Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-10-20
NORTHWEST NEWSBUDGET.
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF
IMPORTANT NEWS.
A Concise Account Of the Happen
ings OF the Past Week In Min
nesota, North Dakota,
Iowa and Wiscon-
sin.
Minnesota,

The new medical building Of the Univer-
sity Of Minnesota is dedicated.
The heirs of John Egan ofSt. Paul con-
test his will.
The Duluth News and Tribune consoli-
date.
A drunken fight at Henning, eliminates
in homicide.
The Ramsey county Democrats nomin-
ate a ticket. An independent Democratic
ticket will be put up.
An accident occurs on the Northern Pa
cifc near Staples in which one person
is killed and six injured.
st. Paul had the sevcrcst hail storm in its
history the other day. Several people were
injured and much property was damaged
Frank Root, in attempting to ride wild
pony ut Avoca. was thrown and had his
shoulder dislocated.
Vandolah, Swan e. Co., hardware firm
Of Boyd. have dsolved partnership. Mr..
Swan will continue the business.
Emily Greene was kicked by horse at
Anoka, breaking the bones of her face and
palate, causing severe hemorrhage.
J. A. Wharton, principal Of the Buffalo
public school, was thrown from his bicycle
and received serious injuries.
The second annual fair Of the Marshall
County Agricultural Association held re-
Gently was a complete success in every way.
A Rochester physician tries skin-gratting
on a patient who has been horribly burned.
The skin of frogs is used and the result is
satisfactory.
Lewis Holm, employed by T. B. Sheldon
e. Co, Red Wing, fell from ladder down
may prove fatal.
While hunting near Mesaba, ia mes
Brown, Son ofCapt. Brown of the Mesaba
mine, was accidentally shot the hip by
Charles McDemarre. He will recover.
r. A. Fuller an old settler of Walnut
Grove, was found dead in bed the other
morning. The supposed cause ofhis death
is heart disc ase.
Dr. WEIGH, assistant superintendent of
the Middleborough (Mass) insane asylum.
will probably be appointed snperintend-
ent oil the Fergus Falls insane hospital.
Miller Bros. store at Hinckley was burg
larized by breaking through a back win
dow. About twenty dollars in goods were
stolen, andthe boy thief arrested.
Thos Gordon was arrested at Red Wing
for stealing 5000 draft from Thomas
Dwycr, OF St. Paul. en- route to Ireland. The
draft was found on him.
Elmer Jordan, of Anoka, foreman Of the
Mississippi Boom Company, elopcd with a
dan leaves q bride Of q year, and was a
60 oF
Fred Sche ,sler, farmer, living about q
mile and half east of Good Thunder,
committed suicide by taking poison. Fam
lily troubles are said to have been the
cause.
Fire destroyed barn owned by the es-
tate Of w. &. Ward, near Waseca four mules
were burn, d to death and four stacks of
grain which had been stacked near The barn
were destroyed.
The body of a young lady supposed to
be Lizzie Toltson, of Duluth, was found in
cd for work at the latter place some time
ago but had not been seen since
A. J. Hubert; 4 travelling man from
minneapolis. was arrested at Delano, on
complaint OF VIM. Maynard. charged with
stealing s25. The hearing will be tomor-
row before Justice Billings.
J. w. Brewster, manager Of the electric
light works at Hastings, during the Repub-
lican torchlight procession recently, sus-
tanned serious injury to his right hand by
the explosion OF a cannon Cracker.
A special from Echo reports that the
farmers are all through cutting corn in that
vicinity and that heavy crop is expected.
There is a wide difference in the average
wheat yield, some fields yield bushels to
the acre aud some %.