Morris tribune., 1881-09-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Ole O. Bakken, a Norwegian farmer of KEN
ball township, was stabbed by his neighbor,
VIM. R. Race, and will probably die. They
quarreled about cattle trespasses.
Mr.. Oscar Malmros, formerly judge of the
municipal court in St Paul, and adjutaut gen.
eral of the state, but for number of years
United States consul at Novia Scotia, is in st
Paul renewing old acquaintances.
dispatch has been received from ]. A.
Leonard of Rochester from Queens
town, saying he was eight days on the
water from New York to Queenstown. He is
appointed q. s. consul at Lietb. Scotland.
Miss Mary Huntington, of Winnebago City,
committed suicide last week by taking carboiic
acid. She left letter which shows the act had
been contemplated since last winter. He1
parents live in Minneapolis. Her age was
twenty six years.
The particulars of the Red Wing murder are
these: The murdered man, German farmer
named Iipke, drunk himself, tried to "clean
OUT drunken crowd in roadside saloon. He
attacked two brothers named Van Helm, one OF
whom in thefscuffle cut him with knife.
Sheriff Sheehan of Freeborn county, re
ceived a telegram from detective in Oxford,
Neb., Saturday, stating that the thief who stole
four horses, buggy and harness from Mr..
Miller in Freeborn county about three weeks
since, is there in custody, together with the
PROPERTY. The sheriff left on Sunday evenil
I'd lueuGIy buo property.
The new congregational church lately erected
at Wayzata, Lake Minnetonka, was dedicated
last Sunday. Among those who took part were
rev. M. W. Montgomery, Rev. DR.. Beatty, Min
neapolis; Rev. DR.. Dana, St Paul; Rev. Chas.
Sheldon, Excelsior; Rev. J. F. Dudley, Eau
Claire, Wis. The music for the occasion was
furnished by the choir of Plymouth church OF
st. Paul
Mat5ias Fleishecker, of the town of Zion,
hofor I1,ofinc
Barnes, of St Cloud, on complaint of John
Schlick, charging him with committing rape
upon a thirteen year old daughter of the latter
September 8. Although the charge of rape
was not sustained by the evidence, there was
sufficient proof of criminality, and the prisoner
was bound over in $500 to await the action OF
the grand jury at the December term of the
district court
A decision was fled by Judge Vanderburg a
Minneapolis in the case of George G. Richmond
administrator of the estate of Charles n. Rich
mond, against Edward NJ johnson, adIninistra
tor of the estate of Eva R. Richmond, implead
ed with the Ancient Order United Workmen
The decision settles the dispute as to who ha!
the right to the So, 900 insurance policy which
Richmond had on his life at the time of hi
death. Charles 81. Richmond, it will be re
membered, mur dered his wife, Eva R. Rich
mopd, and then committed suicide in Mime
apolis about year ago. At the time of hi
death he was a member in good standing in tn
A. o. U. W. and held an insurance policy paya
ble to his wife for So, 600. His wife died from
her wounds several hours before her murderer
and when it came to settlement of the estat
the father of Eva Richmond and the mother o
Charles Richmond both claimed the amount o.
insurance. The bylaws of the order make tn
policy payable to the wife of the member il
case of his death, and the decision holds that a
in this case the wife dying first, and leaving n
issue, the right of the her heirs to the none
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