Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-02-23
NORTHWEST NEWS BUDGET
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.


Lewis Peterson of Pope county COM
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
An investigation showed that Andrew
II. Holien. who was found dead i'll the
street at Warsaw, died of heart disease.
The livery barn of Albrecht Bros. at
Fairfax was destroyed by fire recently.
The entire loss is estimated ut $3,ooo.
Joseph Lamay had a hearing at st.
Cloud and was held to the grand jury Tor
attempted rape on Il four-ycar-old girl.
Judge Severance at Mankato declares
tlH practice of suspcndng sentence on
good behavior illegal.
The Mcleod County Bank block at
Glencoe was badly damaged by fire.
Loss, $4,000: insurance, $4,000.
Frank Giefer was sentenced to impris-
onmcnt for life for the murder of Leon
ard Roway last August ut Mankato.
The Holy Trinity Episcopal church at
Minneapolis was completely DESTROYED by
fire Loss. $4,000: insurance, $1,000.
At the Lanesboro special election it
was voted to issue $1,000 in bonds for
additional water works and electric
lights
The Chicago & Northwestern depot at
Eagle Lake burned to the ground. 1t
caught fire from Il chimney. The loss is
unknown.
The Red Wing city council has ap-
pointed a committee to secure the ncces-
Sary legislation to build 4 bridge across
tn, Mississippi there.
The Chicago & Northwestern depot at
Eagle Lake burned to the ground re-
Gently. 1t caught fire from the chimney
Loss unknown.
Isaac n Fairchild of Minneapolis, who
is charged with embezzling $4,000 from
the Northern Pacific road, was arrested
i'll Chicago.
The North Star -four mill at Granite
Falls, owned by O'Connor & Nicholson,
burned to the ground recently. Loss
about $4,000; partly insured.
jobs Gcrrish was fatally injured by
falling off Il sled and being trampled I'M
der foot by horses at the Nickerson
lumber camp at Kerrick.
The St. Cloud council passed a bill to
pay the Great Northern right of way to
Andcrson's mill. $4.40O. over the may
or's veto. with one vote in the negative.
badly burned before his wife managed to
eNtricate him. Both suffered terribly
from the combined effects OF fire and
frost, and the husband died on the fol-
lowing day.
Henry J. Bennewitz, formerly sheriff
of Marshall county, and a prominent
business man of Warren, died recently.
He was son of j. G.. Bennewitz, u
former resident of Goodhue county.
The extensive mills of the Harris Forge
and Rolling Mill company. located at
Irondale, q suburb of Minneapolis, We're
destroyed by fire. Loss, $125, 900; in
surance, $SS,50O.
On one of the recent cold days a Mrs.
Steiner. living about sixteen miles east
of Montevidco. left her home with the
intention of going in search Of her hus-
band, whom she supposed had been lost
on the prairie on his way, home from
town. She was overcome by the cold,
and found dead by the side of a hay
stack. Her husband reached home in
| safety.
John Hughes. brakeman on the
Braincrd 4 Northern railway, fell from
logging train near Braincrd and was
run over. both legs being cut from the
body. He died i'll few minutes.
At Anoka Sullivan's saloon was
burned, the entire building being Quilted.
Three men willie walking on the track
Il
plow and killed.
Gustav Fenslic. a trusted employe at
X. d. Hubbards mill at Mankato, has
been aprrOpriatinG -four to his own use
for Il year and a half. He confessed
the crime and gave Mr. Hubbard q
check for $500 to reimburse him.
Rev. J. B. Perry of Washington, D. c.,
has been extended call by the restry
I,cS t }, al, T,,1, ~,
t, the rectorship left vacant by the re-
tirement of Bishop Barker. 1t is not
known as yet whether Perry will accept
Charles LeutZan and wife, residing
about six miles from Holiah, awoke dur
ing the night to find their house in flames.
| After escaping from the burning building
with barely any clothes, Mr.. LeutZan
ventured back to secure some valuable
papers. He was caught in the fire and
Henry Paul. unmarried. aged twenty.
and only son of Dan Paul. committed
suicide in his room at Spring Valley by
shooting with revolver in the head,
the ball entering from the right and top
and passing downward toward the base
of the brain. Dependency is the only
assignable cause. He had said to his
parents: what is the use of living,
|
| would suicide.
| The sheriff of Blue Earth county took
John Dohn to the ST. Peter asylum re-
Gently. Upon searching his person $2,175
in currency. $500 in gold and certificate
Of deposit OH the National bank of Man
kato amounting to $700, were found in
his clothing. The money had been saved
by hard labor. He had been an inmate
of an asylum Il number of years.
J. V. Ford, fifty-two years old, died
suddenly at Mankato He was born in
Wayne county, Ohio, and came to Iowa
in 1849, and to Mankato in 1854, enlisted
in Company H, Second Minnesota, served
two years and was discharged for dis
ability. After regaining his health he re-
entered Company E, Second Minnesota
heavy artillery, and served until the close
| of the war.
| VISIONS
| Christian Peterson. an old soldier of
Whitehall, became sudde:ly insane. He
was taken to the state hoSiI.,L!.
| The death il announcel of Horaca A