The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-05-26
= NEWS SUMMARY.
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The Chicago 4 Northwestern secured CON-
troll Of the Des Moines 4 Minneapolis road by
purchasing of N. N. Jones 4vSAnndrsa and
tweaty shaaes of the stock Of the company held
i milwaukee,, paper u authority for. the state
MACHINE and. repair shopsst Austin. Minn
The Nllage:gives eight acres of ground and
$25, 1000 as bonus. 80
The Chicago, st. Paul.. Minneapolis 4 Oma-
ha company will make large issue OF stock for
the purpose Of extending and equlping its lines
It is limited that the company has an eye on
several minor Wisconsin roads.
A. johnson, who has been for ten years con-
nected with the western department. of the
Cunard steamship company and previous to
that immigration agent of Minnesota in Chicago
and New York, has been appointed commission
or OF the Manitoba road.
. At the meeting of the Northern Pacific peo-.
pie in New York, the reslgnatlons OF James
Dilworth and Johnston Livingston were re-
cieved and accepted. The vacancies were filed
by the election Of Thomas F. Oakes and Arte-
mis- Holmes. This confirms the reported COM
promise and the supremacy Of the Willard in
terest It is rumored that Mr.. Oakes will be
the general manager
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIME.
Cashier Grubb, Of Alma, Wis, shot Vim.
Lashway, of Chippewa Falls Lashway cannot
recover No arrests have been made. The af-
fair grew out of the intimacy of Grub's
daughter with Lashway.
At Centennial Mills, Florida, Alex johnson
was killed by blow by JEFF Williams Justice
Diamond and constable Currie went to arrest
Williams, who resisted, whereupon justice Dia-
nlond shot him through the body, killing him.
In Lasalle county, Texas, a small squad of
tho States rangers had desperate tight with a
band Of thirteen outlaws near. Fort Ellis, in
which one ranger was killed. The outlaws were
defeated, however, but the horses and cattle
were run into Mexico: =
A fearful domestic tragedy occurred in Hon.
eybeck township, near Terre Haunte. Ind.
Alexander McPheters, Jr:, killed his wife. and
sister in-law, Ellen Belmon, shot at his mother
in-law, and then killed himself. Domestic
troubles and dissipation were the cause.
The school house at New Hampton, Iowa,
has been burned by incendiaries. Loss on
building and contents, $5, 600; insurance, ST.
500 in the Farmers: of Cedar Rapids. This is
the second public building which has been de-
stroyed in that city in the same manner within
a year. >
:. Lotse A. Poland, of Newcomerstoxn, and
county,, two> patients at the Central Lunatic
asylum, at Dayton. O., committed suicide by
drowning in lake upon the asylum grounds.
Since the bodies were discovered . letter has
been found which was written by the women,
in which they declare their weariness Of life
and intention of suici6ng.
The trial of DR.. Bennett of Wausau. Wis,
who shot and killed business rival, DR.. Hogle,
lately on; trial at La Crosse, resulted in the
conviction Of Bennett for murder in the first
degree The parties were rival dentists, with
all that the term implies, DR.. Hogle had
moved to Wausau shortly before and set up q
dental establishment, he had, of course drawn
awav some of Dr. DonnettS customers and the
latter had naturally entertained ill feelings to-
ward the deceased which, it seems, rapidly grew
to positive hatred. The reports from that city
shortly after the decd was committed are to the
effect that Or. Bennett, stimulated by heavy
drinking, procured shotgun, went to the ho-
tel of his rival, and shot him on sight, killing
him instantly.