Morris tribune., 1895-09-18
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

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Annual convention at st. Paul
The Swedish Methodist conference
will be held at Duluth next year.
! Ninety empty pocketbooks We're founG
at the state fair grounds during the fair
Labor commissioners of the various
states are holding convention at Min
peapolis.
| Five mon were arrested ON the charge
Of selling liquor near the state fail
grounds.
4 At Princeton, a stroke of lightning re-
vealed the skeleton of woman in a
hollow tree.
Duluth is already preparing for the
bonspiel of the Northwestern curriers'
next winter.
Survivors Of the Ninth Minnesota
volunteers held reunion at Minneap-
oils Thursday.
Mayer Youmans has vetoed the cur
lew ordinance passed by the city coun-
Gil of Winona.
| The National Credit Insurance COM
pany, Minneapolis, has assigned, owing
$4,000 with 100000 securities as as
| sets.
Grain rates from St. Paul and Mime
apolis to Duluth will, OH Sept %, be adj
vanced from cents to ~ cents per 100
pounds
A meeting of the creditors of the N.
K. Clarke Lumber company was held at
Minneapolis, but no final action was
taken
insurance Commissioner Smith of
Minnesota, who has been in very i'll
health for some time. is reported to be
improving.
A Richmond (Ind.) man has at
tached $400, 900 worth of property of the
b. f. Drake estate, St. Paul, to collect a
s., 900 claim.
A golf club has been organized at Wi
mona. Its members will wear the Scot
tish plaid and kilt. Congressman J. A.
Tawney is one of the members.
The Iron Exchange bank of Duluth,
which has not been doing a profitable
business lately, has decided to go into
liquidation and wind up it's affairs.
Acting Secretary Reynolds has ap-
proved as basis for patent Minnesota
swamp land list No. 4S, containing
S,925 acres in the st. Cloud district. !.
Governor D. M. Clough will go to
Atlanta with the Minnesota Editorial
association to visit the exposition Of the
cotton states. The party leaves Sept. 2S.
Business circles at Duluth are agi-
tated over the unexplained absence
Of A.. Bieloeh, one of the wealthiest
and best known business men of the
city, He has been gone week.
A meeting of members of the capitol
commission was held Thursday, but
nothing of Importance in connection
with the plans for the new building was
passed upon. Adjournment was taken
to Sept 26.
According to census bulletin No. 13
Clay county has 1854 population, q
gain Of 1885; Cottonwood 1O,1Ss, gain
2,775; Cook 427, gain 329; Dakota p, ,345,
gain 1,1O5; Dodge 1854, gain 1890;
Douglass 16,942, gain 2,336,
The State Bar association held it's an
nual meeting in the supreme court |
room Of the capitol with about 40 prom
inent members of the profession from
different parts of the state i'll attend |
anoe. A banquet at the Windsor was a |
feature.
The Minnesota Iron company has de- |
oided to advance the wages of all en-
ployes in it's mines n the Mesaba range |
from 20 to % per cent. Contract min |
ers will hereafter receive 1926 day.
The section hands on the Duluth and |
Iron Range road have been granted an !
advance from 81. Is to 81 so peF day.
Frank Cher!aaA 9f Chatield and his
horse aud !. swarm of bees got badly |
mixed up at Bear Creek Hill. Cher
mah's face and hands were bristling
with bee stings, $50 of which were taken
out of his face. The horse was pune
tpred all over and was evidently sick
frcm the attack of the savage little in
sects.
Governor Clough has appointed George
Fl. Hazard as commissioner to supervise
the state park of the Dalles of the st.
Croix. Mr.. Hazards duties will prac-
tically be that of superintendent of the
park in so far as Affnnesota's interests
are CONCERNED. The park will be form
ally opened late in the fall, when excur-
sions will be run from the principal
cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and
the prominent men of the two states will
deliver addresses.
The Temperance Reform League has
under contemplation plan to establish
q land bank or rent bank, similar to
hose of Germany, which have been so
successful i'll populating former waste
tracts, and causing an increase of nat
ural wealth. The plan is to utilize the
capital of the East i'll de-
veloping the West, OF that part of it,
tributary to Minneapolis and ST. Paul,
The league is represented here by George
F. Ormsby Of Boston, the wise president.
its aim is to decrease crime and promote