The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-30
MINNESOTA NEWS CONDENSED.

MINNESOTA NEWS CONDENSED.
G NJ. Mi,,spaush /, died il .t bis residence: .5e
fsribault recently, aged sizy-seven years. The
deceased has been for, many years vesTy-
Christian % W gentleman. he leaves, wife .ans
three grown children, the eldest beng Rev. r.
R. Mil1spaugh, dean OF the cathedral a. ol''anS
Neh ~... :; 49,, :, ;;
W. l. Turner, who so: m1steriously disap-
peared from St. Paul in March with consld:
erable sum of other peoples money, nas pe1 oeei
arrested in ST Louis and returned to 81 fau!'
A brilliant marriage ceremony was soiemnla-
ed at Sc. Mary's church st. Paul, the Gontrac.,
ting parties being Miss Name, aaug1pI' ,',oe ..
Col John s. Prince, and Dr. JameS 2laiAoo
Rt Rev. Bishop Grace oficiated.
Mrs. Sarah Walker Penniman, an old resi-
dent Of Minneapolis, and the wife OF tae late
DR.. William Penniman, after whom Pennlmena
addition is named, died at Elizabeth, Pa, Sat-
urday, April II, in the nth year OF her age
The Ramsey county commissioners recently
decided to purchase tract of 160 acres IN New c
Canada township for use as poor 1arn' Auo
price of the same is $l5,OO0
Frank Liviski, a St Paul boy, is missing ana
IT is not known whether he has decamped OF Is
drowned
The governor has received from the general
land Office a certified transcript Of lists and s.
spproved April q, of selections OF land as 1oi-:
lows: Redwood Falls district, 1861. ~ acres
Furgue Falls district 2,S4o. 10 acres, benson
district, 1922 Oh acres
The republicans Of st: Pah nominated for
Mayor, W. r Merriam; Controller, J. J. Nc
Cardy; Municipal Judge, w. T. Burr
Swan Applequist, Swede, hanged himself
at Minneapolis because of unrequited love-
Frederick Thymean, young German living
near Odessa, was burned to death while en-
deaYorin3 to rescue some mules from DuTn-
ing barn. He leaves wife and one child IN
destitute circumstances.
Nicholas Thlll, the Foster City saloonkeepel
who shot Jerry Whallon, was bound over in
s. 600 until April 81, to await the result of hls
shooting. Whallon is yet alive, but is IN great
sgony.
S. Stall, county treasurer of Morrison county,
has brought suit for damages in 5000 against
Leon Houde, the writer of an art Gle Ill the llt-
tie Fails Transcript; ". n FuI5er, publisher e
question charged HIM with falsiticahon and OF
conduct deserving branding.
Maj Smith, the extensive pork packer Of
Sioua Falls, has in contemplation packing
house at Pipe Stone.
The new Catholic orphan asylum on Carroll
street St Paul was formally blessed and ded-
tested by Bishop Grace, assisted by Fathers
Heffron and Danahey, of the cathedral, ,on Sun
day.
The Sisters hospital property in Minneapo-
lis, which has recently been purchased for
$50, 600 by the Catholic Orphan Asylum asso-
citation, will soon be occupied az an asylum
One of the features of the new church build
ing at Minneapolis, will be the library and
reading room. There will be what is some
what unusual IN church a room for dancing
At the last meeting of l. I. Plummer Post,
Minneapolis, G. A. R., the resolutions censur-
ing Gov Hubbard, which created SO much of
q Juror in grand army circles, were brought
up for reconsideration. The discussion,
which was lengthy and animated, eliminated
in the passage of a motion to rescind the
trou ublesOme resolutions.
From the published statements of the list of
births in Minneapolis and St Paul, for several
years past, striking proof is found of the
truth of the assertion that the population OF
the two cities is about the same. The total Of
births in the twin cities for number of
years back has not varied ten, and one year it
was tie
A case of small po9 has been discovered
at St James, The patient was promptly re-
moved to the pest house.
Dr. Kirk of St. James reported case Of
smallpox, and the authorities built q pest
house west Of the lake, and the patient was re-
moved there.
A band tournament will be held at White
Bear the coming summer: Five hundred dol
lars will be given in prizes.
Arrangements have been made by which
Rev. F. l. Patterson becomes pastor of the
Baptist churches of St Charles and Chatfeld.
A four-year~ol daughter of Mr.: and Mrs.
Lewis Horst fell into pail of boiling water at
LIE Sueur and was 50 badly scalded that she
died.
Gen. H. A. Beers of Owatonna died recent
~.
Only four years ago Minnesota had but two
product for 1884 was 100000 pounds Not
bad beginning.
The body of an unknown man was found in
Whisky creek, near Sabin, Clay county. How
;he man came to his death remains mystery.
There was no evidence of foul play.
Drs. A. E. Senkler and A. Macdonald, of St.
Paul, have been called in consultation with DR..
Ramsey of St. Cloud, in the caseof Rt Rev.
Bishop Seidenbusch.
Edwin Gribble, an elderly lawyer Of some
notoriety, received a severe thrashing on a
street in St. Paul, from one S. A Grindall
Navigation opened at ST. Paul on the 21st,
five days later than the average.
Mr. McLarty, the postmaster at Cha: Geld, has
been in Office longer than any other postmaster
in the state.
Articles Of incorporation of the Northwestern
Electric company, of St Paul and Minneapolis,
for the manufacture and sale of electrical ap-
pliances, telegraph and telephone systems, etc,
were fled with the secretary of site. The
capital stock is 500, 600, the limit of liability
$25, 600, and the Offices are H. G. Hope, presi-
dent; r. W. Cavenaugh, vice president and
treasurer; J. T. Clark, secretary. and G. B.
Askew, superintendent
The seven year-old son of Hugh Brooks, liv-
by his mother He had been sent to carry
revolver to her with instructions to tell her it
was loaded, but through his culpable negh-
gence in falling to do so he received painful
flesh wound in the course of her experiments
to ascertain the condition of the weapon
Mayor Mcdonald Of St Cloud signed the
high license ordinance It provides for $500
license for wholesale or retail dealers; $25 for
druggists and for closing the saloons on Sun
day. The license has been $1CO, and there are
now forty saloons running in town; less1444
one half Of these will take out license next
month under the new law.
Morrison county has sold its s., 600 funding
bonds at par to c. Livingston Of st Paul
Hardee post G. A R., has arranged pro-
gramme for an extensive celebration on the
coming Fourth of July at Lanesboro. Fillmore
county, which will partake largely Of the ma
ture Of soldiers reunion 1t is expected that
this will be the largest catering of the defend
ers of the Union ever held in the county.
Some members of the Lake City Commando
ry K. T., and other friends Of Dr. c. W. Crary,
who is about to move with his family to Pal
myra Springs, Wis, presented him, through
Maj. l. S. Van Vliet, with an elegant bronze
clock as testimonial of regard
The Central Minnesota Fair association ha.