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

MINNESOTA.
Gen. Baker, withdraws as Alliance can
didate for governor.
The work Of closing up wine rooms in
st. Paul makes progress. Several saloon
licenses are revoked.
Xavier Item, of LIE Sank, stearns county,
aged 10, was instantly killed by a runaway
team.
Otto Dennitz, of Duluth, sues E. s.
Amory for $3.50 for breaking a leg by a
falling derrick Feb. 10. 1892. =
The report that Gabriel Renville, the
venerable chief of the Wahpeton and
sisseton Indians, is dead, is not true.
James Kelly, son of e1-Sheriff 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 q runaway recently, and 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 q long illness.
Henry Adams, q well-known horse-train-
er and driver, was stabbed six times in the
heart and twice in the arm at Winona by
q tramp negro in q dispute over wages due.
The Redwins board of education has
elected W. W. Kilgore of Marshall, Mimi.
principal of the high school to succeed q.
N. Vaughn, resigned.
d.. +. W. Fish, has withdrawn as a can
didats for presidential elector On the
Peoples Party ticket owing to poor
health.
William Hanson, of Brasinston, Wis,
whose. wife was burned to death q few
weeks ego at Rsdwing by using kerosene
to start . 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 &C.
count of the grain being lodged.
John Hack, assignee of the estate OF the
late VIM. Eissnberg OF Red Wing, has COL
lected $4,000 with (which to pay the debts
Of the estate and has declared dividend
of % per cent.
Judge of Probate Aysr. of. Duluth has
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 500. 900.
Joel P. Heatwole is nominated for con-
eress by reclamation by the Republicans
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 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 put Tollineton'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.s2 per
cent of all claims. amounting to $780, 600.
Only s12,5 500 is yet due. Property worth
over $50. 900 is left to pay 1t.
Swan Peterson filed action in the United
States district court at Duluth against G.. 8.
Murray e. Co.. for S., 800 for loss of q thumb
by a circular saw in defendants mill, Oct.
S, 1883.
John G. Wolley organized the Church Of
the Strangers OF 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 the citi-
zens and the St. Paul s. Duluth Railway
Company.
At the Republican convention for the
Tenth 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.
REisnboy seven years old. who resides at
Materyille. Mimi, but at present is with
his mother visiting friends six miles north
west fCannon Falls, had both legs broken
Inst below the knees by falling from a wag.
1nSand 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 Is 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 aud the Buffalo house, making o
loss of about s25. 5000; 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 IL 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.
,CarlsHlstSsd,sga young tsmsn working for
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 mor
than "a hours. Whisky is atthe bottom of
the crime. Hastad will die.
A Faribault special says: Harvest has now
begun in Rice county and, Notwithstanding
the heavy storms, the crop will average
better than cofnmon II Il can be saved with
out further damages. The potatoe cfopis
said to be very excellent and the corn al
though It seemed late has been bought on
by the past week ofgood weather till now
It 10 very promising.
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