The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-12-22
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 WIsoon~
Minnesota.

Chief State Grain Inspector Clausen files
his annual report.
Minnesota Episcopalians hold a state
convention a. Hastings.
Ignatius DonaelIy, 1t is rumored, will
abandon political life for literature.
An Owatonna man kills himself by
drinking quart of undiluted alcohol.
The st. Paul & Duluth Railroad company
- charged with discrimination against
Minneapolis by jobbers of that city.
Fred Weyerhauser, Minneapolis stu
Iient at Yale, is arrested on a charge of
breach of the peace.
gorge Peters, the murderer of Editor
Seward of Saltwater, is declared insane by
the jury.
The Minnesota Iron company will build
railway from Lake Superior to the heart
ofthe Mesaba iron district.
Isaac Reckman died at a small station
north of Two Harbors. Too much liquor
was the cause.
Winslow & Kellogg, general merchants
at New York Mills, have assigned. Their
assets are less than SIS, 900, liabilities not
known.
Sohh " dhAi UuAAOlASp Nv. L uolf OSSH
pied by Schwab & Bro, and the Nonotuck
Silk company, is burned. Loss, $105, 600;
insurance, $50 600.
A woman and two Children are burned to
death at Union Park, suburb of St. Paul,
the mother losing her life in an endcavor
to save her little ones.
Mrs. Anna Smith, the colored woman
on trial in st. Paul for killing August
Hoppe, is convicted OF murder in the third
degree.
Seven hundred and sixty-two saddles of
venison were shipped from Park Rapids
during this season. Between 500 and go
ofthese were Indian killed.
C. f. Alder of Uhen, Minn., was given
thirty years in Jail for forgery, in Justice
BullOck's court at Park Rapids. He will
be taken to the county Jail at Fergus
Falls.
Messrs. Miller and Peverill, of Lime
Creek. who keep general store, were
closed on two writs of attachments, liahili-
ties about S. 900; assets about $4,000.
Black diphtheria has again appeared in
the family of Abe Lang, of Hokah. All
precautions are taken to prevent spread
| of the disease.
A. L. Thompson, OF Cresco, while walk
ing up Main street Mankato fell dead on
thesidewalk. Heart disease was the cause
o! his death. He was serving OH the petit
| jury and was 10 years old.
The stock sheds of City Treasurer scholz
and large quantity OF hay and feed at
Montgomery were destroyed by fire, result
| ing in total loss of $500.
John Schwager, one OF the wealthiest and
best known young farmers in Winona
county. attempted suicide by taking a
| large dose of aconite. No cause is known
for the desd. Schwager will probably die
Frank Murray, the Northern Pacific
brakeman who committed an assault on
Miss Essele, has been indicted by the Will
kin county grand jury. Miss Essele's
brother is on the grand jury.
The residence of VIM Tew at Dundas,
was gutted by fire, and a Norwegian car
! penter by the name of Toneson, sleepingup
stairs, barely escaped being burned up.
A petition is being circulated at Winona
| by the friends and relatives Divine Kukow-
ski, the murderer of August Dommer, and
who is now serving term Of 10 years in
the penitentiary at Saltwater. The petition
| is for Kukowski's release and has 400 sign
| erS.
A Grand Rapids Special says; D. H.
| Freeman, of the Foley Mining Company
reports a rich find of hematite ore at q
depth of 80 feet in section "a township 56,
range 24 This makes five mines on the
western end of the Mesaba which Will be
ore shippers in the spring.
A Montgomery special says: County
Auditor Dressed has instituted proceedings
in civil action tor 5000 against Peter
Shippmar for libel. The latter was con-
victed of criminal libel upon the plaintiff
in Hustle Barer's court in Sesucur, aud a
fine of $50 dollars and costs imposed. He
has served notice OF appeal.
Will, switching at Cottonwood on the
Great Northern, Conductor Kelly slipped,
resulting in his getting his foot crushed by
a car wheel passing over it. He was placed
| in o caboose and the run made to Waverly,
his home distance OF 13 miles, in Is min
utes. Drs. Winner and Robinson ampu-
tated his foot.
Judge e. D. French met with a serious
accident at Redwood Falls. His horse be-
came unmanageable, throwing him out,
breaking three ribs and cutting his.face.
The doctors do not know how serious his
injuries are. He is well known and prom
inent G. A. r, man.
Deputy Grand Warden Paine succeeded
i'll rounding up Fred Yost, a fisherman at
Cullen lake, in Crow Wing county, with
900 feet of nets. Yost has been a violator
| of the game laws Tor some time, and after
watching him for many months he was
caught in the act of drawing his nets from
the water. He will be prosecuted to the
full extent OF the law.
The Wilkin county grand jury has in
dicted Frank Kempfer, twenty-five years OF
age, for murder in the Ct degree. Young
Kemp!er killed his fathers hired man
about q year ago. They had been drink
ing and got into a row when Kempfer shot
with fatal effect. Frank Kempfer's father,
B. Kempfer shot Peter Smith at Elizabeth
several years ago, but was acquitted.