The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-24
H NORTHWE EST.
Summary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa, and
North Dakota News in q
Nutshell.


The commercial bank, st. Paul, reopens.
City Clerk Pendergast of st. Paul will re-
sign.
Minneapolis Democrats nominate Aid.
Haynes for mayor.
A st. Paul man commits suicide in the
central station in Minneapolis.
A st. Paul boy of seventeen is arrested in
Washington State for murder.
A North Dakota cattleman is arrested in
st. Paul IN the charge of stealing cattle.
The Fourth congressional district Repub-
pointed.
st. Paul residences will soon be furnished
by the postotice department with boxes for
the collection of mail.
Carl Johnson, cashier of the Adams Elk
press company in st. Paul. is arrested,
charged with ENLIGHTENMENT.
Henry c. Hope of St. Paul, superinten-
dent Of telegraph of the Omaha road, is
heir to an estate in the North of Ireland
worth several millions OF dollars.
Louis Basel, Of Henderson, was arraigned
before Judge Kirby on a charge of assault
and battery on the person of his wife, the
woman herself being the complainant. Bas-
ell got 80 days.
Rose Brezinsky and Emma Lyness, the
young girls who pleaded guilty at Duluth
to indictments charging larceny, were sem
fenced to the reform school,
During the absence of the family tramps
entered the house of a man named Dona-
hue, on Tenth street north, St. Cloud, and
stole q watch and rings.
William Brown, q negro, accused OF
stealing $3.50 from q party on the steamer
Pittsburg at Minnesota, has been arrested
at Winona. The captain of the Pittsburg
has been wired for instructions.
Burglars blewopen the safe in the North
ern Pacific station at Fergus Falls and got
$50 in cash. They also opened NJ. T. Nc
Mahon's safe. Two men have been arrest
ed at Wahpeton who are suspected.
A team driven by John Roach, son o
Thomas Roach, o fAvon, was struck by a
Great Northern train at the crossing just
west of st. Cloud. Both horses were killed.
Roach was unhurt.
Ole Frederickson was killed by a Great
Northern freight train at Sandstone, while
attempting to board it. His body was cut
to pieces. He leaves one child; his wife is
dead. Frederickson was section foreman
at Deadham on the Great Northern Rail-
road.
Askwoth, Nevin Il Son ofSt. Cloud had a
contract for 5000 feet of granite curbing for
Duluth. They bought part of it from the
reCormatory stock cut last season. The
s~tonecutters found it out and quit work.
The quarry is closed in consequence. About
40 men were employed.
A stock company has been formed in
Redwood Falls to put in an electric light
plant Immediately. Paul Martin, of st.
Paul, will be busin ess manager. The conf
pany has a franchise for five years and the
city has the prililege of buying the plant
when the franchise expires.
A recent search of the st. Cloud Jail dis
closed aynuniber of iron saws, some a foot
and more long, and a file, spoon-fashioned.
like a key. They were concealed in the
top of the cell. This is the second batch
found recently and the men evidently have
friends outside.
The relatives of Mrs. Martha Hester, the
child murderess, of Eagle Lake, have en-
tered suit to recover the money with which
to carry on the defense at the coming trial,
also for the burial of the murdered chill
dren. The defendant is Frederick Kester,
of milwaukee, and his farm at Lake Crys-
tai has been attached.
The Grand hotel, Fergus Falls, which
has had such a checkered career. is once
more opened under auspices which ought
to insure its success. The hotel is now
owned by local parties, and has been
opened under the management of George
H. Woodhouse.
Frank King Thomas Mcnamara and
Dennis Mcnamara. >Jr.. of Ravenna were
arranged before justice johnson at Has
ting recently upon the charge of shooting
psAirie chickens on the 21st. ult. King and
McNamara pleaded guilty and were fined
$40 each, and Dennis McNamara was dis
charged. The complaint and arrest was
made by Thomas Mcdonald, deputy
game warden. ....
Mrs. George Bracket, of Paynesville,
left her husband last winter and has been
living with Martin Johnson's family. At
that place she became infatuated with
Johnson's brother, William. She came to
st. Cloud recently to get q divorce in order
to marry him, found she could not and
while out driving with William. swallowed
q bottle of laudanum. Physical ms saved
her life. Bracket is a son of the village
banker and is willing to support his wife.
Sank Centre was raided by burglars. re-
Gently. They first attempted to break in
| to a restaurant but was driven away. The
beer warehouse Of v. Blatz was then
entered and a small quantity of beer TAX
en-. The lumber Office of v. A. Whipple
was entered and the safe door badly bat.
tered in an attempt to break into the safe,
but in this they were unsuccessful. The
machine office OLA. Rein & Co. was N
tered, the safe opened and a small sum o.
money and about $1,000 in notes taken.
The iron money box in the safe was pried
out and taken away.
WISCONSIN,.