The Bottineau pioneer., 1893-04-22
NORTHWEST NEWS BUDGET
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF
IMPORTANT NEWS.
Concise Account Of the Happen
ings Of the Past Week In Min
nesota, North Dakota.
Iowa and Wiscon-
sin.
Minnesota.

Minnesota.
The dam across the Zumbrota at Ma
zeppa has been washed away.
Farmers in the vicinity of Redwood
Falls have commenced seeding.
Minnesota will have one of the finest
exhibits at the worlds fair.
While saving wood with a circular
saw w. Weis of Hay Greek sustained
serious injuries which caused his death.
Julius Unttener of Marshal while at
tempting to get a pulverizer out of a
pond sank in the mire and was drowned.
Tooze Rogers, Minneapolis saloon
keeper, shot his wife fatally, mistaking
her for burglar.
Fire at Spring Grove destroyed the
opera house, the Herald Office and the
German Lutheran church. LOSS, $45,
900; insurance, $1,000.
A score of Austrians engaged in fight
at Ely, and after lively scuffle with the
police they were finally arrested and
fined.
A census just taken ut Red Wing
shows the city to have population of
7,442. Tbs is an increase for the last
two years of 1000.
Mrs. Olaf Nelson, residing ner Her
man, was burned to death by the ignit-
ing of her dress in some unknown man.
ner.
August Borchardt, while digging a we'll
near Harriman's Landing, six miles
north of Saltwater, was struck by fall
ing bucket of sand and fatally injured.
An unknown Polander was drowned
while trying to cross the ice between
Connors and Rice's points, near Du-
Miss Ganette, Minneapolis school
teacher, was badly injured in attempt
ing to escape from 500 sleeping coach
which caught fire while at a point near
the Soo
A Chicago & Northwestern freight
train was ditched at Marshland, sta
ton few miles east of Winona recently.
Seven cars We're derailed and badly de-
molished. The track was torn up.
Gulbrandson Bros. of Albert Lea
brought suit for $4,000 against Mayor
kellar for tearing down their machine
building this winter on the order of the
city council.
A horrible accident happened to a small
child of James Barber, living west of
Redwood Falls. He accidently swallowed
bottle of carbolc acid, and his throat
and mouth were terribly burned by the
acid. He is in critical condition.
Burglars broke into 2. II. Schulkey's
blacksmith shop at Sauk Center, got
tools and knocked the dial knob off the
safe in the Northern Pacific depot and
using powder blew the safe door to
pieces. They got three or four G. o. D.
cheap watch packages.
A Biwabik dispatch says that while
drilling in an old hole in rock cut of
the Duluth & Iron Range railroad on
the new branch near Merritt, an explosion
occurred, killing John Smith and danger
ously woundinS John Lilbork and mang-
ling Mike Lukiges' arm, necessitating
amputation.
James B. Dugan, an old soldier of
three wars, committed suicide at Delano
recently by shooting himself through the
heart. He had been sick for four weeks
and it is supposed that he was insane
when he committed the act. He was
respected and leaves a wife and two
children.
The Southern Minnesota Dental So
ciety elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: PRESIDENT, DIR. NJ. B.
Wood, Mankato; vice president, DIR. A.
w. Alderman, Blue Earth City; secre-
tary, DR.. +. G. Kremen, Minneapolis;
treasurer, DR.: Scipio Bond, Anoka. 1t
was decided to make eligible to member
ship the dentists of Minneapolis and St.
Paul.
A young man by the name of John
Hawkinson, living two miles north of
Maynard, a small town on the Great
t1,or 1roo o1,n ,tn mil
east of Granite Falls, was instantly
killed during the recent heavy rain and
thunder storm that prevailed. Louis
Hawkinson and his son were standing
in the barn together when the bolt struck,
filing the son instantly and stunning the
father.
A Two Harbors advice says: The Du-
uth & Iron Range railroad has just re-
ceived it's new lot of engines. There are
nine of the latest improved Schenectady
12-wheel make, and, except the st. Glare
tunnel engine and few special Shea en-
gines on the Northern Pacific, are the
largest in the world. Their weight when
loaded is 10 tons, boilers u inches in
diameter and cylinders 22x26. Beside
them the old Moguls are but pigmies, and
Ithey will haul from seven tn ten more
loads of ore.
The postoffice at Alexandria was
robbed recently of $500 in cash. The
assistant postmaster, who sleeps in the
office, was reused during the night by
two men, both of whom were heavily
armed, and ordered 70 open the safe.
This he was finally compelled to do under
threat of being killed. The robbers made
good their escape. They overlooked 500
worth of registered mail and stamps of
the value of 5000. The loss, though
small, will fall heavily upon the postmis-
tress, Mrs. Fannie Van Dyke. There
is no clue to the robber.