The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1893-03-18
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.

of Minneapolis has assigned Assets,
$4,000; liabilities. 100000.
Frank j. Drcczc. a Duluth tailor. has
mysteriously disappeared. leaving num-
her of creditors.
Col. Hans Mattson. formerly secretary
of state ef Minnesota, died in Mime
apolis.
Peter Regan's house and granary and
contents. in Webster township, We're de-
stroyed by fire. Loss. $1.5CN.
The new city directory for Faribault
gives an increase of 500 in the popul;l-
ton.
\ son of Elias Hanson of Detroit was
run over by a sled and one leg so.injured
as to nccessitate amputation.
young man named George L. Brewer.
claiming to hail from the East. has been
arrested at Anoka charged with passing
forged checks.
j. Dickhoff of Minneapolis won $15.-
600 III the last drawing of the Kansas
City Lottery company. The company
claims the ticket held by Dickhoff is
bogus.
Mrs. j. %. Denison. wife of the late
Deacon Denison of Faribault died of an
attack of pneumonia. aged eighty-seycn
Years. She was one of the earliest set
| tiers of the vicinity.
Jacob Thinker has been elected sccrc-
tary of the Diamond starch factory at
Hastings. and the company proposes to
fit up their plant in tirst-class style and
operate it again next summer.
Joseph Garlick, employed in lumber
camp in ltaska county, committed sui
eide by plungins head first into sixteen
inch water hole in the prairie river.
When found his legs We're sticking up
right out of the hole
Thomas Oddson and John johnson.
farmers living near Lanesboro, got into
row and Oddscn stabbed johnson
several times. O,i,l>on. when arrested,
attempted to escape, and was shot twice.
Both may recover.
Leading business men of Redwood
Falls propose to organize a stock com-
pany. with $4,000 capital, for the pur-
pose OF manufacturing the straw stack
rrS recently patented by August III. Sec
beck.
Democrats met at Spring Valley to
consider the advis:tbiity of calling an
| election to choose a postmaster ut that
place. 1t was unanimously decided to
| ask President Cleveland to order such
an election.
| The village election at North Branch
passed off quietly. Frank Smith was
elected mayor over Henry Smith by Is
majority. Two hundred and forty-four
votes were cast. This is Frank Smiths
third term.
Attorney A. X. Pfau of Mankato has
decided to become an applicant for the
position of United States district at
torncy for the state. Mr.. Pfau has been
placticins attorney for twenty years
Or more, and thinks the appointment
should be made from the Second district
The residence. butcher shop and ice
house of f. Krugmeier, at Minnesota
| City, burned to tie ground recently. The
$1,000. The origin of the fire is un-
known, bu, it is thought by some to
be inccndary.
| Forest jones' died at his home in Aus
tin after Il brief illness. He was one
of the oldest employees Of the Chicago
Milwaukee te ST. Paul railway and
prominently connected with the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and the
|
Saturday.
| Fred Solversberg, farmer in ,he town
of Andrea. suicided by shooting Himself
in the head with Il shotgun. lie was
found dead on q couch in his house by a
ncighhor. He was unmarried and lived
alone. y brother suicided two years ago
in the same place under similar circum-
stances.
The Minneapolis Industrial Investment
company, II concern composed of Mime
apolis business; lncn. has been organized
with a capital of S2,OOO0,UO0. The OBJ
ject of tho company is to purchase stock
in the various outside factories and in
stitutions which from time to time may
locate in the city.
A loaded freight train crashed into a
passenger coach of the accommodation
train on the Great Northern near APP
pleton. The passenger coach and bag
gage car We're burned. Mrs. Fernald Of
Bellingham was killed and travelling
man from ST. Paul injured The crew
of the first train We're at supper when
the COLLISION occurred.
John Lengos. Il salconkeeprr. and .Io-
scph Vowalknwsky, !, cigar,llker, set
tied dispute according to Marquis of
Qucensbury rules at ST. Cloud. a l,ln,-
Ter of friends Of each Of the lIen drove
t" Halfway house, two miles from tl'.
city, at ) o'clock in the morning, 70 the
mill. which lasted seven rounds, when
the referee declared Lengos the winner
of the fight and $3.50 stakes.
Fire broke out recently in the old his
toric fort building ut Little Falls, owned
by Mayor n Richardson, and occupied
by Richardson as an Office and DR.. Cross
land as living rooms. The building is
the oldest in the city, having been built
in 1865. The cause of the fire is un-
known. Richardson's loss is about ST.
600, with no insurance. Crossand's
loss is $500. with no insurance