Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-11
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.

AT the Winona city council E. V. Bo-
CART was appointed chief of police, vice
L. X. Eastey.
John Gerezeck, n yard brakeman ut
Breckenridge, fell under the wheels and
was cut in two.
Frank Eddy, Oldest son of w. G. Eddy
of Menahga, but formerly of Verndale,
died quite suddenly the other morning.
Oscar Hoagland, a brakeman on tile
500, was run over Mt Lowry. His right
leg had to be amputated above the knee.
Vincent Ceslik, an employe about the
barn of the Winona Lumber company,
was kicked by horse and died from the
injuries.
Mrs. A. NJ. Bracket died at akeville
of apoplexy. Mrs. Bracket was one of
the earliest settlers in Lakeville, moving
there in 1858.
Mrs. Kate Ellen Hentges, the eighteen
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Hentges, has disappeared at Red Wing
and her whereabouts is shrouded in mys
terry.
A party of hunters from Wisconsin
captured ten wolf whelps in Florence
township, near Lake City recently, and
are now trying to get the mother of the
litter
A light case of diphtheria has been re-
ported by the health officers to exist in
Lake City. All possible precautions have
been taken to prevent the disease from
spreading.
Joseph Fleckenstcin of Faribault has a
German Catholic Bible which is 800
years old. 1t weighs fourteen pounds.
He values it a, $500. 1t is to be sent to
the worlds fair.
Six United States prisoners were re-
ceived at Saltwater recently from Louis
lana and Mississippi to serve sentences
ranging from two to five years each for
robbing postoffices, etc.
Jesep Cappo, bookkeeper for the Iron
Range Brewing company, was arrested
at Tower, on the charge of defalcations
amounting to $734.50. The money is
said to have lost at roulette and craps.
Elmer E. Dickinson of Verndale of
the firm of Dickinson Bros, hardware
merchants, was quite seriously injured
by falling from the roof of their
Menahga store while engaged in cleaning
off the snow.
Auditor James H. Burns of Ramsey
county was acquitted at St. Paul on the
charge of presenting fraudulent bills as
county printer. He is held on three
more indictments, one being for criminal
libel.
J. p. Davidson, proprietor Of n bichlo-
ride of gold cure establishment in St.
Cloud, had narrow escape from an un-
timely death recently when he swallowed
teaspoonful of iodine. Emetics prompt
ly administered saved his life.
The way freight on the Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad left
the track four miles west of lie Seuer
near Credentials Springs, recently. The
weight of the train caused the track to
slide on the soft road bed and nine cars
were thrown in the ditch.
Knud Flekkerud, aged Twenty-Five
years, single, Great Northern section
man, at Fergus Falls, was struck by the
west-bound passenger train in the storm
and killed. He was sent out to inspect
the track and did not hear the train be-
hind him.
In pursuance to the new law passed by
the late legislature in regard to aiding
sufferers from hail and frost by furnish
ing them seed grain or it's equivalent in
money, the county commissioners of Of
ter Tail held meeting recently to issue
the grain, but although the fact was
widely advertised not an applicant
showed up.
Burglars broke into J. II. Russell,s
store at Royalton and opened his safe,
but found no money. A box containing
SIS in change, which was standing on a
shelf, was found and emptied and some
silk handkerchiefs, gloves, etc., were
taken out of the show cases. The burg
larry was cleverly done.
About seventy-fve feet of the dam at
Sank Rapids, owned by the w. F. Da-
wilson estate of ST. Paul, went out The
main damage will be to Thayer & Neils.
lumbermen, whose saw mill will, in all
probability, have to remain idle this sum-
mer. They had made preparations to
saw at least 100000 feet of logs
A pine covering has been placed over
the mystic window in the church at Can
ton. The pastor visited the place yes
terday for the first time since Christmas.
A large correspondence has been going
on and all are now assured that people
will begin to flock in the place soon, as
they did last summer and fall.
The commencement exercises of the
academic department of the Red Wing
seminary were held recently. The names
of the graduates are: James Buer, Knute
Hill, Edward Johnson, Nels Lohre, liver
G. J. Wing, Gilbert J. Brenden, Elias
Rache, Lars Langehaug.
Not an acre of ground is seeded in Polk
county, and things begin to look serious
Farmers have all their blowing done and
if favorable weather comes crops can be
put in in a hurry. Rivers are receding
and will soon be at their natural stage.
The Great Northern is repairing dam
ages done.
Wisconsin
Edward Hogan was found euiltz of