The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-03
THE NORTHWEST
\ Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
During 1889 S9.667, 753 has been ex-
pended in building in St. Paul.
Over 800 citizens of Fergus Falls were at
tackled with winter cholera" the past week.
A broom factory has been added to the in
dustries ofStilwater penitentiary and will
furnish work for fifty prisoners.
The temperance people of Minnesota have
taken steps to organize q non-partisan
league.
The Minnesota Educational association
will meet at St. Paul January and con-
tinue in session three days.
At Buffalo man named Dixon was in.
dicted on two counts for jury bribng and
fined 500 for tho first and $50 for tho Sec
ond.
Albert Lewis, Sandy McClymont, Bill
Tierney and Bob McAloney, youthful fire
bugs, were bound over in 5000 each at
Anoka to await trial for arson. Lewis has
made confession
The body OF Guy Gardner, who had been
missing since August Is, was found near
Rose Creek by boy while hunting. Gard
ner had been employed on the farm where he
was found. Suicide is suspected.
An insane man escaped from the st. Peter
asylum the other day and was captured in
Winona. He told Of killing several people on
his trip, but no credence is placed in his
story.
E. Rudiman, St. Paul travelling man,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart. Financial trouble and i'll
health was the cause. He leaves wife and
two children.
man named Hazen was accidentally
killed near Faribault while digging WELL
The man above let the rope slip and the
heavy pail struck him on the head, crushing
his skull.
Christ. BALI, of Owatonna. wound up a
drunken spree by shooting his wife through
the head and then blowing his own brains
out. Mrs. BALI was SO years old and BALI
81. They have five children living.
Edmund Wagner of Waseca, had leg
crushed while trying to cross the track ahead
OF q car that was being switched from one
track to the other. The member was ampu-
tated, but it is thought he cannot recover.
Jens Emerson, an old hermit living near
Slayton in an old dugout, was burned out by
fire. He had made the place his home for
fifteen years and is left entirely destitute.
The neighbors will care for him until he can
secure home.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North.
ern depot at Pipestone was burned to the
ground. Agent w. S. Williams and family
had narrow escape, as the entire lower
floor of the building was on fire before the
blaze was discovered.
The schoolma' ANS of St. Paul not long
ago we're instructed to give occasional in
struction in plain and fancy sewing to the
girls under their charge, and the horrible
fact came out that few if any of the teachers
could do any kind Of sewing whatever.
The motion for a new trial in the case of
Andrew Void, of Breckenridge, was denied.
The counsel for the defendant who had been
found guilty of murder in the first degree,
then argued for a mitigation of sentence, and
the court reduced the extreme penalty to i'm
prisonment for life.
There is terrible famine existing at Plain
view for water. Nearly every we'll in town
is dry, and farmers are hauling water from
creeks for their stock, some at distance of
five and six miles, If there is no rain before
cold weather comes there will be any amount
OF suffering.
The plan of Architect Joy for the st. Paul
ice palace has been accepted. 1t will be L
shaped and the architecture will be Roman
esque. The building will be 362 feet long.
varying in width from 4S to 200 feet. 1t will
exceed any previous attempt in point of
grandeur and costliness.
o. C. Serumgard of DEVILS Lake. N. D., ar
rived at Mankato and caused the arrest of
Ole Thorsen. Thorsen was charged with
murder at DEVILS Lake. and left that place.
His bondsmen, of whom Serumgard is one,
fearing Thorsen intended to jump his bail,
apprehended him. He is in Jail pending a
hearing for the requisition papers.
At Saltwater recently Mrs. Thomas Wells
with the aid of policeman, gave her hus-
band an unmerciful cowhiding. For some
time Wells, who is barber, failed to support
her and spent his money in a certain disre-
putable house. His wife went to the house
accompanied by the policeman, and after
she had trimmed Thomas with the whip un-
til she vas tired the policeman landed him
in jail The next day he was sentenced to
sixty days in the work-house. Mrs. Wells
has applied for divorce.