The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-09-10

A Summary Of the Important Events
of the Week in the Northwest
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa. and
North Dakota News in q
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.

The Nelson paper mill in Minneapolis Is
destroyed by fire.
An important meeting of therailway and
warehouse commission is held in st. Paul.
James w. Lawrence is nominated by the
Minneapolis Democrats for congress.
A captivating stranger swindles several
St. Paul people.
Ramsey cornty's property is assessed for
taxation at $142, 666. 1872.
Hon. Knute Nelson opens the Republi-
can campaign at Caledonia.
Judge Kelly decides that the CONNER
cial Bank OF st. Paul may resume busi-
ness.
A three-year-old child is lost on the
prairie near Fulda, MINI. Hundreds Of
men search in vain for the little one.
Henrg Feig of Kandiyohi county is NOM
mated tor congress by Seventh district Re
publicans.
Lloyd Porter, sentenced to the Saltwater
p%enitentiary for life for murder, is pardon
ed. He was editor OF the Prison Mirror.
John Theodore, a retired merchant of
Wabasha, committed suicide by hanging
in his barn.
The residence of J.. J. Brown at st. Cloud
was entered by burglars and considerable
property stolen.
An unknown man., who was lying near
the rails, was struck and killed by a North
ern Pacific train near Crookston.
An incendiary fire at Faribault destroyed
a barn belonging te the heirs of the Rem
my estate. The loss was S $1,000; nc insur-
ance.
A passenger train on the 500 road goes
through a bridge neer Barrett, MINI. Six
persons are killed, twelve seriously injured
and many slightly hurt.
A. Detle, O shoemaker of Jordan, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in his
shop. Domestic troubles are supposed to
be the cause.
The body of Hans Anderson, a farmer
who lived near Redwood Falls. was found
embedded in a slough. Hehad been miss
ing six weeks.
T. M. Wilson has decided to accept q
bonus offered by the Redwood Falls Board
of Trade, and remove his repair shops from
Cloquet to that city.
Katie Kiess, aged 10, was fatally burned
at her home in Minneapolis by an explo.
sion of kerosene. with which she was at.
tempting to light the fire.
A young man named Charles Roering
jumped from q moving car on the inter-
urban railway between Minneapolis and st.
Paul and sustained severe spinal injuries.
The state normal school opened at
Mankato, recently with a good attendance,
especially in the higher classes. There is
d. uble the number Of high school gradua-
tes thar ever before.
A boy employed in Wendt & Co.'s drug
store. at Minneapolis, by mistake gave tar
tar emetic for Rochelle salts TO Mrs. Harry
Reeves. The woman is in q precarious
condition as the result.
The residence of Otto lander, near Salem
Corners, was destroyed by fire. lander
was badly burned, rescuing a 7-year-old
daughter upstairs. There is small insur-
ance.
. D. Sweeney and John Halbron, two river
men, performed rather a startling feat at
Winona by jumping from the high bridge
to the river, a distace ofsixty feet. Meth
er of the men were injured.
By the explosion ola gasoline stove at
Rochester Miss Mary Barron Of this city
was fatally burned. though her injuries at
the time were not supposed to be very seri-
Gus. Owing to the shock, as well as the
burn she has since died.
John w. Davis was arrested at Little
Falls some time 6 charged by Emma
steftins Of Fort Ripley with criminal as
sault. The girl is under sixteen years OF
age. They were married in the Jail. He
was afterward released on bail.
WI, Roberts, = . freight conductor.
whose home is at st. James. fell under the
wheels Of moving train at Mountain Lake
which cut off one leg below the knee. The
early passenger train brought him home.
A team. Of spirited horses attached to .
reaper driven by Edward Zeibrath, near
Montrose, al away, and Zeibrath was
thrown under the machine. The knives
cut off an arm and Q leg, from which in.
juries he died.
Sarah Tobias of Le Sueur took strychnine
and was dead in less than an hour. In
sanity was the cause, she having returned
from the asylum but a short time ago.
She was about twenty-three years old and
lived with her parents one mile west OF 10
Sueur.
Scarcely q day passes but what q report is
brought to Winona OF some depreciation
or crime committed by tramps either
at Minnesota City, q little town six miles
west of here, or On the Wisconsin side.
A gang ofsix or seven brutal men made an
attack on two young ladies.
While Agent c. ]. Fisher, ofthe Great
Northern line at Breckenridge. was making
up his remittance the other night, q man
entered the office and, presenting q revolv-
q. demanded the money. He secured all
IN sight, about $3.50. There is no clue to
the robber.
Leonard Roway was assaulted and robbed
of $40 xhile walking about midnight in .
lonely locality in Mankato. His skull was
crushed, and he is unconscious and not ex-
pected to survive. His assailant is supposed
to have been Frank Gieffer. who was with
him in q saloon shortly before the deed,
and left town the next morning.
An investigation Of the cells in the
etearns County Jail at st. Cloud proves that
they are constructed of q poor quality Of
iron instead of firstsclass steel. Board Of
County Commissioners may bring suit
against the firm that had the contract. Sew
eral prisoners almost succeeded In saving
their way out.
Fred Hahn, ayoung lad'1o years old liy-
ing about eight miles south of st. Peter,
was accidentally shot and instantly killed
while handling . gun. He had gone home
from the field to get the gun for his father
and vas ACCOMPANIED back by his Younger