The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-05-26
THE NORTHW EST.
A Summary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News ina
Nutshell,
MINNIE sofa.


Fred @. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis mill
Ter is dead.
Judge E. 8. German, formerly probate
judge dies in st. Paul.
A Winona man and his young son are
sentenced to state prison for ten and seven
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 MINI. Her sec
ond husband is under arrest.
The plans for the Minnesota worlds fair
building are approved in Chicago.
Charles A. Ruffee is to succeed 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. Hail. at Hutch
inson, sustaining severe injuries, from
| which he died.
J. F. G. Behr, charged with criminal
assault upon Miss Minnie Stapp, was con-
Victed at st. James, of assault i'll the second
| degree.
In the probate court at Winona the final
decree was made in the administration of
the estate OF William Window, deceased.
The property is all disposed of as directed
in the will.
Peter HELLER, aged eighty-nine years,
died at the residence in Lake City of his
daughter, Mrs. John Gludt. The remains
were inferred at Wabasha, where deceased
formerly lived.
Trustees ofthe Owatonna Baptist Church
awaded the contract Of building their new
church building to Kilroe Bros, Minnea-
polls, for 81, 575, to be completed by Oct.
l, 1892
There is good deal of excitement at
Little Falls, over the finding of the remains
of a man nelr Randall, 10 miles west.
Evidently the body had been burned. A
pistol and jackknife was found with the
charred bones, A coroner's inquest will be
held.
AL ISS1lcllG HAS UOCu ISuCuGu NY WIG
Milwaukee & St. Paul and Chicago &
Northwestern railways whereby they will
place an interlocking switch at the crossing
near Winona. These switches are to be
placed at 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 a couple ofhours succeed
ed in raising $3.50 toward Dodge county's
quota to the worlds lair 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. HedderIy and George H. Fletcher, of
Minneapolis. The building for the bank
will be erected Immediately.
Clare Peters, q 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
| missed him the arrival at Sioux Center.
The conductor notified the section men at
Osakis who went out and found the body.
The south bound passenger train on the
Winona & 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 of his left hand torn
off by Clydesdale stallion that he has
charge of. He was putting on the bride
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 farmer wandering about
the woods in his night-clothes. The other,
who came from the St. Cloud reformatory
and is sometimes dangerous, is still at
large.
J. D, Hines, property man at the Peoples
Theater, Duluth, attempted to chop his
wife to pieces with a Ratchet. Before her
screams attracted help he had chopped one
thumb off, struck her in the face, 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
fed, but was arrested subsequently with a
| revolver in his hand. His wife's wounds
will not prove serious unless from the shock
| or loss of blood.