Morris tribune., 1893-01-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The First National Bank of Appleton
has been authorized to commence busi-
ness with capital Of $50,
The Bank of Fairfax closed its doors
last week. Small depositors. lose about
10000 and the county of Renville about
$1,000.
Miss Mary Mahoney, of Mankato, was
killed near Madelia last week In run
away, while returning to a school she
was teaching.
Christopher Olson, who died at Albert
Lea last week, was one Of the Oldest set
Tiers in Freeborn county, having went
there in 1866, or thirty-six years ago.
Frank Giefer, on trial at Mankato for
murder in the first degree, has been
found guilty. His attorneys will at
tempt to save his neck by asking for a
new trial.
The Northern Granite company
shipped from their granite quarry at
oauk Rapids last week by the Northern
Pacific train of twenty-seven cars OF
SSSAO AN1 OLs 14OulSs
Conductor Mickey and Engineer Null
laney, who were held responsible by the
coroner's jury for the recent railroad
accident at Nelson, have been arrested,
charged with manslaughter.
j. H. Todd, cashier of the st. Paul
and Duluth depot at West Duluth, has
left for parts unknown, and auditors are
now going over his accounts, which are
said to show a shortage of $1,000.
Joseph Bobleter, state treasurer, has
filed his official bond Of $4OO, 600 with
William r. Merriam, Frank A. Sey-
mour, Edward NJ. Saunders, Robert A.
Smith and William Dawson rs suretles.
John Huggett, residing near Warren,
has struck vein of natural gas, which
he is using for fuel in his home. 1t is
believed that extensive natural gas
fields underlie Marshall and K.ittson
counties.
Annie Murphy, the noted forger, who
on Oct. 81 succeeded in swindling the
two national banks of st. Cloud of
81. 500 and was afterwards captured in
Alabama, has been brought to st. Cloud
to stand trial.
Mrs. s. G. Merrell, an artist of Lake
City, was assaulted by an unknown
man, while returning home the other
evening. The city has offered a re-
ward of $3.50 for the arrest and convic-
ton of the ruffian.
The charter of the Ddluth, ST.
Cloud, Mankato and Austin railroad has
expired, and it is not likely any effort
will be made to revive it. Work Oh the
road never advanced further than the
preliminary surveys.
It is estimated that 90, ,536 turkeys
were given as Christmas presents to
their employees by Minneapolis manu-
featuring firms. The Pillsburys head
the list with 740, and the Northwestern
Milling company stands second with
400.
Great Northern surveyors are at work
between Turtle Lake and Park Rapids.
Whether the object of the company in
laying out the line is for the purpose of
building branch or merely to get an
accurate description of the country can
not be learned. .
The st. Paul Clay Car Seal company,
with capital of $25, 600, will begin op-
erations at South ST.. Paul about Jan.
IL. This new enterprise is for the pur-
pose Of manufacturing patent car seal
considered by many railroad men supe-
rior to any now in use.
o. S. Belden, of Fair Haven, under
arrest for grand larceny, was bound
over to the grand jury in $500 bail.
Belden is charged with procuring boys
in the neighborhood to steal goods from
other merchants, which goods he bought
from the boys for little or nothing in
trade.
A telegram has been received from
Port Townsend, Wash, announcing
that Charles E. Ames, son of DR.. A. A.
Ames, of Minneapolis, while engaged in
repairing the government telegraph line
between Port Angels and Cape Flattery,
in Washington, became stiff from cold
and fell from pole forty feet high,
breaking his neck.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Glencoe over the report that J. H.
Rieyer has lost heavily through dealing
in options. Farmers in this vicinity are
holding his storage tickets for $4,000
bushels Of wheat which it is said has
disappeared. Charles II. Severs has
also sunk large sum in the wheat pit,
but his loss will not likely ir golve any
one else.
Surveyor General Ash has completed
his official figures of the lumber cut in
the Duluth district the past year. The
cut of the year is enlarged by 1857, ,73O
feet on the Eastern Minnesota road and
by 4,7O6,O0O on Little and Big Fork
rivers. These official figures show the
cut in this district during the year Just
closed to have been 3S8, 495, 900 feet of
lumber, IT'S, ,8O6,0 lath and 81, 900
shingles.
The Lake Superior Transit company,
which has been in the business since
1878, and operated the steamers India,
China, Japan, idaho, Empire State,
Badger State, Montana, Vanderbilt,
Gordon Campbell and Philadelphia be-
tween Buffalo and Lake Superior ports,
went out of business on Jan. l. The
New York Central will run a line OF
their own to Duluth, and it is expected
that the Pennsylvania company, owners
of the Anchor line, will also run a line
to Duluth.