The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-15
MINNESOTA.


pool of water and was drowned at Winona
few days ago. :*|
A default of s91, 035 interest money on
mortgage bonds was made by the Mime
apolis q St Louis road recently, no funds
being available for the payment
Edmund II. Grethen, aged twenty-one
years, and living with his widowed mother
in Minneapolis, was killed the other morn
ing by being caught in the betting at the
Crystal Lake mill
Miss Adele Menard, the sixteen-year- old
daughter of well-known citizen of Mime
apolis, drowned herself in the Mississippi
river recently. Her father had punished
her for being out with young man, to
whom, it was said, she was betrothed.
. At Duluth few days ago Minnie Schoe-
macker and frankie Haven were drowned
by the upsetting of a boat
During an alteration at Wabasha the
other night between Martin Gross and
Alfred Dechanet the former had his right
arm broken between the wrist and the ell
bow by blow of an axe. The quarrel
was the outcome of feud of long stand
ing.
Rev. DR.. Dana, after serving the Ply
mouth Congregational Church at st. Paul
for ten years, recently rendered his resig-
nation
The mayor of ST. Paul has been instruct
ed to order the police to destroy the nests
of English sparrows in the parks.
People living in the neighborhood of
Lake Winona, Mimi, are good deal exer-
cised over the appearance Of an enormous
fish, which spouts water fifteen or twenty
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be species of whale.
A work train on the st. Paul, Mime
apolis & Manitoba road was wrecked
recently near Anoka, and John Griffin, of
st. Paul, was instantly killed, James Vel
tullo and o. G. Foreit probably fatally in
jured, and four others seriously injured.
Barbara Luther, dress-maker at Mime
apolis, has sued George c.. Campbell,
lumberman, for breach of promise. She
claims $4,000 damages Campbell claims
that she did the proposing.
The new Congregational church at Fer
gus Falls was dedicated a few days ago.
The church cost $500 and was dedicated
free of debt
Ariel Eldridge, seventy three years old,
was recently united in marriage with Mrs.
Sarah E. Staples, aged sixty-two years, at
North St Paul.
A romantic wedding occurred in Mime
apolis few evenings ago. The brideswas
Miss Jennie Whitcomb, popular society
favorite, and the groom Hippolyte Hardy,
a young business man of Paris, France.
The young people met in Japan and did
their counting there, but the brides
mother insisted that the ceremony should
take place in her Minneapolis home, so the
party returned from Japan to that city for
that purpose. Their future home will be
in Paris.
DAKOTA.
The county commissionersof Hutchinson
County have let the contract for the con-
struction of fire proof vault at the court
house.
The office of city assessor has been
created by the council of Yankton.
Fifty-one dwelling-houses are now in
course Of construction in WATERFOWL.
The village of Mapleton was visited by
fire recently which destroyed an elevator
containing twenty-five thousand bushels OF
wheat, a store and a number of dwellings,.
The owners of mines at Bald Mountain
have organized shotgun brigade for the
purpose of defending their property from
claim jumpers. -,
In a recent runaway accident at Chip
pews Falls Kitty Carroll received severe
.dislocation of the elbow and other injuries,
and Carrie Land was injured in the back
and also received severe internal injuries
William Hamlin, convict at the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, while running a stone
polishing machine the other afternoon was
caught in the rapidly revolving wheels and
whirled around until he was a mass Of
broken bones and torn flesh. He was sent
from Pierre to serve TWO years sentence
for grand larceny.
The, Jerauld County Fair Association
wants five hundred original notices con-
tributed by the young folks Of the county
to be used IN making up the county display
at the Territorial fair.
Lightning recently struck the houseof
Julius Becker, prosperous German farmer
at DEVILS Lake, wrecking the building and
killing his daughter and seriously iniuring
both him and his wife. The latter may not
recover. &
At WATERFOWL the hardware stock of
Walter NJ. Savage, one of the largest deal
ers in Central Dakota, was placed in the
hands Of G. NJ. Cannon as assignee few
days ago. The stock was valued at SIS, 600;
liabilities were unknown.
D. H. Pierson, one of the early settlers of
Marion Junction, died without moments
notice at the supper table the other even
ing, evidently of heart disease.
The fifth annual tournament of the South
Dakota Firernan's Association took place
recently at Huron, twenty five fire depart
ments being represented,
The bill to provide for two additional
Associate Justices Of the Supreme Court Of
Dakota has passed the House at Washing
ton.
Rev. C. Fl. Bohn, pastor of the Episcopal
church at Yankton, disappeared the other
day.
Two young farmers named Bailey and
Wilson quarreled the other night, in
Bloomin gton, Bailey firing at Wilson and .
killing his own father. Wilson then shot
Bailey dead.