The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-08
NEWS IN MINNESOTA,

A case of smallpox has developed q
Featherstone, Goodhue county.
Senator J. B. Hompe has bee an
pointed postmaster at Deer Greek.
Contracts for spur tracks to the st
Cloud granite quarries have been let.
Forest fires caused the destruction O
bridge Is on the Eastern Minnesota rail
road.
D.. w. Lawler has been appointed
general counsel for the Great Western
railway.
The Southern Minnesota Teachers as
ISOLATION meet at Mankato Friday and
Saturday.
The assets Of ex-Mayor J.. B. Sutphin
OF Duluth will reach $4,000, or treble
the liabilities.
Two prisoners in the Waseca Jail dug
out last week. Both were under sentence
to state prison.
Methodist bishops and secretaries OF
districts met in st. Paul last week to dis
cuss church extension.
The state convention of the Young
Woman's Christian association was held
at Minneapolis last week.
The internal revenue collections in
Minnesota for October were $3.50, 900 and
the customs collections $4,000.
About 80 sections of stumpage was
sold at the capital Saturday. Prices
ranged from 81 to S.25 per thousand.
Fred Boyle of Burton shot and killed
his son, aged 80. There had been bad
feeling between the two for some time.
Charges have been filed with the gov
ernor against County Attorney Madigan
OF Redwood Falls. Malfeasance and
drunkenness are the specifications.
Mayor Eustis of Minneapolis thinks
bloodhounds would be good thing to
have to aid police, in view Of the great
number of burglaries and hold-ups.
Three men have been arrested in St..
Paul who are suspected of having not
only killed Josef Herda in st. Paul last
week, but also J. 8. Harris at Minneapo-
lis some time ago. They all have Grim
inal records.
George Hecker of Barnum tried to
make up with his wife, but she wouldn't
make up. Then he fired five shots at
her, but she was uninjured. While
locked in Jail afterward he strangled
himself with his handkerchief.
The case of L. 81. Cole, the Minnea-
polls real estate man who has been un-
der Indictment for the past six months,
has been nolle prosecuted. The indict-
ment charged him with securing sigma
lures to deeds and other instruments to
property in Otter Tail county and this
city, through misrepresentation.
Seventy thousand Minnesotans regis
tered at the worlds fair and it is esti-
mated that nearly half as many more
visited the grounds without registering.
Allowing the expenses of each one while
away from home to have been $50, the
aggregate amount spent by citizens Of
the state in seeing the sights would be
the enormous sum of $5,OOO,OOO.
A Duluth telegram says Frank Porter,
q well known quarterbreed, states he
has found coal near Lake Kaboogama.
II do not mean float" he said, ssbut q
well defined vein which I have traced a
distance of 200 feet, and which, even
near the surface, has q width of about
eight feet. I have taken steps to acquire
title and claim the distinction of being
the first to locate a coal vein in the
Rainy river country.
A Halloween prank made people be-
ieve that circus had come to town and
two of the animals had got loose at Red
wood Falls. During the night two
blacklist, brown horses, belonging to
Postmaster Mckay, had been painted
all over in broad white stripes and were
found in the morning eating placidly as
If nothing had happened on a vacant
plot.
The department of public instruction
has been looking into the free text book
question with view to finding out how
the plan has worked where tried, and
circulars have been sent to county super
intendents and answers received, so far,
from about half the number. The re-
turns already in indicate that about 2, 900
districts have adopted the free text book
plan. Of the counties heard from, 60
per cent report that the plan meets with
general favor.
The contract for the obelisk that is to
be erected in commemoration of the re-
lease of the white and halfbreed captives
from the Indians in the uprising of 1862
has been let. The monument is to be
erected at Camp Release, as it is desig-
mated, on slightly point on the bank Of
the Minnesota river in Redwood county.
The monument was designed by A.
Critchfeld, and is in the form of an
obelisk and will be built of red Mime
sotA granite.
Indians After Deer.
SHELL LAKE, Wis, Nov. 6.---ASlarge
number of Indians from this locality are
leaving for Minnesota to hunt deer during
the open season. ) They have hunted during
October in this state, and will now put
in anothor month in tho eistor s%o%o Tho