The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
IN THE NORTHWEST
A Summary Of the Important
Events of theWeek in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
The schools at Fairhaven have been closed
.on account Of the prevalence of dphtheria.
man living near Lake City who disap-
peared some months ago is now said to have
been murdered.
sixty-four cases of clothing and provisions
were forwarded from st. Paul to the North
Dakota sufferers.
The Northwestern Telephone company is
granted an underground conduit franchise
by the st. Paul council.
The premature explosion of a blast in
quarry near Hinckley resulted in A. Corne-
Illus losing his eyesight.
Northwestern roads, it is decided, must
make reports hereafter to the United States
commissioner of railroads.
Frank E. Judge, the young son Of p. I.
Judge of Hastings broke through the ice
while skating and was drowned.
The Wash burn-Crosby Milling company
has announced its determination to remove
its plant from Minneapolis to Duluth.
The Red Pipestone Quarrying company. of
Pipestone with capital Of $50, 900, has been
organized under the laws of the state.
.ern secures a $4,000 verdict against that
company for the loss of a leg in st. Paul.
The city council at Litchfeld has called a
special election, to vote on the issue ofe22O.-
600 bonds for water-w orks and electric
lights.
John Smith, a stranger, while intoxicated
laid down on the railroad track at Wilmar
and was run over by switch engine. He
cannot recover.
John Yanke, of Hector, committed suicide
by cutting the arteries in his wrists with
q penknife. He was found by his family
lying in a hay-mow.
Peter Monson, q farmer, dropped dead with
heart disease at Montevidea while raising
sack of wheat from his wagon at the mill
elevator He resided as Lauriston.
A Minneapolis physician experimental on
an old man OF 70 with some Brown.Sequ ard
elixir some time ago and the old man is now
lying in the hospital at the point of death in
consequence.
John A. Brown, a young man living in
Pleasant Grove, Olmstead county, accidentIy
shot himself while hunting. In falling he
broke his collar bone and shoulder blade.
He will probably recover.
The attorney general decided that c. A.
Gle couldn't hold position as member OF
the Winona board of education and teach in
the public schools at the same time, and Mr..
Gle resigned his position as teacher.
Dr. Ames, of Minneapolis, received another
threatening letter few days ago, in which the
writer says: "You have insulted a noble race,
which offense places your life in jeopardy"
The letter was signed "Clan -na-Gael
A burglar made call at the residence of
A. E. Cheney, at Hastings, secured some val
uabes and left without. being discovered.
The next morning he was traced in the snow
to vacant house q mile distant and captur-
ed,
In quarrel over o cigarette which James
Simpson took from a showcase in William E.
Haverstick's store at st. Paul, the former
stabbed the latter in the back with u pocket
knife, INJECTING dangerous and probably
fatal wound.
When W. H. Millman. commerc ial editor of
the Minneapolis Tribune, went home to din
ner he found his wife sitting in chair dead.
She had been asph yxiated by gas escaping
from q defective pipe. At her feet lay her pet
cat, also dead.
convict was released from the Saltwater
years for manslau ter, and the first thing
he did was to get an abnormal jag" on and
was in the cooler in less than two hours
after he gained his liberty.
The cha rred remains of Swenke Torgensen
and wife were found in their burned house
near St. Peter. 1t was known that they usu-
ally kept sums of money in the house and it
is supposed they were murdered and the house
fired to conceal the cri me.
At the NEE ting of the common council of
Rochester it was decided to give the North.
western Electric Construction and Supply
company the franchise and contract
which allows $115 apiece per year for five
are lights to be placed on our streets
The new high school building was dedicated
at Worthington. The building, which is
conceded to be one OF the finest in the state,
cost $4,000. State Superintendent Kiehle
and Prof. Soaring of the Mankato normal
school, delivered lectures in the building.
After a session, all told, of as days. the
jury, .empanel!ed to try J. Frank Colon
for the very grave charge of forging the
name J. T. Blaisdell to $27O,OOO worth of
paper, were discharge by Judge Hooker.
they having failed to agree on a verdict.
Bob O'Neil and Charles Kelly were arrested
and lodged in jail at Verndale on the charge
OF stealing every thing in one ofthc Chute Riv-
err Lumber company's camps on the Red Rye
river. The goods taken amounted to 81 200,
and $500 was found in the possession of the
men W hen arrested.
Possibly the heaviest verdict ever rendered
against railroad corporation in a damage
suit was the one returned by the jury in St.
Paul in the case OF Hall against the Burling-
ton road. 1t seems sort of travesty on
justice that the law should limit damages
for the destruction of human life to IS, 900,
and yet person who has only been MAIN cd
can recover 49, 900. 1t does seem that hu-
man lite ought to be worth as much as hu-
man limbs