gemenson, residing at South
Saltwater, took nine headache waters
for sick headache. Medical aid was
called in and her life was saved.
At Minneapolis Friday night Frank
McGoVsrs shot and killed Bessie Kelly
and then attempted suicide. He will
probably die. Cause of the crime not
known.
machinery has been received at Echo
TOT developing prospect for coal dis
covered about six miles north Of that
place. The prospects for paying mine
are good.
DR.. Simons, who for long time has
6een physician at the workhouse in St,
Paul, died suddenly at st. Luke's hospi-
tai Wednesday night. He had been i'll
but few hours.
The $4,000 damage suit of W. G.
Mcclellan against DR.. Hoyt, health
commissioner of st. Paul, on the charge
OF debauching his wife, has been decid-
ed in the defendants favor.
A man named Menge, butcher, was
arrested at Creokston for threatening
TO Kill his son-ln-law. He was taken
70 gal! where he died in great agony.
He had been drinking heavily.
Burglars broke into II. j. Hanson's
store at Lakeland, Washington county.
and secured quantity of goods. Mr..
Hanson is postmaster and a small
amount OF stamps were taken.
The Citizens National Bank of Man
kato has reorganized, changing it's name
to the National Citizens Bank of Man
kato, and increasing its stock to $780,
oO0, all OF which is held by Mankato
parties.
Three suicides in one day occurred
in Minneapolis last week. j. r. Van
Felt and W. w. Garrison, travelling
men, and Jens Hansen, an employe Of
the Minnesota fhresher works, were
the victims
S. s. Loewenberg and wife was found
dead in bed at ST. Paul Friday morning.
In turning off the gas it is supposed
that 1t was accidentally turned on
again. Mr.. Loewenberg was proprietor
OF Jewelry store in the Endicett build
ing.
Robbers made bold attempt to rob
the Exchange bank at Pennington last
week. The vault door was blown off
and the safe badly shattered but not
opened. A team of horses and buggy
belonging to w. Fl. Farquhar were
stolen with which the robbers made
their escape.
John P. Rossback and James Glib
bons, both in the employ of the St.
Paul City Railway company and occu-
pylng the same house, became engaged
in quarrel Thursday and Rossback
brought the trouble to an end by strik-
ing Gibbons with an axe. The injured
man died in few hours and the MUIR
derer pleads self defense.
A. G. Knapp, for many years a we'll
digger in Minnesota and Iowa, has dis
covered in Fremont township Winona
county, vein of lead IA inches thick
about 80 feet beneath the surface.
Knapp made the discovery while dig
ging a we'll few months ago, and has
since then leased an 8o-acre tract in
which he will sink shaft.
June IA, Is and Is have been fixed as
the dates for holding the interstate G..
A. 4. encampment in Winona. 1t is
expectedfhat 5, 900 veterans from North
ern Iowa, Southern Minnesota and West
ern Wisconsin will be present. One
hundred tents have been rendered by
the state for the use of the encampment,
and these will be pitched on the fair
grounds.
A schedule of the assets and liabilities
of the ST. Paul German Insurance COM
pany has been filed. The liabilities are
placed at $3.50, ,S79. 10, of which the ad-
justed losses are fixed at Sl29, ,754. 16,
real estate $99, ,624. 03, reinsurance $2S,-
499. II. The assets are placed at $780,
o02. 66, divided as follows: Mortgages,
$132, 156. IS; stocks and bonds, $45S, ,09b;
collateral loans, $50, $50.
One of the boldest attempts to rob
home was perpetrated at Mankato at
the house of Henry Yogelspohl. His
wife and Miss Hodapp were sleeping
on the second floor and about o'clock
in the morning were startled by the en-
trance of two men. When the women
attempted to cry out the Williams applied
handkerchiefs saturated with chloro-
form to their faces, but their job was
not a good one. The robbers were
frightened away.
To Hear Com plants.
ST. PAUL, May 2.-The railroad and