The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-03-12
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important Events
of the Week in the Northwestern
States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News il q
Nutshell.
NE sofa.

Over 200 citizens have asked DR.. A. b.
Cole to stand as nOn-partisan candidate
for mayor of Fergus Falls. He will make
the race.
a Republican club of sixty-two members
was organized at Slayton. Officers were
elected, and delegates to the state conven-
ton at Minneapolis chosen.
The water committee of the Albert Lea
city council has made contract with Mr..
curtis, OF ST. Paul, to superintend the put
ting in of the water works here.
An effort is being made at Red Wing, in
behalf of u change in the city charter SO
that all the city officials will be elected by
popular vote instead of a portion by the
council as at present.
Earl Cross, charged with burglarizing
stores, was arraigncd at Hastings, and,
pleading guilty to burglary in the third
degree, was bound over to the district court
in S4OO and in default of bail went to Jail
At a recent special meeting Of the board
of WabaSha county commissioners, it was
decided to build Il new court house at a
cost not to exceed $4,000. Plans for the
structure, which will be of brick, were APP
proved, and work will soon begin.
The Gardner House, Hastings, y. A. Mat
ter, proprietor, suspended business and Is
now in possession of the sheriff. The
action was brought by the Hastings Hotel
company for forcible possession, and iudg-
nent was rendered by Justice Newell in
avor of the plaintiff.
J. f. Seidlc's drug store at Mankato was
lo>ed on an attachment The sum of the
attachment is $132. The firm had been
toing good business until of late. He
made an assignment to Henry RObel. His
r>sets are estimated at 81, 800. Mr.. Robel
gave bond for Il, 800
Strenuous measure, are being taken at
NOrthtield to defeat tht passage of a bill now
before the state legislature, which provides
or the cutting off of a considerable strip of
and from the city. The thing was kept
entirely from the knowledge of citizens
lntil published in the daily papers.
Mcssrs. J. l.. Murphy, Charles Marx and
Maher, J. Shiehy, prominent in business cir
les have purchased the brewery at Mont
gomery paying Mr.. ChalupSuy $4,000 for
lis interests. The same gentlemen have
sl>o bought the artificial lake and adjoin-
ng property.
An intense conflict on the license que3-
ion is on i'll GoOdhue township, Good
luc county. Recently the county COM
miSSiOncrS granted license to sell liquor
here notwithstanding the fact that the
own was on record as opposed to license.
Endless legal complications have ensued.
New postot1ices established in this state:
Rush River, Siblcy county, John NJ. Scctlis,
postmaster; Selma, Cottonwood county,
Lemuel =. Richardson, postmaster. +. J
StOwers has been appointed postmaster at
Eric, Cass county, y. D. Magnus Holme.
Strom will be appointed postmaster at Co.
kato, Wright county.
Henry Jacobs, pioneer resident, o
Wabasha county died at his home in West
Albany township last night of kidney and
liver disease, aged tifty-seven years. He
was an extensive farmer and had been a
resident of West Albany for thirty five
years, having settled there III 1856. y wife
and several children survive him.
Great satisfaction is experienced at
,wn's Valley over the news from Wash.
><ton that congress has ratified the treaty
With the SiSSeton and Wahpcton Indians,
thus opening for settlement nearly / 900, ,OO(
acres of unallotcd land, the finest of which
is contiguous to this city. A grand jolliti'
cation meeting is being arranged for.
It is stated by business man of Red
Wing who claims to have information
from the officials Ofth road that the Min.
neapolis & st. Louis Cannon Valley line
will be extended from Mankato to New
Tim the present season if the Currier rail.
road bill does not pass; otherwise there will
be no extension.
1t is announced at Duluth that the secre'
tary of the interior will soon issue proc
lamation detaching large tract of public
land in Itasca and Beltrami from the St
Cloud land district and attaching it to the
Duluth district. The tract comprises / 1886,
700 acres in the former, and 3O7, 900 in the
after, which will be thrown open for set
:lement next winter.
Frank Weir, of Spring Valley, who was
injured by hay knife falling and cutting
him in the knee, died from blood poison
suffering great pain. His death was hor,
rible one, everything within his reach be-
ing torn into strips. His life insurance fol
$3,OOO which he had been carrying, lapse
last November Mr.. Weir was an Odd Eel
! low, and will be buried by that order.