The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-15
aFATEs16UaICAI FESTIVAL

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/ The lovers n az Il iniusicsin the northwest
Ihayss doubtless- noticed the announce
ssmheht OF great musical festival to BE-
held in Minneapolis in June, and will be
interested ii thssf following brief epitome
of it's varied attractions:
! Musical Conductor TheodoreT hom-
as, the greatest leader in the country.
| Orchestra. .grand iorehestra Of
Mr.. Thomas, consisting of sixty SOLD
musicians.
Chorus.-The st. Paul Choral So
ciety, numbering 258 singers, and the
Minneapolis Philharmonic, numbering
35O-total, over 600.
Vocal Soloists. -.
+ 1.-Christine Nilsson, tie great Swe-
| dish prima donna.
L 2.-Frau Friedrich Materna.
3.-Herr Hermann Winkelmann.
4.-Herr Emil Scaria.
Who compose the marvellous trio
whom Wagner pronounced the first
dramatic singers in the world.
5.-Emma Juch, charming young
soprano, long an admired prima donna
Of Her Majesty's opera troupe. -.
GENTLY Winant, since Cary's time
the" first American contralto.
! p; 7.-Theodore Toedt, considered by
Tomas the best American artist for Mr..
the work required of him.
8.--Franz Remmertz, next to Myron
Whitney the best bass in America.
i. Place: The great University Coliseum
Eof Minneapolis, which will hold, includ-
ling chorus and orchestrs, nearly 1000
persons. ~
! Facilities of reaching it: The entire
railroad system of the State, which will
deliver passengers at Minneapolis and
return for one and one~fifth the regular
fare.
For tickets, programmes, or any in
formation concerning the festival, ad-
dress, D. Blakely, Gpneral Manager
Philharmonic Association, Minneapolis,
MINI.
Prices of seats per single concerts,
from 81 to So. so, according to location.
For season seats to the four concerts
of the festival, from SIS to $l2 The
| COLISEUM is so constructed that every
seat in the house is eligible.
Bishop Whipple's friends in Faribault
invite his friends to be entertained at
| their homes on. the twenty fifth ami
versary of his accession to the episcopate
A Winona umbrella thief was fined
1926 for getting away with fifty cent
affair.
The Red River paper mills at Fergus
Falls will start up this month.
At the Winona fire department elect
ion, Joseph Edwards was elected chief
engineer, W.T.. Gage first assistant.
and NJ. Hanley second assistant.
A double wedding took place at the
Catholic church in Owatonna, Tuesday,
Father Raleigh officiated. The parties
were Mr.. P. F. Burns and Miss Mary
Langan, Mr.. Harry Krier and Miss
Elizabeth Flanagan, all of Owatonna.
The choir sang Battmann's "Messe Pre-
miere" during the services. Quite a
large concourse Of friends attended the
wedding mass and rendered their con-
gratalations at the close. The young
people took trains~for the East during.
the day. =,
DIR. G. N. Hewitt, secretary of the
state board of health, has gone to Wash,
ington to attenda meeting Of the Ameri-
can Medical society. He will also ex-
anime into the cattle disease, especially
pleufo- Pneumonia and foot disease:
Gov. Hubbard also commissioned him
to visit the Standard Oil works and en-
deavor to secure a new test of OIL for
this state.
Hon. Cushman K. Davis has been in
vited to deliver the Decoration day ad-
dress in st. Paul, and will do so unless
the delegates to Chicago leave before
the Both.
Apeddler named AL Weire was way
laid between Owatonna and Mazfeld by
two tramps. He drew a revolver and
saved life and plumber.
Mike Fogarty has brought suit,
through his attorneys. v M. Gore and
81. J. Thatcher of Minneapolis, against
DR.. G.. W. Wood, coroner, and Ara
Barton, sheriff of Rice county, for false
1
ages. He was the only witness to the
shooting Of Foster by Donaldson, in
May, 1882, and in the examination be-
fore the coroner, being stranger, he
was required to give bonds for his ap-
pearance as a witness. Unable to do
so, he was imprisoned from June to
Aug. -, when he was released by ha-
beas Corpus.
In the United States circuit court
the Northwestern Manufacturing and
Car company Of Saltwater has sued the
Liverpool and London and Globe insur-
ance company for 1000 insurance on a
four-story building, standing $50 feet
from the penitentiary, and damaged by
the fire Jan. 8. ,..
John w. Cover, formerly of Still
water recently got into row with a
man named Thomson at West Humbug,
Arizona, and in self-defense shot his
opponent in the arm. .:
Saltwater has number of cases of
scarlet fever.
Mrs. Hitchcock of Pilot Mound died
recently, aged IS years. She was we'll
known to Minnesota people.
For some time the question has been
mooted as to whether the division office
of the Bradstreet company in Milwaukee
should continue to cover and report up
on business in Western Wisconsin or
whether that territory should be trans
ferred to the jurisdiction Of the st: Paul
Office. The central Office, in New York,
having considered the matter, examined
statistics and received reports, has de-
cided to make the transfer to the st.
Paul Office, for the announced reason
that St. Paul is the reorganized trade
center of Western Wisconsin.
Soren Listoe, late register of the
United States nd,ofice, and Charles J.
Sawbridge have formed a copartnership
at F ergus Falls, TO attend to all branch
es of practices involving government
lands. -. :.,t. ~.
| Rushford Post, G.. A. r: has organ
lied with Col. N. P. Colburn COM
mander; Col. J. S. Patten, senior
vice; G. w. Gore; junior vice; Hon. G..
W. Rockwell, adjutant; S. A.1Pierce,
quartermaster; A. r. Ball, officer of the
day; Henry Stage, officer of the guard.
On Jan. a and again on March 10
charges of nonfeasance in office and
habitual drunkenness were made against
t Ole Larson, county attorney of Becker
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