The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
THE NORTHWEST.


Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.
VIM. Rose, under sentence of death at New
Ulm, died with the influenza.
Prospects are good for the erection OF q
$12, 900 opera'house at Luverns the coming
season.
Morrison county will have . new court
house located at Little Falls, and costing
$40. 200.
Jim" Hill, the railroad msgnate. offers
to donate $4,000 towurd public library
in St Panl.
Bruce, Rock county, 10 without saloon.
the last venture to establish one in that
place having proven o failure.
The livery stable Of P. Thsreau, at St. Paul,
containing eighteen head of horses, was con-
sumcd BY fire. Loss, So. 600; fully insured.
At the Duluth land Office during the month
Of January there were thirty-two cash.
twenty three homestead and twenty pre-
emPtion entries.
Arrangements are being made to start mp
the Red Wing Wagon Company's works
again and turn out at least 500 wagons
this season, the stock on hand being dis.
posed of.
Edith McNary, a 14-year-old girl residing
near Red Wing, deliberately placed q revolt
yer to her temple and pulled the trigger,
dying almost instantly. No cause for the
act is known.
Shaw bosh-king, the Oldest Mile Laos
chief, died at his home at the outlet of the
lake with the grip. Several more are sick at
the reservation. The chiefs brother is down
with it and lie not expected to live.
William BROKER, who on the Gath of last
November, at Pine City, 30 astrociously
murdered William Coombs and wife, has
been sentenced to be hanged April 80. He
will be canfined in the saltwater penitentiary
until the day fhis execution.
John Fallen. IN engineer on the Omaha
road, while passing under bridge near St.
Paul. was struck By a falling beam and
knocked from his engine. He fell under the
train and was run over. his right leg being
badly crushed.
A number of farmers living around Ken
yon, together with the business men located
there, having organized an association hav-
ing for it's object the holding Of stock fairs at
Kenyon at regular intervals for the sale OF
live stock of oil kinds and especially Of
horses.
Martin Selma udt and two workmen were
horribly injured near Hutchinson by the
bursting of the boiler of threshing engine
which they were using to run a saw mill. The
accident was caused by the water being al
lowed to run 10 W in the boiler. Schmaudt may
die.
A horse belonging to s. D. Peterson OF New
Ulm, was killed in u very peculiar and un-
usual manner. Along with some other
horses the animal was twrned loose in the
yard, and in frisking about was kicked by
another in the forehead so that he fell to the
ground in ON instant decd. -
Mrs. James Mcneil, Who shot her children
at Cannon Lske short time ago and shen
took carbolic acid IL improvin slowly. Ths
baby, who was shot through both lungs o
also doing we'll, az is also the girl to whom
she gave the carbolic acid. She was temper
arily insane at the time OF the tragic occur
renee.
c. F. Mas, a young German farmer re-
siding near Mazeppa, loaded sled with sack.
ed fax for market and attempted to run it
by hand a few rods from the granary, having
hold OF the tongue. The sled got the start of
him, und, it being too icy to guide it. he was
pushed by the load down an incline against q
barbed wire fence with such forco as to break
several ribs, and, it is feared. injure him in
ternally. His young wife is very low with
consumption and not expected to live but
short time.
was appointed by Gov. Merriam to fill the
judgeship of the Twelfth judicial district, re-
Gently mode vacant by the death of Judge
John Il. Brown. Mr.. Powers is a native Of
Maine, and a brother of ex-Congressman
Powers OF that state. He graduated from
the Albany Law School in 1865, and soon
afterwards came to Minneapolis, where he
studied law for two years with Wilson &
McNair. After practicing his profession for
several years, he removed to Granite Falls,
where he has since resided.
Hon. D. J, Knox died at his farm, on Mile
Laos lake, after a short illness. His remains
were Immediately brought to his home ut
Aitkin. He was a member of the lower house
of the legis lature during the sessions of 1885
and 1887 from the Forty-sixth district. and
would perhaps have received the Republican
nomination for senator from the new district
as divided by the apportionment bill adopt
ed last session. The entire community is in
mourning. lie leaves a widow and young
daughter, as well as an aged father and
mother.
NORTH nAK0rA
The bill locating the North Dakota state
fair at Grand Forks has passed the state
senate.
The farm ers elevator at Mayville, it is said
has handled one-half of the wheat shipped
from there.
The Bismarck Tribune company has oeen
sued for libel in the sum of $15, 200 by
County Commissioner Healy who was re-