The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-12-31
NORTHWEST NEWSBUDGET
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP or
IMPORTANT NEWS.
A Concise Account Of the Happen
ings OF the Past Week In Min
nesota. North Dakota.
Iowa and Wisoon-
sin.
g.

A mad dog bites many people at Alexan-
dria.
State Auditor Bierman's biennial report
is given out.
The improvements al Faribault during
the year will probably foot up $3.50, 600.
The Duluth Curling Club ha, begun the
erection of a $4,000 club house at Glen
Avon.
John Reiser, Jr., of Dexter, hung himself
in his granary. No cause can be assigned
for the rash act.
Jud e E. D. French, of Redwood Falls,
was seriously injured by being thrown from
his buggy.
Charles Hennige tried in St. Paul for
completely in the murder OF Aug ust Hoppe
by Mrs. Smith is acquitted.
Public Examiner Kenyon files his bien-
NAL report on the condition of the state
and country treasures and banks.
The trial Of S. j. Hober on the charge
Of trap, was completed at Mankato and the
jury returned a verdict Acquiring him.
DIR. Thomas J. Pearce of St. Paul is ar
rested on the charge OF causing the death
ola woman by abortion.
The pa sage Of a law for uniformity in
the incorporation Of villages is being agi-
tated.
The Church of st. Peter Claver was dedi-
Gated at st. Paul. 1t is for colored Catho-
lies.
A branch gem raj store Of r. H. Kempton
with contents burned at Redwood Falls.
The loss will exceed the insurance by
$1,000.
George Woods killed himself with a ra-
zor at Mendoza. He was subject to epilep-
tic fits, and took his lifelwhile temporarily
insane.
A collision occurs on the Great Northern
rail way at Nelson, Mimi, in which five
men are killed, some being burned, and
six badly injured.
No tidinys has been received from john
X. Shaw. the Duluth insurance agent who
mysterious.y disappeared from his home
on November 6, last.
A bill is to he introduced in the Mime
sofa legislature to tax inheritances and de-
vote he proceeds to the improvement of
public highways.
Judge Williston holds that the finding
Of the med.ca commission which p%ronoun-
ced George Peters, the Saltwater murderer.
sane does not ipvalidate the verdict of the
jury which declared him insane.
The Waseca County Agricultural, Me-
chanical and Industrial society held its an
nual meeting in Waseca recently. Steps
were taken to purchase county fair
grounds.
c. l.. Cummings, of ~Crookston, who sold
wheat or q large number Of farmers and
then skipped to California with the pro-
ceeds, was convicted Of grand larceny.
In the case o Carl Wilson. charged with
killing Christ Thorstad, at Butternut Val
ley, the jury decided that the testimony
showed that Thorstad had died of heart
disease.
W. J. Hilligoss, of Fosston, shot two
deer near his home. The animals were
locked together by their ~antlers. They
had fought together until they became in
terIocked. The deer will be mounted.
The German-Americln bank, incorporat-
ell with a capital of $50, 900, opened the
doors of their new SIT, 900 building for
business at Winona. The days deposits
amounted to $1,000.
While Robert Boles, a baker, was going
W III WoIA liz VIZ I!OllllilS lC was 4AClN
up by a footpad, who attempted to rob
him, but failed. He also shot at Boles,
the bullet going through his hat.
There is a fair prospect of Rochester hav-
ing all opera house in the near future.
Huber Ba>tian b .queathed SIS. 900 TOR u
library building, and it is proposed to add
$40, 600 or $12, 900 to this and build an opera
house and library combined.
Rochester will probably hold another
winter carnival this year, with the accom-
paniments Of t%obogganing, skating, ice
palace, etc. The subject is now being agi-
tated, and will lie carried 10 a successful,
co%nclusion.
Augustus H. Hornsby, a st. Paul real
estate dealer, who for years served as an
officer in the British army in India, and
has relatives among the English nobility,
has disappeared. and warrants have been
issued for his arrest.