The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-08-13
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of tho Important Events
Of tho Week in tho Northwest.
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa. and
North Dakota News in q
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
Gen. Baker, withdraws as Alliance cam
didate for governor.
The work o! closing up wine rooms.in
St. Paul makes progress. Several saloon
licenses are revoked.
Xaivcr Item, Ollie Sauk, Stoarns county,
aged 20, was instantly killed by u runaway
team.
Otto Dcnnitz of Duluth sues Il. S.
Amory tor $6 80 for breaking leg by Il
falling derrick Feb. 10. 1892
The report that Gabriel Renvillc the
venerable chief of the Wahpcton and
Sisscton Indians is dead, is not true.
James Kelly. son of ex-Shcriif Joseph
Kelly, of St. Croix county, was drowned
while bathing in Bass lake.
School district No. of Glencoe voted
not to exceed $i2, 600 bonds for the purpose
OF erecting another school building.
Miss Knowlton, Of Minneapolis, was the
victim of runaway recently, aud was
badly hurt. Two other occupants OF the
carriage escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Williams, wife of Judge Williams,
state railroad commissioner, died the other
night at Fergus Falls. of cancer of the
stomach, after long illness.
Henry Adams, q we'll known horse train.
er and driver, was stabbed six times i'll the
heart and twice in the arm at Winona by
a tramp negro i'll dispute over wages due.
Dol, 1,,c
elected w. w. Kilgorc Of Marshall, Mimi,
principal Of the high school to succeed 2.
N. Vaughn, rcsi.ncd.
DR.. L. W. ri h. has withdrawn as can
didate for presidential clector OH the
Peoples Party ticket owing to poor
health.
William Hanson, of Brasineton, Wis,
whose wife was burned to death a few
weeks ago at Redwing by using kerosene
to start II fire has become insane.
The barley harvest in Goodhue county is
we'll under way. The farmers are having
q great deal OF trouble in cutting on nc
count of the grain being lodged.
late VIM Eisenberg OF Red Wing, has col
lccted $4,000 with which to pay the debts
OF the estate and has declared dividend
o! 90 .er cent.
Judge of Probate Aver, of Duluth has
appointed John II. Carey special admins
TRAITOR of the cstat, o: the late N. llulett.
1t is thought the personal estate will foot
up $50, COD and the realty 100000.
Joel p. Heatwoo is nominated for con-
1,u nt I1yf fl,o IN
of the Third district. The Democrats OF
the Second district nominate w. S. Ham
mond.
Five houses are carried away by the
breaking loose OF lake from the bluffs in
West st. Paul. One person is killed and
several injured, while four are miss
ing.
A sudden rise in the Clearwater river
washed out Tollington's Dam and did con-
siderable damage to the Waite Mil Dam,
at Clearwater. A crew will be put to work
ut once to put in new dams.
The executors OF the estate of the late cx-
Gov Armstrong of Albert Lea paid 80 per
cent of al clnilns, amounting to $50, COO
Only Sl25oO is yet due. Property worth
over $33, 600 is left to pay il.
Swan Peterson fled action in the United
States district court at Duluth against G. s.
Murray d Co.. for S., 800 iorloss Of thumb
by circular saw i'll defendants mill, Oct.
5, 1885,
John G. Wollcy organized tie Church OF
the Stranger. ut Rest Island near Lake City
with a membership Of twenty three. The
corner stone of the church building will be
laid next year.
The Hinckley town board have decided
to open Third street from the st. Paul g.
Duluth railway depot to the West Side,
against the will of the majority of tho citi-
zens and the St. Paul g. Duluth Railway
Company.
Tenth judicial district held at Austin Judge
Farmer WAS rcnominutcd for judge OF this
district. The only other candidate before
the convention was Judge James O'Brien
OF Houston county
A boy seven years cid. who resides at
Wutcryillc Mimi, but at present is with
his mother visiting friends $ miles north.
west OF Cannon Falls, had both legs broken
just below the knees by falling from wag.
on and the wheel running over him,
The Chicago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul de-
pot at Cannon Falls was broken into by
burglars. They took suit of clothc, from
the agent and broke into trunk in the
baggage room. This is the third attempt
within year.
The most disastrous fire Buffalo has ever
had occurred early the other morning. 1t
SWEPT away the postotfice, two business
houses and the Buffalo house, making
loss of about $25. 0O0 only partly insured.
1t looks very much as though the fire was
set, as there had cen no fire in the build
ing i'll which it caught.
"A collision between Minnesota Eastern
freight and Northern Pacific stock train
at Elk River caused the death of several OF
the cattle and damage to the extent OF
many Thousands OF dollars. The stock
train was left standing across the Minnesota
tracks, hence the collision.
Carl Uastad, young man working for
Frederick jacobson, near Porter Minn.,
was found in the granery with three knife
stabs in his body. He claims that Jacob
son did the cutting, and that he had been
in the granery without assistance more
than 9! hours. Whisky is at the bottom o!
the crime. Hastad will die.
A Faribault special says: Harvest las now
beaun ill Rice county and, notwithstanding
the heavy storms, the crop will average
better than common j: it cam be saved with
out further damages. The pota:oe crop is
said to be very excellent and the corn al
though it seemed late has been Brought on
by the past week good weather till now
it is very promising.
Prof Lafayette Bliss who was recently
elected superintendent OF the high school
at Mankato, to succeed Prof Bcci,lolt, has
sent his resignation to the clerk ofthc
school board. Bliss and wife are now con-
ncctcd with Henderson school, and o
tempting offer to remain is the cause given
for Withdrawing Ills engagement with this
school.
NORTH DAKOTA.
North Dakota quarantincs against
Manitoba because of small pox.
The North Dakota Republican conven-
tion rc-nominatcs Gov. Burke and Con-
gresham johnson by acclamation.