The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-01-01
soTl MEMS NOTES.

An attempt to wreck Hastings l. Dakots
passenger train at Shakopee was foiled by ac<
cident
Burchman Brothers saloon building in
Thompson, was burned Sunday night Loss,
$4,000; insurance 81 Geo.
The house of Mr. Melhern Of Warsaw, was
burned with the entire crop of his farm for
the past season; uninsured
St. Paul capitalists talk of buying he Kit
n-De Graft property at Midway and giving il
to the state for fair ground
Postmaster Sweet has sent to Gov Hubbard
his resignation of the Office of Judge of pro.
bate Of Pipestone county, to take place at once
The postoffice authorities report the number
of Christmas gifts passing through the mail ir
St. Paul to be less than half as many as at this
time last year.
Mr.: George W. Smith of Ottawa Prairie, died
few days ago, of heaat e:sd g. He wss one
of tbs largest and most RESPECTED farmers of
LeSueur county.
John Laughlin of Blooming Prairie came to
Minneapolis Monday with about II $50 on his per.
SON He has not since been home, and his
family fear foul play.
Mrs Catharine Geislovson Of San Francisco
Carver County, was found dead upon the floor
of her home by her son, who loft her short
time previously iii good health
Creditors of Strosser l. Masnman of Mime.
apols flel a petition fl q receiver. The
Comm cal bank Of minneapolis has been in.
corpol ated with $lUU,UO0 capital.
William Allen Woodson one of the oldest set
tiers of Mower county, disd at his residence in
Austin recently Hewas highly respected, and
held many local Offices OF trust
Gov. Hubbard received from Commissioned
Gibbs two oranges, on long stems, picked from
Grove around Mr.. Gibbs present quarters
near the exposition buildings There are a.
Go trees in the grove loaded with fruit
The now $3, Coo hotel at Harris recently com.
pleted by Ruben Holman, has been opened
in appropriate manner About one hundred
and fifty guests wero present. from the sur
rounding equity and North Branch and Sun
rise.
Articles Of interpretations of the Excelsior
Nursery company, ct Excelsior; Hennepin
county, with capital stock of s225, COO, have
been filed with the secretary of state. The in
eorrorators are F. G: Gould, A. B. Choate and
others.
Adolph Bollinger tried to drive sleigh con-
tanning nine persons in front of an engine a,
St. Paul. Sam Bolllnger was killed. Lzzle
Zimmerman badly mangled, and Mrs. Boilin.
ger shoulder broken The fool driver was
not hurt.
w. S Holbrook, Boston defaulter was ar
rested in Minneapolis, Saturday. Athoughs
married man, he became enamored of the wife
Of his neighbor, Walter Reynolds, and recipro.
eating his unholy affection, she ran away will
him at the time
The store of Singleton & Bonnafor, of North
Branch, was burned recently. The firm car
and drugs The postof6ee, of which MIR. Sim
gleton was postmaster, was also burned. Loss,
ST., GEO; Insurance, $l4, OUO.
Rev. George F. McAfee, formerly of St Peter
and now of Pierre, has been appointed state
Minnesota. He will move lis family to st.
Paul soon, and MAKE that city his headquart-
erS.
Rev. Kristofer Janson, pastor of the Scan.
dinavian Unitarian church of Minneapolis ia
about to publish novel setting forth the ex-
periences of young Swedish wife in this
country, the SCENE Of which will be Mime
apolis and the Northwest.
The old Minneapolis Academy of Music in
Minneapolis, corner of Washington street, and
Hennepin Avenue, was burned Christmas. The
loss aggregates nearly $500, 900, with insurance
Of $685. COO. The principal sufferers are Her.
rick Brothers, Thomas Lowey, and E. A. Steele.
William Baler of Chastfeld, who was objected
to as a sutton for his daughter Martha by Mr.:
Barnard, visited the Barnard mansion and,
gently lifting Miss Martha from her bedroom
window. together with those of her personal
effects that could be carried, drove to Dexter,
where they were quietly married
Dr. P. H. Willard is tho heaviest creditor Of
the Fowler Furniture company of Minneapolis,
which failed recently, being a loser in the sum
of 81, 800 This failure, by the way, has not
yet come to the public notice, although being
for the sum Of l,C00 with Assets nominal.
Willard was for some time in the furniture bus
mess.
The Mazeppa mills started up Monday, aftel
q suspenslon of six months, caused by assign
ment The New proprietors are Jesse Mcintyre,
J. c. Pierce of Rcd Wing and Paul Hauser OF
St Paul. w. P. Brown, lately vice president
of tho Mazeppa Mill company, is engaged as
superintendent The mills have capacity OF
600 barrels daily.
On JAM IL and IS the reserve militia compa-
MES at Duluth and St Cloud will be inspected
for admission to the national Guard of Mime
sofa. The company making the better show
ing will take the place of Company X. Second
regiment, which is now vacant Company A.
Second regiment, New Ulm, has recently en-
listed forty mon, and is fast reg aiming it's old
position.
Twice within the past three weeks guests at
f1,o Rrrr ,1y b1fa al To ;hor11 hovo hoor,
rescued from imminent death from escaping
gas which they had neglected through ignor
ance or other causes to turn OF after extin-
gushing, by the watchfulness of the night
clerk. The first bridal couple from the
country, the last prominent lawyer from
NOrthfcld
coughs who came to the Northern Pacific
Junction, and were proceeding to the Jail with
them, when one of them drew revolver, but
had hardly done 80 when OF icer Flynn knocked
him down. The fellow succeeded in firing at
him twice, but without effect, when Flynn
drew his revolver and shot him threw leg.
He managed to escape but was afterward ar-
rested.
known lawyers of St Paul, died Wednesday
morning at his residence Deceased came to
Madison, Wis, in 1856, and removed to st.
Paul in 1874, entering into partnership with
Mayor O'Brien and ex-Gov. Davis. In 1880
the firm was dissolved, Wilson and O'Brien
| remaining in partnership till Nov: of the
present year, when MIR. Wilson retired owing
to i'll health.
An association for the relief of superannuat-
ed ministers of the Methodist conference has
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few days Judge Brill of St Paul is president,
Rev. DR.. Wayne Of Minneapolis secretary, and
B, F. Nelson treasurer. "A final meeting will
be held in a. few days in st. Paul, at which
time it is expected to complete arrangements
for the founding of a Methodist religious
weekly paper, similar in character to the large
family of Christian Advocates.
As the early freight was moving from the
station at Rochester, Clarence jackson, brake.
man, caught on to the tender to swing him
.a1f aboard Int missed his hold and fell be-