Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-10-25

CRooKsToS wants electric lights.
BEARand deer are numerous near Du-
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FERGUS FALLS has an art loan exhi-
bitlon. tta 5i .sg fs@
DULUTH has female drunkard who
knocks her husband out in the first
round, and is IL general nuisance to the
neighbors. hfs 4.ef
The Mankato cement works have or
ders for $4,000 barrels of cement. Am
pie to keep the works running until the
winter season sets in. 5sstg. Il tElt
JOHN M PETERSON, agent of the
Singer Sewing Machine Company at
Duluth, has skipped out, leaving lot
OF debts behind him.
ALL the cuts on the Chicago and
North Western road between Tracy and
Lake Benton are to be widened, to avoid
further snow blockades.
HIRAM CALKINs, special judge of the
municipal court of Saltwater, is about
to resign that Office, owing to an ex-
tended absence from the state. q iE
The Duluth Times has information
that Detective Marshall is working up
case against 7. s. Pressnell, for several
years register of the land office Mt that
place.
MANKATo is in n state of uncertainty
over the proposed street railway. A
special legislative charter is necessary
unless the company building assumes
the risk of an indemnliying bond.
GEM W. SpRAaUE and wife, form
erly residents of Winons, but now Of
New Tacoma, Washington Territory,
were recently badly injured by being
thrown from carriage.
Two steamers have rrrived ut the
port of Duluth loaded with freight for
British Columbia. Ffom Duluth it will
be shipped to Portland, Oregon, and
from there by steamer to British Column
bia. All this freight formerly went via
Chicago and San Francisco. l4i a@
On the afternoon of the 11th Peter
Feindt, of Zumbrota hung himself with
a rope from beam in his barn. Peter
was out in the field plowing, and about
5 o'clock he left bis plow and came to-
ward the barn. carrying rope in his
hand. His wife followed him to the
barn, and found him suspended. She i'm
medistely procnreda II knife aud went back
to the barn, taking one of her children
with her, girl aged eight years. She cut
him down before he had time to expire,
and this seemed to provoke him, for he
at once ordered her out of the barn and
go and milk the COWS. She, being afraid
of him, obeyed, and left the little girlto
watch him. But when she returned to
the barn, after the milking, she once
more found him, suspended, the little
girl crying, and this time the man was
dead. 'aAatt
By the falling OF granery containing
!, 400 bushels of wheat on the morning
of the 18th in Clay County, Oh !, he farm
; of Mr.. Northrop, fourteen mep, sleep
ing in room underneath the granery,
were buried in the grain, and before
/ they could be resched, four of them were
sutfocated. The men occupying the
room, were the threshing crew engaged
ON the premises, none OF whom with the
exception of those killed were injured.
MIR. Nortnrop was aroused by the noise
Of the crash and the shrieks of the bur-
led men, and with help rushed to the
spot and began cutting away the side of
the building, succt eding in liberntipg
them all except r. A. Rhodes, the en-
gineer, Charles Van Doran, Andrew
Larson, and a man lame unknown, who
were suffocated before reached. An in
quest will be held in Moorhead this
afternoon. The granery was o new one,
and supposed to be safe.
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