The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-07
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

Girls from Is to Sc years of age enjoy
themselves skating ut Minnesota City.
Simmons, the Tower murderer, was acquit-
ted at Duluth after the jury had taken forty
eight ballots.
Judge John II. Brown, Of the Twelfth judi
icial district, died ut his home in Willmar
Of heart trouble.
Mrs. Chapman. widow of the late editor of
the St. James Journal, has assumed editorial
management of that paper.
Herbert Voos of St. Paul. concealed seven
dozen raw oysters inside of thirty minutes
and won bet OF $50.
An attempt was made to burn the feed mill
at Lakeheld the other night. but the fire was
discovered in time to prevent much damage
No clue to the perpetrator.
Annie Buresh, Bohemian girl, committed
suicide Mt Owatcnna by drowning herself in
cistern. Disappointment in love was the
cause.
A. Strutz, lumberman, was crushed to
death by q wagon heavily laden with logs
passing over his body at o lumber ca mpnea
Rinckley.
George Smith, y Mile Laos county farmer,
is in jail at St. Paul ON q charge OF forging
Isaiah Could name to q pension check for
81, 900. Gould had lived in Smiths family,
but has been dead for two years.
Mrs. R. G. Hutchins, wife Of the former
pastor of Plymouth church in Minneapolis
committed suicide few days ago in Los
Angeles, CAL, where Mr.. Hutchins Is the
pastor of one OF the leading churches.
II is alleged that paupers are being shipped
into the northwest over the Canadian Pacific
railway from Norway, and that mum Der OF
cases Of leprosy have lately developed
among them in Kittson county.
Will Carl and George Ellsworth are in
Jail ut Mortified for burglarizing Wilson's
store at that place. They attempted to
shoot the officers who arrested them. Carl
is q soldier in the Salvation army.
At Austin, +. P. Aplin, confined in jail for
grand larceny, attempted to hang himself.
He was discovered just in time. He was re-
Gently released from the Rochester insane
asylum. He made a rope out of bis shirt.
The Minnesota grand lodge of Masons in
session at St. Paul condemned Cerneauism
by an almost unanimous vote. The Ger
neauists belong to q branch ofMas onry which
does not believe in the existence of supreme
being.
O. e. Olson, of Battle Lake, has brought
suit against K K. Tvete for $4,000 dam
ages. They are rival merchants, and last
fall Tvete accused Olson of stealing some
goods from his store, but failed to substanti-
ate the charge.
Robert McNnbb, 16-year-old messenger
boy employed by St. Paul firm forged the
signature of the firm to several checks and
getting them cashed at the Capital bank.
skipped for Duluth. He was arrested and
taken back to St. Paul.
Michael Schieber, the Bavarian murderer,
recently arrested in Minneapolis, has been
sent back to Bavaria, Germany. The crime
charged against Schieber is the murder OF his
4-year-old stepson and his grandfather in
Pandorf, Germany.
A state law has been passed providing that
tree peddlers from other states must file an
affidavit with the secretary Of state to the
effect that they are engaged in legitimate
business and provide bond OF g., 500 be-
fore being allowed to sell.
The roller mill of A. D. Sprague, located
in the Winnebago valley, was burned. The
mill. including the warehouse is total loss.
The miller thinks the fire started in the dust
room from the chimney. The loss is &c.,
900, without insurance.
ASH W. Jones was walkingup Third street
at Faribault, he sli pped upon the Icy side
walk and fell, coming down on his back. 1t
was thought at first thai he WIS dead. but
after taking him home it was found that his
backbone was showed together about four
inches. He is now in a critical condition.
The case of William Broker, the Chengwa-
tona murderer, is being tried at Pine City at
an adjourned term of the district court be-
fore Judge F. NJ. Crosby, L. Fl. McKusick
county attorney, and Attorney General Clapp
for the pr osecuti on, and Dent & Dent for the
defense. The trial excites the greatest inter-
est in the county, from the fact of the cruel
atrocity of the murder.
The John Gund Brewing Company of La
Crosse has leased ground on the Omaha
track at Luverne, for warehouse. A large
building will be put up in the spring and the
trade supplied from that point. just what
bearing this will have on prohibition in
South Dakota and Iowa remains to be SEEM
The Sioux Falls brewery, which it was thought
would move to Luverne, has been located at
Pipe Stone There is not enough local trade
ate vicinity to support these esta blish ments,
ard the proximity of the prohibition states
gives the whole thi ng peculiar look
NORTH DAKOTA.
Grand Forks is discussing the putting in OF
q new sewerage system.
The fair grounds of Grand Forks have been
sold by the sheriff to satisfy a mortgage.
North Da kota legislators are preparing to
give grand ball in the capitol building at
Bismarck.
Mai Powell one of the United States geo.
logical survey, says the Dakotas have coal
enough to supply the whole nation.
S. s. Smith. late receiver of the Devils
Lake land Office, denies the report that he is
short in his accounts with the government.
An appropriation of $50, 426 has been
asked for the maintenance, wages of en-
ployes, improvements, ETC., of the North Do
kota insane asylu m at jamestown.
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