The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Condensed for Busy Readers of the
Represc
NORTHWEST,

NORTHWEST.
John Orth is under arrest at, Lu-
verne for horse stealing.
J. A. Hoom was drowned at Red
Wing last Thursday
L. Larson hanged himself last Thurs
day at Luverne.
An attempt was made at Hastings
last Thursday to lynch the slayer of
Policeman jacobson.
CASPER Clark was arrested at Farm
1ngtOn Thursday last on charge of
having led estray young girl named
OFT.
The three-span bridge on the Hinck-
ley branch of the Great Northern road
was burned Thursday last.
Ex-Mayor Davis and Editor Rogers,
of Watertown, S. d., had fight last
Thursday.
Peerley Plane, the independence,
Ia tirebug, has been declared insane.
The Union county Republican will
soon be issued at Elk Point, S. d.
Charles Yott. aged Is. was drowned
near Crookston July II.
William II. Jones was drowned at
Gilbert lake, near Brainerd, July II.
Ashland, Wis, Catholics will build
$4,000 school house.
George Trlas was killed by NOW
ing machine near Mars hfield, Wis, last
Thursday.
Coal has been found in Pierpont
county, S. ID.
Chnch bugs have made their ap-
pearance at Montrose, Mimi.
A.. L Mohler has been appointed gen
eral manager of the Minneapolis & St.
Louis road, and will step in when W.
IL. Truesdale retireS at the end of the
strike. Mr.. Mohler was the former
manager of the Great Northern
Isaac L. Lincoln, IS years DID, who
had lived in Minneapolis for % years,
died last Thursday of inflammation of
the bowels.
Lee II. Wayde has been commits
stoned postmaster at Luvcrne, Mimi,
by the postotlice department.
The p0stoffice department has decid-
ed to discontinue the pUstot1ice at vi
dette, Campbell county, S. ID. Mail
for that office will hereafter be sent to
Mound City.
representatives of the agricultural
interests of England, Scotland and
Ireland are in Minnesota to inveSti-
gate it as Il farming state.
George Weems, the murder of Con-
ductOr Rucius Redpath, of the dag
onal, at Des Moines, Ia, was on Fri
day last sentenced to be hanged.
The, resignation of Capt. Knapp,
steamboat inspector at Dubuque, Ia,
has been asked for.
Triplets were born to the family of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Neeb, of Lewiston,
Mimi, last Friday. two girls and boy.
Mrs Margaret J. Rice, of Mortified,
who was visiting her daughter, Mrs
W. S. Baker, at Forman, N. d., died
suddenly last Friday of heart disease,
aged 81 years.
Mark Scott, who recently retired
from the city editorship of the Sioux
Falls Press, will soon start a new morn
ing paper there.
Paddy Brennan, of Hinckley, Minn.,
while leading a horse to water on July
-, was kicked in the face and his skull
fractured His recovery is doubtful
The Polk County Fair Association,
st. CroiX Falls Wis. filed it's articles
with the register of deeds President,
George p Anderson; secretary. Fred
Hudson.
Lemen Bros circus tent was torn to
pieces by the wind at Huron. S. D., on
Wednesday last. Little Rosa, the
snake charmer was seriously injured,
and four shOwmen were badly hurt
Snakes got loose but were recaptured.
A prairie fire across the Missouri
river from Pierre, S. D., burned strip
several miles wide and 40 miles long,
the fire lasting several days.
r. H. Peacock, Great Northern ex-
press agent at WickeS, Mont, was held
up last Saturday morning by two
masked men with shOtgunS, who drove
him from his wagon and have escaped
with horse and wagon and the treas
ury box, containing about $11 900.
The Minnesota National Guard are
in camp at Lake City.
The steam yacht Mignon, of Du-
buque, with pleasure party of IA on
board while going to ST. Paul. ran on
to a sand bar near Pine bend, Satur-
day night, two of her people being
drowned while being taken ashore in a
skiff, it capsizing.
The Retail Clerks National Assertion
held its annual session in st. Paul last
week.
Charles E. Leonard, clerk in the
employ of the Omaha railroad, in St.
Paul shot and killed Charles j. Luth.
a striking brakeman. The shooting
was the result of dispute about the
strike.
While Nick Koch, of Rock Rapids,
Ia, was starting his harvester last
Thursday evening, in his barley field,
his 4-year-old daughter Cora followed
him. and while waiting for him to
come around the field she fell asleep
in the edge of the grain. The first
intimatiOn that he had that she was
near was her screaming as the sickle
struck her. The left leg was almost
severed from the body. She died at
o'clock the neqt morning
The Union county Republican is the
name Of new paper which will soon
he started at Elk Point, S. D., by
Lynch Bros. & Stroud.
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