Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-08-17
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MINNESOTA NEWS.

James Wright, of Minnesota City, q
resident of the state since 1859, died last
week.
G. P. Carpenter has disposed of the
Pennington Tribune to L. F. Farmer, of
st. Paul.
The safe at the Northern Pacific depot
at Glenwood was blown open and robbed
of about $65.
TIL saloon of Herman Haas, at Man
kato. was entered and robbed of 800 in
cash last week.
A large amount of counterfeit So bills,
dollars and quarters are in circulation in
the Twin Cities.
Samuel Bland, son of prominent
farmer residing near Montrose, killed
himself last week.
The headquarters of the Chicago and
Northwestern are to be removed from
Winona to st. Paul.
Ii is said that Major Mckinley will
aetivef several speeches in the state dur
ing the fall campaign.
Company D, NJ. N. G., of st. Paul,
left Saturday for two weeks trip
through YELLOWSTONE Park.
Miners from the Gogebic and Mar
quette mines that have shut down are
foching to the Mcsaba range.
Lewis B.,i,-r. editor of the st. Paul
Globe, has b, n elected Chairman of The
Dam, NJ
Judge Thomas Wilson, of Winona,
has accepted the position of attorney for
the Omaha road, and will remove to
st. Paul.
Reports of damage from hail in Lyon
county are less than first reported, and
ac = fo'l estimate now places it at about
$200,0 900.
Inc Duluth council has decided to
turn over the whole matter of boodling
aldermen to the next grand jury to in
vestiyate.
One hundred and thirty five workmen
employed by the J. j. Howe Lumber
company, a. Brainerd, have struck for
ten-hour day.
Andrew Anderson, hcstler at the
Minnesota house at Alexandria, was
killed by being stamped to death by
span of horses.
A bold robber succeeded in securing
$500 worth of diamonds by breaking the
glass in the show window of Lehman's
jewelry store at Minneapolis.
An attempt was made at St. Paul the
other evening TO hold up conductor on
the Seventh street cable line. The in
tervention of passengers saved the COM
pany's money.
Near Montgomery, Mimi, a freight
train scared Il horse and the horse ran
into the train, smashing the buggy
and throwing Joseph Kalina and his
mother out. Mrs. KiiIina sustained a
fracture of two ribs and other injuries
that may prove fatal. The son escaped
with slight bruise.
A colored man boarded the Sioux City
express for Ss'tt:,Paul at Lake Crystal, held
up the passengers in three sleepers and
rihed their pockets. He jumped off the
train at the Milwaukee crossing,
near Mankato, and made his escape,
How much booty he secured is not
known.
Ole Ostrum, well-to-do farmer, the
father of ten children, of Pomme de
Terre, was arrested and brought to
Elbow Lake On Wednesday charged
with incest, the plaintiff being his third
daughter, aged IS years. 1t is alleged
that he has been guilty of the same
crime with two younger daughters.
The Farmers elevator at Herman,
together with about 900 bushels of
wheat belonging to George Brug-
gencate, the present agent, burned last
week. The wheat was fully insured; no
insurance on building The origin of the
fire is mystery. The elevator was
built about five years ago at a cost of
$1,000,
John Pepin, Frenchman, exhibits
specimens of gold bearing quartz that
he claims to have broken off of a ledge
somewhere on Brown creek (the exact
location he refuses to telD near Still
water. Pepin says the vein of gold bear
ing quartz is eleven inches wide at the
top OF the ground and increases in width
as he delved downward.
A new railroad line is being surveyed
for an extension of the Duluth and
Iron Range road west from the Cincin-
natl mine along the range to township
SO, range II. The line will undoubtedly
traverse the whole Mesaba range and
will be close competitor with the
Duluth, Mesaba and Northern road for
the ore business Of the range.