The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-01
MINNESOTA CULLINGS.
The News Of the Week Througholt
the Entire State.

st. Paul will have an ice carnival
next winter.
A man named bartholomew
dropped dead of heart diseare at
Clearwater.
The salaries of the police force
OF Minneapolis have been reduced S.
per month all around.
Seventy-fve prisoners were trans
ferred from the Saltwater beniten-
tiary to the St. Clond reform school.
A capitalists offer for the Duluth
street railway system OF $500, 900
was refused, 5000, 900 being the
figure demanded.
S. Kinney, aged 80, was caught
between two stock cars in the stock
yards of St. Paul and crushed to
death.
A Caledonia jury awarded Mollie
Greckwell $500 damages in breach
of promise snit against William O..
Medt.
Two robbers tried to hold up tho
station agent at Mallory, but were
frightened away by the arrival of
a section boss.
The Phillsbury academy was dedi-
Gated with imposing ceremonies at
Owatonna: Hon. George A. Pills,
bury made an eloquent address.
St. Paul will not banquet the Pan
Americans, as reported. A dress re-
ception will be substituted at the re.
quest of the state department.
Henry Wood, an ex-condrctor on
the Northern Pacific, was killed by
the Duluth express near Kimberly.
The entire train passed over his
body, mangling it terribly.
The grand jury at Aitken failed to
indict Thomas Kelly, charged with
shooting Sam Christie at Grand
Rapids, October 1. and he was re-
leased. Christie is recovering.
Martin Nelson, a Northern Pacific
freight conductor. fell from the top
of the cars near Fertile and was
killed, his body being trightfully
mangled.
Another paper is to be started at
Clearwater. 1t will be published
and edited by T. Finley Wharton,
formerly of St. Cloud, but more re-.
Gently of Columbus, Ohio.
John Beck of Burns, near Anoka,
was arrested on the charge of rob-
bling Patrick Gorham of $50 while
enjoying his hospitality. He was
held for trial in 5000.
While fishing in Lake Pepin An
drew Stromberg found a sealed bot
tie with leaf from a memorandum
book enclosed, the following words
being written thereon: 'Tired of life.
Good bye
Andrew Olson, the alleged slayer
of a companion named Hagen at
Breckenridge, has been captured at
Duluth and taken back to Wilkin
county, where the crime was commit
ted.
An old man who has lived a seclud-
ed lite at Mankato for some time,
and whose name is unknown, shot
and seriously injured a boy named
Charles Brooks, who had been play
ing mischievous pranks on him.
George Thaden, F. G. Draper and
Geo. Kingsley, St. Paul real estate
men, were indicted by the grand jury
for grand larceny and forgery in ex-
changing forged mortgages for a
team of horses.
Andrew Olson is under arrest at
Rich Point on the charge OF murder
ing Hans Hagen at Breckenridge.
They left Brainerd together to go to
Dakota and work during the harvest
and it is claimed Olson killed his COM
panion and robbed him ofhis money.
In looking over the effects of Miss
Lena Weinberger, who committed
suicide at Winona a few months ago,
$12,117 was found hidden away in
three trunks. The money was con-
cealed by means of false bottoms in
the trunks, and a large amount of it
was in gold.
The Northwestern Endowment as
ISOLATION of Red Wing refused opay
the insurance on the life of P. B.
Sheehan, of Slayton, on account OF
alleged intemperance, and the court
decided that the association was liza
BILE and awarded Mrs. Sheehan ST.