The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-31
Second Minnesota Reunion.


Tuesday in January, 1885.
Second Minnesota Reunion.
The reunion Of the Second Minnesota
Veterans at st. Paul was attended by 81
members Of the old regim emit, and marked
by spirit of cordially and good will as
cred;table as it was genuine and inspiriting
A report of the meeting says: The appear
ance of the survivors of the Second is in
every way creditsble. They are rugged,
determined looking body of men, and the
years since 1862 have left but few traces of
times flight. The grsybeards are the ex'
eeption, not the rule, and large majority
of the veterans would make the nucleus OF
magnificent regiment if their services
were needed at this time.
The veterans who came in on trains were
met at the depot by the local reception
committee, consisting of Col. A. R. Keller,
James Brennan, John Gibbons. Capt J.
Manner, William Bircher, B. F. Irvine,
Charles Latham and, William 8. Wilson.
The arrivals were decorated with appropri-
ate badges and escorted to the Me tropo Titan
hotel, where, at o'clock they were invited
to partake of substantial repast.
mory Hall, when they Wers called to order
by Gen. Bishop, preside 1t Of the associa.
lions. The roll was called and 80 answered
to their names. These were also present
field and staff officers, etc.
There was also present three other veter.
ans who participated in the Mill Springs
fight: Charles G. Sterile, Company K, Ninth
Ohio, now residing at st. Paul; Gaorge B.
Ddnhan, r ghty-seventh Indiana, Spooner,
lucky, Mankato. They were greeted with
loud cheers as their names were called Maj.
F. T. Smith, of Company F. Fourth artil-
lery, regular army, was introduced and re-
ceived an ovation. The four gentlemen
were unanimously elected honorary men,
bers of the association.
Gen. Bishop invited the association to
meet again in st. Paul in 1885. B. D. Pay
presented the claims of Manbato. St. Paul
was chosen. Gen. Bishop of st. Paul was
UNANIMOUSLY reelected permanent president.
ana Capt J. Manner of st. Paul was re.
elected treasurer. Col. A. r. Kiefer of st.
Paul was chosen as permanent secretary and
s. D. Parsons of Minneapolis assistant Sec
Rotary.
Speeches were made by Gen.. Bishop,
Gen. r. W. Johnson, Elk. Gov. Marshall,
Gen. Jamison. An original poem, BY Capt:
W. re read from Gov. Hubbard, Gen. J. B..
Sandborn and others.
The evening was joyously spent at the
elegant mansion of Gen. Bishop: A gener-
Gus banquet, toasts, songs, stories etc..
were features of the occasion.
JohHendricksen has been arrested in
Stockholm for attempt at rape on his four.
teen- year-old daughter.
The dwelling on the farm of O. P. Whit
comb three miles north of Rochester, was
destroyed by fire the oath together with mos
of the furniture. The mercury was "a de
grees below zero, and the family were nearl
frozen while seeking shelter with neigh
Dor.
The supreme court will take a recess
from Monday, Feb. 4, until Monday, March
The board of managers of the State Agri-
cultural society have: decided to hold the
next state fair during the second week in
September.
The commissions OF Oliver Gibbs, Jr., of
Monticello, as commissioner of the Worlds
Industrial Cotton exhibition. 1884, and
Samuel e. Adams of City as alternate,
signed by the president and secretary OF
state, have been received by the governor.
Jonathan Chadderdon, aged seventy-six,
who settled on Bell PLANE prairie in 1854,
died at lie Seuer on the 20. tn
Newell Dustin, aged eightytwo, an old
pioneer of Niscon and Minnesota, died
at Blue Earth City. He built grist mills at
Garden City, Blue Earth City and Verona.
He was father of fifteen children.
Nearly year ago President Folwell o
the state university rendered his resignation
of the Office he had so long filled, aEd
asked to be relieved from the duties at the
close of the last university year. The re-
gents claim to have made an effort to Sc
cure a successor, but after six months were
spent in vain in trying to find some one to
I'LL the place. they abandoned the undertak.
ing and asked Col. Folwell to act as presi.
dent until soma one could be found for the
place. Col. Folwell consented reluctantly,
but naturally has not the interest Ia his
work with which a college president should
be imbued, and the school year lost the i'm:
petus which q new president was expected
to bring.
Gov. Hubbard has received telegram
from Warden Martin, of the Iowa state
prison at Anamosa, offsring to provide for
120 prisoners. Gen. Jennison says all such
Offers are useless, as the prisoners cannot
be held outside the state limits.
Jacob Christensen of Fish Lake, PiRe
county, has made an assignment. Liahili-
ties, S., 900; assets, including accounts, &c.
600.
The statement that Mark Stevens, ofWar.
rem house, Argyle, has absconded is pro-
nounced untrue.
John Murphy, the insane farmer who so
badly beat Hugh Moran, was very violent
in the Winona Jail. He struck Sheriff b.
CART on the head. Two of the convicts from
saltwater temporarily lodged in the Jail
volunteered to assist the sheriff in dressing
and ironing Murphy preparatory u his re,
moval to the Roches ter asylum. Inc mad
man attacked one of the convicts, who
Knocked him down: After q desperate
struggle, in which six or seven men COM
bined against Murphy, he was secured an
taken to Rochester. .,s..; no.. ~
ANDREW Mango, four years old. Of Cleve-
land. while poking shavings into stove
set fire to his clothing and expired after
horribly suffering an hour. He was the
last of five children, the others dying with
in short time of diptheria. Tae mother
became raving maniac when the last one
died. $50, + ~x'- -
At a meeting Of the officers OF the Kice
County Union Agricultural society, held
on the 18th inst, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing
year: President, II. B. Chess; vice prssi-
dent, John Miller; secretary, G. j.; Pierce;
treasurer, B. +. Weodman. me next
needing Will be held on Saturday, FEB: 9,
when the dates for holding the next 1alr
will be fixed.
Henry Jacobs, merchant tailor OF Austin,
has made an assignment of property for
the benefit OF hfs creditors to GeorgeE Nil.
bonr Of AnstiIl. Liabilities estimated at
$, 500; assets, stock, par inyeatory Just
taken, $3.50 hook accounts $3.50. -