The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

Only favorable reports are received from the
harvest fields of Northern Dakota and Minne-
sofa. BY the close of this week the crops the
entire length Of the Red River valley will be in
shocks. Stacking has already, commenced in
the southern portion sne ser.SGy andis gen
in Dakota, as reported by the agents of elevator
| companies and other grain men who are COM
petent judges, will not exceed the first estimate
Of sixteen bushels per acre.
Bliss & Elliot, numbering hrm with an Of
6ce in the Academy Of Music, Minneapolis
made voluntary assignment for tho benefit
of their creditors, with liabilities at $4,000
| and nominal assets at 5000, ,OO0 The firm
consists of A. s Blake and DR.. A. F. Elliot, but
the slater gentleman has been connected with
the firm but limited time. The action which
| precipitated the assignment was IN action
brought by the Citizens bank to recover on a
note for $6, 600.
| At New Ulm Charles Heers of New Ulm and
Harry Winters and J. G. Porter, of .Mankato,
were at work on the public school building,
Standing on scaffold thirty y-five feet from the
| ground Suddenly the scaffold gave way hurl-
Ing Heers and Porter to the ground, the form
| or striking sharp edged stone, cutting large
! cash in the back of his head, beside receiving
internal injuries, Porter fell upon some stones,
giving him a severe shock
Mr. E. E. Caine, of the Commercial hotel,
at Owatonna, while hunting in company with
F. Roskoff, one of Owatonnas best marksmen,
! while looking for q shot bird in the tall grass
| received the whole charge of Mr.. Roskoffs gun
in his face and breast at short range the latter
| not being aware CT his presence. The wounds
are not fatal, but he may lose the use of one
eye.
| Richard Wells, an Englishman about twenty
) years of age who has been in this country only
two or three years, was accidentally shot and
killed by his companion and friend, Mr.. Frost
! bic, in Fox Lake, Mimi. Frostbie tripped his
| ioOt and fell, and as he went down his gun was
ci1entally discharged, the entire volley taking
effect N his companions head, AMI killing him
| almost instantly.
Near Lansing, q number Of calves have been
lost by mysterious disease called bloody
murrain. The calves are taken sick and die,
| some within sixteen hours, there being no
! cure. The disease is contagious.
A soldier of the war Of 1912, Mr.. Isaac De
Courcey, died in Faribault, at the home of his
granddaughter, Mrs. Ray.
Peter McClosky of Carrollsville lost his barn
and granary being set on fire by children play
| ing with matches.
! A new 1900 bushel elevator will be erected
at Eagle Bend, Todd county,
Mrs. A. W. Fountain celebrated her hun
| dredth birthday on Sunday at the residence
OF her daughter, Mrs, Stephen Francisco, in
Florence township, Wabasha county.
Carleton college opens Sept 10. The atten-
dance promises to be large.
Judge Mitchell of the supreme court has
handed down his decision in the suit of Stephen
F. Buenemsn vs.. the St Paul Minneapolis and
Manitoba railway, affirming the order of the
lower court denying new trial to the railroad.
The suit was for $40, 600 for damages to Buene-
man growing out of injuries sustained by him,
by falling off the depot platform at Alexandria,
Minn, some five years ago
The officers of the Northwestern Lumber
| Chicago are:
President, A. G. Van shaick; vice president,
| retary, E. s Hotchkiss; directors, E. E. Gre
pin, White Lake ; Mich. A. Lay, Praverse City,
Mich. E. w. Durant Saltwater MINI. %. H.
Ingram Eau Claire, Wis. R. G. Peters, Manis-
tee, Mich. ": o. Goodman, Menominee, Mich.
Muscatine, Iowa; W. J. Young, Clinton, Iowa;
| G. S. Shaw, Davenport, Iowa; G. L. Coleman
La Crosse, Wis =; ]. NJ Gould, Moline, Ill; G.
": Rody, Ludngton, Mich. s. W. Farnham,
Minneapolis; G. N. White, Montrose, Iowa.
Theodore Kaupang, aged twelve years, of
New Sweden, Mimi, was killed by the kick ofa
horse. Louis Edwards aged fifteen, of Den
yer, Mimi, was thrown from horse and re-
ceived injuries from which he died soon after
| Anna Fildman, a child fourteen years old,
daughter of Henry Fildn1an, living near Graf
ton, Mimi, accidentally shot herself dead with
her brothers gun.
Levi W. Stewart, son of Elder Stewart of LIE
Sueur county, Mimi, was arrested at LIE Sueur
after severe struggle, charged with burglariz
ing the Kasota eating house. 1t is believed he
| is the man who has been doing all active bust.
ness in burglary and petty thieving at LIE Sueu1
and in the vicinity for some time past, as
we'll as at LIE Sueur Center and elsewhere in
the county during the past year.
At St Paul Hugh Gallagher was run away
with and killed.
The liabilities of F. E. Schenck, of the Bruins.
! wick, Minneapolis, aggregated $6,644 Net
assets, 81,
At Winnebago City, the postoffice and Ameri-
can Express Office was broken into Thursday
morning at one o'clock, and tho safe drilled
open. The loss to the postofice is about $500
in stamps and $25 in silver. The express
office lost $l9 in currency, and among other
valuable papers thirty blank express money
orders B. F. Goodwin's Office was entered
and SO taken from bis safe. The contents of
the safe was carried a block, whore they broke
open the iron chest and sorted the papers,
taking only part of them
1roo~ f~r,0 fron roo1E EHrop,1r
now and Thomas Quigley, confined in the coun-
ty jail on charge of burglary, made their es-
cape by crawling through one of the ventilators
but were soon captured
The Austin Transcript speaking of the pros
s'The distance from Mona, Iowa. to st. Paul,
via the new limo is only ITO miles, instead of
115 as has been stated and from Austin to St
Paul 9S miles, which is five miles less than by
the Chicago, Milwaukee l. St Paul The route
selected north of Austin is the line west of
Brownsdale. It will cross the Southern Min
nesota railroad about two miles east of Ramsey.
The reason given for selecting this route in
preference to via Brownsville is that it saves
the company over a mile in distance and will
cost less money for grading and bridging.
Tracklaying will commence in the spring just
as soon as the ground is in proper condition,
| probably about May l, and will not consume
OVeI 1OIty udye lOI C1o cAIl1o AAo.
Material for the Minnesota l. Northwestern
railway at Cascade, Mimi, is now arriving at
Waterville. There will be about eight hundred
car loads. spur track will be built from the
Minneapolis & St. Louis at Cascade, and the
rails unloaded ready for track laying in the
spring. There are strong grounds for believ-
ing that the work will be run in the interest of
the Illinois Central Work on the Wisconsin,
Minnesota g. Pacific between Mankaio and
Waterville has not yet commenced, although
the survey is completed.
Montgomery d Morley have purchased 5000
acres of swamp land in Ham Lake and Colum-
bus, Anoka county, and have already put in
fifty miles of bitches. 1t is expected to make
5000 or 5000 acres of the amount hay land be-
fore operations shall be suspended.
Mrs. W. R. Murray, of Lake city, delighted
| numerous friends with an exhibition of night
blooming ccreus with six magnificent blossoms
uponit The same plant unfolded two blossoms
on the previous evening
During the heavy thunderstorm on last Satur-
day afternoon the house Of John Remier,
farmer of Eden Prairie, Hennepin county, was
| struck by lightning and the owner, just enter
ing the building by the front door, was violently
| thrown to the ground and seriously injured.