The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
NEWS OF THE STATE.
MinnesOt& Fairs.

Minnesota Fairs.
Tho following gives time and place of holding the
various State and county fairs in Minnesota the
present fall: .:
Northwestern, at Minneapolis Aug. ~ to Sept. /.
State fair, .t owatonn., Sept 3. 4 g. 6. 81 a1d . g.
Blqs Earth county. at Garden City, Sept u, ?: u :
d Dafet. county. Hastings Industrial. at Hastings
Chippewa county, Sept. 12, l3 and IA.
Brown County Agricultural society, at New Ulm
Meeker county, at Litchdeld, Sept. ID, 19 and 90
Mobiles county, at Worthington. Sept 1S, 10 and
Nicollet county, at Ct. Peter. Sept 70 and 21
Le Sueur county. at Lie Sueur. Sept. 20. 81 and
Wright county. at Howard Lake, Sept rs, &c
Fillmore county, at Preston. Sept: 25. 26 and 2z
Mcleod county, at Hutchinson, Sept .25, 26 and
81.
stearns county, at St. Cloud, Sept. 2e and e.: .
Mr.. A. A. Hunter of Dundas, who has
been selling machines for c. A. WOOD Of
Faribault, was stopped on the road be-
tween McReynold's mill and the village of
Kenyon aud relieved of his watch, some
loose change, and a new jack-knife. He
had small amount of money in bills in a
pocket, which they failed to find. The foot
pads wore MASKS and were armed with re-
volvers.
r. s. Smiley, of Spring Lake, lost stack
of wheat recently by fire.
That part of Rochester which was struck
by the cyclone is one of the Oldest parts of
the city. An Eastern syndicate once Owned
it, and tried to work up boom for it. bnt
failed to excite much interest in 1t, because
it was low land. Accordingly it fell to the
there.
John NJ. Cole killed by the. cyclone ~ was
prominent business man in Rochester and
had lived in The place for twenty five years,
coming from Boston, Mass, where he bas a
brpt' er engaged in teaching.
The Hon. Ole Peterson, of Gilchrist. has
lately raised barn 8Oxl4O. He is the big
farmer of Pope county.
Amendments to the articles of incorpora-
ton of the Knife River Lumber company,
increasing its capital stock to $500, 600 and
limiting its indebtedness to $3.50, 1000, have
been filed with the secretary of the state.
Alexander Goldsmith, clerk in the Foster
house at Hastings decamped with $50 be-
longing to his employer some time ago, but
through the leniency of Mr.. Quinn he got
free. He returned shortly and with the aid
Of several women started a house of i'll
fame. To get rid of HIM the old charge wa
preferred against him and he was arrested
and sent to Jail.
The verdict of the jury in the Holmes
Moore malpractice case at Spring Valley
has been set aside by Judge Farmer
l The dwelling Of g. W. Paige of Pine Is
land, Mimi, took Are from kitchen stove
and was burned to the ground.
At Wier's crossing, near Lake Elmo, six
miles from Saltwater, John Hogan, a rail-
road workman fatally shot Frank Nc
Cartby; whom he caught in the woods with
his wife in suspicious positions. The
woman in question has fed hair and is
her paramonr bad been in the bushes
about half an hour before they were dis
covered.
The store of Thomas Chapman of Morris
town was broken into recently, and the
| about $500 in money and $400 in securities.
So far no traces of the parties have been
| discovered.
AZ winnipeg, TIcu II. UdIV1u duu joseph
Cameron went out in boat Garvin shook
the boat, which capsizsd, and Cameron was
drowned. Garvin was arrested.
London Cable: The Standard, 10 an ed
.tor1al review of the slump in American
securities and the outlook for the money
| market, says: The end of the crisis has
not as yet been reached The giants of the
market have not been brought down; nor
have the multitrdes Of pledged and perhaps
worthless stocks, with which the banks are
loaded, been as yet flung out into the street
to find their level. A renewal of the down.
ward course of prices is there rore what We
| should expect from the coldest possible es-
innate of the facts. The Americans are
threatened with a financial crisis Of the first
| magnitude and an excess Of currency, and
| that-being so the importation of gold from
| Europe could do little to mitigate the Sc
| verify ofthat crisis. Already our markets
| are over-burdened with American wheat,
! and there have been no anticipatory draw.
ings of bills against future shipments OF
produce, for the reason that money has
been too ,'ear here for the operation to
pay.