The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-12-10
NORTHWEST NEWSBUDGET
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF
IMPORTANT NEWS.
A Concise Account Of the Happen
ings Of the Past Week In Min
nesota, North Dakota.
iowa and Wisoon-
sin.
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An explosion occurs on a boat at Du-
lutl. killing two persons.
Navigation on the Mississippi River has
practically closed for the season.
The 8 year-old child Of J NJ. Ranger. OF
Fergus Fails, was accidently shot and kill.
ell by her 4-year-old brother.
Frank Brown, the last victim of the Van
Sickle tragedy, at Frazee, died from the
effects OF his injuries.
~ channel has been cut in the ice and the
ferry is running at Red Wing, but If this
mild weather continues the ice will sOon
break up. 1t IS now weakenin
Henry Driscoll was badly cut in a drunk.
en- row by Simon Myhre a notorious char
acter at Northield. Myhre is now in Jail
awaiting trial.
A farmer named Daniel Lodin, living
seven miles east of Warren, hung himself
from a rafter in his granary.
Neil Johnson, in charge ofthe govern
ment dam at Sandy Lake and we'll known
throughout the northern part Ct the state,
died OF pneumonia.
A threshing hand from Dakota by the
name of Golden was run over by the cars
at Montev:deo and killed. The home OF
the deceased is unknown.
Charles Rynd,, of Montgomery, was in
stantly killed by the bursting of a wood
saw, a piece of which was driven through
his brain. He was % years of age and
single.
The building of Luther Academy at Al
bert Lea is entirely too small to accommo-
date students who desire to attend. 1t. is
probable a ladies' hall will be put up be-
fore the next year.
While skating on the Vermillion near
Eggleston, George Trainor, a telegraph
operator for the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road at that place, broke through the
ice and was drowned.
The large cooper shop owned by Cargill
& Fall, at Houston, burned. The machin-
cry was totally destroyed, together with
about 500 ready made barrels. Loss, So, 600;
insurance 81 200. They will rebuild.
Charles FiedcI, an oiler in the St. Paul
Gas and Electric Works, met a horrible
death by being caught in the machinery.
His Eody was almost crushed to pieces.
Deceased was % years old and leaves a wife
and two children.
The trial ofQ. c. Smith, the engineer on
the 500, who was in the wreck at Thorson
on Oct. 9th oflast year, came to an end
the other day at Glenwood. The Jury was
out only u short time and brought in q
verdict of acquittal.
John Marvin, a Great Northern brake
man who by the breaking of brake chain
was thrown from u box car breaking his leg
some weeks ago at St. Cloud has since died.
Typhoid fever as a result o: the accident
was the cause of his death. The railroad
company will be sued for damages.
Information has just reached Lake City of
the burning of the II. J. O'Neil elevator at
Zumbro Falls. The elevator was filled
with barley. The fire was no doubt the
work of an incendiary. Loss and insurance
are unknown.
The three boys who attempted to wreck
IL Great Northern passenger train last July,
near Lockhart, by piling ties upon the
track in three different places, were tried at
the las, term Of the district court held in
Ada, and found guilty. The boys will be
sent to the state reformatory.
Martin Wick, an employe in the York
steel plant, wa stuck by a short line train
near Ironton and instantly killed. He
was with a party of fellow workmen on
their way to the shops when the train over
took them hurled Wick violently to the
ground. The others cleared the track in
time to escape.
John Peterson, Of kasson. stabbed Jean
Childs and a man named McDonough, Of
Mantorville, Dodge County, in Joseph
Afterwards saloon at Rochester, Childs
was stabbed in the right eye and McDo.
nough received a cash in the cheek while
assisting the former. Childs is in a pre-
carious condition. The fight is said to be
the outcome of an old grudge cherished by
Peterson against Childs.
Jacob Zimmerman and Frank Seitz,
homesteaders near Tower, are each bereft
of a wife under peculiar circumstanc es,
Jacob advertised for a wife and a comedy
German matron put in her appearance
and they were married. A few days later
another woman arrived from Iowa in re-
Spouse to the 'ad"' and Jacob turned her
over to his friend. Four weeks ago Seitz
and Miss Minnie Keith were married in
Tower. Then came the ~denouement.
Zimmerman un%guardedly told his young
bride he had a wife in the old country, and
she Indignantly left him: About the sa me
time the sheriff of Story County, Ia, ap-
peared in search ofthe woman who mar
ried Seitz, and she Went with him. 1t ap-
three children in Iowa.