The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-30
MINNESOTA NEWS.
item. nv Mail and TELEGRAPH.

ltCm4 Dy MAIL ana 1eIcGr1pu.
A German Catholic fair at Saltwater netted
$4,000. -
The river business at st. Paul is booming,
reminding one Of old times.
The citizens OF Austin last week cast 288
votes in favor OF railroad bonds, and not one
against
The foundry Of Sumner Brothers, at Hutch
mson, was burglarized, and 500 worth of
property taken.
The hotels at Minnetonka and White Bear
lakes are rapidly filling up with visitors from
all parts of the country.
The sixth annual session Of thu Minnesota
Educational association will be held at Lake
City, August "a, rs, and rs.
The barn of A. M Seeds farm, at Taylor's
Falls, was burned by lightning on Saturday.
Loss, ST., 500; insurance $500
The reunion of the Northwestern Travelling
Mems association is to.take place vt Lake
Minnetonka on July 2, 3 and 4.
= Norman W. Kittson of st. Paul, the Million
aire horse man. Has bought the selby proper
~ consisting of a block on Dayton and Summit
avenue for $32. goo, on which he proposes to
build a 500: 900 mansion
The board Of health at Hastings has ordered
all the schools in the city closed on account of
tho scarlet fever, which is raging in the First
ward. An entertainment which was to have
been given in music hall by children, has been
ordered postponed.
Dr. G. Weston Wood, c. H. Boardman and
to examine into the sanitary condition of the
hospital at St. Petor. have submitted report
to Gov. Pillsbury in which the present manage
ment of the institution is commended.
During equabble for the possession of a
gun, by two young SONS If Ole Knudson, in the
town of Lake Shore, recently, the gun was dis
charged, killing the younger boy Instantly. In
10 q
child of Jonas Livingston was drowned in
we'll.
By thesterm of Saturday night Mr.. and Mrs.
Chaffee, living in the town OF Iura, Fairbault
county, was killed by the blowing down of their
house. The barn Of l. J. Praber, in the same
The ruins. She was taken out in an uncon-
cous condition, and the injury may prove
fatal
The grand jury of Dakota comfy after hear
ing all the evidence they were able to obtain in
the Griesener- Kelly throat-cut,ing affair, re-
ported to the court that they were unable to
find an indictment against Miss Ida Kelly, and
the court thereupon ordered her released This
leaves the affair still involved in the deepest
mystery.
Col. Justus ]. Mccarthy formerly resident
of st. Paul recently died in Washington. In
the Mexican war he was ma or of the noted
Tenth New York Regiment, in which Col Alex
ander Wilkin, Minnesota's hero, was a captain.
In the spring of 1852 COL Mccarthy came to
St Paul, and during his residence was in the
law business, in partnership with Dewitt c.
Cooley.
At the exhibition of the St. Paul high school
the salutatory, in French, fell to the lot of a
colored girl, Miss Minnie Farr, the only color
ed graduate and the best French scholar the
high school has ever graduated. The address
was in the polite tongue and most charmingly
delivered before large audience in the opera
house, and was warmly applauded.. Her father
is MI. Joseph Farr, an old citizen
On Tuesday, at Mankota, J. NJ. Wilson, rail-
road conductor, was walking ahead of the
train with coupling pin in his hand, int lending
to couple on freight, when his foot caught
signal could be given to the engineer: he was
thrown to the ground and the life fairly crushed
out of him. Only one wheel passed over him,
that cutting off the right leg, and running up
through the trunk He lived oaly fifteen min
utes after the accident Mr.. Wilson was one of
the oldest and best known conductors running
into Mankato He WAS on the first train run
ming into that place via the St Paul & Sioux
City road, and worked for that company for
twelve years or more.
Fairbault Democrat: The funeral services
of Rev. Geo. W. st. Clair took place at the Ca
the3ral of our Merciful Savior, Sunday after
noon last Mr.. St Clair was a Sioux Indian
and was ordained deacon Of the Episcopal
church two years since. Six Chippewa Indian
clergymen, two of whom were Of one family
and whose father was killed by Sioux, acted
as pail bearers and min gled their tears with
those of the relatives of the deceased. This
one fact more than any other shows the effect
of Christianity over the red men, as it will be
seen when understood that in their wild state
the Sioux and Chippewas are sworn enemies
and never meet but to draw the scalping
knife