The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-12-12
THE NORTHWEST,
A Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States
MINNESOTA.

During 1890 New Ulm expended 3175, 900
in building improvements.
In eight at West Superior Michael sulli.
van was fatolly stabbed BY Patrick German.
An unknown man WIS killed while walking
on the Great Northern track ut st. Paul.
The firm Of Rem mele 4 Book. general mer.
chants at Sleepy Eye has made ON assign.
mcnt.
At the village election in Park Rapids
vote was taken on lcense or no license. Tho
license ticket carried BY large majority.
H. Lips, Of Rock county, manufactured
III gallons Of amber cane syrup this full.
The field was abont $50 gallons per acre.
Rubie Mead, agsd II was drowned in Deer
creek, near Fergus Falls, while skating. The
water was not deep but lie mired In the mud.
Neil Connolly, formerly deputy sheriff of
Dakota county, died in Texas. The re mains
will be forwarded to st. Paul for burial.
An old man numed Pulford, emplo ycd in q
stone quarry near st. Cloud. fell into deep
pit filed with water and was drowned before
lie could he rescued.
Brown county hos los veterans on the
pension roll Ncollet county u, Sihley coun.
ty 133. Redwood county GO, and Wutonwnn
county 80.
The hardware storc of Haus Nelson, Mt
Fergus Falls, was entered by thieves who
carried away about 800 worth of knives, re-.
volvsrs and razors.
Z. A. Gardiner, Minneapolis letter cnr.
rier, 10 held to the United States court ut st.
Paul in 81. 900 bonds on charge of open.
lug letters and abstracting money therefrom:
In a quarrel over money matters at Sauk
Rupids. Dan Ailane stabbed and seriously
wounded Peter Keely, u telegraph operator.
Milane was taken to st. Cloud for SAFE keep.
ing.
Nicholas Kill, convicted OF murder in the
first degree for the killing Of O farmer named
kohon nenr st. Paul Inst summer, hns been
sentenced to the ,enitentiary for the bul.
ance Of his natural lie.
In street fight in st. Paul, John Smith,
aged 20, was stabbed eleven times with u
large jack knife BY n young man named
Trineau. Smiths wounds may prove fatal
Trineau is in jail
Mrs. Elenorn Tomasko LEFT ler home in
Iakefeld and has not been heard from since
She had been dcmented and was released
from the st. Peter asylum only afew months
ago. She IL u small woman, with light hair
and usually talks and acts like sane per.
son.
The State Formers alliance will hold it's
annual convention .or the election of officers
und the transaction of important business
at st. Paul on December 80. Nearly 1000
delegates are expected to attend, and the AS.
semblage promises to be one of the most
notable ever held in the state.
A man named Rakavitz, living in the town
Of krain, Stearns county, was found by his
daughter suspended to the limb of II tree.
The decline in the price of wheat and the loss
OF some land By the resurvey Of the town
rendered him insane and led to the deed. lie
was in good circumstances.
The xrst % %a! b4hs sysnt, e"Gy the xo1f
ofsomc incendiary, rs the mill WIS not rum
hing and no one staid In it. The mill wns
built several years ngo, hut since ,-hc new
roller mill started the property hos not been
paying Investment. 1t il understood TINT
1t wac sold few days ago to parties east.
remarkable formation was seen in tho
Rky at Mortified. Due west there was n
n,,lEball Of ire from which rose pillar oi
the same reddish hue extending we'll nigh to
the zenith. The color nni intensity varied,
now being fiercely distinct, then nearly in.
visible. Later on second pillar appeared
beside the first one and these were folio we'd
by II third ono In the southwest which was OF
u -hitish hue. \
A queer legal cl . is pending in Mnnenp.
oils. A supposed dcnd nun came to life dur.
Ing the funeral, but the undertaken refused
to take note Of the change in circumstances
nnL demanded his pay. The family c,aim
TINT they owe him nothing because he did MT
complete his contract to bury the Ialnented
ono, while the undertnkcr ,leclnres TINT they
committed breach of fuith in not furnishing
genuine corpse, and wants $4,000.
The supreme court of Minnesota holds
that bank checks are not cash, aud do net
IossesH legal value rs money until cashcd.
In other words, the giving Of check on n
bank is not pny mcnt when pissed bet wecn
debtor and creditor, but only becomes so
when the money is received on it. The Min
nesota conrt rules further that In accepting
o check from debtor there is no legal pro.
sumption TINT tho creditor tukes it in abso.
Lutte payment, but only conditionally, or as
u written acknowledgement Of the debt
The fnrmers Of Pirestone county are now
ready for II s,gnr factory. One or two OF
them had small trinl patches 01 sugar bects
for seed rent from the department uf agri.
culture at Washington this year, and the
yield was something like 400 bushels per
acre. Samples of the beets were sent to
Washington, and, after a government nnaly.
civ. were pr ronounccd FIRST class. This hns
aroused tle fnrmera und mnnv amnll
patches will be plan next spring, und
should factory be located so that beet q
can be proftably shipped, good share OF
the county would.at once be turned into n
huge beet field.