Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-15
A Summary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
erniStates
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa. and
North Dakota News ina
Nutshell,
MINNIE SOTA.

A captivating stranger sWlndles several
St. Paul people.
Ramsey county's property is assessed for
taxation at $142, 666, s32
Hon. Knute Nelson opens the Republi-
can campaign at Caledonia.
| Judge Kelly decides that the CONNER
cial Bank OF st. Paul may resume bust
ness.
A three-year-old child is lost on the
prairie near Fulda, MINI. Hundreds of
men search in vain for the little one.
Henrg Feig of Kandiyohi county is NOM
mated tor congress by Seventh district Re-
publicans.
| Lloyd Porter sentenced to the Saltwater
pententiary for life for murder, is pardon
ed. He was editor OF the Prison Mirror.
| John Theodore, retired merchant of
Wabasha, committed suicide by hanging
in his barn.
The residence Of J. ]. Brown at St. Cloud
was entered by burglars and considerable
| property stolen.
An unknown man, who was lying near
the rails, was struck and killed by North
ern Pacific train near Crookston.
An incendiary fire at Faribault destroyed
| barn belonging tie the heirs of the Rem
my estate. The loss was 81, 600; no insur-
| ance.
a passenger train on the 500 road goes
through bridge neer Barrett, MINI. Six
| persons are killed, twelve seriously injured
and many slightly hurt.
A. Detle, q shoemaker of Jordan, COM
mited suicide by hanging himself in his
shop. Domestic troubles are supposed to
| be the cause.
| The body of Hans Anderson, farmer
| who lived near Redwood Falls. was found
embedded in q slough. He had been miss
ing six weeks.
T. NJ. Wilson has decided to accept a
bonus offered by the Redwood Falls Board
of Trade, and remove his repair shops from
Cloquet to that city.
Katie kiess, aged 49, was fatally burned
at her home in Minneapolis by an explo-
sion of kerosene, with which she was at.
tempting to light the fire.
young man named Charles Rnring
jumped from a moving car on the inter-
urban railway between Minneapolis and St.
Paul and sustained severe spinal injuries.
The state normal school opened at
Mankato, recently with u good attendance
especially in the higher classes. There is
uble the number of high school gradua-
ties than ever before.
A boy employed in Wendt & Co.'S drug
store at Minneapolis, by mistake gave tar
tar emetic for Rochelle salts to Mrs Harry
Reeves. The woman is in q precarious
condition as the result.
The residence of Otto lander near Salem
Corners, was destroyed by fire. Zander
was badly burned rescung a 7-year-old
daughter upstairs. There is small insur-
ance.
D. Sweeney and John Halbron two river
men, performed rather startling feat at
Winona by jumping from the high bridge
to the river, distace OF sixty feet. Meth
er OF the men were injured.
By the explosion ola gasoline stove at
Rochester Miss Mary Barron of this city
was tally burned, though her injuries at
the time were not supposed to be very seri-
Gus. Owing to the shock, as we'll as the
burn she has since died.
John w. Davis was arrested at Little
Falls some time ago charged by Emma
ste1tins OF Fort Ripley with criminal as
sault. The girl is under sixteen years of
age. They were married in the Jail. He
was afterward released on bail.
W. Roberts, a freight conductor,
whose home is at St. James. fell under the
wheels of a moving train at Mountain Lake
which cut off one leg below the knee. The
early passenger train brought him home.
A team of spirited horses attached to q
reaper driven by Edward Zeibrath, near
Montrose, ran away, and Zeibrath was
thrown under the machine. The knives
cut off an arm and leg, from which in
juries he died.
Sarah Tobias of LIE Sueur took strychnine
and was dead in less than an hour. In
sanity was the cause she having returned
from the asylum but short time ago.
She was about twenty-three years old and
lived with her parents one mile west OF LIE
Sueur.
Scarcely day passes but what report is
| brought to Winona of some depreciation
or crime committed by tramps either
at Minnesota City, little town six miles
west of here, or on the Wisconsin side.
A gang Of six or seven brutal men made an
attack on two young ladies.
While Agent c. ]. Fisher. of the Great
NOlLueIl Ills ~ Was
| up his remittance the other night, man
entered the Office and, presenting revolv-
er, demanded the money. He secured all
in sight, about $3.50. There is no clue to
the robber.
| Leonard Roway was assaulted and robbed
of $40 while walking about midnight in a
lonely locality in Mankato. His skull was
crushed, and he is unconscious and not ex-
| pected to survive. His assailant is supposed
| to have been Frank Gieffer, who was with
him in saloon shortly before the deed,
and left town the next morning.
An investigation of the cells in the
stearns County Jail at St. Cloud proves that
they are constructed of poor quality OF
iron instead of first class steel. Board OF
County Commissioners may bring suit
against the firm that had the contract. Sew
ersl prisoners almost succeeded in saving
their way out.
Fred Hahn. young lad 10 years old liv-
ing about eight miles south of st. Peter,
was accidentally shot and instantly killed
while handling gun. He had gone home
from the field to get the gun for his father
and was accompanied back by his younger