The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-12
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS.
RAILROADS.
It is reported that manager Hill of the Man
itOba cOntemplates the immediate construction
of a road from Sank Rapids to a point-probably
Sunrise-on the St. Paul & Duluth railroad.
The general passenger agents of the leading
lines in Chicago having northwestern traffic all
deny the charges recently made to the effect
that immigrants were subjected to bad treat
ment from them while in transit
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIMES.
Edward Ryan has been arrested at Webster,
Mass, on charge Of numbering his mother
Hays, white, Sheriff Beattee's murderer, was
sentenced, at Marion, Ark, to be hanged June
The United States grand jury, at Denver,
found indictments against Berry, A. Meacham
and Kline, as accessories, and five Utes, Hoane,
Peap, Cabo, Henry and Nuqno as principles, in
the murder Of A. d. Jackson.
James B. Doyle of Bradford, ILL.,, who &C
quired distinction as forger of government
bonds, and whose workmanship was only dis
tinguishable from the genuine by being superior
thereto, was brought before Judge Blodgetts
court at Chicago, and gave bonds in the sum OF
$4,000.
NJ Erickson and H. C. Hanson, doing dairy
business at Manitowoc, Wis, under the firm
name of M. Erickson & Co., were arrested on
made by A. M Osborne & Co., of Chicago, and
the amount embleezed is placed at $3, OOO
Both were held in $500 bail.
liz October, 1870, H. Seigbert, wealthy
merchant of Prairie du Chen, specialized in
wheat, and lost quite a sum, but not enough to
cripple him. Being pre-disposed to insanity,
his losses affected his mind. His brother-in
law, Simon Steinan1, of La Crosse, was sent for
to care for him and went After two or three
DAYS Seigbert escaped from the care of his
friends for short time and shot himself to
death with revolver. And now comes the
sequel A man named Smith, formerly a de-
tective in the employ of the Milwaukee railroad
company claims to have worked up case
against Steinam for the murder of Seigbert, and
a warrant for his arrest has actually been is
sued. Steinam declares it an attempt to black
mail.
living in Conway, Ark, took advantage Of the
absence of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Martin, who had
gone on the excursion to New Orleans, to in
veigle their little daughter Jessie, aged twelve
years, a cousin to the young man, to his room,
and there ravished her. Maj. Bolton wishing
door and tried to enter, but failing suspicious
were aroused and he watched the room, and he
saw the young man and girl come out He told
COL Lincoln, the girls uncle, and upon an ex-
animation the girl confessed everything and
stated that Smith had threatened murder if she
told. Smith, finding that he was suspected fled
to the woods where he was found and captured
by indignant citizens He is under strong
guard. but it is feared he will be lynched. The
parties are of the best in the community.
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
Alonzo Zimmerman, well-to-do farmer liv-
ing near Mount Zion, Wis, hanged himself
An eight year old son Of George Peterson,
while fishing at River Falls, Wis, fell into the
water and was drowned.
At Buffalo, Hafner's soap and candle factory
warehouse and barns were recently burned.
Loss, $45, 900; insurance $26, 900.
At Warren, O., fire destroyed Taylor's
warehouse, Douglass machine shop, McClel-
lan's wooden mills and Hunts boiling works.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
An engine and tender on the Mount Clair &
Greenwood Lake, n j., railroad, crashed
through the trestle work at Ringwood. En-
gineer Scully and Fireman John Masker were
both killed.
A dispatch from Carbondale, Kansas says:
One of the Queens coal shafts caught fire from
a furnace this afternoon, consuming all the
timbering at the foot of the shaft Twenty
miners we're at work, and none could escape
until the fire was brought under control. Men
were lowered and rescued fourteen alive and
three dead. Three are still missing and must
be dead The names of the dead and miss
ing are Hungate, Jake Mcdonald, Andrew
Warner, Chas. Jones, Michael Mulloy, and Mat
Mulloy, boy. All three brought up alive are
recovering SLOWLY