Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-04-25
NEWS IN MINNESOTA.

Representative Hall of Minnesota is
quite i'll at Washington.
E. N. Kilturn, postmaster at Biwa
tik, is said to be short 5000.
The Mississippi has been rising rapidly
above st. Paul for the past few days
The earnings of the grain inspection
department for March were $5,eS1,9O.
The senate has passed the bill for a
bridge across the ST. Louis river at Du'
luth.
The Milwaukee ticket Ifice at Man
kato was robbed of cents ono night
last week.
Fire burned out all the telephone con
nections at Duluth. Loss to the com
pany, $4,000.
The Swedish-American National bank
of Minneapolis has been authorized tc
begin business.
The Minneapolis mills ground more
flour last week than in any similar time
in four months.
Paul Engels, president of the Twin
City Packing company, died at st. Paul
of heart disease.
Mangus Larson, sailor, fell through
hatchway of the steamer Fiske al
Duluth and was instantly killed.
James Howard, the fourth of the st.
Paul hank robbers, has leen sentenced
to Saltwater for term of six years.
Rev. Fl Tx Peterson, secretary of the
Baptist union, rel orts that Minnesota
contrit uted $10,00 to foreign missions
this year.
Sec. et,uy LL:rt has received informa.
ton that 80 county comma, ssioners OF
Big S,oat >.jIy ara meiit ting tho
const. 4 ton .; Il county jail.
Ohio fish companies, it is said, will re-
move to Minnesota in order to eYade
the laws. They will operate in the
lakes on the Canadian boundary.
The United States district court at
Mankato during the afternoon disposed
of all the cases on the calendar and
adjourned. The calendar contained but
five cases.
The bodies CT two children lost in
the woods of Stearns county, for
over week were found in Rice lake.
They had evidently wandered on the
rotten ice and went through.
In the case of Renville county against
Beard and Gray, bankers at Fairfax,
and the sureties on their bond, the jury
returned a verdict in favor of the county
for the full amount, $1,877.
J. Adam Bade, the new United States
marshal for Minnesota, has taken
charge Of his Office and appointed IS
deputies Edward D. Brown of Duluth
and Matt Shortall Of Saltwater.
A fight is in progress on the question
of relocating the county seat of jackson
county. Lakefeld is DESTROYS of securing
the prize now held by Jackson. An
election will be held May Is to settle it.
The name of the postoffice at Lone
Tree Lake, Brown county, Oscar A.
Dresser, postmaster, has been changed
to Lone Tree, and Otter Tail City, Otter
Tail county, Henry Crete postmaster, to
Otter Tail.
Citizens of Itasca county have antici-
pated Coxey by sending petition to
congress asking government appropri-
alton of $4,000 for the construction of a
wagon road from Grand Rapids to
Rainy Lake City.
Mrs. Sophia Stade died Tuesday night
at the residence in West Albany,
of her son-in-law, John Dankwart, ST.,
aged 100 years, lacking l month and 10
days. She settled with her husband at
West Albany 30 years ago.
Congressman Fletcher has succeeded
in getting favorable report from the
subcommittee appointed to consider
the claim of Minnesota for SOL, 800 paid
by the state for arms during the Sioux
outbreak. The amount will go into the
sundry civil bill.
Another Zig sale Of cash wheat has
been made at Minneapolis by the
Elevator company to the
Consolidated Milling company, the
wheat to be carried to August ut a diff
ference of IA cents over May price.
The amount transferred was 100000
bushels.
Since 1882 there have been 100, 1888
and 5,749 divorces in Mime
sofa. The largest number of marriages
in the 10 years, 10, 157, occurred in 1892,
and the largest number of divorces, 606,
in 1891. Both fell decidedly in 1893.
The total number of persons naturalized
from the admission of the state is
12O,888.
Colonel Mason, the commandment at
Fort Smelling, has appointed Lieutenant
Horace M. Reeve regimental recruiting
officer and ordered him to proceed with
a recruiting party to Sioux City, Ia,
and open rendezvous in that city for
the purpose of procuring recruits for
the companies of the Third infantry at
Fort Smelling.
A notice Of award given to Minnesota
for its forestry exhibit at the worlds
fair has been received at the governors
office. The award was granted on the
grounds of artistic presentation of re-
excellence Of samples, estab-
fishing the beauty and adaptable of
woods and graphic presentation Of the
manner of foresting by maps and draw
ings.
Menage will be in Minneapolis by
May 10. Such is the startling informa-
lion said to have been received by
well known citizen of that city in
D letter from the fugitive himself.
In this letter he is said to have stated
that he is tired of being hunted and
will save the citizens of Minneapolis
any more trouble in attempting to get
him back by coming voluntarily.
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