Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-31
MINI ESOTA.
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Dressed pork brings 81 at st. Peter.
Morris is going to have little ice
palace of its own.
Tho winter term of the Albert Leo
College has closed.
The hotel at Marshall, nearing COM
pletion, costs $4,000.
A toboggan slide $50 feet in length has
been built at Willmar.
The Lakefeld Standard started on it's
fourth year on the 9th inst.
Malaria fever still prevails in the vari-
GUS parts of the southwest.
Irving Woodward, of Newport was
killed while at work in well.
-Brainerd is having much trouble con-
corning the location of the dam.
The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad
reached Duluth on the 18th inst
The elevators at Hutchinson are TAX
ing in 5000 bushels of wheat per day.
After January each town in Brown
County will have 10 support its own poor.
The total public improvements for the
year at Minneapolis amount to s745, 7196 5.
"A brakeman on the Manitoba Road
was killed OF Fergus Falls on the 18th
inst.
The retail grocers of Winona are or
ganizing an association for mutual protec-
ton.
-Cuyler Adams was suspended for one
year from membership of the Duluth Board
of Trade.
Twice as many men will be employed
in the Northern Pacific shops at Brainerd
as was found necessary last year.
Louis Fischer, Jr., of St. Paul, son of
ex-Alderman Fischer, deceased, and a
prominent young real estate dealer, COM
m.tted suicide on the 18th inst. He leaves
wife and child. No cause assigned.
Nothing has been heard from Fred
Woodward, the young bookkeeper of Car
gill & Wagner, of Minneapolish, who dis
appeared under cloud some days ago. A
reward has been offer by the firm for his
arrest.
AT meeting of the Lumbermen's Ex-
change, ut Minneapolis on the 18th, it was
developed that the amount of lumber on
hand had been greatly underestimated.
There is not less than 21,OOO, 900 feet on
hand at the present time.
Judge r. Reynolds sentenced the fol-
lowing prisoners at Crookston on the 18th
inst: Joseph Laundry, assault with intent
to kill, eight years and six months; Charley
Kennedy, grand larceny, two years; David
Hutchinson, horse stealing. two years.
"A young Swede, Charles johnson by
name, was struck by pile-driver while
working near the new town of Barrett, en-
the Minneapolis and Pacific Railway, and
received injuries from which he died the
day following.
james Boa met with q singular death
at Minneapolis on the 18th inst. While
descending from an elevator roof with other
carpenters he is supposed to have slipped
and fell a distance of seventy five feet into
a bin, where he was found few hours
later
The Railroad Commissioners in their
biennial report will ask the Legislature for
new railroad law to contain the essential
element of the Cullom bill, with such pro-
visions and changes as were necessary to
the proposed regulation of railroads by
State authority.
A new telephone invention has brought
forth stock company at Minneapolis, and
factory for its manufacture will be put up
at once. The point of the invention is the
securing of absolute privacy to each patron
of the telephone, and its operation is such
that not only can no conversation be over
heard, except by parties entitled 10 it, but
the bell cannot sound Mt call from the
central except on the phone whose owner
is wanted. The instrument can b. It.
tached to any telephone.