Morris tribune., 1893-05-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.

q new : ! at Mankato
The Ramsey county grand jury Is
considering the coal combine cases.
The state high school board and the
normal school board meet at the capi-
tol this week
Several vessels at Duluth were una
BILE to clear for several days on account
Of the coal famine there.
The ST. Paul board of education has
decided to investigate the sanitary con-
dition of the city schools.
The Hill celebration at st. Paul is as
suming gigantic proportions. Over 15O
floats will be in the parade.
The Minnesota University ball team
was badly beaten by the Wisconsin
University boys at Madison.
The st. Paul-Duluth canal scheme is
off until congress acts on the right OF
way through Indian reservations.
Secretary Hart of the state board of
corrections and charities, reports in
sanity on the increase in Minnesota.
The graduating exercises of the Wi
mona formal school will be held May 20.
Thre are 80 in the graduating classes.
Frank Robinson and Peter Lebeau
have been released from Saltwater on
parole. Both terms had nearly expired,
The president has appointed John P.
Rea one OF the board Of visitors of the
West Point Military academy for 1890.
He-Who-Hunts-at- Night, an Indian
soldier, was struck by a Milwaukee
train at Fort Smelling. His recovery is
doubtful.
At Kasson Joseph Hemingway and
his aged mother were asphyxiated by
coal gas. Mrs. Hemingway is uncon-
scious and may die.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the woods near Grand Rapids
He evidently died last winter and had
been partially eaten by wolves.
At Fairfax the family of Mr.. Thomas
Greer suffered great agony by being
poisoned, caused by using sour milk in
new tinware. Antidote succeeded in
renewing tnSus
Governor Nelson has received awarn-
ing signed ''No. 49," telling him he has
forfeited his right to the governorship
and warning him to make his peace
with his Maker.
At Renville William Horr, while
blasting boulders. was seriously injured
by a premature explosion. He is
thought to have lost his eyes. One
finger was blown off.
Assignee Brown of the Bank of Fair
fax has sold the bank property to Al
bert E. Clark and W. F. Booth of Min
neapolis for So, 500. The new bank will
be started with capital of $25, 900.
The New YORK 5t,n nEiId PIadl588 IadlF588tshes a long
article by its Washington correspond
ent detailing a scheme of prominent
Minneapolis Republicans to defeat SEN
ator Washburn for re-electionin 1895.
On bluff near Montevideo 10 skele-
tons have been unearthed. One is of |
gigantic stature, and was buried sitting |
in stone chair. The others were Of |
all sizes and seemed to have been buried !
in any position it happened.
The governor has appointed the fol-
lowing board of veterinary medical ex-
aminers: B. w. Kirby, ST. Paul; G. Ell. |
Pierce, Minneapolis; William 81. |
Scruby, st. Cloud; William Standish, |
Mankato; J. J. Finley, Duluth.
Mrs. Olive Colby, widow of Gideon
Colby, died Of pneumonia at Minneapo-
lis Thursday. The deceased was 100 |
years OF age and had been in the city |
about 10 years. She was relative of |
Israel Putnum, OF revolutionary fame. |
Sarah j. Galloway of Wisconsin who
was hit on the leg by flying mail
sack at Durand, Wis, has secured
verdict against the Milwaukee road for
S1O, ,0G0 damages. It was the third trial
OF the suit, all being heard at st. Paul.
John Domeau was lynched by mob
near Mountain Iron, small village on
the Mesaba range. He had enticed
6-year-old child into the woods and out
ragged her. Public sentiment sustains
the actian of the mob and there will
probably be no arrests.
The question Of county division is
again being agitated by number of
Polk county towns, of which
Thief River Falls and Mcintosh are the
principal ones, each looking toward
having a county seat at their respective
village. Red Lake Fails is also looking
for it.
Z. P. Powers, commissioner of the
bureau of labor statistics, has prepared
a review of the labor legislation en-
acted by the legislature just adjourned.
The legislature passed 10 distinctly
labor measures and three other laws
which had received great attention
from organized labor men.
Secretary Hart, of the state board of
corrections and charities, reports the
following census of state institutions
taken April SO: Soldiers home, 1888;
school for the deaf, 205; school for the
blind, 55; School for the feeble minded,
1888; state public school, al; state re-
form school. 308; state ye&oEmatory
147; stats prison, 1863; total, 1,741.
The following officers were elected by
the grand lodge "A. y. Y. w. at Duluth
last week: Judge ]. E. Porter, Mankato,
grand master; W. B. Mccormack, Min
neapolis, grand foreman; F. M. Lloyd,
st. Paul, grand overseer; Olaf Olson,
Wilmar, grand recorder; J.J. McCardy,
St. Paul, grand receiver; Alfred Ander-
son, Red Wing, grand guide; George
Gisher, Winona, inside watch. Grand
lodge sessions will hereafter be held at
st. Paul The annual report showed
165 lodges in the state, with member
ship of 1l,407,
Two. hundred and fifteen Chinese act
ors en- route for the worlds fair have
been denied admission by the collector
of customs at Tacoma.
The Spanish officials in Cuba and the
Brazilian government have violate the
conditions of the recinrocitv traatp with