Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-03-16
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.

A number of small burglaries were
committed in Winona the other night.
Patrick Ryan. prominent farmer liv-
ing near Sumter, lost two fingers in a
feed mill.
Jesse Palmer. an old merchant of H.
linois, purchased the stock and business
from 4. ]. Barr & Son, the largest gro
Gerry in Sleepy Eye. Mr.. Barr is an old
citizen and business man.
The Minnesota Shoe company's plant
at st. Paul was destroyed by fire. The
loss is 100000. of which $4,000 falls
on Kuhes & Stock. cigar dealers.
An unknown Bohemian committed sui
eide by hanging himself on the farm
of Anton Baubeck, in Blooming Grove
township. in Waseca county. He is
supposed to have been insane.
1t is reliably reported at St. Cloud
that Foley Bros. 4 Guthrie. the well
known railway contractors there, have
bought the Milaca mills of President
Hill of the Great Northern.
An eagle shot by Dick Petty near
Orion Mills. measuring seven feet and
four inches from tip to tip, detied capture
after being wounded by shot in the
wing.
Lizzie Weathcrs. the colored woman
who has been OH trial at Duluth for the
murder of one Zine 1T Biwabik. was ac-
quilted by the jury after only ten min
utcs' dclibcration.
During an alteration at Anderson 5
boarding house at Carlton w. pickets
was probably fatally cut in the neck
by Fred kcckstein. Reckstein is in
Jail
Mrs. \. Eltum. one of the oldest set
tiers of Rice county, died ut the advanced
age of nincty-tivc. and four hours after
ward her son. Gilbert Eltum, Il prosper
GUS farmer, died of pneumonia.
Frank Walha. a Bohemian about sixty
five years of age. fell dead on the street
at Glencoe. No inquest will he held, the
doctor pronouncing it heart disease.
Charles klemm of Chicago was found
dead on the depot platform 1T Austin
recently. He was Il travelling salesman.
and had a line of holdings. The body
was taken in charge by the coroner.
The snow pillow going west on the Will
mar line recently struck y. Thomas and
son William one mile east Of New Lon
don. killing the son and CRUSHING the
fathers ankle.
In a saloon row at Randall Frank
Scherncrhorn was stabbed in the side
by man named Baxter. The doctor
says the wound is not serious BaHtcr
is in Jail.
Mrs. Campbell of Cormorat township
Otter Tail county. aged sevcnty-iivc
years. was burned to death. While
kinalin@ a fire her clothes caught. and
before help could arrive she was burned
50 badly that she lived but u few hours.
The Hastings Gun club and interested
citizens at a meeting held at the court
house at Hastings drafted Il rcmon-
STRANGE against certain Legislative bills
now pending relative to hunting and fish
ing.
\ travelling man was arrested at New
Tim by Deputy Sheriff Terry Of lie
Sueur on the charge Of assault and bat
terry on another travelling man at Hcnder-
son.
Tn" largo. handsome residence owned
by John Kendall and occupied by John
Booth at Ninona was badly damaged
by fire rcce&t1y Total loss, $1,000;
insurance. $J..AO. Three normal school
teachers boarding there lad their cloth
ing and personal effects burned.
The immense elevator of the g. W.
Van Du$cn Elevator company at Red
wood Falls was totally destroyed by
fire. 1t contained 12.HNO bushels Of flax
The total loss is $4,000, probably par
TALLY covered by Insurance.
There will be a general non-scctarian
and non-partisan temperance rally at
the opera house in Rochester on Tues
day evening, in view of the city election
March Z, which will be hotly contested
on this and other questions.
DR.. Russell Whiteman, aged seventy.
the Oldest physician in Anoka, died of
heart failure after an extended illness.
He leaves wife and seven grown chill
dren One son, William, is editor of the
Ortonville Herald.
Many farmers are shipping their grain
to Chicago from Dover. They are ship
ping more at the present time than the
elevators, and claim their grain nets
them from 2 to 6 cents per bushel more
than the elevators will give, which pays
them for the extra labor in loading the
cars.