Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-08-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The Twin City Jockey clubs race
meeting at Hamline closed Saturday.
A new iron bridge is to be erected
across the Mississippi river at st. Cloud.
Prairie chickens are reported to be
unusually numerous in the state this
year.
J. N. Castle has been renominated for
congress by the Democrats of the
| Fourth district.
General Adlai Stevenson, the Demo-
cratic nominee for vice president, will
deliver several speeches in the state
early in October.
The Minnesota League of American
Wheelmen meets at Winona Sept. 6, Z
and 8. Great preparations are being
made for the races.
A slight frost was reported from va
rious parts of Southern Minnesota
Thursday night of last week. No dam
age was dene to crops.
Strong & Miller, of Winona, have sold
their line of elevators on the Winona
and Southwestern to the Martield Grain
company, of that city.
Alvah Eastman, the former owner of
the Anoka Herald, has bought the st.
Cloud Journal-Press from W. E. Mitch
ell. A daily will be started.
Near ALBERT Lea there is farmer who
harve>ts win Il machine that went out
of style rifseen years ago. Oxen draw it.,
and he binds the grain by hand.
Mrs. Fl. A. Hobart, state president,
has issued the call for the sixteenth an
nual meeting of the state w. G. T. u,
to be held at Saltwater, Sept. IS, IA, Is
and l6.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Minnesota Woman Suffrage association
will be held at Hastings Sept. 6, Z and 8.
First session, 8 p. M, Sept. +. Local
societies are requested to send three del
egates. Good speakers will be present,
On and after Sept. next, Red Wing
will have a new educational institution,
known as the Red Wing Commercial
College and School of Short Hand, in
charge of Professors Curtis and Rosen-
berger.
Marvin Northrup, the boy who mys-
teriously disappeared from Winona
about year ago and was supposed to
have been killed by his father, causing
somewhat of a sensation at the time, has
turned up at La Crosse, Wis. He left
home because his father abused him.
The Wagner tenement block, row of
five two-story buildings, on the north
side of the East Seventh street fill, shot
from its foundation Saturday and slid
into the hollow fifty feet below. The
ruins soon took fire and in two hours
the building was thing of the past.
Luckily NO lives were lost, the inmates
miraculously escaping before the crash
came.
The accidents in factories in Mime
sofa for the past year, as reported to
Labor Commissioner Powers, were 276.
So far III factories have been heard
from. Of the ZIG there were 26 fatsl.
The remainder is made up of injuries to
limbs. Mr.. Powers says that investiga-
ton proves that nearly all these acci-
dents could have been prevented by the
use of proper safeguards.
The entire seasons product of prison
made binding twlne at Saltwater, with
the exception of few hundred pounes
has been sold to the farmers of this
state, and the factory will continue in
full blast, the twine manufactured being
stored for next seasons sales. The
product this season amounted to little
more than 100000 pounds, and it is OK
pected that the stock on hand by next
harvest will treble this amount,
The Duluth, Port Arthur and West
ern railway has constructed seventy
miles of its line, that much of the track
being ironed and ready for use. The
construction work is being continued
and the line will be built to point four
miles south of the international boundary
line this fall. The southerly terminus
of the line during the late fall and
winter will be the Gun Flint Lake mine,
from which 10000 tons of ore will be
shipped over the new line this season.
A syndicate of Duluth men, of which
A. M. Stearns is trustee, and in which
F. L. Tedford, Morris O. Brooks, G. J.
Atkins and Ned Howard are stockhold-
ers, reports the wonderful discovery of a
gold quartz bearing vein at a point
about a hundred miles northeast of the
500, near the old Bruce mine. The vein
has been traced for three miles and
averages on the property of the COM
pany width of about twenty feet.
Shafts have been sunk fifty feet, and
assays run from $50 to 500 per ton.
Stamp mills will be erected at once.
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