Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-05

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.
MINNESOTA.

Arthur Fretten died at the home of his
lather, near S~kyberg, of w~hooping cough.
AT the election ct Morristown, to incor-
porate carried by a large majority.
Forest fires destroyed considerable tim
Der and some fences west of Little Falls.
f. Young was arrested at Morristown,
and lined $50 and costs for running a 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 are looking
promising, but grass is slow in coming.
The Snake river drives are ''hung up
on account OF the low stage of water. Grain
is badly needed, and unless there is a 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
SCHULZ was thrown out on the depot HILL
and died three hours aiterward.
Word was received at Buffalo, to the eli
feet that Mrs. Andrew Schuier had suicided
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 ofthe 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 a county COM
mittee for campaign purposes.
A saw breaking in the Cloquet Lumber
~aompany's mills at Coquet i~njured two
men. Andrew Thomson will loose his
right arm and James Loranger will be
crippled for some time.
A man named Menge, a butcher, was ar
rested at Crookston, Tor threatening to kill
his son-in-law, he died next day at the viii
lage Jail in great agony. He had been
drinking heavily, and il is thought he COM
mitted suicide.
The establishment OF a creamery at Mil
lersburg, eight miles west of Durdas. by
The Crescent Company, OF ct. 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, Il having
lived its score OF years of corporate exist
ence. 1t has been decided to form a 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 a pair of white ponies
from w. s. Farquhar TO make their escape.
A Princeton special says: Seedingi is most
lv done, but no rain having fallen for three
weeks the ground is so dry thatthe grain has
not spronted. In this vicinity there is a 10
per centincrease in the acreage o wheat and
oats, with a corresponding falling of 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 a sue
cess.
lDt lilaH Atllleuls WIZ HdS dEEtStcu al
Carlton on suspicion but not positively
identified by the man who accused him,
gave the name of Johnson, turns out TO be
Ton, Conlin, of Glyndon. Both nfen now
are in Jail to await the Polk counly sheriff
Both have served terms in the p~enitentiary.
The suit of Lawrence vs.. the Chicago &
Milwaukee Railroad Company was conf
pleted at Mankato, and on motion of de-
PENDANTS attorney the court instructed the
jury 10 bring a verdict for defendant. The
suit of c. Aultman & Co. vs.. Samuel Math-
er 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 OF the boldest attempts 10 rob a
house was peTpetrated at Mankato at the
house of Henry Voseispohl. His wife and
a Miss Hodapp were sleeping on the second
floor and about four O'Clock in the morn
ing were startled by the entrance oftwo
men. When the women attempted to cry
out the Williams applied handkerchief
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 IA inches thick
about 80 feet beneath the surface. Knapp
made the discovery while digging a well a
few months ago, and has since then leased
an 3O-acre tract in which he will sink a
shaft during the summer. He will COM
meLce operations about May l.