Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-12
ENaRoss1Na CLERK.

A. D. Sergeant, Faribault Rice county,
farmer, married, age 45, born in Vermont,
settled in Minnesota in 1864, has held sundry
local Offices
sERGEANT-AT-ARMS
F. H. Dayton Saltwater, Washington county,
travelling agent, married, age 35, born in Ohio,
settled in Minnesota in 1858.
Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.
The sale of Harwood's stock at Minneapolis
began on Monday.
Judge Cox is lecturing in his district on ssThe
Ancient Empire"
Conrad johnson, a Swede, was drowned at
Minneapolis, while chopping ice that obstructed
a tail race.
The business of the St. Paul post Office in
December 1880 was 1924, 319. 19-a gain of
nearly $4,000 over the same month in 1879.
Rev. John Stafford, agent of Hamline univer-
Clinton avenue M E. church, at st. Paul last
Sunday.
Rev. T. G. Northcott, who has been pastor of
the Congregational church at Faribault for two
years, has resigned his position, to take effect
April l.
Diphtheria has invaded the home of Mr.. Geo:
HUM Of Minneapolis, and robbed the family OF
two bright little boys, aged respectively SIX and
eight years.
5 Gustavus Young, of Freeborn county, buried
his five little children in one grave on Tuesday
last all falling victims to diptheria at nearly the
same hour
Major G. W. Mossman, former resident Of
Lake City, but now of Marshall, has just been
granted pension, which, with arrears, amounts
at this date to So, 592.
The report of the superintendent of public
schools'at Red Wing shows the number of pu-
pills enrolled for the term ending 1880 to be
LOOT; average daily attendance, 812.
Bjornstierne Bjornson, the celebrated Nor
wegian poet is expected to deliver lecture at
Willmar about the 18th inst, and during his
stay there will be the guest of Mr.. ]. w. Arc
lander.
Bids for rebuilding the burned wing Of the St.
Peter asylum range from s, 600 to $63, 900,
exclusive of gas and eam-ittng. For making
it fire proof, the bids ranged from :S74, 900 to
$4,000.
Louis Adams of Hudson, while tending sled
in McKusick & Foran's camp on the Totogatic
was caught between log and the sled and in
stantly killed Mr.. Adams was well and favor
ably known.
Hon. C. G. Brandt, of Sigel, Brown county,
has invented model Of certain apparatus to
be used in cattle cars, so constructed that feed
and water can be furnished to the cattle while
on the cars
The last number of the Moorhead Advocate
closed the career of that journal The paper
will be continued by Messrs. Walt W. Partridge
and Albert L. Teele, under the head of Moor
head Argonaut.
Gus Evon left Crookston November 8, and
has not been heard from since he stopped at
Ada, where he collected $125. His brother, J.
Evon of st. Peter, is anxious to receive hdings
Of his whereabouts
Secretary Ramsey has appointed commission
consisting of Maj Houston, Capts McKensle
and Allen of the engineers corps, who are in
structed to report plan for the permanent i'm
provement of Duluth harbOr.
Frank K. Brown Esq, son of Judge Brown,
of Willmar, was married in Benson last week, to
Miss Jennine Thornton, daughter of Mr.. Arthur
Thornton, of the latter place, Rev. d. T. Booth,
Of Willmar, performing the ceremony.
Carl A. johnson, aged seventy years, Of st.
Peter, was found dead on Sunday near the bank
of the river, his body frozen and his head sub
merged in a spring. He had evidently fallen
thirty feet down the bank, and been stunned or
killed.
team and cutter belonging to Phillip 3chus-
ter of OwatOnna we're stolen on Christmas eve.
Last Monday vagrant named Joseph Blair,
who claims to have been member of the old
Minnesota Second, was arrested on charge of
being the thief.
A young man named John Burns Whose
father lives at Lake Washington, LIE Sueur
county,, blacksmith by trade, who has been
in the employ of J. S. Aldritt, at st. James, for
about six weeks, was found dead upon the forge
with his face in the fire, burned to coal.
The Glencoe Enterprise learns that, in order
to provide against a lack of food during the fire.
quent blockades on the Hastings & Dakota road
the company has made arrangements to here
| after carry commissary supplies on all trains,
sufficient to carry employees and passengers
through the hunger incident to winter block
ade.
A fire at Faribault in the Masonic and National
Bank building destroyed groceries belonging to
Mr.. D. D. Lloyd to the amount of $500; the
| Democrat office $500; Mr.. Young Of the 90
cent store, $500; building 81 900. The total
loss is not far from SIS, 900 Wrightand Chaffee's
dry kiln, used for drying lumber was burned.
Loss, $3, 600; insurance, ST. 500.
Faribault Democrat: Bishop Whipple, accom-
panied by his wife and daughter, Mrs. F. NJ.
Rose, left for the south Monday last The
bishop was very anxious to spend Christmas at
home and delayed his going longer than his
health warranted, as the severe weather causes
and will remain at the south until about the
middle of April.
The great dry goods firm of Auerbauch,
Finch, Culbertson & Co., of St. Paul, has ex-
Plred by limitation, and was reorganized on the
first, with Maurice Auerbach, George r. Finch,
William H. Van slyck, A. H. Winslow, and E.
A; Culbertson as special partner, with $780,
900 in the concern. The new firm name is
Auerbach, Finch & Van Slyck.
The HARDWOOD stock at Minneapolis, was sold
out by auction on Tuesday last There was but
one bid and that was announced by the sheriff
at the very outset, before the name of the bid
der had been disclosed. The bid was for $685.
per cent. of the cost of the stock The pur-
chaser was the firm of Deering, Mliken & Co.,
of New York, and fifty thousand dollar pay
ment was made on the spot, as pledge of good
faith on the part of the purchaser. The stock
will probably be sold out in job lots, from the
building where it is stored.
Minnesota Educational Association.