Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-01-16
News IN Brief.

|
nesota Prison association met at the
state capitol and effected permanent
organization of the society by approx.
ing the report of the committee of
seven, appointed to select officers.
Harvard & Hyme, dry goods dealers
at Duluth, have assigned.
News of a Minneapolis girl who has
won honor and distinction in her chosen
field, comes from the west. Miss
Emma c. Sickles has been awarded the
gold medal of La Savateur society, of
France, in acknowledgement of her
acts of heroism at the time of the In
dian outbreak at Pine Ridge.
Game Warden j. w. Nash, assisted
by deputy wardens, made a raid on fish
poachers at Parker's lake, Is miles
northwest of Minneapolis, arresting C.
II. Fitzpatrick and M. H. Shea, both of
Minneapolis. The men were detected
in the act of landing pickerel through
the Ice with tip-ups. About so tip-ups,
rugged ready for business, and a num-
Der of other fishing traps, were confis-
Gated, together with quantity of fish.
The Minneapolis mills had good
many ups and downs with the water
power last week, and they ground only
254,250 barrels of flour. This was an
increase of $4,000 barrels over the fjg-
ures of the week before, and one of
1874, 900 barrels as contrasted with the
corresponding time in 1895.
| The following officers have been
elected by the stockholders of the Red
Wing, Duluth and Sioux City Construc.
ton company: President, l.. T. Hub
secretary, w. c. Rice; treasurer, G. H.
Crazy.
Jim and Frank Russell, cousins con-
fined in Jail at Anoka, made their es-
cape by saving through bars. They
had been bound over by the grand jury
for larceny of railroad property.
The high school building at Sank
Rapids burned to the ground. Loss,
ST., 900; insurance, $780,
On Jan. the Fireman's Insurance
company, OF Chicago, ceased to do bust
ness in Minnesota. It is stated that the
cause of the withdrawal of the COM
pany is the decision of the Minnesota
supreme court in the case of the loss at
Gladstone some time ago.
Robert Tyndall, while hunting near
Grand Rapids, shot and instantly killed
Joseph johnson, whom he mistook for
a moose. ..-
George D. Ingraham, freight con-
ductor on the Northwestern road, met
with an accident at Owatonna, which
will probably result fatally. He was
on top of car when the train was
crossing bridge. and was either
Jared off or fell off to the bottom of a
ravine 80 feet deep. His skull was
fractured. H..
| G. S. benson, of st. Cloud, has been
appointed member of the state game
and fish commission, to succeed A. F.
Ferris, of Brainerd.
VIM. Grandy and James McVernie
were sent to Jail for 60 days as result
of a saloon row at Park Rapids, in
which Grandy pounded Fred Hauber
and McVernie struck Constable Dow
in the face with a coupling pin.
C. A. Peterson, aged IS, postmaster
at Thomson, while having his accounts
examined by United States Postoffice
Inspector Wood, suddenly complained
of a cramp in his leg, which in 10 min.
utes seized his whole body, and in less
that Is minutes he was corpse.
The total value of buildings erected
in New Ulm during the past year, ac-
cording to the Posts estimate, is 500, $50.
Fire in the Buffalo Journal office de-
stroyed quite a large amount of prop
erty and all the files of the county pa
pers for several years.
| Public Examiner Kenyon reappointed
his staff of deputies-J. P. West, deputy
public examiner; Oscar Lonegren, as
sistant bank examiner; w. p. Snow,
assistant public examiner; j. E. o.
borne, assistant public examiner.
Among the items of expense submit
ted by Mayor Pratt, of Minneapolis, for
1895, was $105.5O for photographing
crooks.
Waterville is to have $Ss, 900 court
house.