Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
I He NUKTH EST
A Summary of the Important Events
of the Week in the Northwest
ern States
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell.
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a nlte Euftn sDeclhl says Inc ihuiahS
have returned from their sugar bushes. The
sugar harvest was fairly successful.
In the case of George Fockens, charged
at Winona with ~outraging Sophie Heller,
the jury i'm the district court has returned a
verdict of assault in the second degree.
Mrs. Mary Croft, who has lived in Lake
City for upwards of thirty years with her
daughter, Mrs. H. c.. Terrell, died of ap'
oplexy, aged eighty years.
Charles NJ. Marsh, who has been on trial
at Mankato on charge of grand larceny in
the first degree was found guilty OF that Of
tense n bound over 10 the district court.
l.. W. Meining & Co. 5 hardware store, on
East Superior street, Duluth was entered
by burglars and ~revolvers, cutlery and
other goods, to the value of about 5000,
were stolen.
A street car was thrown down ar en-
bankment at Mankato and ThOs. and
George Saulpaugh, the former lately of
Minneapolis and proprietor of the Saul
paugh, received painful injuries.
In the $40, 900 damage suit at Redwood.
Falls off. f. Jones against john Martin, a
wealthy farmer, for permanent injury
received from a kick the jury brought in
a verdict of 81 damages for Jones.
A syndicate OF Little Falls capitalists
have arranged to construct all opera house
that will not only ornament First street,
but fill a long drawn want. The task OF
excavating for this structure was begun re-
Gently and the work will he pushed rapid
ly to its completion.
1t is stated that Miss Ella Young, for
several years at the head of Albert Lea Col
lege, has accepted a like position with a
college at Knoxville, Tenn, and will sever
her connection with the institution here at
the end ofthis college year.
Dennis Corwin, who has had several
family row with his wife since residing at
Pine City, has ended his fighting by leav-
ing for parts unknown. He leaves a wife
and child in destitute circumstances. They
moved from Mankato here.
The grand jury at Fergus Falls indicted
the Smith brothers for burglary at the Hen
ming store. 1t is thought that they are the
Vendicar boys, OF Red Wing. 1t has also
indicted Sam Bergquist for forgery and
VIM. Carol for larceny. All are sure cases.
Rev. DIR, Holmes of Minneapolis has
been invited to DELIVER the baccalureate
address to the graduating class of the Nor
NAL school at Winona. The commence
ment exercises will take place on May 26,
at which time a class ofeighty members
will be given sheep-skins.
The Mortified board Of trade has con-
sidered propositions from Edward Nelson
and his two brothers of Denmark 10 erect a
knitting mill at this place. Ii the mill is
located here it will have a capital of some
f20, coz, and will use a two-story building
and about ten knitting machines.
Adjt. Gen. Mullen was at Lake City re-
Gently looking over the Camp Lakeview
rife range. with a view to having some i'm
provements made there. In an effort to
have the contest of the Interstate Rifle as
ISOLATION held at Camp Lakeyiewt this year.
Gen. Mullen has received favorable resPon-
;s from three of the five states concerned.
Three lightning rod men, claiming to rep
resent n Philadelphia firm, were arrested
at Buffalo for practicing a big fraud on
farmers. They are charged with raising
Two notes, one given by Aug Fe,s from
I'll, 40 to &c., 80, and one given by Nick
The from S1l 10 sl25. They are in the keep
ing of the sheriff, and will have a hearing
The trouble betw cen the Foot river water
power wner at HOkah, V. Cargill Bros. of
La Crosse, has reached a point where il is
probable that the mills will be compelled
TO shut down. Two suits, a~ggregating
nearly 500, 900 in controversy, have been
pending for over a year. Many men wi !
be thro wn out of employment if the mills
close.
Carver county will dedicate a soldiers,
monument on June II at Waronia. The
monument is of white bronze, twenty-five
feet in height, and cost 9, 900. On the same
day a reunion of the Ex-Soldiers' Society
Of Carver County takes place, and a very
large gathering is expected, Prominent
speakers will address the multitude.
The West Hotel of st. Cloud was sold to
!. f. Hayward, proprietor of the Grand
Central. The consideration is said to have
been $40, 600. As the West was reopened
yery recently by Geo. II. Woodhouse, re-
Gently yfthe Park Hotel of Fergus Falls,
md nothing had been said to him about
The change the sale places him in q rather
unpleasant fix.
From all parts of Wright county com es
the report of increased acreage in small
grain, especially wheat. The recent rains
have made it stool out more than it has
ever done in previous years, and should
everything prove favorable there will be the
largest crop ever harvested in Wright u
by. The acreage is fully 10 per cent larger.
A Kenyon special says: The farmers of
his vicinity have organized the North
Star Creamery Company to be located here
and will incorporate under the laws OF the
state. The following are the officers: c.
H. Halvorson, president; H. P. Hulebak,
sice-president; o.. l.. Brusletten, secretary;
and G.. O.. Gunhus, treasurer. The build
ing will be commenced Immediately.
A forcible entry was effected at Melrose
that threatens to grow into a serious ieud.
Armed men broke into the mill of Edwin
Clark, and at the point of revolyers drove
the Waterman and the proprietor's son off
The premises. The trouble grew out of
legal complications involving the rightful
ownership Of the mill. The case is now in
the supreme court.