The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-12-07
Local NOTES AND COMMENT.

lOsssNlIklulA lake. III Is the l0Co0
tionof the company to put in $.
00o.O00 or more this season
Aside from cutting their owl
timber they are this year cut
lng quite au amount of pine or
q portion of the Auburn proper.
ty, which will be hauled and Gu
at their mill in this city.
J. Murray has sold hi.
Chestnut street building ant
bafber outfit to Robert cGruer
who IA turn has leased same tt
Messrs. Burley & Baribeau, this
firm dividing their business in
; terests and Mr.. Baribeau takins
possession of the new establish
, ment on Saturday last. Mr.
Murray is as yet undecided as
tozhis future course, but with
his family will remove to lower
Michigan, where he will doubt.
less engage in some business.
Joe Sheehy failed to put Jack
Curtis to sleep IN four rounds on
Friday evening.
Hlobing wifi soon have a neat
and commodious town hall. Vir.
ginia needs such an improve.
ment, but we are unable to at.
ford any unnecessary Outlay at
present.
I. Sammer6e}d, of Cloquet,
came up Monday and has been
visiting Virginia friends and siz-
ing up the business situation
during the week. Mr.. Summer.
field was one of Virginia's mos:
enterprisiag citizens and bust.
ness men before the big 6re.
Capt Arthur Stevens has TAX
en- . logging contract to put in
the timber on sections 91~5 and
&, and has this week gotten
things in readiness for action.
Mr.. J. McCraig, of Iron juno.
ton, wos in the city on Wednes~
day. Mr.. McCraig has recently
leased the Skinner Hotel, at
that place, and has been busy
the past few days putting same
in shape to open as a trst-class
lsatet The7Enterprise bespeaks
success for the gentleman in the
undertaking.
Peter LaDuke,. who at one
time stopped In Virginia. is now
a resident of Saltwater, being
sent up for one year from !I!tasca
county for grand larceny.
Duluth has a typhoid epidem-
ic.
Herman Huyck committed
suicide at West Duluth Satur.
day night. He was postmaster
at Proctor Knott. Three months
ago he fell in love with Lizzie
Schwalm. He proposed to her,
but was refused, and since has
persisted in his intentions. He
wel to her home Saturday eve
ming, apparently with the inten:
ton of killing her, as he had
threatened to do. He asked for
her but she refused, in spite Of
his request, several times re.
peated, to come oat of the house.
The door was finally shut in his
face. He lay down on the porch
and shot himself through the
heart. Huyck was % years old
and Miss Schwalm II.
= The contest for y. S. senator
from Minnesota this year prom
ises to be red hot fight, and the
probability is that a barrel or
two will have to be tapped be-
fore a choice can be made.
w. G. Moore, lumberman and
sawmill owner, arrested at Co.
hasset on a grand jury indict-
ment for grand larceny in the
second degree. has pleaded not
guilt, and the case has been
continued until Jan. 9 on his
personal recognizance. He is
charged with appropriating 3d.
coo feet of pine lost from the
Mississippi river owned by Levi
Lyon.
The Hibbing News copies
from the Duluth Commonwealth
a.statement q that Bede's Budget
is officially dead, having failed
to come out = week ago, anG
adds that the Budget is not the
only paper in the county thai
has been ''queered" for the same
reason. No, but the others have
been of>so little Importance dur
ling their existence that their de
mise was never mentioned, ever
by the publishers.
Building paper and hardware
= complete supply. at Prescott {
i Mars Co.