Morris tribune., 1894-01-24
NEWS TN MINNESOTA.

The Minnesota state fair for '94 begin
Sept. 8.
Fire at Monticello. did $1,000
damage.
West Concord will vote OF corpora
ton Feb. 13.
st. Paul underwriters are organizing
salvage corps.
A. D. Dawson, resident of st. Pau
since 1856, is dead.
Haenggi, the st. Paul wife murd erer
has been declared insane.
Peter Wolford one of the leading
capitalists of Minneapolis, is dead.
Mayor Wright of st. Paul declines t,
be a candidate for denomination.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Ameri
cen Cereal company at Minneapolis.
The matter of dividing the Episcopal
diocese of Minnesota is under discussion
Nearly half a million dolla's were
spent in improvements at Faribauit,
in 1898.
The postofice at Willardton, Clay
county, has been abolished. Mail to
Barnesville.
Dr. Washington GLADDEN. of Colum-
bus, o., lectured on municipal reform at
Minneapolis.
The grand jury found bills against
Ferber and Bergman, Wood Lake
blind piggers.
The store of Shiele & Bringgold's, at
West Co0cord, was burglarized of $3.50
worth of goods.
JOAN Sloan, the half breed who muir
dered his Indian wife, has been con-
victed Of manslaugate
The constitution I.ty Of the Minnesota
insanity law has been attacked in c-,se
before the supreme court
The boly Of Peter Lilgenborg, sup
posed to have committed suicide, VS.
found in the river at st. Paul
Arthur A. Coswell, formerly editor
of the Anoka Herald, has purchased
The Northwestern Tourist, at MinneAp-
oils.
A young man living in the town of
Warsaw, is under arrest for
pulling the tongue of pony out by the
roots.
At Harris, Tuesday, 476 loads
of potatoes were delivered by farmers,
aggregating $1,000 bushels, or 20 car
loads.
Clay for making vitrifed brick has
been found within 10 miles Of st. P ul.
It is also said to be excellent for red
pressed brick.
The annual report of the trustees Of
the Minnesota Soldiers Home shows
that there are 281 members at the Home
at the present time.
The supreme court has denied the mo-
ton for new trial Tor DR.. Pearce,
convicted Of abortion at st. Paul and
now serving a seven year sentence.
Sylvester, the 22-year-old son of ex-
Chief Justice James O'Brien, who left
Caledonia Jan. 2 for Notre Dame, Ind,
and who was reported missing, has
turned up ir Chicago.
Superintendent Hoskins of the Twin
City Rapid Transit company has been
fined $50 for operating cars not vesti-
buled as provided by the state law. The
case will be appealed.
At a meeting of the State Agricultural
society at st. Paul w. F. Cross was
elected for his fourth term as secretary
and superintendent of grounds. A B.
Mofatt OF Mankato was also reelected
treasurer,
Rev. Father Connolly, the Catholic
priest convicted of criminally assaulting
Miss Julia Sutherland, member Of his
congregation, at Two Harbors has been
sentenced to 20 years and three months
imprisonment at hard labor.
The semi-annual report of the state
board of correction and charities shows
the total number of prisoners of all
classes in the state on Dec. 81, 1898, to
be 1,068, against 1908 in June of the
same year. The city warehouses of
both st. Paul and Minneapolis contain
less prisoners than one year ago.
Some miscreant placed dynamite
cartridge inside the storm protection Of
the front door of the Exchange bank of
Pennington, and when it exploded it
blew the front of the bank proper all
out, besides wrecking the counter and
inside glass protection on top of the
counter AS there were no funds in the
vault, the bank having gone out Of busi-
ness, no reason can lie assigned Tor COM
mitting the act.