Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-02-02

Last Sunday evening the house of Charles
Bailey of white Bear, was burned with its con-
tents, during the absence of the family.
Joe Haubris and VIM Rolmer Of Montevideo
have been arrested, charged with stealing three
horses from J. B. Lawrence last summer.
The editor of the Lake City Leader offers a.
reward of $50 for the Identification of the writ
or of an obscene postal, sent to him recently.
George Hawkins On trial Owatonna for
burglary, committed last August, has beeu con-
victed and sentenced to four years in saltwater.
Edward Lawler, on trial at Winona for the
murder of James Malone in July 1879, was
convicted of manslaughter in the second de-
gree. .
The appointment of Mr.. John 8. Proctor as
surveyor general of logs and lumber for the
Saltwater district has been confirmed by the
senate.
The Hastings New Era says Mr. Lafayette,
clerk at the Foster house, has been arrested by
Texas detectives, charged with forging land IT,
ties in that State. - .a 'as
Justus G.. Ramsey, Esq, a brother Of the
secretary of war, and an old resident of St.
Paul. was found dead in his bed on Monday
MOI ming last having committed snicide.
There are four insane persons in the Ramsey
county Jail, which gives the Sheriff a great deal
Of trouble, but as there is no room for them at
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Parties recently from Grand Mairais report
that the ice stretches from Duluth along the
north shore Of Lake Superior for distance of
fully seventy miles, and that no water is visible
from the land in that distance.
Thirteen valuable COWS belonging to S. j.
Powell of Grow have died from poison admin
istered by some person unknown although
suspicion points to person recently arrested
for illicit distilling, at the instance of Mr. Pow
ell.
The Monticello grange has adopted resolu-.
ton asking the legislature to pass wolf hunt
ing law, and for the taxation of dogs. Several
armers have given up sheep-raising in tina vim
cinlty on account of the ravages Of dogs and
wolves.
During the year 1880 there we're 8O1 deaths
in Minneapolis against 729 deaths in 1879, an
increase of ~. There were l,766 births in
the city in 1880 (ncluding twenty-four pairs
of twins) against 1 ,594 births in 1879, an in
crease Of l72
Rev. Mr. Knickerbacker, of Minneapolis, de-
nounces as pure fiction the statement in Mrs.
Swisshelm's book that in 1860 he openly crit
icised in court the decision of Judge Wander
burg, in the case of Eliza Winston, slave de-
clared free by being brought into a free state
The Indian payment party has returned from
Vermillion to Duluth. The number of In ians
paid We're S22, receiving $14 or $15 each,
P4 50 in cash and the balance in goods. Six
dams who are giving special attention to farm
ing.
Mrs. G. II. COnkey of Preston, while walking
near her house, had the misfortune to fall and
sustain a fracture of the left forearm, near the
wrist joint, together with other minor injuries.
Her case is progressing favorably Mrs. H. R.
Wells also met with a fall and received some
slight injuries.
The Milwaukee St. Paul engineers are lay
ing out spur track from the Hastings g. Da-
kota cutoff to Excelsior This, with the con-
| templated extension of the Minneapolis g. St.
Louis and Lyndale railways to the same point,
will soon give the people of Excelsior ample
railway facilities.
The blacksmith shop of L, NJ Noyes at st.
Cloud was burned He estimates his loss at
about So, 800, based as follows: On buildings,
$500; stock, 81, 900; tools 81 900. There was
$3.50 insurance on building, $500 on stock,
and $3.50 on tools, all taken by the Girard Fire
and Marine company
Augustus sauftenburg, Esq, and Mrs. Mol
at the residence of L. A. Evans, in St. Cloud,
by the Rev. G. H. Davis, pastor of st. Johns
Episcopal church. The bride is sister of
Senator c. T. Macdonald, and had been the
guest of Mrs. Evans for some time.
Articles of incorporation Of the Corlies- Chap
man Company of st. Paul, have been filed in
the office of the secretary of state. The capital
stock of the company is 500, 900, and the OBJ
jects are the manufacture and sale of doors,
sash and blinds. VIM Corlles, John B. Chap
man and James H. Drake are the directors
The Minneapolis Millers' association have
sent out a circular warning their buyers against
bin burnt, stack burnt, wet, mustv, and gener
ally unsound wheat They notify all shippers
that such wheat as is described above will be
rejected, and wheat when mixed to any extent
with such burnt, musty or damaged wheat will
be treated in the same manner
BY an Official statement of the ownership of
United States bonds, it appears under the head
Of Minnesota, that TT the people of Minneapolis
own no fves, and $25, 900 of the others. At
st. Paul they have 500 of the fives and $685.
$50 Of the three classes, and the rest of the
State has Sol 800 fives, and $3.50, TOO Of the
tours, four-and- a-haf and fves.
Manager Hill of the st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba, recently met a delegation of citizens
of Otter Tail county and the result of the con-
ference was that he agreed to build railroad
up the Pelican valley from Fergus Falls to and
beyond Pelican Rapids. AS a substantial evil
dence of his Intentions, he placed $4,000 in
the First National bank, to be forfeited in the
event of his not carrying out the agreement.
Eta W. Eggleston Of Minneapolis, who mar
RED William Eggleston in 1877, when she was
only fourteen years Of age, and he fifty six, now
wants divorce. Her parents did not per-
init him to live with her, nor has she since been
his wife, save in name. She is now eighteen
and he is sixty. She brings an action for di-
vorce on the ground that she was not of legal
age when married, and Eggleston makes no de-
fense
L. Rounthall, a clerk in the employ Of J.
Hinchberg, of Fergus Falls, left town last week
ostensibly to visit Milwaukee and return Up
on his arrival at Milwaukee he wrote his en-
ployer that he had determined to go to Michi-
gan to reside. Mr.. H. claims that he honored
drafts and orders for clothing to the amount of
$3.50; that Rounthall displayed large sum of
money before he left, and then drew on him for
$50 at St. Paul, where he stopped to purchase