The sun., 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 Newsi1 a
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.

Over 200 citizens have asked DR.. A. b.
Coleto 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-
tion 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 a 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 Gross, charged with burglarizing
stores, was arTaigncd at Hastings, and,
pleading guilty to burglary in the third
degree, was bound over to the district court
in 500, and in default of bail went to Jail
AT recent special meeting of the board
of Wabasha county commissioners, it was
decided to build new court house at
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, q. 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
favor of the plaintiff.
J. E. Seidles drug store at Mankato was
,losed 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
assets are estimated at 81, 500. Mr.. Robel
gave bond for So, 800
Strenuous measures are being taken at
Sorthfield TO defeat tht passage of bin now
before the state legislature, which provides
or the cutting off of considerable strip of
and from the city. The thing was kept
entirely from the knowledge of citizens
until published in the daily papers.
Messrs. J. L. Murphy, Charles Marx and
Maher, J. Shiehy, prominent in business cir
les, have purchased the brewery at Mont
yonlery paying Mr.. Chalupsuy $4,000 for
his interests. The same gentlemen have
also bought the artificial lake and adjoin-
ng property.
An intense conflict on the license ques-
Jon is on i'll Goodhue township, Good
hue county Recently the county COM
| missioners granted a license to sell liquor
there, notwithstanding the fact that the
town was on record as opposed to license.
Endless legal complications have ensued.
New. postoffices established in this state:
Rush River, Sibley county, John NJ. Sccflis,
postmaster; Selma, Cottonwood county,
Lemuel P. Richardson, postmaster. Il. J..
Stowers has been appointed postmaster at
! Erie, Cass county, n. D. Magnus Holme-
strom will be appointed postmaster at CO.
kato, Wright county.
Henry Jacobs, pioneer resident,
Wabasha county died at his home in West
| Albany township last night of kidney and
liver disease, aged fifty-ssven years. He
| was an extensive farmer and had been a
resident of West Albany for thirty-five
! years, having settled there in 1856 A wife
and several children survive him.
! Great satisfaction is experienced at
WINS Valley over the news from Wash
ston that congress has ratified the treaty
With the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians
I thus opening for settlement nearly /, 600, 900
acres of unalloted land, the finest of which
is contiguous to this city. A grand jollifi-
cation meeting is being arranged for.
! 1t is stated by business man Of Red
/ Wing who claims to have information
from the officials of the road that the Min
neapolis & st. Louis Cannon Valley line
will be extended from Mankato to New
Tim the present season 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 !, 1885,
| 200 acres in the former, and 307, 900 in the
after, which will be thrown open for set
! tlement 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 for
| $1,000, which he had been carrying, lapsed
last November Mr. Weir was an Odd Eel
low, and will be buried by that order