Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-10
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
Minnesota G1eaningS.

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A CHARITY ball at Litchfield melted
5000 for the citv's poor.
AN associated charity association will
soon be organized at Faribault.
THE building permits issued at Min
neapolis during the year amount to
s. 1927 ,095
THE Park Hotel at Fergus Falls was
destroyed by fire. Loss, SIS, 900; iDsur
ance, SIP 900.
TIE next encampment of the South
ern Minnesota G. A. r. Association will
be held at Luverne.
DULUTH has annexed West Duluth
and Lakeside. acquiring fifteen miles of
additional water front
JOSEPH DEDINA was instantly killed
by train while crossing the railroad
track at Montgomery.
CHARLES NELSON, buyer for the farm
ers' warehouse at FairmOnt, has been
jailed on a charge of forgery.
THE Alderman Bros Mill Company
has started its new mill at Young Amer
lea, MINI. Capacity, 100 barrels.
CREDITORS of Foran Bros, of Duluth,
have applied for receiver The firm
grocery stock was destroyed by fire.
TIE Model Grocery Company of Will
mar made an assignment. The assets
do not exceed $1,000; the liabilities are
somewhat larger.
AT a meeting of the Hubbard County
Improvement Union company was
formed to build q starch factory at Park
Rapids of 1000 bushels per day capacity.
j. @. TEGNER and wife were found I'M
conscious IN bed at st. Peter, having
been overcome by gas from coal stove.
Strong hopes are entertained of their
recovery.
The case Of Mayor Charles Fitch and
Chief of Police j. Gibbons. of South st.
Paul, indicted for unlawtully conniving
at the escape Of prisoner from jail,
was dismissed.
THE government has shipped new
set Of guns from it's arsenal to Shattuck
Military School at Faribault to replace
those that we're destroyed in the armory
fire few months ago.
Gus BORCHARD, who was lately tried
for the murder of his father and acquit-
ted, has been declared insane by the
court at ST. Cloud and will be com
| United to the insane hospital at Fergus
Falls
AN epidemic of malignant diphtheria
has broken out in the township of Elba,
in Winona County, just east OF Quincy.
4 man named WEIGH has lost two chill
dren and many new cases are daily re-
| ported.
II. b. GRAHAM, recently hotel-keep-
er at Lisbon, y. D., while crossing the
Great Northern bridge at Breckenridge,
fell while trying to get out Of the way of
switch engine and was instantly
! killed.
THE reason for the suicide of Matthias
J. Bofterding, formerly cashier of the
Bank Of Minneapolis, is now supposed
to have been a hopeless affection and
the sudden marriage Of a young lady
for whom he expressed great admira
! ton.
The Dakotas.
j. 7. Hunt, postmaster at Bismarck,
died from an attack of typhoid fever
He was 10 years old
A NORTHERN PACIFIC tourist car
! jumped the track half mile from Man
dan. -Four persons were slightly in
| jured.
THE blind piggers at Edinburg, \. D.,
! have all been arrested and their pens
locked up. They will be vigorously
/ prosecuted
UNITED STATES MARSHAL A. T. PRICE
has rendered his resignation and it is
! reported he will be q candidate for gov
ernor Of North Dakota
Sioux FALLS business men were bum
coed out Of about $500 by forged
| check passer, who called himself Sol.
Abbott. He has departed.
JOSEPH VINCENT has been appointed
receiver Tor the Vermont Investment
Company. The concern operated ex-
tensiveIy in Hot Springs, S. D., and
vicinity.
A MAN by the name of Irvine was
shot and killed at Montrose by Consta-
ble Jackson as he was breaking out Of
the calaboose, where he had been
placed for threatening to kill his wife.
NERMILLIoN is excited over the shoot
ing Of Charles Overhulz, son Of ]. B.
Overhulz, reform orator and agitator,
by Walter Hoffman, senior editor of
the Clay County Freeman, Populist
organ.
DR.. Thomas NELSON, Of Edgerton, has
been cited to appear before the State
Board of Health and show cause why
! his license as a physician should not be
revoked. 1t is alleged that he obtained
it by improper means
CHARLES Koch, farmer living ten
miles south OF Niagara, n D., left Lari-
more on Sunday, December II, on foot
for home, distance of fifteen miles.
Not arriving as expected, search was in
stltuted, and his body has Just been
found about eight miles from any road.
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THE TARIFF BILL VOTE.