Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-04-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.
All the railroad bonds, save 3O8, have been
received by the State Auditor. ~
Harvey Evans, an old resident Of this state,
died at his home in Plainview on Tuesday last
The report of the log cut of the Second Min
nesota district shows crop of 275, OOO, 600
feet.
Rev. J. r. Osborn Of Alexander has received
a call to the rectorship Of a church in Boise
City, Idaho.
The Democrats of St. Paul have nominated
Hon Edmund Rice for mayor; and the republi-
cans Mr. r. Barden.
Delano has voted to bond the town in the
amount of ST. 200 for the purchase OF fire
engine and apparatus.
Bishop Whipple has started on his annual
visit to the mission stations in his diocese, ex-
pectng to be absent from Faribault three
weeks or more.
George Adkins, Of Minneapolis, who mad
the lowest bid for rebuilding the hospital at St
Peter, has backed out, and it is thought that
Mr.. Bohon, of Winona, will be awarded the
contract
Hon. P H. Rahily has already seeded over
800 acres Of his extensive farm in Mount Pleas
ant He intends to seed ZOO acres with
wheat, 100 with barley, 40 with oats and 100
with corn. =
A gang of burglars raided Mazeppa last
week, taking $40 from RObinson's store, and
lesser amounts from other places. The burg
lars entered the Baptist chapel after committing
the robbery, and built up cheerful fire.
From the Fergus Falls Journal
Mr.. Austin the defeated candidate for mayor
OF Fergus Falls, in moment of excitement
on election day SO far forgot himself as to
strike MI. Soren Iistoe for which he was ar
rested and fined ST. SO and corts.
The nuptials of Miss Alice Dale, daughter Of
Rev. DR.. Keene of Milwaukee, and Alberl
Hoppen, of Minneapolis, were solemnized, &C
at St. John church at Milwaukee on Thursday
last in presence of the elite Of the city.
The Commercial hotel at Dulssth was burned
on Monday last. The hotel was owned by Hon.
S. B. Chittenden, late member of congress
from Brooklyn N. Y, was worth, about 81 900
Guiding furniture, bar fixtures, ETC., was insur-
ed for So, 900. dwelling house adjoining,
belonging to A. Rehbetor, now in Germany,
was also burned. Loss ST 600.
Samuel Sargent of Rochester died at his
fathers residence in that city, from an overdose
of laudanum. Ha purchased one ounce Friday
evening, and when discovered about noon
Saturday, only one-eighth of an ounce was left
There is no cause known to his family why he
should commit suicide He was thirty-fve
years old, an engineer, but has been out of
work since the first of January.
Judge J. L. Macdonald, of the Eighth judi
cial district, was the recipient on Tuesday of
last week of an elegant and costly gOld-headed
ebony cane, which was presented to him by the
sheriffs of his district. On that day Sheriffs
Du Toit, of Carver; Bray, Of Sibley; Blair, of
LIE Sueur; Hopper, of McLe Cd and Weiland, of
Scott CHANGED to meet at ShakOpee, and in the
evening they repaired to the residence of Judge
Macdonald. where the presentation took place.
Messrs. Harmon, Holmes g. Co., OF Chicago
proprietors of the Dakota Touring mills at
Sank Center, have closed a contract with the
United States authorities to furnish 2, 100 bar
rels of their flour to the United States army. OF
this amount loo, 600 pounds are to be in sacks
foots up $12, 25151. The price is 1854
per barrel, delivered on board the cars at the
mill The flour goes to Forts Keogh and Nc
Ginnis.
~ The residence of s; s Hawkins, in Cannon
City, caught fire on Monday and was burned to
the ground, together with most of the contents.
In his endeavors to save the furniture, Mr..
Hawkins, who was quite an old gentleman,
breathed so much smoke and hot air that, on
reaching the outside Of the building, he dropp-
citizens, and for a long time was a resident of
Faribault. There'was insurance of about ST.
600 on the house, and none on the furniture.
The total loss is estimated at So, 700.
The following are the bids for the additional
G aSR M MIR se pSf SoR X Sxso This G
is for a building 142 feet in length. If it
should be constructed 1 so feet in length, the
sum of 81 ,O97 to be added. H. E. Sheldon.
Minneapolis. Stone, 1927, 754: brick, $29,s54.
brick $35 POS. Seymour, sabin g. Co. Stone,
66x15O feet, 1923, 400; brick, 66xl5O feet,
800, 965. The contract has not vet been
awarded but there is no doubt that Seymour,
Sabin & Go. will have it.
The PresbyteIy of st. Paul met at Farming
ton on the 10th. Twenty-one ministers and
ten elders were in attendance The Rev. F.
Sutphen, from the New York synod of the Evan
selical Lutheran chnrch, was received into the
presbytery. Mr.. Sutphen will have charge OF
the church at Murdoch, MINI. The following
were elected commissioners to the general as
Elders Gen. Van Cleve of Minneapolis, W. L.
Wilson of ST. Paul. The dissolution of the
pastoral relation between Rev. G.. T. Chester
and the Andrew Presbyterian church, Mime
apolis, was reluctantly granted. The overtures
from the general assembly on the reorganiza-
ton of the synods were both answered in the
affirmative.
Adjourned to meet in Hastings in the fall.
On the river opposite Winona, Mr.. A N.
Raven, formerly a law student in Winona. but
now pupil in Galesville University, and Miss
Louise Rice, young lady from, Galesyille, Wis,
teachers institute, which is to be held soon, had
a very narrow escape from drowning. They
had been rowing in boat for some time on the
Wisconsin side of the river, and, when return
ing quietly attached their slliff to the ferry
boat, Nan Gorder. The waves soon filled the
skiff with water, and it capsized. MI. Raven
could not swim, but caught the rudder chains
of the ferry boat, and called Justify for help
Miss Rice was buoyed up by her clothing and
foated several hundred feet down the stream,
before the officers Of the ferry could get to her
rescue with skif. She was just disappearing
under the water when help reached her