The Wahpeton times., 1890-07-24
TH (JRTHW EST,
a Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

st. Cloud is to have a -four mill that will
employ 100 men.
There are now 32s prisoners in the Still.
water penitentiary.
Robert Saxton committed suicide in a St.
Paul hotel by taking morphine.
The assessed valuation OF Duluth p,rso nal
and real property 10 $37, 900,177
Dunn & Allen, well known saloonkee pers Of
Minneapolis have been closed BY their cred.
dtors.
A. II. Smith, printer, and the husband Of
four wives, has skipped from Rush Lake to
escape prosecution for bigamy.
A. 8. sackett, ono of the Oldest and best
known men in Olmstead ounty, has become
insane through the excessive use Of alcohol.
Judge L. Hasen, OF Owatonna, and Miss
Aoford OF the same place, were married. The
judge is % years OF age.
Austin Hill. an empioye in the shoe factory
at Anokn, was assaulted by three footpads
and badly injured. They secured no money
George Anderson, of Jackson was accident
ly shot by target gun in Lake field july
4, and has since died from the wound.
John and Willie Donaldson. aged Is and
9years, respectively, were drowned while
bathing in the Straight river ut Owatonna
John B. Mueller, the Minneapolis brewer,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Brooding over money
matters was the cause
John Welch died at Hokah the other dov
at the age of 101 yers. He was a native
Of Ireland and came to this country fftv
years ago.
Thomas B. Strike, q well to do farmer, was
thrown from his buggy near Forest City, and
so severely wounded that he died few hours
later.
rather Anslem, young st. Johns college
cleric, was drowned in Lake St. John, near
st. Cloud, by the capsizing of boat. He
was 26 years of age.
Inc hardware store and postoffice ut Kel-
iogg was entered by burglars the other night
ana roboed OF : $l50 in money, $65 in stamps
and gold watch and chain valued ut $1OO.
Sneak thieves ransacked the dwelling OF
William Bartrow, at Verndnle and stole
1875, which was concealed in some bed.
clothes in bureau drawer
farmer named Oeffner while wal king
along the Great Northern track ut St. Cloud
was struck by passenger train and instunt.
~ killed. He was deaf and could not hear
the danger signals.
Edward Boew aged 16, was killed at Fer.
gus Falls by being thrown from a lood OF
hay. The wagon passed over him and he
was found Gend in the road three miles from
town.
1t is estimated that within the past 30
years 100 persons have been drowned while
bathing in the Minnesota river between Mon.
kato and st. Peter. The current is very
treacherous.
Rochester suffered from one of the hottest
days OF the season, the atmosphere being un.
usually oppressive. A farmer named Brooks
was sunstruck and two horses dropped dead
from the heat
Andrew Thompson, Swede, was drowned
while bathing in the Minnesota river. near
Redwood. He was about twenty years OF
age. unmarried and had been in this country
about year. He is not known to have had
any relatives except q brother ut Litchfeld
The clerk at the Grand Pacific hotel at
st. Cloud was Mortified when he disco yer.
ed the dead body of ohm Mccarthy with his
tnroat cut from ear to ear, in his room at
the hotel. Mccarthy was an engineer and
mad been on spree for several weeks. and,
IL ls thought, committed the deed in u fit of
drunken frenzy. He was brother Of Mrs.
Mary Bowman, who two years ago attempt.
ed suicide by jumping from the Mississippi
river wagon bridge. and also of Carrie Nc
Carthy, the somewhat noted courtesan who
made way with herself about tho 1st OF July
by taking laudanum at st. Paul.
John Trimble IN innocent old farmer from
Glow, kittson county, was worked by q con-
fdance man in St. Paul On the way to the
depot he was accosted by man who claim
acquaintance ond said he was on his way to
Pennsylvania. Trimble said he was going
to Pennsylvania too. The two went to the
train together and took the same seat The
stranger finally got up and said he was go
ing to get 5000 out OF his grip which was
checked in the baggage car. In few min
utes he returned and told Trimble that they
would not lot him have the grip before they
reached Chicago unless lie put up $50 as sc.
curity. He did not have quite enough, and
asked Trimble to help him out until he could
get the 5000. Trimble had $33, and he let
the stranger have $35 oft, and has not yet
seer the man.
NORTH DAKOTA.