The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-08-06

At Warren, Mimi, two grain warehouses
were blown twelve feet off their foundations.
One is owned by Palmer and the other by
A. III. Gilbert. The skating rink is almost
a wreck.
The fifteenth annual fair of the Dodge
County Agricultural and Mechanical associ-
alton will be held on the grounds of the
Kasson Driving Park association Sept. %,
%, "a and 25.
Full and complete returns of the census
of Duluth make the population 1904,
against 3,473 in 1891 gain OF ID, 541,
or about 40 per cent in five years, or over
80 per cent a year.
The position to which Mrs. Donovan OF
Winona was elected at Saratoga, was that
OF vice president of the Froebel Institute OF
North America, in recognition of her ability
in kindergarten work.
At Austin, Frank Langum, the nine-year-
old son of Conductor Langum: was taken
with violent attack OF hydrophobia. He
WAS bitten last winter while on the way to
school by Mr.. Ellis dog.
Luzon Skinner, one of the oldest settlers
in Goodhue county, died at Florence, re-
Gently, OF consumption, aged seventy
years. He came to Florence in 1855. He
leaves wife and four children.
Hon. Alexander Fiddes of Jackson re-
ports that the barley and oats in his Sec
ton OF the country is nearly all cut, and
that neither the bad weather nor the re-
cent storms have in any way affected the
crops.
Mrs. r. II. Powell was struck bya passen-
ger train on the Southern Minnesota divis.
Nion at Winnebago City while crossing tho
railroad bridge, and fell forty feet, breaking
both legs in two places. Her condition is
critical. $50.
The recent storm at Audubon, was quito
severe and the damage considerable. At
Winona the lightning was appalling and
did considerable damage about the city.
Joseph Curley, a son OF MIR. b. A. Curley
was killed by lightning.
Notice is given by the lighthouse board
that on and after Aug. 6, 1885, a fixed
white light of the fifth order will be shown
from the lighthouse recently erected at the
outer end Of the north pier at the mouth OF
the St. Louis river. Lake Superior
A writ OF prohibition has been applied for
to the supreme court, to lie against the
court martial assembled to try Col. Bend:
forth at length by j. N. Castle, counsel for
the accused, at the sessions of the court al
ready held. !,
A bold robbery was committed Yin the
town of Cottonwood, nine miles fronS Ne"
OF Henry Pfisterer, by August Broocha,
peddler. He took from a bureau drawer
notes amounting to $4,000, a watch valued
at $50 and some cash.
Near Troy, this county, says the Win.
ona Republican, Will and Jake Cole at
tempted to kill their father, Jacob Cole.
Will knocked the old man down with a club
and Jake shot at him twice with revolver
but the shots failed to take effect. Officers
from St. Charles arrested them.
The terrific wind storm which accompan.
led the rain Monday morning, 9th inst,
left in and about Minneapolis numerous
evidences OF its destructive nature and
eome very remarkable experiences and es-
capes from DEATH or atleast serious injury,
are heard from nearly oil directions.
Jim Wall, the bad man from Montana,
who was lodged in the Ramsey county Jail
for safe keeping that night, tried to commit
suicide by hanging himself to the bars ofhis
cell with a handkerchief. He was blue in
the face when cut down. He left St. Paul
Wednesday with his captors for Wyoming.
George Borden of Verndale was arrested
at Muskada, by A. Whaley, Jr., marshal Of
Hawley, on charge of stealing a check on
the Northern Pacific railroad, for SIT 80,
from Henry Stackclewhous an employe OF
the company. On q search, the check was
found ON Borden, hidden in the lining Of his
vest,
H. E. Hayden, local agent OF the Omaha
railroad at Saltwater, had been arrested
upon a warrant charging him with the en-
bezzlement OF 500 OF the companys
money on the 9th day OF June last. Mr..
Hayden protests his innocence, and says
he will be able to make everything right
or rather to show that he is an innocent
man.
There was quite large attendance at
Red Wing recently on the occasion OF the
sale OF the property OF the Minnesota Ele-
vator company. The elevator sand ware
houses, some twenty-nine in number, To-
Gated on the river, the Chippewa and tho
Midland divisions ofthe Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul. railroad, were bought by H. j.
O'Neill Of Winona, who has been operating
them the past year under a lease. The
property doubtless cost originally about
$4,000,
Articles OF incorporation have been pre-
pared for the Ada, Duluth e Northern Da-
kota Railway company. The line is to ex-
tend from some point within the town linn
its OF Ada, Norman county, east by the
most feasible route to Duluth, or connect
Duluth; and west by the nearest feasible
route to a point on the Red River OF the
North, at or near Caledonia, OAK; thence
west or northwest through the Territory of
Dakota, to some point not as yet decided
upon. The principal place OF business will
be Ada.
At Granite Falls, Mrs. John Purvis has
been arrested on the charge OF poisoning
her husband. Her husband, who had been
i Il.
and the body was recently buried over in
Chippewa county. 1t was afterwards ex-
humed, and large quantities Of quicksilver
were found. 1t was further learned that
she had purchased a quantity of the drug
OF c. H. Mare, druggist, the day after she
got tho arsenic at Johnson's. Mrs. Purvis
was remanded to jail until Aug. 3 to await
the result OF an analysis of the contents OF
the stomach, which will be made at the
state university.
Testimony is being taken in the United
States district court room, at the govern
ment building, St. Paul, by E. NJ. Watson,
representing tho department OF justice ofthe
United States, and G. F. Larrabee, repre-
senting the interior department., relative to
the claims OF the traders who furnished sup
plies and provisions to the Sioux in Mime
sofa prior to the outbreak OF 1862, for the
payment OF which congress appropriated
S1OO,OOO at us laSC SeSSlOn. Inc claims
foot up $142, 900, the claimants being
Nathan Myrick, St. Paul, s5s 900; Ulalie
Perkins, assignee OF Louis Robert, s21 900;
Alexander L. Faribault, $40, 900; Amanda
B. Forbes, widow of the late Henry Forbes,
$2S, 900; /. and C. NJ. DAILY, assignees for B.
+. Pratt, $4,000
During the storm Wednesday, at Moor
head, the lightning struck the chimney OF
the Grand Pacific hotel, cutting a hole in
the roof letting down the brick and mortar
into sleeping-room. Two persons were
very badly but not seriously injured. The
Moorhead foundry was also struclz ar
damaged to the extent OF $4,000. At Fa,-
go the electric light tower was throw
down. At l'ctroit Mimi, every windm
in the town and there were quite n,
ber-was blown down and broken.
total damages in Detroit, as esti1
above, aggregate $40, $50, and p.
1000 would not cover the da'
ficted by wind, hail and rain
alone.