Morris tribune., 1892-02-03
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Adrian is to have a new Democratic
newspaper.
Duluth business men are opposed to
: WaShburn'S option bill.
The state sjairy commission has de-
cIared war upon cottolene.
Lake City Is taking steps to secure
eleetrieAlight and water works. ses~~
DR.. A. K. Kelley, aged 90, the oldest
person III Lake City, died last week.
Sept. to 10 has been fixed as
the dare Of the Minnesota state fair this
year.
The Northwestern Lumbermer's s asso.
citation last week held its annual con-
ventlon at Minneapolis.
Burglars robbed St. Cloud saloon
IhprSday and secured 800 in money
and property valued 1T So.
The house has passed bill all owing
the erection Of 2 railroad and wagon
bridge across the Mississippi river at
South St. Paul.
Goyecnor Merriam has reappoi ntsd
Joln Peterson, Of St. Peter, a me, nber
OF the board OF trustees of the in sane
hospitals Of the state.
Inc State Bank Of Cokato, Minn., has
lied its articles with Public Exam iner
Kenyon, and will begin business NJ arch
with 4 capltal o. $50, 900.
E. T. Sweet, living seven miles east
OF Wells, lost a vaIuable horse Th prs-
= day nlSht Of hydrophobia The ami nal
was bitten last fall by rabid dog.
The Duluth. Red Wing and South ern
railroad has filed it's statement of OF xess
earnings for the year ending Dec 81.
The amount earned is S54, ,25oO0, the
state tax on the same being S542. So
The private bank of H. D. Brown &
Co, at Albert Lea, will be convert ed
into national bank, the applicati On
having already gone TO the controller of
currency.
Earle, the st. Paul diamond robber,
has been found guilty in the district
court lie refused the services of an at
torney during the trial and a adressed
the jury IN his own defense.
Dr.. Arthur Sweeney has resis nel his
position as member of the sta se board
OF medIcal examiners, and c Governor
Merriam has appointed in his lace DR..
Thomas 1cDavitt, Of st. Paul.
4 north bound Milwaukee train was
wrecked three miles from Ora ceville
Thursday last by coming in cc,llision
with COW. The damage to the ra,l-
road property amounts to $15 600.
4 COW belonging to the heirs of o. B.
F1nge, OF Black Hammer, III the pring
Of 1891 gave birth to four living C. alves.
and few days ago che same, COW again
brought forth four full grown calves.
Jerome S. ObEnger, who plead guilty
to issuing postal orders without first
having obtained the cas- h whi le post
master at Arlington, has Deen sen fenced
to one year IN the penitentiary at Still
water.
At St. Paul Saturday two young
children Of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kee-
gan We're ruH over and killed by Rice
street electric car. The corone7 de-
cided the accident was unavoidabl and
no inquest was held.
The Duluth and Iron Range raj road
reports its gross earnings for the year
ending Dec. 81 at 81, 154, l29. 81, the state
tax on which IS $23, ,082.57. The d. uuth
and Winnipeg in the same time ca rned
$So, 1913, paying the state tax o. t. 10
same amounting to $861.83.
According to the statement Of tn 3
state superintendent Of fisheries. Wi
mona county was supplied with IL 5000
brook trout and land locked salmo n fry
during 1891. Houston county obt aimed
the greatest number, getting 20U 900,
but W'nOna IS second, Fillmore eing
third with 10000.
The WiDona Plow company, of VII
mona, has sold its large plant for th .
manufactury Of plOws to a company OF.
Eastern capitalists, who will move their
business here at once, and begin manu-
featuring iron ware on an extensive
scale. The company will employ thirty
five men from the start.
Ezra Park Foot, son of the senior
member Of the firm Of Foot, Schulze &
Co., of St. Paul, has brought an action
for divorce againat His wife, who, before
marriage, Was Miss Florence Blood. of
Camden, n. J. Foot makes the sensa-
tional charge that his wife, before they
were married, deceived him as to the
parentage Of a child and thus coerced
him into marrying her.
A house belonging to George Cramer,
living about four miles from Brainerd, |
caught fire Friday and his wife and I
three children We're cremated The |:
husband Was away at the time, but saw |
the fire and found the burned bodies
in the ashes Of the dwelling.
The theory is that in attempt
ing to light the fire with kero-
sene, the can exploded and burned them
before they could escape. Not even
shlnSle OF the house was left unburned. ;
James z. York, who is noted blast !
furnace expert and builder, has been in
Duluth some time, making arrange (
ments to establish very large struct- t
ural steel plant there. He addressed a
meeting Of citizens on the subject, stat
ing that nO place in the United States
presented such an opening for the estab- !
lishment Of great steel and ircn works |.
He hopes to be able to start not only the
structural steel rolling mills practically
assured, but three or four blast fur
naces, to turn out 200 tons of pig iron q
day each.
A sensation was created here by the
announcement that the Freeborn County l.
bank, owned by the late Lieutenant
Governor Armstrong, did not have !.
money to pay it's depositors and that it
would not be reopened, it having been
closed since the lieutenant governors
recent death. The deposits amount to
100000, and it is claimed that they will
all be paid in due time. It is reported
that Governor Armstrong lost 100000
In a Chicago wheat deal. He left suf-
ficient real estate, it is believed, to meet
the claims Of depo3itors.
KILLED WHILE CoAsTlNG.
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