Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-06-02
THE NORTHW EST.
ASummary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News ina
Nutshell,
MINI ESOTA.

Fred c. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis mil.
Ter is dead.
Judge E. S. German, formerly probat,
Judge dies in st. Paul.
A Winona man and his young son are
sentenced to state prison for ten and sever
years respectfully for arson.
Judge Cornish, St. Paul, orders the res
titution of deposit made with the Com
mercial bank the day it suspended.
There is no hope for St. Paul's public
building bill at this session OF con
gress.
A woman who had served year in state
prison for killing her husband is found
dead near Pennington Mimi. Her sec
ond husband is under arrest.
The plans for the Minnesota worlds fair
building are approved in Chicago.
Charles A. Ruffec is to sue eed Capt. Shu'
Ter as Indian agent at White EARTH.
A cloudburst occurred at Redwood
Falls recently. Sewers can not carry the
water off and many cellars are filled with
water. Some lots are entirely covered with
water.
John Hoodicheck. an old veteran. fell
from the steps of G. A. r. Hall, at Hutch
inson, sustaining severe injuries, from
which he died.
J. F. c. Behr. charged with criminal
assault upon Miss Minnie S;app. was con-
victed at St. James, of assault in the second
degree.
In the probate court at Winona the final
decree was made in the administration ui
the estate of William Window, deceased,
The property sall disposed Of as directed
in the will.
Peter HELLER. aged cichtyninc years.
died at the residence in Lake City OF his
daughter Mrs. John Gludt The remains
were inferred at Wabasha, where deceas e'l
formerly lived.
Trustees ofthe Owatonna Baptist Church
awadcd the contract o. building their new
church building to Kilroe Bros. Minnca-
polls. Tor $l2.575' 10 he completed by Oct.
l, 1892.
There is a good deal o: excitement at
of man ne.r Randall. 10 miles west.
Evidently the body had been burned. y
pistol and jackknife was found with the
charred bones, A coroner's inquest will he
held.
An agreement has been reached by the
Milwaukee e. ST. Paul and Chicago Il
Northwestern railways whereby they will
place al, interlocking switch at the crossing
near Winona. These switches are to be
placed ut twelve other points Of contact be-
tween the two roads
Supt. L. P. Hunt. Of the Minnesota
worlds fair commission, was in kasson
recently, and in couple of hours succeed
cd in raising $3.50 toward Dodge county IS
quota to the worlds fair fund. A note for
the amount was signed by thirty Of the
leading business men.
A savings bank has been organized at
Mankato, by L. G. NJ. Fletcher, George
Brett, George T. Barr and William Davis,
Jr., of that city, and James Mcmillan, A.
II. Hedderly and George II. Fletcher. OF
Minneapolis. The building for the bank
will be erected Immediately.
Clare Peters, young man rom Sioux
Center, while returning from Dakota fell
from the train about three miles east OF
Osakis. The conductor or some of the
train men noticed him at OSakis but
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The conductor notified the section men at
Osakis who went out and found the body.
The south. bound passenger train on the
Winonu g. Southwestern railway ran over
Swede named Johnson at Winona. The
man was lying on the track drunk, and the
thick inky blackness of the nigh hid him
from the engineers sight. He was single
and lived on farm near LIE Roy.
Frank Dahl, of North Branch, Mimi,
had the index finger ofhis left hand torn
off by Clydesdale stallion that he has
charge Of He was putting on the bride
and had his finger in the horses mouth
trying to fix the bit, when the horse shut
his jaws, threw up his head and tore the
finger off, pulling out the cord up to the
elbow.
Two lunatics escaped from the Third in
sane hospital at Fergus Falls by lowering
themselves from the third story with an
improvised rope made OF bed clothes. One
was found by a farmer wandering about
the woods in his night-clothcs. The other,
who came from the st. Cloud reformatory
ard is sometimes dangerous, is still at
large.
y ]. D. Hines, property man at the Peoples
Thcater, Duluth, attempted to chop his
wife to pieces with Ratchet. Before her
screams attracted help he had chopped one
thumb off, struck her in the face, a horrible
cash running from her nose down the
cheek, and another long CASH from the top
of her head to the back of her neck. Hines
fled, but was arrested subsequently with a
revolver in his hand. His wile's wounds
<,o,
or loss Of blood.
NORTH DAKOTA.
A postoffice has been established at
Ostrenl, Mcintosh county, with John l..