The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-02-18
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.
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Minnesota.
Sank Center is to be lighted by cleo
tricity.
The Minnesota hotel, Mt Crookston, was
partially destroyed by fire.
Lawrence Jrosskolp of Columbus COM
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Lewis Peterson of Pope county COM
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
An investigation showed that Andrew
II. Holien, who was found dead in 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 at $1,000.
Joseph Lamay had a hearing at st.
Cloud and was held to the grand jury for
attempted rope on a four-yenr-old girl.
Judge Severance at Mankato declares
the practice of suspcnding 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 at 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 S 1000 in bonds for
additional water works and electric
lights.
The Chicago & Northwestern depot at
Eagle Lake burned to the ground. 1t
caught fire from a chimney. The loss is
unknown.
The Red Wing city council has APP
pointed a committee to secure the neces-
sary legislation to build q bridge across
the Mississippi there.
The Chicago e. Northwestern depot at
Eagle Lake burned to the ground re-
Loss unknown.
Isaac N. Fairchild of Minneapolis, who
is charged with embezzling $4,000 from
the Northern Pacific road, was arrested
in Chicago.
The North Star -four mill ut Granite
Falls. owned by O'Connor e. Nicholson,
burned to the ground recently. Loss
about $4,000; partly insured.
Joha Gerrish was fatally injured by
falling off a sled and being trampled un-
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
Anderson's mill. $4.40O, over the may
or's veto. with one vote in the negative.
badly burned before his wife managed to
extricate 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 a son Of J.. C. Bennewitz, a
former resident Of Goodhue county.
The extensive mills of the Harris Forge
and Rolling Mill company, located at
Irondale, a suburb of Minneapolis, were
destroyed by fire. Loss, $125,0O0; in
surance, $SS,5O0.
On one of the recent cold days a Mrs.
Steiner. living about sixteen miles east
of Montevideo. 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 q hay
stack. Her husband reached home in
safety.
John Hughes. a brakeman on the
Brainerd & Northern railway, fell from
a logging train near Brainerd and was
run over, both legs being cut from the
body. He died in a few minutes.
At Anoka S%ulliyan's saloon was
burned, the entire building being Quilted.
Three men while walking on the track
,,oor Eo,.vlS Falls vnra Struck nv q snow
plow and killed.
Gustav Fenske, a trusted employe at
II. D. Hubbard's mill at Mankato, has
been appropriating -four to his W use
for a year and a half. He confessed
check for $500 to reimburse him.
Rev. J. B. Perry of Washington, d. c.,
has been extended a call by the vestry
of st. Paul's Episcopal church of Duluth
to the rectorship left vacant by the re-
tirement Of Bishop Barker. It is not
known as yet whether Perry will accept.
Charles Leutzan and wife, residing
about six miles from Holah, .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
p1peFS. ne WdS Caught III Tue uEc Nuu
Henry Paul. unmarried. aged twenty,
and only son of Dan Paul, committed
suicide in his room at Spring Valley by
shooting with a 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,
anyway" but they never supposed he
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, $3.50 in gold and a certificate
of deposit on the National bank Of Man
kato amounting to 500, were found in
his clothing. The money had been saved
by hard labor. He had been an inmVe
of an asylum q number of years.
j. v. Ford, ffty-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
tw, 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. e4- -.
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