The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-09-17

| calculated hereafter to attract more per
sons than at any other point in the State
Another year the attractions will be much
greater, mistakes will be corrected, and nc
effort spared to make Il Fair that will be
creditablc to the whold State.
II. Doner, a stonemason Of Minneapolis,
falls under horse car and is killed.
At St. Paul DR.. August Towsky is ar.
raigned on the charge OF attempted wife
murder and committed in default of IS 600
bail.
The state board OF equalization raises
the valua ton in Washington county 100
per cent, except in the town OF bayfield,
thereby causing good deal OF grumhling
Frank w. Hawkinson and Adelaide
Nichols are married at Minneapolis.
The Wahasha Roller Mill company oi
Wabasha filed articles OF incorporation
with the secretary of state for 1nanufa ctur-
ing and selling flour, with capital stock oi
$40, 1000. H. J. O'Neill. c. II. Porter, T. \
johnston Mary o. G. Langly, l.. II, Lang,
ly, A. S. Larrimer, L: A. Van SAINT arc the
incorporators: Articles were also filed by
the Minneapolis Jcwelry Manufacturing
company for the manufacture and sale OF
clocks and watches, with $4,000 capital
stock and Finlay McKercher, Fred B. Dodge
and Freeman Z. Lane incOrnOratOrS and
directors.
A five. year-old son of w. w. Washburn
Of the Palace grocery Spring Valley, nearly
severed his left hand from his wrist by fall
ing upon some broken glass.
Daniel j. Wclch, the newly appointed col
lector OF CUSTOMS at Helena, Mont, is ex~
pected to be inducted into the office Sept,
21. 1t is reported that his delay in not
taking the office ia owing to q shortage III
his accounts as treasurer OF Silver Bow
county: The amount is placed at $50, 900,
and the shortage is said to be through his
neglect to collect licenses due. Embezzle-
nlent is not charged against Mr.. Welch, but
simply neglect OF duty.
James Bird WAS taken to Vinton, Iowa,
from Chicago. He was arrested recently and
has been held awaiting Il requisiton from
the authorities ofIowa, where heis wanted
for rObbing a passenger on a railroad train
OF one thousand dollars.
The body OF Deputy United States Mar
shall Miller who disappeared in Sumner
county, Tenn, has been found buried near
the house Of John Bradley, moonshiner,
whom he went to arrest.
At a meeting OF the passenger depart
ment OF the transcontinental associa tion
at St. Paul, the Grand Army asked for a
special round trip rate for the encampment
at San Francisco, July, 1886. The asso.
citation granted the Grand Army request
and decided upon a $50 rate for the round
trip from all Missouri river points. The
CIRCULAR restricts the sale of these tickets to
members of the Grand Army and their
families. They will be placed ns:,e thirty
and will be good to return any time
within thirty days after the close.
Mr.: John Wrightson, an old resident of
stomach troubles, aged forty eight.
The wife Of Mr. ]: B. Allen, one OF the
pioneers OF Scott county, died recently.
She was over seventy two years old, and
had returned only recently from a visit to
one OF her relatives in Dakota, and was en-
joying good health: Deceased was the
mother of J. p. Allen OF St. Paul, who is
one OF the four children surviving her.
Mr.. E: P. Watson. OF the Pleasant View
farm, near Hancock, sheared 473 feeccs
from his Merino sheep last spring which
weighed 1924 pounds; 1856 OF them averaged
13K pounds per sheep: The total amount
Of cash received by MIR: Watson for his WOOL
at Is cents per pound figured up to 1881
being $1.73 from each sheep.
The St. Cloud Journal Press gives the de-
tails OF an attempted elopement, the parties
being the eldest daughter OF the late Judge
McKelvey and young man named Sher-
man, the latter being thrca tened with tar
and feathers by indignant citizens. Miss
McKelvey has been taken east by her
mother:
An old man named Grove has been ar
rested and jailed at Mound Prairie on CONF
plaint of his children, who claim he threat
encd their lives and undertook to burn tho
granery, including their summers 8 crop,
On the 10th OF October Albert Lea col
lege will be dedicated, Rev. Herrick Johnson
of Chicago delivering the address,
Fred Brown, the cattle man, who lisap-
peared from Topeka, Kan, with, it is sup
posed, between S14, 600 and $500 on
his person, has not turned up yet, nor has
his body been found,
An unknown Mexican was worsted in a
fight In q saloon at Bisbee, Ariz He got a
Winchester and fired into the crowd in the
saloon, hitting four men, one OF whom,
James Kehel, will die. The Mexican then
when he was captured and hanged.
Joseph II. Wilkins, who, while agent OF
the Michigan Central Railroad company,
in July, 1888, became a defaulter in the
sum OF $4,000, and fled to Canada, was ar
rested at Buffalo.
>. The Illinois bar loses one OF it's brightest
liohta in tho 7""+h :. E---L-, - =. sv.,i,,,
which occurred very suddenly and unex-
pectedly'at Ottawa, Ill.
mysterious epidemic is carrying off the
people in the vicinity OF Sycamore Creek,
w. Va.
Concord, Mass, celebrates the 25Oth an
niversary Of it's incorporation as a town.
George W. Cable has leased a furnished
house in Pennington, Conn.,, for a year.
Mrs. Mary Mulligan, the new pension
and agreeable lady. but she is somewhat
older than forty years, as reported.
DR.. George R. ). Elliott, the tinguished
specialist, whose microscopical investiga-
tions revealed the true nature of Gen.
Grants diseased under twenty y-seven years
of age.
Big Bear is found guilty at Regina, with