The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-08-13
THE
Summary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa. and
North Dakota News in a
Nutshell,

Nutshell,
MINNESOTA.
Gen. Baker. withdraws as Alliance can
didate for governor.
The work Of closing up wine rooms il
St. Paul makes progress. Several saloor
licenses are revoked.
Xavier Item, of LIE Sank, Stearns county
aged "a, wa instantly killed by a runaway
team.
Otto Dennitz, of Duluth, sues E. 8
Amory for Sc. $50 for breaking a leg by {
falling derrick Feb. TO- 1892. =
The report that Gabriel Renville, tn,
venerable chief of the Wahpeton ane
sisseton Indians, is dead, is not true.
James Kelly, son of ex-sheriff JOSEPH
Kelly, tf st. Croix county, was drowned
while bathing in Bass LAKE.
School district No. / of Glencoe votet
not to exceed $i2, 600 bonds for the purpose
of erecting another school building.
Miss Knowlton, of Minneapolis. was tn
victim of q runaway recently, and wa
badly hurt Two other occupants Of tn
carrisge escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Williams, wife of Judge Williams
state railroad commissioner, died the othel
night at Fergus Falls, of cancer Of tn
stomach, after q long illness.
Henry Adams, q well-known horse.train
er and driver, wa stabbed six times in tn
heart and twice in the arm at Winona BY
a tramp negro in q dispute over wages due
The Redwing board of education ha!
elected W. W. Kilgore of Marshall, MINI.
principal Of the high school to succeed q
N. Vaughn, resigned.
Dr.. E. W. Fish, has withdrawn as a can'
didate for presidential elector on th'
Peoples Party ticket owing to pool
health.
William Hanson, of Brasinaton. Wis
whose. wife was burned to death q few
weeks ago at Rsdwing by using kerosen'
to start . fire has become insane.
The barley harvest in Goodhue county il
we'll under. way. The farmers are havins
q great deal ri trouble in cutting on &C
count of the grain being lodged.
John Hack, assignee of the estate OF thu
late VIM. Eisenberg Of Red Wing, has col
lected $4,000 with which to pay the debt!
OF the estate and has declared . dividend
of % per cent.
Judge of Probate Aysr. Of Duluth ha:
appointed John R. Carey special admins
traitor of the estate OF the late N. Hulett
It Is thought the personal estate will foot
up $50, 600 and the realty $4,000
Joel P. Heatwole Is nominated for con
gress by acclamation by the Republican.
Of the Third district. The Democrats o:
the Second district nominate w. 8: Ham
mond.
Five houses are carried away by the
breaking loose of q 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 Mill Dam,
at Clearwater. A crew will be put to work
at once to put in new dams.
The executors OF the estate Of the late ex.
Gov. Armstrong Of Albert. Lea, paid 80 per
cent Of all claims. amounting to $500 600
Only S12, 500 is yet due. Property worth
over $50. 900 is left to pay it.
Swan Peterson filed action in the United
States district court at Duluth against G. 8
Murray e. Co.. for S., 300 for loss of a thumb
by a circular saw in defendants mill, Oct,
S, 1888.
John G. Wolley organized the Church Of
the Strangers 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 6
Duluth railway depot to the West Side,
against the will Of the majority of the citi'
zens and the St. Paul s. Duluth Railway
Company.
At the Republican convention for the
judicial district held at Austin Judge
Farmer was renominated for judge Of this
district. The only other candidate before
the convention was Judge James O'Brien
county.
-Soy seven years old. who resides at
Materyiile. MINI, but at present is with
his mother visiting friends s;x miles north
west Of Cannon Falls, had both legs broken
inst below the knees by falling from a wag'
NRaand the wheel running over him.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul de-
pot at Cannon Falls was broken into by
burglars. They took q suit of clothes from
the agent and broke into . trunk in the
baggage room. This Il the third attempt
within Q year.
The most disastrous fire Buffalo has ever
had occurred early the other morning. 1t
swept away the postofice, two business
houses and the Buffalo house, making q
loss of about $25. 900; only partly insured.
It looks very much a. though the fire was
set, as there had been no fire in the build
ing in 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 stsndingacross the Minnesota
tracks, hence the collision. a
,CarlHlstGSad,s;a young saman working 70,
Frederick jacobson. near Porter. Mimi.
was found in the gransry 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 "a hours. Whisky is at the bottom o.
the crime. Hastad will die. S
AFaribault special says: Harvest has now
begun in Rios county and, Notwithstanding
the heavy stornA the crop will average
better than common II can be saved with
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