Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-09-20
News in Brief.

The cOlOred people OF st. Paul pre-
sented gold badge to Porter John w.
Blair, whose acts of bravery contrib
uted so much to the safety and comfort
of the passengers on the train that was
burned at Skunk Lake on the night of
the terrible forest fire.
The state board of equalization
adopted the recommendation of the
special committee appointed to investi-
gate into the devastation at Hinckley,
Brook Park and Mission Creek, in Pine
county, cancelling the bulk of the per-
sonal property assessments, amounting
to about $4,000
Fire destroyed Thomas Morrelps llv.
cry barn and several other buildings at
Moorhead.
In the United States court Judge Mel
son decided that the indictments against
the Willmar strikers were void. The
point in the decision is that the charges
of obstructing trains do not specify the
manner in which the acts were perpe.
trated, being only a general charge.
Mesaba mine owners have been
working with j. J. Hill to induce him
to build his Fosston branch to Duluth
by the way of Hibbing and the Mesaba
range. This, it is said, he has consent.
ed to do this winter. A lively war OF
rates will result, and Mr.. Rockefeller,
the kicl1ers say, will find the strongest
adversary he has yet met.
At Crookston, while the train crew
were. at dinner, an intoxicated man
named Sanderson ran the engine, which
was detached, about 200 yards up the
track, reversed it and jumped off, The
engine crashed into the train and
pushed the tender half way through
car of wheat.
There was small commotion in the
Methodist church at Waterville. 1t
seems that the flock are behind in their
annual dues about $50, and the pastor
''struck" until his back pay was ac.
counted for. Enough of the faithful,
however, Clipped in, and everything IL
now lovely.
&. E. Ishmael. q prisoner of Pipe
stone in the Rock county jail for safe
keeping, made arrangements last week
to commit suede by cutting his throat
with small piece of glass, but was
discovered.
A staging on The fifth story of the old
Tribune building, Minneapolis. broke,
hurting to the basement two men who
were working upon it, together with
lot of broken bricks. Fred Budwidson
was killed and Edward Linden badly
injured.
An opium den was raided by the POI
lice in Minneapolis. Three colored
women and a young white man were
found hitting the pipe
The nude body of a man was found
in Lake Superior at Duluth. The bones
of the head were broken in several
places. The body had been in the
water some time, and was that Of a
man Of apparently about SO years of
age. 1t is probable that the clothing
found few days ago at Lakeside VIII
lage was the property of this man.
Mining men from the Rainy Lake
gold district report that the body of
John Gagneu, a half-breed, well known
in Northern Minnesota, has been found
in Crane lake at the mouth OF the YER
million river, with one hand cut off and
other parts horribly mutilated.
The s-year-old child of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Ed Obernolte. of Gaylord. was killed by
q Minneapolis & St. Louis passenger
train.
Peter Kuber, an employee Of the Kelly
Island Limekiln, at Duluth. took rife
out Of the hands OF small boy who
happened into the kiln. He accident
ally shot Lawrence Seymour, an engin-
eer, single man 90 years old. in the
neck. Seymour was thaken to St
Luke's, where he shortly after died.
Charles Butler, Of Sank Center, aged
10, accidentally shot himself dead willis
hunting eight miles south Of town yes
terday. .f