Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-07-12
News in Brief.

An unknown man committed suicide
in the Union depot at st. Paul by cut
ting his throat with penknife.
At st. Paul Harry O'Garry, IA years
old, had his skull fractured by de-
layed explosion of powder in an old to-
mato can. Andrew Hanson, an Swear
old boy, had the calf of his right leg
blown off by miniature cannon.
At the fremen's tournament at Wor-
Ellington, the Worthington team won
the championship cart for the second
time. Ellsworth Won the hook and
ladder contest.
Three hundred coal beavers at Du-
luth and Superior struck without mo-
ment's notice, demanding restoration
of the 1898 schedule of wages.
Henry Ottenmeyer, a saloonleeper at
st. Cloud, has assigned.
Caspia Jakuszowialz, coal HEAVIER at
Duluth, aged %, committed suicide by
jumping into the lake. He endeavored
to end his life three times before
Ephriam Cotter was arrested at
Anoka in the act of stealing clothes
from Mobergs tailor shop.
Thos. FerriclS, hack driver at st.
Paul, was arrested for killing Samuel
St. A'Moor. They had been drinking
and in quarrel A'Moor's skull was
fractured.
Some parties, by tapping the tele-
graph wires between the race track
and Hamline, succeeded in defrauding
the bookmakers out of $4,000 during
one afternoons races by sending false
reports of the betting in the east on IA
vorite horses.
At Red Wing the chief of police at
tempted the arrest of Fred Zastrom,
colored, at the waterworks for disor-
derby conduct. After chasing him five
or six blocks and firing a revolver in
the air twice he succeeded in catching
him. In the scufie the chiefs revolver
was accidentally discharged, slightly
wounding Zastrom.
The Minneapolis Daily Times has
been sold to the Journal. An applica-
ton was made to Judge Hicks by GER
tain parties for an injunction to pre-
vent the sale. The application was
denied.
The report of Voluntary Weather OBJ
server Cheney, of Minneapolis, shows
that June was hotter than any previous
June since 1878, and the dryest June on
record.
State Treasurer Bobletter's report
for June shows balance of 81, 535, $685.
70.
The third convention of the Deaf
Mutes of Minnesota was held at Mime
apolis. A. Hanson of Faribault was
elected president.
The senate has passed the house res
olution calling on the Secretary of War
for reports relating to Improvement of
the Minnesota river
Swoffer Bros. general store at Wal
nut Grove was burglarized by experts
drilling hole in the safe and blowing
the door out with such force that the
front windows were smashed. They
obtained only $50 in money. They
broke into blacksmith shop for tools
and also into hardware store for gun
powder.
An incendiary fire at Worthington
badly damaged the stores of w. s..
Lewis, grocer, and Blair s. Co., boots
and shoes. Mr.. Lewis has an insurance
Of 81, 300 on stock and building. Blair
& Co. have SIS, 900 on stock alone.
John McDermott, 14-year-old youth
of st. Paul, was held to the grand jury
for violating the state law regarding
the sale of railway tickets. He sold
an advertising trip ticket on the Duluth
road.
Some As jewelers. met in st. Paul to
organize a state association for the
protection of those engaged in the
trade.
The contract was let for the new
county Jail at Redwood Falls for $12,-
1914 to ]. D. Carroll, Of st. Paul. The
steam heating plant has been sub-letto
Pond & Hasey. Minneapolis.
At Owatonna the Northwestern Rail-
way train ran into a team belonging to
Henry Wilker and killed one horse.
Wilker barely escaped.
The tailoring establishment Of Mich
olas Moberg, at Anoka, was entered by
burglars, who stole 6 suits Of clothes,
all ready for customers for the 4th.
: Gilbert Johnson, Of st, James, while
making ice cream, fell dead from heart
disease.