The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-11
MINNESOTA.

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The house in East Rochester, owned and
occupied by Mrs Wade and her four child
rem, was totally destroyed by fire the other
afternoon with all the contents, except a
sewing machine The loss is heavy to Mrs.
Wade, it being her all. No insurance
Ready's three story brick building in Du-
buque collapsed the other morning. 1t was
total wreck, and caused loss Of $4,000
No one was injured.
Andrew Roefer shot himself in the breast
a few days ago at Tower, and died in a
short time He was war veteran, men,
Der Of Fargo Post, G.. A. R., and thirty five
years on Lake Superior. .g6 1851
Wegman Bros farm house, three miles
northwest of ST. Charles, was burned the
other night, the occupants barely escaping
with their lives Nothing was saved and
but little Insurance.
The offer which Fergus Falls made of a
site and $4,000 has been accepted by the
committee appointed to locate Methodist
seminary.
1t is said that an agent of Phil Armour,
of Chicago, was in Crookston recently and
secured site for the establishment Of
packing house.
The new weather indications Office at st.
Paul is pronounced success.
John Gorris, farmer of the town of
Willow Lake, had a quarrel with his hired
man the other day and struck him over the
head with fork handle, inficting such in
juries that he died shortly after.
The men who have returned to Duluth
from the pineries during the past few days
received 100000 in hard cash from their
employers.
Rev. Joseph Lanman has resigned the
pastorate of Bethlehem Presbyterian
Church of Minneapolis, after five years of
successful labor He will travel and study
in the old world.
Albert DeKay, proprietor of the Morris
and Duluth elevator, failed recently for
$4,000.
A syndicate at st. Paul, owning the Du-
luth gas and water works, have sold to N.
W. Harris & Co., bankers of Chicago, the
balance and large share of the first mort
gage twenty years six per cent. bonds.
Total issue, 100000.
William Ward, lumberman, dropped
dead in Duluth few days ago. He had
just come out of the woods. Whisky was
the cause.
Paul Berdle and Margaret Elizabeth Hop
kins q dwarf aged eighteen years, were
arrested at Minneapolis recently Berdle
was charged with abducting the girl from
her home in st. Paul, with the intention of
exhibiting her as a freak.
DAKOTA.
During the blizzard of January 10 last
farmer in Miner County named Matthews
lost hog weighing a little over two hun
6raH oil hod
heard of the brute until recently, when Mr.
Matthews, while working at hay-stack
some distance from the house, uncovered
the hog alive and with litter of ten pigs,
all alive and weighing about pound
apiece. The mother weighed about thirty
pounds, shrinkage of one hundred and
seventy pounds, she having been confined
in the stack about three months without
food or water
Frank E. Newton, an attorney at Henry,
was arrested few nights ago and lodged
in Jail on charge Of forgery. He was to
have been married same night
Surveyors have gone to the DEVILS Lake
Indian reservation to survey it into tracts
for allotment to the Indians.
The temporary injunction in Burke town,
ship against new survey of property lines
on account of the obliteration of the marks
of the Government survey has been dis
solved.
John Stukey, butcher at Gettysburg,
committed suicide the other day. Whisky
was the cause
The people of Mapleton chose rotten eggs
as an expression of their sentiments toward
Mr.. W. j. Judd, who was their postmaster,
but who sold out his store in their town
and succeeded in transferring the post
mastership to the purchaser. Mr.. Judd is
the son of the postmaster of Chicago.
Fifteen dollars per acre was recently paid
for ninety acres of raw land in the eastern
part of Clay County.
After five years OF anxious watching
Pierre's fondest hopes were realized the
other afternoon, when a telegram was re-
ceived from Delegate Clifford that the Sioux
bill had been signed by the President. Five
minutes later the streets were lined with
people, flags were waving and bands play
ing, while cheer after cheer rent the air.
Speeches were made and all business was
suspended during the remainder of the day.
A well-to-do farmer named Ferdinand
Richerts, living three miles east of New
Salem, shot himself dead few mornings
ago. He leaves wife. Illness was the
cause
Two brothers named Cronin, prosperous
farmers of Deuel. County, met P j. Tomilty,
p neighbor, and, knowing he had some
money with him, demanded money owed
them. Tomilty refused to pay, when the
Cronins assaulted him and took his money
from him. They gave him terrible beat
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