The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-08-13
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

md Park point has 1906, few more
han shown by the last report; the town
II Breitung (Tower), .1,431, and other
towns 986, making the total population
If the county 2O,453. In 1880 it was A.
;O4.
The Yellow Medicine county fair will be
leld at Granite Falls Sept. Is, 16 and II.
Miss Luella B. Kibbe finished teaching
;erm OF school in District No. 76, Clarissa,
lyoung man named Harry Mosier OF Fer
.us Falls. Young Mosier was under age,
md the match had been strongly opposed
~ Mr.. Kibbe.
The towns OF Ida, Alexandria, Hudson
ind Orange in Douglas county, suffered
severely by the recent storms.
Census returns from fifty OF the seventy
line counties of the state show popula-
lion OF G1O 1874, as compared with Az, sos
according to the United States census OF
1880. This indicates an average increase
II over 20 per cent. and would indicate a
Total Of more than a million residents in
The state, reckoning on q basis OF 7SO: 773
II 1880.
While jumping from a Northern Pacific train
beyond Fargo.
The st. Paul Jobbers' union adopted res
buttons setting forth the advantages to &C
:rue from direct railway connection with
Butte, Mont, and requesting the Northern
Pacific to take steps toward securing the
same.
At Bradford, Isanta county, lightning
struck the house of Nels Engquist, the fam
ly all being in bed at the time. The deadly
electric fluid entered every room, killing.
Mr.. Engquist, aged about sixty-four years,
and in another room the hired man, named
S\vn loo IN Of loI
President Clarke has issued an official
notice to the effect that the Minnesota ex-
hibit, which was on exhibition at New Or
leans. Will be reproduced at the state fair,
ander the charge OLD. E. Bailey, late Sec
retary OF the Minnesota commission at New
Orleans.
The five year old son OF Charles Miller Of
Lac qui Parle was killed by being caught in
the crank of Il moving hand car.
Several cases OF sunstroke have occurred
IN the vicinity Of Sleepy Eye. A -srian
named Brey, working on Bubert Hile-
sheim's farm, was Frustrated while work.
ing in the harvest field, and died in few
minutes after taken to the house. A man
working for Stephen Gluth in the town OF
Eden, was sun struck and died. George
Dayton, while driving one OF Murfn's
creamery wagons, was badly affected by
heat.
At Kerkhoven, Andrew Munson became
violently abusive to V. NJ Connolly Of
Sank Center, when the latter seized a bar
Of iron and struck Munson on the head,
Iracturing his skull, and he is in a critical
condition. Connolly was arrested and
bound over to the circuit court.
The increase OF population in southwest
.rn counties since 1880 has been zen as follows:
Lincoln 1,l19; Murray, 1875; Cotton
wood $50; Mobiles, l,2O6; Nicollet, l, 124
Wntonwan, 1872; Pipe Stone, 1850; and
Lyon, ,S21.
A rattlesnake with nine rattles was killed
recently on the point in front Of the hotel
at FrOntenac. He was discovered by some
ladies, who had been standing fOrsom min
utes within few feet of the venomous rep
tile.
The Rice county fair ut Faribault will be
held Sept. l, 2 and 3. Every effort is being
made to make it a grand success. Special
purses are to be offered and liberal premi-
NUNS will be awarded.
Special Timber Agent Eaton, of the st..
Cloud land office, gets the bounce.
The personal property valuations Of St..
Paul aggregate $l4, 81 ,94G, according to
Assessor Beaumont.
Minnesotians have received patents as
follows: William ]. Alternately, Minnea-
boxes. John f. ApplebY, assignor to Min
neapolis Harvester works, Minneapolis;
grain carrier for lowdown grain binders.
A year-and half old child OF Mr.. G. E.
Haarstad, OF Rothsay, was so badly scald-
cd by falling into a kettle Of boiling water
that it died.
The Blue Earth county commissioners
= have made the first appropriation OF $780,
600 for building a. jail and court house.
John Johnish, an old German, residing
near GAINESVILLE, dressed himself in his best
clothes and lying down, tied the trigger OF
a gun to one OF his toes, pulled it, and blew
his head to pieces. Domestic trouble.
Miss Emma Meyer Of Homer and Miss
Eva Reil Of Minneapolis were strolling on
Cattle bluff, near Homer and found a rat.
thirteen rattles. The ladies dispatched the
serpent without much trouble.
At the request of many members of the
Roman Catholic church at LIE Sueur, Faith
er Wurst has been permitted by the bishop
to remain in charge OF the parish.
On account of q disagreement among
dealers, anthracite coal is at a low figure.
The first wedding OF Chinaman and &
white woman ever recorded in Minnesota
occurred in St. Paul. Hong Wah married
Mary Schroeder, a german girl Hong has
alaundry and Mary washes for him. Hence
the partnership.
Ham Wong Hong's marital troubles be
gin early. On Monday night he led to hi
humble home Il blushng white maiden al
his bride and Thursday evening she wal
spirited away by her German relatives
with her free consent. Wong Hong mad
her get at fourin the morningto "washee
washee.'
Newman Chapman, OF the Oneida count.
Ill.,, society, has been looking over thu
grounds and buildings for the State Fair a
st. Paul, and declares them easily the fines
in the land. Mr.. Chapman is a breeder o
Holstens, and has secured stalls to exhibi
thirty two head, all descendants OF the ia
nous imported Cocos, Camper Down, Lad.
Ioung and Allarda.
Frank C. Howard an Engshman, com
mitted suicide by drowning, jumping iron
a barge, near the Chicago, Milwaukee u St
Paul freight house, into the river at ST
Paul.
An event which created quite a stir in st
Paul, was the marriage OF William D. Allen
younger brother of Col. Allen OF the Mer
chants Hotel and Mrs. Presley, widow o
the late Bart Presley. Mr.. Allen is in TIN
roofing business at Memphis, Tenn, and ii
q prominent business man Of that city.
A terrible hard storm VISITED the secCOl
OF Big Stone county around Granville, de
stroying over sixteen hundred acres Of wheu
and seriously injuring property OF P. D
O'Phelan, A. Sullivan and Others.
1t is authoritatively announced tina
Collector Bierman will not take possession
of the internal revenue office until Aug. Fl
No appointments have yet been made pub
lie, and the present attaches OF the offic
are equally in the dark as to the length q
A new railroad organization, called the
Fargo, Moorhead & Northwestern, wal
perfected in Crookston, Polk Co. This roat
will start from Moorhead and run northeas
through Clay and Norman counties to Ada
thence to Fertile on the Sand Hill rive
in Polk county, thence northerly to
point on the Red Lake river, either Crook
ston or Red Lake Falls. The road is simpl
an extension of the Fargo Southern, and i
is said that surveys, right ofway and grad