The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-09-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A large number of buildings in Minneapolis
were struck by lightning on Friday morning.
Hon. ". G. Ward, of Waseca, has given up
the editorial chair of the radical to Mr.. John F.
Murphy.
John Miller of Carlston, Freedom county,
lost four horaes and buggy, from the visi. Of
midnight robber.
Tho Redwood county fair will be held at
Redwood Falls on Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept 28th and goth.
The house of Gen. siblcy a. St Pau was
entered on Tuesday night and $3.50 of silver
| ware and $50 III money taken
Mrs. Swift of st. Peter wife Of Ex-Governor
Swift, deceased, has had:a stroke OF apoplexy.
She is in dangerous condition.
The annual delegate convention of the Mn
| nesota Turner's will be held il New Clm, COM
mencing Saturday, Sept oath, next, and con-
tinuing over Sunday.
Upwards of 10000 barrels Of flour were
shipped from Duluth In one day. The Vt Paul
& Duluth brings In on an average, 8, 1000 par
rels per day from Minneapolis.
Robert Wear of Lake City has been appointed
first assistant to the professor of mathematics
in the normal school at Holly Springs, Miss,
and will enter upon the duties of that position
September S:
Gov. PlEe5ury has reappointed the following
named gentlemen as members of the state board
| of equalization: W. Dawson, St. Paul; E ".
Trask, Caledonia; Felix A Borer, LIE Sueur,
| and H. S. Sjoberg, Kirkhoven.
A dispatch has been received from J. A.
Leonard of Rochester from Queens
water from New York to Queenstown. He is
appointed U. s. consu! at Liet1l, Scotland
The American Land and Colonization COM
pany Of Scotland. limited, has purchased from
John B. Dumont aud Jason c. Easton nearly
800 acres of land in Redwood county, for
$40, 24l.34. This land consists Of forty eight
tracts of forty AID eighty acres, located il diff
ferent towns.
Lightning struck the building corner of Eighth
street and Eleventh avenue north, M neapolis,
owned by Mr.. Haley of Boston and occupied by
Abraham T. Salter, both rs grcc:ry 1t ,re ard
dwelling, shattering l. and setting II on fire.
The building, valued at s., 600, was destroyed,
together with about S 900 worth Of groceries
and 5000 in value of furniture. Mr.. Salter
| was insured to the amount Of S 900.
W. Pratt's steam thresher and two stacks of
wheat were burned on the Monticello prairie,
Wright county, The thresher was Get between
| the two stacks and had just got to work when
| the engine. The operatives, in their frantic
endeavors to save the wheat, overlooked the
| danger the thrcsher was in until too late to
draw it away from the burning stacls, and it
was consumed, together with both stacks
George McGoweD, who recently si.ot An
| lived at Brownsville, Mower county, two CT
three years ago, but left the pace III :er
| cloud, having attempted to collect debt from
farmer by whom he had been employed NV
| perforatlng the latter W til pitchfork. He vus
! knc wn then as lawless and ugly sort Of
p Of Elm. "'0 ''' p'0p'' "''' S'A''' "''~''
| The New Ulm relic; committee has cent the
| following sums to adjacent towns wl,;re dam
| age was sustained from the cyclone: Town of
Wellington, $500; Cairo $4"O; West NewtoG
| Nicol]et county, $500; Severance, Sibley coun
| ty, $500; Bntternut Valley, Blue Earth county,
$iJO; Phi Kaufenberg, MulIigan. $50: ard
| Nels Anderson. Burnstown, $3.50: Milford,
Brown county, So 80 The committee has also
| contracted house for Joseph Pfeiffer in tie
| latter named town.
Judge Wilkin of the dis riot court at st.
| Paul, has rendered decision of interest IL
| justices of the peace and judges generally. 1t
| was in the matter Of the application of Nick
Klingcr for writ of habeus corpus, remand
| ing the former to the hands of the sheriff.
Judge Wilkin decided that municipal court has
| 10 power to spend the sentence of person
! duly convicted in that court and that the exer-
| else Of such a POWER is quasi assumption CT
| the exercise of the pardoninS power, which,
under the constitution, is vested solely i'll tbs
executive of the state.
!
! the lightning struck the large barn in the rear
| of the Barron house, it Immediately took fire,
| and, with tie sheds adjoining, was coon con
sumed. The barn had been used by Dr.. DALI
more for boarding and sale stable. There
were ten .orses in it at the time, eight Of which
| were saved. s.. E. Baron owned the barn, and
estimates bis loss at 81 200; insured for $500
| in the Hartford. DR.. baltimore lost a horse,
harnesses, etc, amounting to $500, no i'll
surance. Albert Roper, proprietor, OF the Bar
ron house, lost about $500 worth of articles
stored in the barn
Several weeks ago dispatch appeared from
| Washington that the postoffice at Lanesboro,
Fillmore county,wa delinquent for the quarter
ending June 50 suhse qnently a dispatch
stated that this statement Was without foulGa-
| ton, but, as usual this cid not obtain general
circulation. 1t is sufficient to say that Mr. 0. G.
Wall, tie postmaster, holds an acEnow
ledsment from the auditor of the treasury for
the postoffice department, that his quarterly
| account ''for tie quarter ending June 3Oth,
1881, mas been received, audited and found
correct This is an authoritative denial OF the
statement first published, and does justice to a
| faithful officer.
Hon. Thomas Simpson, president of ihe
State Normal school at Winona, writes to r. c.
Judson, secretary of the State Agricultural go
cety, that he will exhibit at the Slate fair, at
| Rochester, some of tha results of the State
| Normal school at Winona, such as wiring, free
hand drawing, map drawing, mechanical draw
~
| departments of natural history and chemistry,
! and some of the public charts in physiology;
| also, some very interesting and attractive
| specimens from the large museum (Which is I'M
equaled west of the Allegaanies) and lllustra-
| ton. from the art gallery, etc.
On the Goth inst George Collect, OF tie town
ship of Aldon, Freebora county, came to Albert
Lea and procured a warrant for the arres: of
Frank Metsaw of the same township, charging
him with assault with an intent to commit
fGo Of C0iiptt
lady about eighty six years cid. The warrant
| was placed in the hands of Sheriff Shehan, WHO,
with Deputy Sheriff Greene, went to the house
of the accused and arrested him and brought
him in and lodged him in jail On Monday he
WAS arranged before Justice Blackmer and was
held to bail in tho some of 81 900, which was
furnished, to appear at the next term of the
district court, to await the action Of the grand
jury.
tors was arranged at ST. Paul last week. There
! were forty seven chatter memh:rs present
from northwestern railways and of these TWEEN
| ty-eight were indicted into the workings Of the
! order, and the rest to be afterwards initiated
secret one, but the following officers, yesterday
chosen, are male public: Chief conductor,
| James A. Mitchell, S. P. & D.: assistant chief
| conductor, NJ. Brinkerhof, Northern Pacific;
secretary and treasurer, ". n. Doyle, North
ern Pacific; senior conductor of celemoE leg,
u. II. jerks, oL r., IL Il n JUNIOR conductor
of ceremonies, Nicholas Bouce, st. p, NJ. 4
M Inside sentinel, II. Molloy, St p, ri. NJ.
outside sentinel, D. R. Dixon, St p, NJ. & NJ.
hubert Collyer.
| From Potter's American Monthly.
do you know Bob Collyer, sin" famil-
iarly inquired one Sunday evening passen-
| ger of another in a north side Chicago
street car few years since.
The querist was an animated country
! mon snendino the Sabbath in The city. and