The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-11
MINNESOTA NEWS.

lncendlarleS and fires are quite numer-
Gus.
Tams Bixpy has been appointed
chairman of the state Republican COM
mittee.
The state Methodist conference is in
session in st. Paul. Bishop Fowler
presides.
Senator j. C. Kelly of Houston
county is dangerously ill at his home
in Yucatan.
A number of wing dams are being
put in at the bend above Hastings and
at Merrimac.
Carlton has organized committee of
public safety to rid the town of sus-
picious characters.
Rothschild & Kahn's wholesale millin-
cry house at st. Paul was damaged to
the extent of $4,000 by fire Sunday.
The Knox Lumber company has been
incorporated at Duluth with a capital
of $50, 200 and will build mill at Ely.
BY the explosion of lamp Mrs. Han
son of Candy was badly burned and
most of her household goods destroyed.
Six parties, including both hotel
keepers, have been arrested at Fergus
Falls for selling liquor without IL
cense.
Thieves entered the house of Henry
P. Upham at St. Paul while the family
were at dinner and stole $1,000 worth
of jewelry.
George w. Tussner, st. Paul tile
manufacturer, committed suicide at
Forest Lake. Attributed to business
dependency.
DR.. T. E. Hall of Preston has been
given preliminary appointment as
mem Der of the pension examining board
at that place.
Goodhue county has $3.50 pupils in
the pubic schools which are entitled
to the state apportionment. The schools
receive $l8, 252 from this source.
A span of horses stolen from O. Ben
son near Dundas couple of weeks ago
were found grazing in a pasture near
Monia, la. No clue to the thieves.
While examining a gun which was
supposed to be empty L. Sellers of
Pipestone had his arm blown off near
the elbow by it's accidental discharge.
Frank Murphy was found guilty of
murder in the second degree for the
killing of Thomas Rich last June at
Winona, and will go to state prison
for life.
The county commissioners of Henne-
pin county have offered reward of
5000 for the capture of Louis F. Men
age, the alleged swindling head of the
Guaranty Loan company.
Jacob Brown of Pipestone. owner of
steam thresher, while throwing off
the large belt on the separator was
caught by it and thrown against the
machine and instantly killed.
Stonewall J. DeFrance, who is said
to have swindled st. Paul and Mime
apolis banks out of large amount of
money, has been arrested at Detroit
and will be brought back for trial.
A burglar giving his name as Joseph
Vemrick, was shot and dangerously
wounded by Deputy United States
Marshal Goodner at st. Paul Sunday
night while he was attempting to burg
larize Mr.. Goodner's house.
Receipts of wheat at Duluth for Sep
tembr, the first month of the crop year
Of '93, aggregate 5,1O9,949 bushels,
ahead of the receipts of any September,
except those in 1892 and 1891, when g.
647,O00 and 8,lYl, 900 were respectively
received.
Two men were terribly injured, AZ
head of cattle were killed, at loss of
81, 600, and two stock cars and an en-
CINE were damaged to the extent of
$1,000 by the wreck of a stock train in
the lower yards at South St. Paul Satur-
day afternoon.
r. j. Markoe of st. Paul is making
arrangements with Minnesota and Wis
consin farmers to pool their interests
and ship their surplus hay to Liver
pool by way of the lakes. Hay has ad-
Vance0 from $4O TO you per ton In klv-
erpool and advices state that it will 90
higher.
A petition about 100 yards long has
been filed with the governor asking for
the division of Polk county into four.
The southwest corner is to retain the
name of Polk, with Crookston as the
county seat; the northeast corner to
be known as Red Lake, with Red Lake
Falls as the county seat; the northwest
corner to be known as Nash, with East
Grand Forks as the county seat, and
the southeast corner to be known Co
lumbia, with Mcintosh as the county
seat. The matter will be voted on at
the next election.
The last weather cror bulletin for
the present season has on issued
by Edward A. Bea, of the
Minnesota bureau, IL that q
large amount of fall >.as been
done. The winter gle. growing
rapidly and in some places nas begun
to stool. The seasons corn crop will be
the largest and best for number of
years, yielding from 30 to so bushels