The Dickinson press., 1893-05-13
NORTHWEST NEWS BUDGTE
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-
Minnesota.


Wolves are unusually plentiful in the
vicinity of Red Wing.
Hal ID. Graham was given a verdict of
5000 against the Omaha Railway COM
pany at Mankato.
John ]. Murnick 4 Co.. Tower mer-
chants, have assigned. Liabilities, S.4,-
600; assets, $23.OOO.
Fred Plaff's dwelling. in the southern
part of st. Cloud, burned. Loss, $1,000.
The tenant lost 500.
Rrainer has let n contract for the
erection of four new school houses at a
total cost of S39,67o
J. Geresky. brakeman in the Great
Northern yards at Breckenridge, was in
stantly killed by the cars.
,'rooks,on fishermen are catching sixty
pound sturgeon and other fish in the Red
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 Renvlle, was seriously injured by
premature explosion. He is thought to
have lost his eyes. One finger was blown
off
Farmers in Otter Tail county are in a
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 j. G. Curry of St Cloud has re-
ceived $4,000 from her mother. Mrs.
Donald McIvic of Ontario. who inherited
S9S,OOO from Scotch relative, Lord
Brandelbane of Edinburgh.
A six-year-old daughter of l.. +. Rice,
dairyman at Lakeside. near Duluth.
was assaulted by an unknown boy about
fourteen years of age. He succeeded in
overpowerns the child and accomplished
his purpose.
The Minneapolis firm of Crocker &
Co., which failed some time ago. is about
to make settlement with it's creditors
on Il 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 x6O,OO0. The liabilities
of the individual members of the firm
bring the total indebtedness of the con-
Germ up to $147,7OO.
The appearance of fine buck deer on
an ice foe in the Duluth harbor put tug
men on the qui vive for capture. After
it had apparently satisfied its curiosity it
bounded off and swan directly up the
lake. despite numerous efforts to inter-
cept it.
Sutticle Bierangee, an old and we'll
to-do farmer of Lafayette. mysteriously
disappeared from home on April 25 and
has not been heard of since. His family
and neighbors are wholly at loss to
account for his sudden and strange de-
parturc.
Wood Lake is to have n $4,000 cream.
cry. The lumber has arrived and ground
is being broken for the foundation and
Il well is being bored. Farmers are re-
suming work after u two weeks recess,
occasioncd by bad weather.
The remains of three human beings,
presumably Indians, We're unearthed at
the point of the bluff on the lots of j.
L. Ilithel. near Montevideo. No white
man has any knowledge of any buryins
ground in tnat 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. DIR. H.
Il. 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 +. Rice, the Lake
side dairyman. Burger waived exalnina-
ton and was held to the grand jury. He
gave bail
An old man known as Nels Sweeney
has lived alone in u shanty on the island
across the river from Red Wing. He had
not been seen b. his ncighbors for several
days, and when they broke into tire house
they found him dead. Nels was famil-
iar figure ON the streets of Red Wing.
He had lived in the city over forty
years. He served four years in the war
with Company d, Third Minnesota regi-
mcnt