Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-10-06
THE MORT INVEST.
A Summary Of the Important Events
of the Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and
North Dakota News ina
Nutshell.
MINNES sofa.


The Ramsey county Populsts nominate
| ticket.
Little Falls has remarkable frog vista
ton.
| Roger @. Mills will deliver political
speeches in Minnesota in October.
| Ramsey county has exempt real estate val
ued at Sll, SIS. 039.
William Greenfield otChandler, while on
load of hay was killed by lightning.
| A new and very destructive wheat pest
called the irit fly is discovered in Northern
Minnesota.
| A little son of ALBEIT Dart of Cascade ate
| pills prescribed Tor his mother and
| died.
| Gundcr Torgerson, a we'll known farmer,
of Fergus Falls, was killed by his team
running away and dashing him against an
iron bridge.
| Albert Paige, employed in saw mill at
Little Falls got caught in an edsins ma
chine and was badly injured, several ribs
being broken and internally injured.
The safe of Anton Hocschcn of Kent was
cracked and $l,50C in cash taken. No
clue to the robbers Hocschen was the
agent Of the Farmers elevator and a
storekeeper.
Mrs. Agnes Mock. wife of a farmer at
Holding was gored by an Infatuated COW.
The horn entered above the hip and she
died in two hours. She leaves four young
children.
1t has Just been learned at st. Cloud that
Mrs. George Bracket, of PayneSville, who
wanted divorce to marry her lover and
took poison when she couldn't get it, died
of the effects OF the poison.
Ex-Village Attorney Hawkins, recently
O La Prairie, commenced an action against
La Prairie for false imprisonment in con-
nection with the Lewis murder committed
there recently; damage, $4,000.
A Sayton special says: Very little thresh-
ing has been done in this vicinity as yet
The yields reported are: Wheat, 10 bushels
per acre; barley, 80 bushels, quality poor;
no oats TIRES he'd.
The Hincklev Commercial Union has To-
Gated II families near Hnckley i'll the
past few days and more will follow, and
the union has a special Immigrant agent at
work in Europe securing desirable taml-
| lies.
Remnants of Fourth of July fire works
|
Monlevideo took fire spontaneously as one
of the firm was about to close the store.
The fire was extngushed with small dam
age.
Faribault people are now anxious for
some enterprising c,pi alist to build an
opera hou-e. Mr.. Hi, proprietor of the
one destroyed by fire will rebuild, but not
an opera house, as he needs the room for
| his business.
Chas. Taylor and Horace e. Thomas.
both colored, were indicted by the grand
ury at Winona, for assault in the first
degree. They are the men who assaulted
Hi Adams, the horse jockey and cut him
with a knife.
An unsuccessful attempt at robbery was
made at Kenyon by two tramps who saw
the old blacksmith, Dick Moore, paid of.
| The tramps entced Moore into an out OF
the way shed. where the attempt was made.
| Moore wrenched himself loose and escaped.
The marshal is looking or the tramps.
The Herbert Block Pennington, was
burned recently. 1t consisted of three
stores one unoccupicd, one by the millin-
cry store of Mrs Meyer, and one had
wheat stored in it. Loss about 50 600; no
insurance. Meyers goods were damaged
some.
Spencer Hubbard, young business
man of Red Win, and Mrs. Coons,
wife of laborer in Betcher's
mill, disappeared mysteriously recent
ly. Elopement is charged by the friends of
the wife Of the former and the husband Of
the latter.
While George Melins was taking his trac.
ton engine over the Whitewater new steel
bridge, the bridge gave way and precpitat-
ed the engine into the water. MIR. Melins
and George Thompson, who were steering
the engine, jumped in time to save their
lives. They both sustained injuries, how
ever, that may prove fatal.
John Jones. aged thirteen, son of J. D.
Jones of Long Prairie, ex-cerk of the SUI
preme court, discharged an old musket at a
hornets nest. The gun barrel was wrenched
from the stock striking him on the fore
head, fracturing his skull. He is now ~
ing in precarious condition. The gun
had been loaded for a year and the charge
was rusted in.
John Buck an aged farmer Of anesboro,
was killed the other day. He attempted to
cross the railroad track in front of an in
coming train, and at the last moment see
ing that he could not make it, suddenly
turned his frantic team and was thrown for
ward on the whiffle trees, where he was
killed, being dragged several blocks.
The preliminary hearing in the ease of
John Flynn, at Red Wing, charged with
murder in the first degree, came up
and the prisoner appeared for arraign-
ment but the reading of the warrant and
the examination was waved. The pris
oner was remanded to Jail to await the
action of the October grand jury.