The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-12
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important Event:
Of the Week in the Northwestern
States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in q
Nutshell. w..
MIMI ESOTA.

for mayor of Fergus Falls. lie 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 IL contract with Mr..
Curtis, of st. Paul, to suporintcnd tho put
ting in of the water works here.
An effort is being made at Red Wing, In
behalf off change in the city charter 30
that all the city officials will be elected by
popular vote instead ola portion by the
council as at present.
Earl Cross, charged with burglarizing
stores, was arraigned at Hastings and,
pleading guilty to burglary in the third
degree, was bound overto 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 a
cost not to exceed 100000 Plans for the
structure, which will be of brick, were ap-
proved, and work will soon begin.
The Gardner House. Hastings 0. 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 judy
ment was rendered by Justice Newell in
favor Of the plaintiff.
J. E. Seidle's drug store at Mankato was
closed on an attachment. The sum of the
| attachment is $132. The firm had been
doing good business until oflate. He
made an assignment to Henry Robel. His
| assets are estimated at 81, 500. Mr.. Robel
gave bond for $500.
Strenuous measures are being taken at
Northtield to defeat tint passage of a bill now
before the state legislature, which provides
for the cutting off of considerable strip of
land 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
cles, have purchased the brewery at Mont
gomery paying Mr.. Chalupsuy $4,000 for
his Interests. The same gentlemen have
also bought the artificial lake and adioin-
ing property.
An intense conflict on the license ques-
ton is on in Goodhue township, Good
hue county. Recently the county COM
there, notwithstanding the fact that the
town was on record as opposed to license.
Endless legal complications have ensued.
! New postofices established in this state
Rush River, Sibley county, John M. Sccflis,
postmaster; Selma Cottonwood county,
Lemuel P. Richardson, postmaster. E. J.
| Showers 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-seven 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
| Browns Valley over the news from Wash
| ington that congress has ratified the treaty
with the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians,
thus opening for settlement nearly 900, 600
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 a business man of Red
Wing who claims to have information
from the officials of the road that the Min
neapolis e. St. Louis Cannon Valley line
will be extended from Mankato to New
Ulm the present season if the Currier rail-
road bill does not pass; otherwise there will
be no extension.
It 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 1, 1885,
700 acres in the former, and 3O7,0 900 in the
latter, which will be thrown open for set
element next winter.
! Frank Weir, of Spring Valley, who was
injured by a 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.
The business affairs of James Shea, of
Glyndon, general merchant saloonkeeper,
proprietor of the Commercial hotel and
farmer, were placed in the hands of re-
ceiver on the petition of Lindeke, Warner
& Schumacher of St. Paul Dan H. Moon
Of St. Paul was appointed receiver, The
liabilities are about 81 900, with assets esti-
mated at fully double. Shea is absent in
Massachusetts, and is quite ill., He has
been the heaviest dealer in town.
A man giving his name as John Rozell
was arrested at Wtllmar, by Sheriff Odell
for passing raised money. It is said the
accused has worked good many small
towns in Stearns county. The sheriff card
of this, and suspected party who stopped
1t hotel here, but not finding any money
passed by him in town, the sheriff then
drove to Kandiyohi station and found there
upon investigation, a raised $40 bill. The
accused when arrested had in his possession
another raised $40 and some tools. His
method, it is said, was to take United
States 81 treasury note or silver certificate
and raise the same to 500. It is likely he
will be bound over to the United States
authorities. .a.& ~-
NORTH DAKOTA,
At meeting Of citizens of Grand Forks,
resolutions We're adopted protesting against
the repeal of the prohibitory law.
! Prof Homer B. Sprague rendered the