Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-01
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
A PUBLIC shes p shearing will be held
at Eyo'a, May 80.
A NEW national bank will be started at
Sauk Center by May Is.
THE publication of the Harrington
Journal has been discontin ued.
A, P. HEAaAN, OF Granite Falls, who
shot at his wife and then shot himself,
is dead.
MEMBERs of Skaro Post, G. A. r., st.
Peter, are preparing to observe Decora-
ton day.
| II. G. PAGE is to build fine Touring
mill and 100, COO. .bushel elevator ut Fer
gus Falls.
AT Crookston 8, 3,2SO, 600 feet of govern
ment logs were sold for SIG, 491, their
full value.
TWELVE hundred head of cattle have
been purchased in Waseca for shipment
TO Montana.
| BURGLARS broke into the store Of Mr..
Sommers, at Heron Lake, and took 500
worth of goods.
Mrs. BAKER of Otsego, who has been
blind for abouteighteen years, has ..ately
recovered her sight.
FRANK CRowsoN, of Saratoga, recent
ly captured eleven young wolves in a
straw-stack, receiving $8S bounty.
LITTLE FALLS people have contributed
| 100 city lots to aid the establishment of
a company to improve the water power.
The second examination OF Wood and
Mcleod for aseatllting Editor Green, OF
the lie Sueur Sentinel, resulted in dis
agreement Of the jury.
| O'KE1IY, the Moorhead express thief,
is missing ard the officers are hunting
for him, having discovered little for
gerry in addition to his other crimes.
| ON the Black Hoof River Osterhout
& Hughart ale using their dams and
flooding the stream over the ice, making
some progress with their logs IN that
novel manner.
A. j. DRMErLEs, of Sank Rapids, gen
eral merchandise, has been attached by
the German American bank Of ST. Paul,
for $4, 600. His liabilities are believed
to be about $4,000.
THE body of James Mclaughlin was
found near Rollipgstone, Winona
County, recently, he having wandered
away during heavy rain storm, fallen
into a washout or gulch and drowned.
SALTWATER charity was exemplified
in the poor widow who had received as
sistance from the relief society and who
had portion of the goods received
stolen from her by her neighbors in the
same house.
In Oshawa some one set fire to small
marsh, and, as the wind was blowing,
the fire ran into the fruit farm of Ernest
Meyer and destroyed all of his berries
and many of his fruit trees. He esti-
mates his damages at 5000.
The Winona election frauds are de-
veloping, Aid. Bauman being the
latest arrest He gave bail in the sum
of 81, 800. Becker, one of the judges of
election now in jail, is ru,nored to have
made damaging confession.
GJhBRAu HosBJoR, of Otter Tail
County, drank a large quantity of alco-
hol and then went into the woods and
hung himself with grape vine and
pocket handkerchief. He leaves large
family to shift for themselves.
DAKOTA.
A NEW disease, resembling spinal men
ingitis, has appeared recently among
horses near Tower City.
A CINNAMON bear, weighing 1900
pounds, was recently killed by the editor
OF the Bad Lands Cowboy.
WILLIAM j. BAXTER, superintendent
of Mr.. Shallo's farm near Milbank, was
fatally injured by runaway team.
| A Mrs. ALTON, living southwest Of
Pingree, while attempting to cross the
| Pipestem on horseback, fell from her
horse aud was drowned.
The award for the erection of the
North Dakota insane asylum, at James
town, was made to Fl. a. Whitcomb, of
Brainerd, who had in the lowest bid
1921, 700.
SOME Of the South Dakota papers are
enthusiastic over Judge Palmer, the new
bench man, because lie opens court with
prayer. They had not heard OF such
thing before.
| HANK LEWIS, the man who shot and
killed J. T. Pierce, city marshal of
Mitchell, has made will bequeathing
all his property, amounting to about
$500, to the widow Of Pierce, who re-
fuses to accept it. 3;
| DAKOTA, south of the forty sixth per-
allel contains $4,000 square miles, with
| 300, 900 inhabitants, ard no part Of it
east of the Missouri is unsettled. It
will make in less than twenty years one
of the most populous and prominent
states III the Union.
Gov. ORDwAY has requested the priv.
ilege of testifying in his own behalf be-
fore the grand jury now in session at
Yankton, but the United States attor-
ney refuses on the ground that the law
does not permit of defendant testify
ing in his own behalf before grand
Jury that is investigating his alleged
criminal acts.
| The Russian Mennonites in North
Dakota build their houses of four rooms,
all cornering together in the center,
| Right there they pnt a great brick oven,
with thick walls. From the furnace
door back to the back yard is passage
way. Every morning, noon and night,
! they lug a jag cf straw in from the stack
and burn it in the furnace. The thick
brick walls get red-hot and stay so for
hours, warming every rocmin the house.
CHARLES HoLLFNBEcK, postmaster at
Parker, is in serious trouble. He got
behind in his accounts $1,000 to the
government and owed neighboring
postmasters $400 for borrowed stamps.
During recent sickness his deputies
reported to the authorities the actual
cash on hand. This brought a special
agent to Parker at once. who found a
deficiency. He suspended Hollenbeck
and placed man named Huntley in
charge Wheu the postmaster's wife
heard OF it she told the bondsmen to
take her house, lot. piano and ali her