The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.


W. E. Hawkins, republican, was reelected
Mayor of Red Wing without opposition.
The report of the log cut of the Second Min
nesota district shows a crop Of 275, 900, 600
feet.
Plans have been perfected and funds guar
anteed for the erection of new hotel at White
Bear Lake, near st. Paul.
Bishop Whipple has started on his annual
visit to the mission stations in his diocese, ex-
pecting to be absent from Faribault three
weeks or more.
Latest Minnesota patents: Charles H. Fox,
Winnebago City, trace carrier: HenryC. Hicks,
Minneapolis, stock car: C. W. Levailey, st.
Paul, thill- coupling.
Articles of incorporation of the Fergus Falls
flour mills have been fled with the secretary
of state The capital stock is $25, 900, in
shares OF $50 each, and the board of directors
are H. G. Page John H. Allen Joseph Harris,
Soren Istoe and Geo. B. Wright
Up to date the immigration into Minnesota
has exceeded trat of any previous year, and the
Office of the secretary OF the board of immi-
grafton is inundated with letters of inquiry,
which presages continued and unprecedented
influx during the summer.
The nuptials of Miss Alice Dale, daughter of
Rev. Dr.. Keene of Milwaukee, and Alber4
Hoppen, of Minneapolis, were solemnized, &C
cordlng to the Episcopal marriage ceremony
| at St. John church at Milwaukee on Thursday
| last in presence of the elite of the city.
| Belle Gregor, aged about fourteen, while at
tempting to dip pail of water at Wright's mill
DAM at Fergus Falls, lost her pail. In an ef-
fort to recover it she lost her balance and went
over the dam. Her companion caught hold Of
her dress but was unable to save her. Her
body has not been recovered
Fairbault Democrat: Hon. f. A Mott has
been in very poor health since the adjournment
of the legislature, being entirely unable to at
| tend to business. A short time since he was
taken with vertigo, in his Office, and those pres
ent We're greatly alarmed at his condition
Hon. S. P Stewart, the member from North
! field, has also been quite sick
Morris Tribune: A suit has been commenced
by Messrs Brown & Chew, the attorneys Of MI,
H. D. Wheeler, against the St Paul, Minneapo-
lis Manitoba railroad company for So, 200
damages. It will beremembered that a young
accident on the Morris & Browns Valley
branch, caused by the engine and several
| cars leaving the track.
A stranger, apparently German, about So
years old, died very suddenly at the Lake house
in Sleepy Eve, Brown county, Saturday evening,
letter found on his person his name is supposed
to be F. Seager, of New Lisbon, Wis, and that
he has wife at that place. He represented
himself to belong to the l. O. O. F., to be a
butcher by trade, and that he was on his way to
Dakota to take up land
! luc IIcSDS IcIN OA OG duA AHCU de I dI "AAlS~
ton on the Goth. Twenty-one ministers and
ten elders were in attendance. The Rev. F.
Sutphen, from the New York synod of the Evan
gelical Lutheran church, 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
sembly: Revs j. S. Sheriff., A. A. Kiehle:
Elders Gen. Van Cleve of Minneapolis, W. l..
! Wilson of 81. 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 Ninona, Mr.. A. n.
Raven, formerly law student in Winona, but
now a pupil in Galesyille University, and Miss
Louise Rice, young lady from Galesville, Wis,
who we're in Winona to attend upon the normal
teachers institute, which is to be held soon, had
a very narrow escape from drowning They
had been rowing in a boat for some time on the
Wisconsin side Of the river, and, when return
ing, quietly attached their skiff to the ferry
boat, Nan Gorder. The waves soon filed the
skiff with water, and it capsized Mr.. 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
f1oated several hundred feet down the stream,
before the officers of the ferry could get to hel
rescue with skiT. She was just disappearing
under the water when help reached her.
Plans for Minnesota State Capitol.