Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-08-29
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

| Nels Nelson broke Jail at Willmar.
Counterfeit dollars are in circulation
at Minneapolis.
The dwelling house of John Madisoi
at Willmar was burglarized of $75 ant
gold watch.
The Tracy Herald, under the man
agement of o. J. Rea, has made its in
itial appearance.
1t is reported that gold has been founC
on section 10, township 68, range II
northwest of Duluth.
Burglars visited a Cottonwood jew
elry and drug store Friday and carried
off $3.50 worth of suff.
Colored people of st. Paul have start.
ed movement to erect a monument
over John Browns grave.
Sneak thieves entered the residence ot
H. L. Wilcox at Hastings, and got away
with goods to the value of 800.
The survivors of the Sixth regiment
Minnesota infantry will hold a reunion
in the chamber of commerce, st. Paul,
on Sept. Z.
I. In head end collision between Du-
luth and Carlton, two engines and about
dozen cars were wrecked, but no one
was injured.
Marshal Bede is back from Washing
ton, from whence he brought $l1, 800 to
pay the expenses Of the United States
courts at Minneapolis next month.
The st. Paul News Record Printing
company has been incorporated. The
nespaper will be an evening Democratic
daily, and will appear early in Septem-
Der.
George N. Lamphere has resigned as
member of the board of normal school |
regents, on account of some disagree
ment as to the conduct of the Moor
head school.
DeWain Cook, manager of the state
horticulture experiment. station, Win
dom, has caused the arrest of six boys
for stealing watermelons The fines
aggregated $135.
The ST. Cloud Lumber company has
just completed sale of 1,000,00 feet
of lumber to be used in the construction
OF interstate fair buildings of South
Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
Heavy forest fires have been raging in
the vicinity of Aitkin for the last month.
Thousands of tons of hay have been
burned. The Bovey -DeLaittre Lumber
company camps have burned, and other
camps are in danger.
On the Sisseton reservation, near
Browns Valley, Joseph Waukandaduta,
a. full blooded Indian, battered out the
brains of his brother-in-law with the
butt of a gun. He was II years old.
The wife interfered, was also pounded
insensible and may die.
A paper firm of New York has asked
the district court of Ramsey county to
set aside the sale of the plant of the st.
Paul Daily News to W. E. Magraw,
and that it be allowed to pay the mort
gage and take the plant in order to pro-
tect its claim of $1,000. An order to
show cause why the sale should not be
set aside has been issued.
Hon. Ezra G. Valentine, president of
the Red River Valley drainage commits
sion, in an interview at ST. Paul, stated
that when the plans of the commission
are carried to completion not less than
100000 acres of land, valued at from
$40 to $12 an acre, will be added to the
agricultural lands on the Minnesota
side of the Red River valley. Most of
this land has heretofore been considered
worthless.
Murderer Ermisch made desperate
attempt to escape from the county jail
at st. Paul Saturday, and succeeded in
the lower corridor door, after
he had wounded Ed Horst, the death
watch. ? That he did not add another
murder to the one for which he is now
awaiting the death penalty was due
solely to his faulty aim. He was finally
taken back to his cell. The revolver he
used was smuggled to him by his
mother.
On Sept. bids will be opened at the
capitol for digging drainage canals in
lhe Red River valley as follows: Borup,
i've miles in length, connecting two Sec
ions of the south branch of the Wild
Rice river in Norman county one mile
1orth of the Clay county line; Snake
liver, three miles long, in Polk county,
! mile and a half south of Marshall
county line; Lake Ida, three miles, con-
lecting the Wild Rice river from the
point of the overflow with the Marsh |
liver, about mile and half above |
Ada in Norman county.
Won by Robert j.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-The great match |
race between the PAGERS Robert and |