The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-04

building at. minneapolis, aid fzaac Hodgson
received d like notification Of his removal from
the SAME position. So FIR a. these gentlemen
are concerned, the Question Is considered SET
tied:
Edward RtPpais lost ,his lite lin passing be-
tween two pulleys which run. tile gang, saw in
Walkers mill at Croqkston He fell upon the
srs sSaad S 6s psg ee ehusRsd to
death Instantly: The deceased was a French
man, forty eight years old, and had been mar
ried but two days.
Elisha Beshaw, Frenchman, is the person
! who slept whole week at Mortified. After
being awake short time he remembered of
upon investigation he found his handkerchief
with 4435 f6lled in 1t id the stra%I bed tick. The
patient is doing we'll, and the only trouble now
is to get him plenty of beefsteak and potatoes
Slate Auditor Braden has received from Au-
| ditor Mcdonald of Hennepin county the follow
ing statement of Minneapolis tax collections:
year ending May Il, 1SS5, $717, 1921. O7 Re-
| ports from other counties furnish similar close
comparisons, showing that the new tax law,
! which deferred the sales from September to
May, does not materially affect the collections
The Grant county people are enthusiastic
and in earnest over the southern railroad pro-
ject The most prominent men Of the towns
of Len, Ponme de Terr6; Stony Brook and
| Elbow Lake have been interviewed and ex-
| press it CAS- their opinion that reasonable
amount of bonds could be voted from the
| towns along the proposed route without diff
Guilty.
| Father McGolrick Catholic, of Minneapolis
made complaint against indecent show pictures
ON bill boards. The case was submitted to the
jury, who, after viewing the bill boards on
deliberating for half an hour, returned a
verdict of not guilty, the proposition to i'm
pose fine having been favored but by two of
the twelve.
The contract for the new building at the
deaf and dumb institution at Farbault has
been gwen TOT. I. M. Emery and William
O'Nel jointly their bid($6 775} being the lowest
| The building is to be of stone 65x4O. and two
stories high, with a basement The basement
will be fitted up as a gymnasium and the sec
ond and third stories used for shops and hos
pital. An addition is also to be made to the
laundry building:
died recently Deceased came to Hous-
ton, Mimi, in 1858; he then went into the
surveyor generals Office in st. Paul, where he
was egageaa II gSIernmant s1E1eqg and
made, the first sectional map of the State Of
Minnesota, and has followed the business with
slight intermissions, up to within the past
four years.
The annual meeting of the Winona conference
of Congregational churches began at Wabasha,
Tuesday evening, continuing, Wednesday and
Thursday of last week. Among the speakers
were Rev. Mr.. Crum and Mrs Thomas Wilson
of Winona; Rev: J. H. Morley of St Paul;
Miss Evans, preoeeptress of Carleton college,
the woman's board of home missions for the
Northwest
Mary Jane Clarns, aged seventeen, of Park
er's Prairie, Otter Tail county, indicted by the
grand jury, was arrested and arrangements
ma le to bring her into the CITY, She did not
appear, but her brother handed the following
Cowie: ''This is to certify that Mary Jane
Elarns Is dead. tSigned1 A, E. Henderson, NJ
| D." It is presumed that the girl committed
suicide rather than endure public trial
The corner stone of the new Young Mems
Christian Association building was laid at North
field. An address was made by Frank Cutler,
secretary of the association in which he said:
ave have come together teernight to lay, the
corner stone of the first Y. NJ G. A. building
ever erected in Minnesota" The building is
to cost, when completed, about &c. GOO. 81 ,0G6
of which has already been pledged, and it is
expected to be completed the LIST of August
Andrew Nelson and his team were found dead
in slough recently three miles north of
Haw1ey Nelson, who was Swede, twenty
six years old and married, went to Hawlev, and
after purchasing load OF lumber got drunk
and started home about dark. He lett the road
when near a small slough, drove across, miss
ing the bridge, circled around the slough and
came back and tried to drive up the grade or
the bridge and was upset in fifteen inches OF
water; under the load of lumber The team
were mired and drowned.
Philadelphia Record: Russian -four, equal
III duality to that made from choice Minnesota
spring wheat, is offered for delivery in New
York at sc per barrel This attack upon our
grain is as bold as the Stumbling Of John Bull
IN Central Asia. 1t must be admitted that the
Muscovlte has his strong points in traffic as
well as diplomacy. A nation that can send its
-four 8, 600 miles from the point of manufac-
ture and sell it in New York at competitive
prices will surely command it's share otbusi-
ness.
The following changes have been made in
the postal clerk service: R. l. Mason. vice D.
Waring Oh the route from St. Paul to Sioux
City; M. B. Miller, vice Joseph Zeis, removed
on the route from St. Paul to Bismarck Oak.
Thomas Clarkins, vice J. s. Murray, appoint
ment expired, route, st. Paul to Elroy; C. NJ
Brown vice G. S. Armstrong, transferred, route
Watertown, Oak, to Minneapolis; G. W. Flack
of Red6e1i, Oak vice C. A. Chamberlain, ap-
pointment expired, route, St Paul and Brock
enridge; Henry Fink vice W. A. Mccain, route,
St Paul to Bismarck.
The insurance commissioner has ruled, un
der the cooperative life association law
passed last winter, that no Iowa cooperative
association shall be permitted to do business
in this state without a paid-up capital of $780,.
OOO. This is the application imposed under
the law of the state Of Iowa on Minnesota as
sociations of this kind, under ruling of tn,
Iowa attorney general, and under reciprocal
provision contained IN the law passed here
last winter our insurance commissioner applies
the same to test Iowa. This will shut them all
out
Further details of the homicide at Marietta
Lac qui Parle county, shows that Olaf A. Sun
din, the victim, was shot by John Hammergre-
a hardware merchant, during general quarrel
The two men, with others, had been drink
ing, and quarreled Mrs. Hammergren triet
to get her husband to go home, when Sundir
assaulted her, and when her husband interferet
Sundin chased him some distance with an up
lifted washboard Hammergren halted ant
fired to brighten Sundin, who continued to
advance, when Hammergren fred again, shoot
ing Sundin through the body, killing him in
stantly. Hammergren was arrested.
Minnesota produces large quantities of gin
seng and seneca, and some very choice grades
of both of these roots are dug from the soil Of
the state. This fact has attracted the atten
ton of Cincinnati business house, which
handles about half of the product in these ar
tcles of the entire country, and the concern
has just opened a branch house in St. Paul
The firm is engaged in an exporting business
entirely, and in the United States only makes
purchases. 1t has resident agent in China
, which is the great market of the world fo
ginseng, in connection with which the Chinese
have various snperstitions, and which the,
also value on account of supposed medicina
properties. The St. Paul house is the onl,