Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-06-30
THE N0RTHW EST.
Summary of the Important Events
of tho Week in the Northwest
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in q
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.

The 2-year-old child of. w. Evans OF
SIaylon was killed by the cars.
Hon. Moses L, Clapp is to deliver the
Fourth o fJaly Grafton in Red Wing.
Nestor Bertrand was arrested at Faribault
for passing a nun Der OF forged checks IN
this city.
Faribault is to have a celebration on the
Fourth ofJuly. Elaborate preparations are
being made .or the same.
Late hail storms havc totally destroyed
rye fields at Kenyon and badly damaged
other grain.
Prot. Lafayette Bliss of Henderson has
been elected superintendent OF the Manka-
to schools, and has accepted.
John Jacob Arola was committed at
Fergus Falls to the hospital for the insane,
lie is the fourth member OF the family h
has gone crazy.
Alphonzo Bondangel, a young clerk in
the Glass Block Store, at Duluth, was ar
rested for larceny. When arrested lie con-
lessed to having stolen over 500.
The Central Minnesota Touring mills
have been sold, considerations $4,000 IA.
Du Bois d Co. selling to w. Ii. Davidson.
The mills will be enlarged.
Kenyon Med cal Institute for treatment
of alcoholic and narcotic habits is an insii-
tuition Just established in Kenyon. 1t has
strong acking and is already in operation.
Episcopal diocesan state convention was
held at Duluth. Bishops Whipplc and
Gilbert and several noted Indians and
about eighty delegates were present.
Merritt Nichols, of Oronoco, has been
bound over to the next term OF court to an
swer to the charge OF criminal relations
with a young girl.
L. II. Stiles has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the Duluth, Red Wing &
Southern railroad, TO succeed c. Sheldon,
resigned.
The juno settlement of the Goodhue
county funds is the largest one in a number
o'years. The current tax COLLECTION to be
distributed is Sl20, 902. 50 and thedelinquent
tax is s13, 3I3.16.
A young SOL of ID. Ward, of Waseca, vas
struck by lightning and instantly killed
during a thunder storm. His elder brother,
who was with him, also sustained injuries,
but will recover.
Mrs. Phoebe Il. Jewell, reject of II. II.
Jewell. died al Waseca of consumption.
She was fity-lwo years of age, and her late
husband was an early settler here and one
ofthe leading business men of this city.
Her funeral will take place on Wednesday.
Another raid wa made on the saloon
and large quantities ofliquors were captur-
ed by the sheriff and police. Marshall Max
we'll cheerfully announced that the fun
hasn't really begun yet, but will when
County Attorney ii. C. Winter arrives from
Chicago.
When the state rested in the case at Buff
falo of the state VS.. Aug. Traeger, the
lightning rod man, and one witness for the
defense had been sworn, jude Hicks
closed the case suddenly by ~instructing the
jury to bring in a verdict OF not guilty, and
It was SO don
The bodies of the two men. Alfred Lind
and Erne,t Ems, who, while in an intoxi-
Gated condition. We're drowned at Lake
City while crossing the lake with q skill,
were recovered by the steamer Ethel How
ard about a half mile from the shore. Each
of the men leaves a wi C and one child.
A Red Wing special sayS:-A cloud-burst
in this vicinity did considerable damage.
especially along the Cannon valley between
here and Cannon Falls. The roadbei of
the Minneapolis & St. Louis was washed
out in many places. The damage cannot
Ae estimated now.
The annual meeting of the DID settlers
sooiatr-was held recently AT Dodge Center
and was largely attended. S. J.. Fierce or
st. Paul delivered the address. Judge l..
II. Way was elected president for the COM
ing year. The meeting e year will be
dt Mantorville.
George Hanson, a young man living in
Havelock, about ten miles from Montevi-
dco accidentally shot and killed his aged
mother with a musket. She handed the
Igun to him stock first, and it is thought
that the screen caught the hammer and fir
ed the gun. Her head was nearly severed
from the body.
A man who has lived at Faribault about
three months known as Mont Lean, was
arrested charged with forgery He passed
a check TO Henry Cromer bearing the name
OF I. O'Grady. Mr.. Cromer ascertained
that the check was a forgery and while
Mont Lean was e~ndeayoring to pass a $40
check on Geo. Byrnes Mr.. Cromer secured
his arrest.
Miss u. Lulu Barney, Pearl May Day,
Harriet Gillrup, L. Joe Greene, ,L1ra L.
Higgins, Zada A. McMillen, Cora +. Spicer,
Jeanie b.. Vandegrilt and Messrs. Rae c.
Blackmer, Henry Carlson, Joseph II. Dud-
ley, Peter A. Peterson and Victor &. Pick
ert graduated from the public high school,
at Albert Lea. The exercises were held at
the opera house.
Alfred Lind and another Swede came
over from the village of Stockholm, Wis,
in a skiff to Lake City and after INDUCING
in a little fire water" attempted to return
at a late hour in the evening. They have
not been seen since and the supposition is
that they were drowned, us the BOAT which
they occupied was discovered floating in
ihsk Axe about a quarter ola mile rom
here