The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-20

81. Lewis, county physician, has left the
city for good. He was we'll liked APP.
parently by all, and had fair practice
here. He married about fourteen
months ago young lady who had been
waitress in one of the hotels, and it is
said that the welded life of the pair has
not been the most felicitous. His wife
and child are still in the city.
At Moorhead, William Ovens house
was burned.
George S. Dale of Minneapolis lost
his wallet with $751;, 200 in notes in New
York.
Swan and Corlson are in jail in Duluth,
charged with the murder of Sam Wilson
at Vermillion, and number of others
have been arrested as accessories.
Conrad Boettcher, a pioneer of LIE
Sueur, died at the residence of his son,
Rev. Henry Boettcher, in that town.
aged eighty-four years. :
The Lake house in Alexandria was
burned with its contents. Loss, 81 900;
insurance, $500.
The house committee on public build
ings and grounds agreed to recommend
the erection of public building at
Duluth, Mimi, to cost 100000.
A meeting of the Minnesota Repub-
ican state central committee is called
at ST. Pau1 March OStb
At Langhai, Pope county, several
days ago, while digging well on land
of Gunder Tharaldson, silver, looking
as if the outcropping of vein, >as
found.
William Lyons, an old and respected
citizen of Alexandria, died on Sunday,
aged seventy-two years, from the result
of wounds received during the late war.
The large price that has been paid in
Rochester for a few years past for gin
seng has resulted in extirpating the
plant from Olmsted county, and as the
root is of very slow growth, there can
be no more to dig for number of years
to come.
Mr.. G. 81. Voorhis died very sudden
~ at Faribault of heart disease. He
was formerly resident of PHILADELPHIA,
and came to Faribault about wear ago
and entered Seabury Divinity school,
with the intention of taking orders IN
the ministry.
The woman who died under mys-
FERROUS circumstances in Motley, the
dead body Of an infant being found i
her trunk, proves to have been the wit >
Of Myron Fuller of Reynolds. They
had not lived together for four years.
The roof of a stable containing fosf-
head of valuable cattle upon the Moor
land farm, near Moorhead, fell in from
the weight of snow upon. Fourteen of
the cattle were killed.
Nels Ash, Swede, was fatally ir-
jured by falling from pile driver b.
tween Anoka and Champlin, and died
soon after.
Seaman & Wall are to start bank
in Lanesboro called the "Home Ex-
change"
Harper & Gillispie and the St. CroiS
Lumber company of Saltwater have
filed claims to the amount of ST., 900
and the laborers to the amount of Sc 600
against A. S. Bliss, lumberman of
Barnum. The sheriff is now in posses
sion.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Hedge Helgeson, killed by snow ploN
near Norcross, when two other section
men were wounded, returned a verdict.
that deceased came to his death Shy
being run down by Engine No. 1866,
with snowplow attachment, driven by
James P. Haines, Of the St. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba railroad; and we
further find that the said engine was
run at an unjustifiable rate of speed,
and without the caution necessary for
the safety of the section men at work
on the track" 49,
In drunken row at Beaver Bay an
Indian named Yellow Bird was killed in
attempting to prevent trouble. Domin-.
lex and Smith fled, but were arrested and
examined on the following Monday and
discharged by justice of the Peace
Salisbury, although they did not deny
that they committed the murder, simply
swearing that they were too drunk to
remember who did it. The constable,
soft is reported by those there, furn-
ished the liquor, which he sold openly
to any Indian who would pay for it in
money, flour, calico Or anything else.
The house of Stephen Hewson, an
old settler of Oxford, burned Monday
his sick daughter and two children
being removed in safety. The post
Office kept in the same building, was
also Destroyed; some deeds, mortgages
and notes were saved, but his library,
valued at $500, was a total loss.
The directors of the Minnesota Iron
company held their annual meeting at
their office in St. Paul, for the election
of officers. The resignation of T. L.
Blood, aa secretary of the company,
dated Dec. 21, 1888, was read The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year; C. Tower, Philadelphia,
Pa, president; George C. Stone, St.
Paul, Mimi, vice president and general
manager; &C. Tower, ,Jr. Duluth, Mimi,
treasurer; I. P. Beck, Duluth, MINI. :,
secretary.
Wadena expended $6S, $50 in build
ing improvements last year.
The report of the Minnesota state sta
tistical agent to the United States ~
ricultural department for March
shows the corn on hand of the crop of
1883 to be about 1,0OO, 45O, or per
cent of the entire crop, None of it has
been sold to go out of the state. About
100000 or 5 per cent. of the crop is re-
ported to have been good, merchantable
corn; and the average value of the
crop on hand is given at SO cents per
bushel for the merchahtable and % cents
for the understandable. The wheat
crop remaining on hand March l is es-
timated at 80 per cent, or about four
teen million bushels, and % per cent.
is stated to be consumed within the state
IT per cent being shipped outside as
-four or grain. The crop of 1883 is re-
ported to be considerably better than an
average and but little inferior to the
crop of 1877.
James P. Hicks, of Evansville, Ind,
asks divorce from his wife on the
ground that she prays daily that he
may die, and as he is believer in the
efficacy of prayer it is beginning to tell
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