The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-09

Commission men here pay 10 cents per
bushel but there is still some advantage in
selling to them, inasmuch as the farmers
are obliged to wait six or seven days for
their wagons when they dispose of their
tQbers at factories.
Rice Lake. Minn.-The 5-year-old son of
Mrs. Joseph Penstock accidentally shot and
killed his baby brother.
Anamosa. Iowa-An earnest effort is
being made to secure the pardon Of Van
Leuven, the pension attorney now in the
penitentiary.
Green Bay, Wis.-At the docks of the
Murphy Lumber Company, three quarters
Of million logs were swept away by
fire.
Wahpeton, n. D-The village of Moore
ton, 16 miles west of Wahpeton. on the
Northern Pacific road. was almost entire
Is wiped out by fire Saturday afternoon
Madison, Wis.-Prof Rasmus B. Ander-
son, formerly of the state university
corps, left this afternoon for North Dako-
ta.where in company with Senator Knute
Nelson, of Minnesota, he will deliver
course of six lectures for the benefit of
the state universities and normal schools
of that state. The Legislature of North
Dakota made no appropriation for the
schools last year and the errand of
Messrs. Anderson and Nelson is to raise
money for the schools.
Redwood Falls, Minn-Last week
Belview hotel proprietor had r. P Childs,
eX-editor of the Belview Independent ar
rested on the charge of jumping a beard
bill amounting to $50. Childs was recent
~ married and found himself in such des>
perate straits as to make it impossible
for him to pay the bill, and he would
have been obliged to go to Jail had he
been convicted. The justice before whom
he was tried contended that the eX-edi-
tor showed no intentions of fraud Aside
from this, the justice said. the fact of his
getting married was another point in his
favor, and he discharged the prisoner.
lshpeming, Mich.-Twelve to Is, 900 tons
of ore are being shipped daily from the
lshpeming mines. Nearly $4,000 tons of
ore have already gone forward by lake
and rail this season. and the output for
Lake Superior ore for 1895 will reach TO-
0000O0 tons, nearly million tons in ex-
cess of the largest previous seasons pro-
duction.
Fargo, N. DIN the United States
court the case of Axel Johnson occupied
almost all day. He was convicted on two
charges OF robhing mails and obtaining
money under false pretenses. He is ONLY
IA years old and appears to take his
conviction in as light a manner as an old
criminal.
West Superior. Wis.-United States
District Attorney Briggs and Marshal
Oakley are here from Madison, toinyes-
tgate the story of an illicit whisky still
+. j. Park, of Washington, special exam
iner for the land Office is looking M
cases of treSpaSS on government lands
Duluth-The unpleasantness between
the council and the board of public works
eliminated in an order from the council
10 the city attorney to bring suit on the
bonds of the members of the board of
public works for neglecting to make
certain assessment for sewer. The issue
of 81 ,00O, 600 per cent and 30-year water
bonds was unanimously voted and
water board of five members to serve
without pay was created.
West Superior, VISA complaint was
filed in the superior court against the
Belt Line Elevator Company, owned by
Minneapolis interests, demanding judg-
ment for $1,000 in the name of the state
of Wisconsin. The prosecution is for al
legged failure to comply with the new law
which provides that elevators doing bust
ness in this state shall keep an office
here. 1t is alleged, also. that the ele-
Vator people did not post a statement
of their weeks business with the Superior
board of trade, as is required Mime
sofa grain interests fought at Madison,
against the passage of the law, and this
is the first attempt to enforce it.
Grafton, N. D.-A young man named
keane, thresher, from ST. Louis, lies
a the Norman house with a bullet under
his left shoulder and near the heart
While passing a house on his way home
from blind pig a dog ran out at him.
A club thrown at the animal went
through the window and during the al
tercation two shots were fired. Keanes
condition is serious.
Waterloo, Iowa-Miss Mitchell, a serv-
ant girl in the family of John r. Rock,
was taken with commissions while at
church, and has since been in a cataleptic
state Her case is peculiar one and
battles the physicians. She has of late
been brOoding over the news of the burn
ing to death of near relatives in Ger
many.
Mortified, ,Minn.-O. NJ Kalheim, of
the "Amerika," a Norwegian paper pub
lshed in Chicago. died Saturday of con-
sumption, at the home of Rev. N. A.
Quammer in Christiania. Dakota county,
He was graduate of ST. Olaf College.
Washington, D. C-The department has
postOffce at Red Wing. Mimi, to Red
wing, making it one word. A postoffice
has been established at Kila, Moody
county, S. D., with Bergita H. Olson
postmaster.
Redwood Falls, Minn.-The barn, hay
and grain of NJ. Kohn, residing north
west of town, We're burned Friday night
loss, $4,000. The fire was caused by the
explosion of lantern in the hands of
hired man.
Fargo, N. DC. w. Dorsey, of Duluth
has instituted a chapter of the colored
Knights of Pythias in Fargo, with 20
charter members. The lodges member
ship embraces most of the prominent
colored people in the state
Fargo, N. D.-The city council awarded
the contract for the Ninth street sewer
to G. II. POrritt, of Fargo The bid
called for 81 cents a lineal foot for sewer
and $35 each for manholes.
Fargo, n. D.-Hotel Martin, owned by
Receiver Martin, of the land office, threw
open its doors tonight, giving Fargo an
other first-class hotel w. H. Baker, of
st. Paul, is manager.
Duluth. Minn.-H. M. Myers, ex-alder-
man, was elected to fill the vacancy on
the school board caused by the resigna-
ton of A. r. Mcdonald.
Waterloo, Iowa. X. Sweeney, a prom
inent citizen and formerly superintendent
of East Waterloo schools, died at the age
of &C years.
.Ottumwa. TOwa--The first time that
saloons have been legally established I'M
in, no