The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-09-22
THE NO,RTHW EST.
A Summary Of tho Important Events
ofho Week in tho Northwest
ern Statos
hlinnoDta, Wisconsin. Iowa. and
North Dakota News ina
Nutshell.
MINNIE sofa.

The commercial bank, st. Paul, reopens.
CityClerk Pendergast OF st. Paul will re-
signa
Minneapolis Democrats nominate Aid.
Hayne3for mayor.
A st. Paul man commits suicide in the
ccntralstation in Minneapolis.
A st. Paul boy of seventeen is arrested in
Washington State for murder.
A North Dakota cattleman is arrested in
St. Paul on the charge of stealing cattle.
The Fourth congressional district Repub-
lican and Democratic committees are ap-
poinbd.
St. Paul residences will soon be furnished
by tile postoffice department with boxes for
the objection of mail. e.,
Cad Johnson, cashier of the Adams Ex-
press company in st. Paul, is arrested,
chars 9ed with embeZz lement.
Henry C. Hope of ST. Paul, superinten-
dent of telegraph of the Omaha road, is
heir to an estate in the North of Ireland
worth several millions OF dollars.
Lohis Basel, of Henderson, was arraigned
befop Judge Kirby on charge of assault
and battery on the person of his wife, the
won an herself being the complainant Bas-
el gd 80 days.
Roe Breznsky and Emma Lyness, the
young girls who pleaded guilty at Duluth
to Indictments charging larceny, were sen-
tenc{d to the reform school.
During the absence of the family tramps
enteted the house of a man named Dona-
hue, on Tenth street north, St. Cloud, and
stolea watch and rings.
William Brown, negro, accused OF
stealing $3.50 from a party on the steamer
Pittsourg at Minnesota, has been arrested
at Winona. The captain of the Pittsburg
has been wired for instructions.
Burglars blew open the safe in the North
crn Pacific station at Fergus Falls and got
$50 III cash. They also opened NJ. L. Nc
Malions safe. Two men have been arrest
cd at Wahpeton who are suspected.
A team driven by John Roach, son OF
Thomas Roach, ofAvon, was struck by q
Great Northern train at the crossing just
west Of st. Cloud. Both horses were killed.
Roach was unhurt,
Ole Frederickson was killed by a Great
Northern freight train at Sandstone, while
attempting to board it. His body was cut
to pieces. He leaves one child; his wife is
dead Fredcrickson was section foreman
at Deadham on the Great Northern Rail-
road.
Askwoth, Nevin Il Son of st. Cloud had a
contract for 5000 feet OF granite curbing Tor
Duluth. They bought part of it from the
reformatory stock cut last season. The
stoneeutters found it out and quit work.
Theauarry is closed in consequence. About
10 men were er.,,sle.-~.l -=---------------
- A stock company has been formed in
Redwood Falls to put in an electric light
plant Immediately. Paul Martin, of st.
Paul will be business manager. The COM
pany has franchise for five years and the
city has the priliIege of buying the plant
when the franchise expires.
A recent search ofthe st. Cloud Jail dis
closed number of iron saws, some foot
and more long, and file, spoon-flshioned,
like key. They were concealed in. the
top of the cell. This is the second batch
found recently and the men evidently have
friends outside.
The relatives of Mrs. Martha Kester, the
child murderess, of Eagle Lake, have en-
tered suit to recover the money with which
to carry on the defense at the coming trial,
also for the burial of the murdered chill:
dren. The defendant is Frederick Kester,
of Milwaukee, and his farm at Lake Crys-
tai has been attached.
The Grand hotel, Fergus Falls, which
has had such checkered career, is once
more opened under auspices which ought
10 insure its success. The hotel is now
owned by local parties, and has been
opened under the management of George
I'll. Woodhouse
Frank King Thomas Mcnamara and
Dennis Mcnamara. Jr.. of Ravenna were
arranged before justice Johnson at Has
ting recently upon the charge ofshootine
D aire chickens on the 21st. ult. King and
Mcnamara pleaded guilty and were fined
SO each, and Dennis Mcnamara was dis.
charged. The complaint and arrest was
made by Thomas Mcdonald, deputy
game warden.
Mrs. George Bracket, of Paynesville,
left her husband last winter and has been
living with Martin Johnson's family. AT
that place she became infatuated with
Johnson's brother, William. She came to
st. Cloud recently to ct a divorce in order
to marry him, found she could not and
while out driving with William, swallowed
q bottle of laudanum. Physicians saved
her life. Bracket is son of the village
banker and is willing to support his wife.
Sank Centre was raided by burglars re-
Gently. They first attempted to break in.
to a restaurant but was driven away. The
beer warehouse of V. Blatz was then
entered and small quantity of beer TAX
en-. The lumber office of V. A. Whipple
was entered and the safe door badly bat
tered in an attempt to break into the safe
but in this they were unsuccessful. The
machine office of A. Rein & Co. was en-
tered the safe opened and small sum o.
money and about $1,000 in notes taken
The iron money box in the safe was pried
out and taken away.