Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1893-09-20


have captured the man who stole $105,
600 worth of gold from the mint a
Philadelphia, and that 500, 900 wortl
of the precious metal has been re
| covered.
The Eureka hotel at Kasson burned
Saturday.
Freeborn county is out Of debt and
has cash balance of over $50, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Higgins of Water
vile, celebrated their golden wedding
Monday.
The next real estate convention will
be held at ST. Paul the first Tuesday in
August, 1894.
Two children of Owen Lily, near
GAINESVILLE, Mimi, ate wild ivy and
died in few hours.
Secretary of State Brown has re-
turned from his European trip with his
health greatly improved.
Two thousand more children were
enrolled in ST. Paul schools at the be-
ginning of this year than last.
The Twenty-first annual session of
the grand lodge Knights of Pythias
will be held at st. Paul Sept. 26.
The Northwestern Telephone COM
pany of st. Paul and Minneapolis will
probably extend their line to Chicago.
Typhoid fever is having mild run
in Minneapolis. There are quite large
number of cases but few fatalities thus
far.
Soren Listoe, consul at Dusseldorf for
the past year, has returned to Washing
ton. He will again make his home in
Minnesota.
Lake the daughter of Rev. g. w. Lutz
was run over by a passing team and in
stantly killed.
1t is said the governor will appoint
Robert Jamison judge of the Hennepin
county district court in place of Judge
Hooker, deceased.
The Boston clothing house at st.
Paul, known all over the Northwest,
has been sold to Charles Bowlby of Chi
cago for round half million.
George R. Beal, a carpenter. fell from
scaffold at the state normal school
building at Mankato. The scaffold was
only seven feet high, but he broke his
neck.
One of the men who robbed the bank
at Moorhead June % last has been
caught at Sioux City. His name is
Samuel L. Copeland, and he is noted
crook.
Hon. Samuel Thayer Of Minneapolis,
for the past four and a half years min
lister to Holland, has returned to Wash
ington and will shortly return to Min
nesota.
Isaac W. Webb, to whom the Red
river drainage commission awarded the
contract for excavating the mouths of
the Sand Hill and Tamarac rivers, has
thrown up the contract.
Burglars broke into Hans Pederson's
general store at Barnesville and car
ried away several pieces of valuable
dress goods and about two dozen pairs
of shoes No trace of the burglars.
Mrs. Herrick, who had her skull
crushed by being thrown out of a car
riage in a runaway at Chatfeld, is
dead. Her husband was killed two
years ago by the same team running
away.
James McGinnis, farmer residing
near Redwood Falls, engaged in quar-
rel with Town Marshal Ben Robdon of
Morgan, who struck him several blows
with club. McGinnis is in a serious
condition.
Representative McCleary has intro
duced two bills to pay Minnesota citi-
zens for damages sustained during the
Indian war of 1862; one for John Kenla
Of New Ulm, $7OO, and the other for
John Deamond, Blue Earth county, for
5000.
Elmer T. Scheig and his brother, Carl
g. Scheig, have been indicted by the
grand jury at Minneapolis on a charge
Of receiving stolen property, the same
being $500 from their brother, Philip
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Bank of Minneapolis.
Secretary Hart has completed his
semi-annual prison census. He finds
that the increase in criminal popula-
Eion, and attributed to the hard times,
is to be found only in three cities, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, the rest
Of the state showing slight decrease
IF criminal population.
The assignment of Martin Ring, I
owner of the large quarries at Sand
stone, caused a grave situation to the
hundreds OF men in his employ. Some
IF them have families and hayereceiyed
10 pay for three or six months. Opera
ions in the quarries are suspended. also
work on the school building, for which
Ring had the contract.
The Minnesota Canal company has
lied with the secretary of state an
of it's articles of incorpora-
ion increasing the limit of indebted /
less to $4. O0V,0OO. The headquarters
# the company are at Duluth, and the
business : is stated to be that of con-