The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of the Important
i Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
Worthington voted for license at the vii
.age election recently.
The grand jury at Brainerd, in the case Of
Hansen, accused of wife murder, found YER
dict of murder in the secpd degree.
The state semi-annual and district en-
campment of the G. A: R., will be held in
Little Falls June II, 1S and 10 next.
Albert Moe 17-year old Lakefeld boy,
has his left hand blown off by the bursting
OF a rusty shotgun.
M. G. Kelly, an employe in saw mill at
Barron, was Instantly killed by board
thrown from the edger. His family live in
Minneapolis.
Peter Pierson, a St. Paul printer, while
temporarily insane, committed suicide by
jumping off u high bridge onto the ice be-
low, breaking his neck.
Patrick Kelly and John Olson were fatally
and B. NJ urphy seriously injured at Orion
vile by the explosion ola dynamite cartridge
while at work in aquarry.
There is talk of organizing horse breed
ers' association for south Minnesota,
and Pipestone will probably be selected as the
place for holding their initial meeting.
Aman named Lindbloom was held up for
$50 by footpads at Albert Lea the other
night. They failed to 60 through his boots,
however, where he had 500 slowed away.
The 12-year-old daughter of Patrick Boyle,
of Hartland, while playing with some other
children fell on her side on butcher knife,
INJECTING q wound from which she died in half
an hour.
John Raymond, miser living near Hutch
inson, died the other day in filth and want
and had enough money in the bank TO have
lived in luxury. He lived alone in q shanty
and his deathbed was pile of hay.
The Indians in the neighborhood of Pipe
stone are taking great deal of interest in
the establishment of an Indian school at
that place. A petition with the signatures
of 283 Indians attached was recently for
warded to Washington.
Charles Searles and William Payne were
arrested at Missoula, Mont, on charge OF
robbing the Northern Pacific express Office at
Brainerd of $50, 900 about year ago, and
requisition papers have been issued for their
return to Brainerd.
At Brainerd in the case of Tom Heffr on, a
young boy, against the Northern Pacific
Railroad company for $4,000 damages, a
Hebron lost his sight while in the employ of
the company.
A large lamp fell to the floor in the par
ior of the Hall house, at Albert Lea and
the room was all quickly ablaze. By prompt
work in using a tank of drinking water Fred
G. Bennett, guest, quenched it, thus barely
saving the house from destruction.
w. II. Anderson was arrested at Mankato
charged with circulating slalderous litera-
ture. Anderson has been dealing in the Sun.
day Sun, published in st. Paul. Ayoungman
whose name was used in correspondence from
that place caused his arrest.
Sheriff Mead received at Redwood Falls,
from Alexandria, the gallows on which the
Barrett boys were executed. VIM. Rose will
be executed on April IL foe the mu der OF
Moses Lufkin on Aug. 26, 1888. The exc
cution will take place in an enclosure which
will be built around the lookup.
Prof. Otto Lugger. state entomologist at
the experimental farm, says the disease which
has so severely injured the fax crop is kind
of parasitical growth. and to be cured must
be crushed out He thinks the state should
appropriate $500 or 1000 to be expended
in Investigating with the purpose of finding
a remedy.
Miles Wagner and Henry Zumberg. under
arrest at Howard Lake charged with attempt
ing to blow up c. NJ. Buck and T. E. Latham
by charging sticks of wood in their wood piles
with giant powder have confessed the crime.
The stoves in the Office of Buck and Latham
were blown to pieces. but fortunately no one
was injured. The trouble grew out of the
liquor question.
An Indian camp, twenty-five miles north of
Duluth, consisting of six bucks, five squaws
and fourteen children, was visited by hunters
the other day, who report the camp to be in
q litrally starving condition, the supplies
having given out some time ago. They had
been subsisting for over a month solely on
fish caught in Shillene lake, and the majority
Df them were SO weak from hunger as to be
unable to move. The matter has been laid
before the proper officials and the people of
Duluth will contribute to their immediate
wants.