The Dickinson press., 1892-05-07
THE NORTHW EST.
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,
MIN N e sofa.


father, near Skybcrg. of whooping cough
AT the election at Morristown, to incor-
porate carried by Il large majority.
Forest fires destroyed considerable tim
bcr nd some fences west of Little Falls.
+. Young was arrested at Morristown,
and fined $50 and costs tor running n blind
pig.
William Rose was arrested at Still
water, charged with poisoning a dog be-
longing TO Arthur Lyman.
a Kenyon special says seeding is mostly
done. Winter wheat and rye ale looking
promising, hut grass is slow in coming.
The Snake river drives are chung up"
on account OF the low Stage of water Grain
is badly needed, and unless there is IL rise
in the water soon the drivers will be laid
off for a time.
Judge Williston, of Saltwater, made an
order directing Fred Scott, assignee of
Charles Ludwig to settle all claims pro
rata.
"A fatal runaway occurred at Belle Plaine,
in which the S-year-old daughter of Carl
Schult was thrown out OH the depot hill,
and died three hours atterward
Word was received at Buffalo, to the ef-
feet that Mrs. Andrew Schuler had suicided
by hanging at her home near St. Michaels
Her mind was deranged,
The citizens of the village of Wells have
signed guarantee note of $500 for their
share Oft worlds fair fund for Faribault
county.
An adjourned meeting of the Stevens
county Alliance was held at Morris. The
members resolved themselves into a Peo-
pies party and appointed county COM
mittee for campaign purposes.
A saw breaking in the Cloquet Lumber
company's mills at Cloquet injured two
men. Andrew Thomson will loose. his
right arm and James I.oranger will be
crippled for some time.
A man named Menge, butcher, was ar
rested at Crookston, for threatening to kill
his son-in-lnw, he died next day at the viii
lage Jail in great agony. He had been
drinking heavily, and it is thought he COM
mitted suicide.
The establishment OF creamery at Mil
lersburg, eight miles west of Dundas, by
the Crescent Company, of st. Paul, has fallen
fiat the farmers failing to guarantee the
necessary number of cows
The charter of the Citizens National
Bank Of Mankato has expired, 1t having
lived its score OF years of corporate exist
ence. II has been decided to form new
organization, to be composed entirely of
Mankato business men,
An unsuccessful attempt to blow open
the safe in the Exchange bank. of Farming
ton, was made. The robbers only secured
about S2S in coppers from the vault room.
They also stole pair of white ponies
from w. s. Farquhar to make their escape
Princeton special says: Seeding is most
lv done. but no rain having fallen for three
weeks the ground isso dry that the grain has
not spronted. In this vicinity there is Il 10
per centincrease in theacreagc of wheat and
oats, with corresponding falling OIL in the
acreage of corn and potatoes.
The continued snow and rain has had q
tendency to greatly interfere with seeding
in the vicinity of Albert Lea and, as a re-
suit, there will be considerable reduction in
the acreage of land that would have been
seeded to wheat, as past experience has
shown that late sown wheat is not a sue
cess.
The man Kennedy, who was arrested at
Carlton on suspicion but not positively
identified by the man who accused him,
gave the name of Johnson, turns out TO be
Tom Conlin, of Glyndon. Both men now
are in Jail to await the Polk county sheriff
Both have served terms in the penitentiarv.
The suit of Lawrence va. the Chicago &
Milwaukee Railroad Company was COM
pletcd at Mankato, and Oh motion of de-
fendants attorney the court instructed the
jury to bring verdict for defendant. The
suit OF G. Aultman 4 Co. vs. Samuel Math-
er is now on trial, last case i'm term of the
United States circuit court Judge Nell
son will preside during the rest of the
term.
One OF the bolde.t attempts to rob q
house was perpetrated at Mankatu at the
house of Henry Vo ;clspohl. His vile and
Miss liod,pp were sleeping OH the second
foo and about four O'Clock in the morn
ing We're >tar,ci by the entrance of two
men. When the women attempted to cry
out the Williams applied handkerchiefs
saturated with chloroform to their faces,
but their job was not a good one. The
robbers were frightened away
A. c. Knapp, for many years a we'll
digger in Minnesota and Iowa, has dis
covered in Fremont township in Winona
county. a vein OF lead II inches thick
about 80 feet beneath the sur ac. Knapp
made the discovery while digging well a
few months ago, and has since ;hen leased
an Soacre tract in which lie will sink a
shaft during the summer. He will COM
mence operations about May /.