Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-17
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of the Important Events
OF the Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell,
MINNESOTh

JOnn ErlcksOH an Oiu ieSluSht 40
wing broke through the ice while fishing
in the river and was drowned.
Mrs. P. Kelly, aged q years, died at the
home other parents. at Waverly, after an
illness of nine months.
Zena 7. Burnell. an old resident of Red
Wing died suddenly the other night aged
sixty-two-years.
John Dreher & Son, dealers in general
merchandise at Mankato, have made an
assignment.
The trouble at Marshall with the insur-
ance adiusters over the court ouse loss has
been settled, Sl4,622 having been finally
allowed by the insurance companies.
Charles Plopke, a Great Northern switch
man, was knocked from a box car, while
switching at Tileston's mill, st. Cloud, and
seriously injured.
The st. Peter city council awarded the
contract for lighting the city to a st. Paul
electric light company, The contract price
is sI3,G67 and is to be completed by the LIST
of July.
The Moorhead National bank has been
organized with Andrew Holes president,
f. f.. Hazen vice president, and +. w.
Porritt cashier. The new bank was ready
for business March Is.
Timothy O'Leary an old resident of Lake
City, dropped dead while eating lunch in
Johnson's shoe shop. His death was no
doubt indirectly caused by alcoholism. He
was fifty-five years old.
Andrew Fiddler went down into a well
at st. Peter for the purpose of cleaning 1t
OUT. He had been at work but n few mir
utes when the well cayed in, He was res
cued after six hours and miraculously e3-
capped almost uninjured.
One ofthe barns of James Stewart, who
resides two miles north of Montevideo,
burned recently. Loss about $3.50 and no
insurance. As the premises were unoccu-
pied at the timeit is thought that the lire
was of incendiary origin.
The first seeding of the season was done
at Browns Valley the other day. The
ground in most fields is dry and in good
condition and should the present phenom-
email weather Continue seeding will be gen.
orally commenced in a few days.
1t is estimated that half the men employ
ed in the woods near Pine City have been
discharged on account OF the breaking up
of the roads. Hauling has been stopped;
teams are now dragging logs where the
haul is short.
Clarence Dow, of St. Cloud, a brake
man on the Great Northern, got badly
squeezed between an engine and a box car
at Foley station. He was Immediately
brought to this city, where his Injuries
we're attended to. He had two rib broken.
The Youmans farm near Marshall, which
has been favOrably known throughout the
state for some years, has been sold to w.
ii. Sender. 1t formerly covered two sec
tons, but one section was sold some time
ago to Henry Freese. The Go acres just
purchased were sold for $40 an acre.
II. G. Day editor of the Standard of
Albert Lea, re uses to retract what he said
about John A. Lovely's connection with
the case of Graham VS.. the city, and has
employed two lawyers to fight the matter.
1t will be an interesting scrimmaSe, as the
suit win be Tor personal damages.
George Moss was examined before Justice
Treyette at Newport for the sttempt to out
rage Margaret Johnson. He wa bound
over to the grand jury, which meets in
May without bail. 1t is alleged that two
other young ladies will bring similar
CllutECS uSdlllgt III CsAobANA AS W "NtNANNNN'
The citizens oipark Rapids and Surround
ing country have organized the Hubbard
County Improvement union, Will We
Foster as president, Willinm Taber as sec
rotary and W. J.. Winslow, treasurer.
Special committees have been appointed to
give gratis information In regard TO new in
d~ustries, etc.
Jacob Maraschek and JShn Michowski,
each thirteen years of age, were playing at
Winona, when Michowski became enraged
at his companion, and ~drawias a large
pocket knife made several vicious stabs at
Maraschek. 1t is thought that Maraschek
will recover. Mi5howsk is under ar
rest.
A slight fire at St. Cloud in the building
occupied as a cigar factory by Marx & Wise
did a great deal of damage. The stock in
the building, which included 40, 900 cigars,
was worth 5000, which was almost de-
stroyed by water and smoke. The stock
was insured for "a, go.
Nelson Blackmer, brother of DIR. and
Judge Blackmer, started during the recent
storm Tor DR.. Wedges farm, two miles west
of Albert Lea, and has not since been heard
from. He no doubt has persisted in the
storm. He was forty years of age and I'M
married.
During the recent storm at Mankato
roofs were blown off, plate glass fronts de-
molished, street cars thrown from the
track, men and women clingIng to lamp
posts. Part of the Baptist church fell,
crashing INTO a house nextdoor. Trees were
torn up by the roots, and storm doors and
shutters were lying in the street.
Messrs. Grady, Bachman and Matthews,
express messengers on the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern road for the
United States Express company, all
rendered their designations at Albert Lea,
and their places have been filled by new
men. 1t is understood that the company
wanted two men to do the work OF three
without a corresponding increase of wages.
The North Star Stoneware company was
incorporated at Red Wing by leading citi-
zens with a capital stock of 81 90, o0G, over
half of which is paid up. The company
has purchased clay fields and & site, and
will at once erect a stoneware plant here as
large as either of the present two. With
this company Red Wing %ill have three
immense stoncware plants larger than any
other in the West.