Morris tribune., 1892-03-09
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
Detroit is lighted by electricity.

Halstad, Trail county.
Snow fell to the depth of six inches at
Mabel Thursday night.
The Big Diamond mill cooper shop at
Morristown has been destroyed by fire.
Rev. S. b. Warner, a prominent
Methodist clergyman of st. Paul, is
missing.
The fare for the round trip between
st. Paul and Saltwater has been reduced
to IS cents.
The leseses of the West hotel at st.
Cloud have made an assignment. The
| liabilities are heavy.
Governor Merriam will not be can
dldate for delegate to the national Re-
publican convention.
One hundred and fifty tons of pig
iron is being turned out daily at the
Duluth blast furnace.
Bruggeman's brewery, located in West
st. Paul, was destroyed by fire Thurs
day night. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
Hon. M. B. Barrison, of Duluth, a
worlds fair commissioner from this
state, is dead. He left an estate valued
at 80, ,000,000.
A meeting of the officers of the state
Epworth league was held in Winona
Friday to perfect arrangements for the
June convention which will be held in
Minneapolis.
Senator Washburn's bill to authorize
tbs Grand Rapids Water and Electric
Power company to construct a dam
across the Mississippi river, has been
reported favorably.
The bill granting the right of way to
the Duluth and Northern Railroad com
pany through the Fond du Lac Indian
reservation in Minnesota has been IA
vorably reported in the senate.
Ramsey county's share of the worlds
fair fund-$21, 70o-has been raised,
Over $65.G00 of the extra $lO0,OOO has
already been guaranteed by the various
counties of the state.
Miss Lottie Mitchell was killed and
Miss Annie Erickson and Herb Brad
ford, the driver, badly injured, in a
runaway at Minneapolis Friday night.
The girls were inmates of a house of
ill-fane.
The United States supreme court has
decided the case of the Winona and St.
Peter railway company against the
towns of Plainview and E IN, in favor
of the towns. The amount III question
is 800, 1000.
A. J. Sawyer, the well known eleva-
tor and gram man of Minneapolis, is
dead. He was the owner Of a large
elevator line in North Dakota and Min
nesota, with terminals at Superior and
Minneapolis.
A reunion of the survivors of the
Second Minnesota cavalry will be held
at Mankato, June and s. Secretay
Maxwell is now arranging for buildings
and grounds, and excursion rates with
in 200-mile radius.
The lumber companies are getting out
a large quantity Of lumber this season
in Northern Minnesota, On the Missis-
sippi, Swan, Willow and Prairie rivers.
The qualityis remarkably good, and the
cut will be immense.
A circ11lar datad March I la. hAa,, is--
sued from President j. J. Hills Office
appointing Thomas J. Hyman assistant
to the president Of the Great Northern
Railway company. Mr.. Hyman was
formerly auditor of the Wisconsin Cen
tral.
Charles Burton and Charles johnson,
committed for grand larceny at Alexa1l-
dria, broke Jail Thursday night. They
cut through floor of one inch pine and
dug under the wall into the outside
stairway. The Jail has been condemned
for years as unsafe.
The Winona board of trade has de-
oi6nl n form 11x1 To L.
wagon bridge across the Mississippi
river at this point, with big celebra-
ton on the Fourth Of July. It is ex-
peeted that there will be large at
tendance from the surrounding country
William Resting, small dealer in
general merchandise at Morton, went
| to Chicago last week to buy goods.
He says that on Sunday night, while
| crossing the Clark street bridge, he was
held up by three men and robbed Of
$500. The prevailing opinion, however,
is that he was the victim of some con-
| fdence men.
The Minneapolis mills last week
raised their flour output about a
thousand barrels per day, says The
| Northwestern Miller. The aggregate
| production of seventeen mills was IT.
$50 barrels 29,5s1 barrels
against III, 1,62e barrels the previous
week, 1S3, ,275 barrels for the correspond
| ing time in 1891, and 131, $50 barrels in
1880.
q. L. Brockway, one of the commits
sioners appointed to estimate the
amount of standing pine on public lands
in Minnesota says that the work Of
| estimating the pine on White Earth
reservation has been completed and the
commission removed to the Red Lake
reservation. He added that the pine on
White Earth had been greatly overesti-
mated, in his opinion. He was not pre-
pared to give the actual amount of pine
standing, but felt safe in saying that it
would fall below 100000, 600 feet.
At meeting of the board of prison
managers at Saltwater, the price of
binding twine for the coming season
was fixed at 10 cents a pound, l cent
higher than last year. Manager Nor
rish said that last year every pound of
twine sold for 8 cents was at loss, and
that 10 cents will just cover the actual
cost. He thinks the price Of raw ma
terial will be the same as last year, pos
sibly cheaper, and it is the intention of
the board to purchase Minnesota fiber
as far as possible.
The new stoneware plant for Red
Wing is now assured and work On the
buildings will commence in the spring.
With this one Red Wing will have three
stoneware plants each with a capacity
of a carload day and having over
$500, 600 invested in the business. The
new sewer pipe works have commenced
operations and it is very likely that
another will be built the present sum-
mer. There are now about $50 hands
employed by this industry, and the
number will be doubled before the end
of another year