The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
IN THE NORTHWEST
A Summary of the Important
Events of theWeek in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
ST: Paul has just completed extensions that
will double the water supply of the city.
Arthur Pratt. aged II, is mysteriously
missing from Anoka.
Henry Berkharr, of Minneolo, has been
committed to the Rochester Insane asylum.
James O'Reilly, aged So. is mysteriously
missing from his home near Red Wing.
Subscriptions for the relief of Mrs. Parnell
are being taken up in St. Paul.
The Chippewa commission has been sue
cessful in securing the signatures of all the
Indians on the Cloquet reservation.
While temporarily insane Alice Coon, a
Viola school teacher, committed suicide by
taking dose of rough on rats
The new Humboldt school building, one OF
the finest school edifces in st. Paul, was
completely wrecked by fire.
An unknown man was run over by the cars
and mangled beyond recognition in the de-
pot yards at Minneapolis.
Surveyors are at work locating the route
of the Little Falls, Mile Laos and Superior
railway.
The young son of Theodore Anderson, Of
Battle Lake. accidentally shot himself and
died shortly afterward.
At Worthington E. II. Lambertson was
sentenced to six months in Saltwater for
stealing wheat, and Frank Tyrell to four
months for forgery.
Acting Secretary Batchelder, of the Treasury,
appointed Sam Lowenstein OF st Paul to be
gauger for the revenue district of Minnesota,
with headquarters at st. Paul.
Ex-Gov Pillsbury sent draft for $40, 900
to the state treasurer as payment on his
recent donation of $4,000 to the state
university.
Dr.. Staple, of the state board ofhealth, has
ordered the NJ )orhead board ofhealth officers
to take charge of the diptheria epidemic at
Georgetown, it having got beyond thecontrol
OF the local board.
Clifton Holden, who was found guilty Of
the murder of Frank Dodge, was brought
into court at Redwood Falls and his sentence
suspended until January 6, 1890, pending
the action Of the supreme court.
Jacob Schrieber, the young man who muir
dered his uncle at Moorhead some time ago,
was taken to the government insane asylum
at Washington, D. C., being deserter from
the United States army.
Frank Landees, one of the cleverest forgers
in the country, who ped from Saltwater
in 1887, has been captured in Bavaria. He
had only served three months of his twenty
four years sentence when he escaped.
A reward Of 500 was offered for informa-
ton leading to the finding ofJames Reilly,
who disappeared two weeks since from Red
Wiur Thoro 10 a foor hot lo ict ho
victim of ioul play.
Stephen Newell, aged fourteen years, son of
Justice Newell was run over by the cars at
Hastings. He fell between the tender of the
switch engine and box car, the wheels of
the latter passing over him. He died In an
hour.
A convict named Fred Douglas attempted
to escape from Saltwater by concealing him
self in box car that was being run out of
the prison yard. He managed to get as far
as the railroad yards when he was discovered
by brakeman and taken back to the prison.
BotIeff l.unde, of Wanamongo, was found
dead under his wagon box on the road be-
tween that town and Lumbrota. His death
apparently resulted from Il runaway. He
still held the lines in his hands, and the horses
W. H. Adamson, a notorious usurer of
Minneapolis, was found guilty Of forgery in
that city, During the trial it developed that
his method was to charge 10 per cent. inter-
est, payable twelve times a year, or 100 per
cent. on money loaned. He will be sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
Jack Jardine, sixty years old, was killed
by the switch engine in the yard OF the
Northern Pacific railway at Detroit. The
coroner's jury decided that deceased fell on
the track while under the infueoce of liquor
and that the crew of the switch engine was
blameless. as the engine was running at slow
speed the bell ringing and nothing was seen
of Jardine until the engine had passed over
him.
Martin Anderson, q well-to-do farmer liv-
ing about ten miles from Rush City in Fish
lake town, mace an unsuccessful attempt to
murder HIS wife. but shot himself dead With
a Winchester. He had been drinking hard
lately, and it is supposed was suffering with
the tremens at this time. His wife attempted
to go to one Of the neighbours, when he op-
posed her, tussel ensued in which sister
and son of the wife took part, assisting the
latter to keep the crazy man from doing
DO0liy narm, lie pounded them until they
got away and ran toward house near by,
when the assailant fired two or three shots
at the retreating wife, who fortunately es-
capped unhurt. Within an hour party of
men returned to the house and found Ander-
son dead. having killed himself
NORTH DAKOTA,
John Fox was found dead in bed at
the Mcclellan house in Grand Forks
Plymouth church, at Grand Forks, was
damaged 500 worth by fire.