The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
MINNESOTA NEWS,

Minnesota State Bar Association.
During the present term of the supreme
court of Minnesota, ameeting of lawyers
was held with view to the establishment
of state bar association.
The attorney general called the meeting
to order, after which w. ). W1llinston Of
Red Wing was made chairman, and e.
Southworth of Shakopee secretary. A gen.
eral discussion was INDUCED in, pertaining
to the objects of the association,
National Bar association, explained the OBJ
iec,s of the State Bar association existing in
Vermont. Fayette Marsh moved the ap.
p0intment of q committee of five to draft q
Constitution and bylaws which was adopted
and it was finally determined, to have gen.
eral meeting on the 18th or June to com
plete the organization; and it was resolved
that SO soon as TIE committee have agreed
In the premises they shall cause the same to
be printed and copies forwarded to the diff
ferent bar organizations of the state, and pro-
minent members of the bar in counties and
districts where no such organizations exist.
The New State Board Of Correction
and Charities.
Gov. Hubbard has recently appointed the
following gentlemen members of the state
board of correction and charities: A. 81.
Young, M. Meg. Dana, n. R. Wells, E. T.
Wilder; W. M. Campbell and Reuben
Reynolds. Austin Hill Young, appointed
for term of three years is resident of
Minneapolis, and is native of Fredonia,
Chautauqua county, N. Y. Mr.. Young first
emisrated to Wisconsin in 1854 and came
from there to Minnesota in 1866. locating
in Minneapolis. He is a lawyer by pro-
fession. In 1877 he was elected associate
justice of the Fourth judicial district. Ma
is we'll known in st. Paul as the pastor of
Plymouth Congregational church. Henry
Rogers Wells, appointed for three years, is
a resident of Preston, Fillmore
county, and native of Luz
zerne Warren county, N. Y. Mr.. Wells
came to Minnesota in 1857, settling first at
Chat6eld. He was judge Of probate for
| Fillmore county for several terms. He is
not practicing law. Z. T. Wilder, appoint
ed for one year. is an Ohio man, and for q
number Of years was judge in the Ohio
practiced his profession until q few years
ago, when he retired from all business
Judge Reuben Reynolds, appointed for two
years, is resident of Crookston, Polk
| county, moving there from Rochester some
five or six years ago. He is an old settler of
Olmsted county, having emigrated there in
1856. He is now practicing law. William
NJ. Campbell, appointed for two years, is a
resident of LitchticId, Meeker county, and a
| nesota in 1858, and has, more or less, been
| identified with politics ever since. H was
elected to the state senate i'll 1881.
Too Many Wives, Tar and Feathers,
Glencoe Register: They celebrated sup
| posed wedding out in the Getchell neigh
| borhood on Monday morning last in man.
| ner that the bridegroom, M. w. Heenan,
must have thought was strikingly and
painfully interesting, and if reports are re-
| liable. the question now is whether Heenan
! has two wives or none. We understand
that he claims to have got a divorce from
| the woman who lived with him as wife IN
| til within few months, but the neigh burs
| say he has not been able to exhibit the pa
pers, and they know that the woman is
! now living in or at the neighborhood of
| Grand Forks. For several months Heenan
has been cultivating very intimate relations
with one of Mr.. Zitloe's daughters against
the protests Of the family, and
% enens previous Ri@ to s u s9ms WHEAT
Heenan and the girl, after being absent for
a few days. returned to the nejghborhood
and took up their lodgings with John Alb
| bots family, claiming to have been married;
the general belief however, was that they
we're not and could not be lawfully man and
wife; so last Monday morning some fifteen
or twenty young men OF the neighborhood
called upon Mr.. Heenan, and report says
they left him in sorry plight; 81 changed
in appearance that his best and nearest
friends would hardly recognize him. The
boys went prepared to do full justice to the
occasion, and commenced the fun by pol
ishing him off Is Heenan. After they had
soitened his hide sufficiently, they applied
a we'll and scientifically prepared soothing
plaster, made of tar and feathers, which they
warranted to stick until the hair comes off.