Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-05-12
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 ina
Nutshell,
MINNIE sofa.

Arthur Fretten died at the home Of his
father, near Skyberg. of whooping cough.
| AT the election at Morristown, to incor-
porate carried by large majority.
| Forest fires destroyed considerable tim
| Der and some fences west of Little Falls.
| f. Young was arrested at Morristown,
and fined $50 and costs for running blind
| pig.
William Rose was arrested at Still
water, charged with poisoning dog be-
longing 10 Arthur Lyman.
A Kenyon special says seeding is mostly
done. Winter wheat and rye are looking
promising but 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 4 rise
IN the water soon, the drivers Will be laid
off for a time.
Judge Willston, of Saltwater, made an
| order directing Fred Scott. assignee of
Charles Ludwig, TO settle all claims pro
tata.
\ fatal runaway occurred at Belle Plaine.
In which the S-year-old daughter of Carl
Schult was thrown out on the depot hill,
and died three hours a!terwu-d.
Word was received at Buffalo, to the ef-
feet that Mrs. Andrew Schnicr had sucided
by hanging at her home near St. Michaels
Her mind was deranged.
The citizens Of the village of Wells have
signed a guarantee note of $500 for their
share Of the worlds fair fund for Falibuult
county.
An adjourned meeting of the Stevens
county Alliance vas 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 Cloquct injured two
men. Andrew Thomson will loose his
right arm and James Lorangcr will be
crippled for some time.
A man named Mcnge, butcher was ar
rested at Crookston, tor threatening to kill
his son-in-law he died next day at the vii
lage Jail in great agony. He had been
drinking heavily, and it is thought he COM
nlitted suicide.
The establishment OF a creamery at Mil
lersburg, eight miles west of Dundas, by
the Crescent Company of St. Paul. has fallen
fiat, the farmers falling to guarantee the
necessary number Of cows.
The charter of the Citizens National
Bank Of Mankato has expired, it having
lived its score OF years of corporate exist
ence 1t has been decided to form q new
organization, to be composed entirely of
Mankato business men.
An unsuccessful attempt to blow open
the sale in the Exchange bank. Of Farming
| ton, was made. The robbers only secured
about s2s in coppers from the vault room.
| They also stole a pair of white ponies
from W. S. Farquhar to make their escape.
A Princeton special says: Seedingis most
lv done. but no rain having fallen for three
weeks the ground isso dry that the grain has
not sprouted. In this vicinity there is 10
| per entincrease in the acreage Of wheat and
oats, with corresponding falling off in the
| acreage of corn and potatoes.
The continued snow and rain has had a
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 ofland that would have been
seeded to wheat, as past experience has
shown that late sown wheat is not 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 penitentiary
The suit Of Lawrence vs.. the Chicago &
Milwaukee Railroad Company was COM
| pleted at Mankato, and on motion of de-
PENDANTS attorney the court instructed the
| jury to bring verdict foe defendant. The
| suit Of G. Aultman g. Co. vs. Samuel Math-
err is now on trial, last case in term of the
| United States circuit court. Judge Mel.
son will preside during the rest of the
| term.
One or the boldest attempts to rob a
house was perpetrated at Mankato at the
house of Henry Vogelspohl. His wife and
Miss Hodapp were sleeping on the second
floor and about four O'Clock in the morn
ing were startled 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
covered in Fremont township, in Winona
| about 80 feet beneath the surface Knapp
made the discovery while digging we'll a
few months ago, and has since then leased
an 9O-ac-e tract in which he will sink a
shaft during the summer. He will com.
mence operations about May l.