The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-05-13
NORTHWEST NEWS BUDGTE
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF
IMPORTANT NEWS.
A Concise Account OF the Happen
inas Of the Past Week In MIN
neeota, North Dakota,
Iowa and Wiscon-
sin.
Minnesota.

Wolves are unusually plentiful IN tue
vicinity of Red Wing.
Hal ID. Graham was given a verdict OF
$1,000 against the Omaha Railway COM
pany. ut Mankato.
John J. Murnick & Co.,, Tower MGR
chants, have assigned. Liabilities, ST.
600; assets, $4,000.
Fred Plaf's dwelling, in the southern
part of St. Cloud, burned. Loss, $1,000.
The tenant lost 500.
Brainer. has let a contract for the
erection of four new school houses ut a
total cost of $39,672.
J. Geresky, a brakeman in the Great
Northern yards at Breckenridge, was in
stantly killed by the cars.
Crookston fishermen are catching sixty
pound sturgeon and other fish in the He'd
Lake river.
John Ottman of Mankato has been ar
rested on a charge of taking improper
liberties with his ten-year-old, daughter.
The Hendricks school at st. Paul is
closed owing to an outbreak OF scarlet
fever.
Swan Nelson, residing near Newport,
while repairing the roof of his dwelling,
fell to the ground and received fatal in
juries.
William Horn, while blasting boulders
at Renville, was seriously injured by a
premature explosion. He is thought to
have lost his eyes. One finger was blown
off.
Farmers in Otter Tail county are in q
quandary as to when they may begin
seeding. The fields are still covered
with snow, and it may be weeks before
they will be sufficiently dry to drag.
Mrs. ]. G. Curry of st. Cloud has re-
ceived $4,000 from her mother, Mrs.
Donald McIvic of Ontario, who inherited
$4,000 from a Scotch relative, Lord
Brandelbane of Edinburgh.
A six-year-old daughter of L. F. Rice,
a dairyman at Lakeside, near Duluth,
was assaulted by an unknown boy about
fourteen years of age. He succeeded in
overpowering the child and accomplished
his purpose.
The Minneapolis firm of Croker &
Co., which failed some time ago, is about
to make a settlement with its creditors
on a basis satisfactory to all, and in con-
sequence a receiver will not be ap-
pointed.
The assets of Simon Clark & Co., the
Duluth merchants, amount to $SO,5OS;
liabilities about 100000. The liabilities
of the individual members of the firm
bring the total Indebtedness of the con-
Germ up to $147, 700.
The appearance of a fine buck deer on
an ice foe in the Duluth harbor put tug
men on the qui vive for a capture. After
it had apparently satisfied it's curiosity it
bounded of and swan directly up the
lake, despite numerous efforts to inter-
cept it.
Suttiele Bierangee, an old and we'll
TODD farmer of Lafayette, mysteriously
disappeared from home on April 25 and
has not beer heard of since. His family
and neighbors are wholly at a loss to
account for his sudden and strange de-
parture.
Wood Lake is to have a $4,000 cream
cry. The lumbeS has arrived and ground
is being broken for the foundation and
a well is being bored. Farmers are re-
Stunning work after a two weeks recess,
occasioned by bad weather.
The remains of three human beings,
presumably Indians, were unearthed at
the point of the bluff on the lots of ].
L.. Kithel, near Montevideo. No white
man has any knowledge of any burying
ground in that locality.
The family of Thomas Greer, a prom
inent business man of Fairfax, suffered
great agony by being poisoned, caused by
using sour milk in new tinware. DR.. HI.
e. Lucas was summoned, and after ap-
plying antidotes, succeeded in relieving
them. At this writing they are rapidly
recovering. .--~
Roy Burger, the fourteen-year-old son
of Teller Burger, of the First National
Bank of Duluth, was arrested, charged
with criminal assault upon the six-year-
old daughter of Louis F. Rice, the Lake
side dairyman. Burger waived examine
ton and was held to the grand jury. He
gave bail.
An old man known as Nels Sweeney.
has lived alone in a shanty on the island
across the river from Red Wing. He had
not been seen by his neighbors for several
DAYS, and when they broke into the house
they found him dead. Nels was a famil-
lar figure on the streets of Red Wing.
He had lived in the city ver forty
years. He served four years in the war
with Company d, Third Minnesota regi-