Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-05-04
MINNESOTA ITEMS

skipped a year in the appropriation for
state ala TO public schools.
A state Luther league has been or.
canned by Il young people Of the
Lutheran churches.
A Minneapolis physician committed
suicide by jumping off a bridge into
the Mississippi.
The Winona board Of trade has
elected Frank l.. Randall secretary, at
a salary of $500 per year.
A deliyeryman at Bralnerd was
thrown under. his wagon and a wheel
passed over him and crushed his head,
causing death.
The four-year-old boy Of Charles
Schermerhoug of Monticello helped
himself to a teaspoonful Of oil of win
tergreen, and died, after several hours
Of suffering.
\ special election will be held in
Hastings on Thursday, May Is, TO vote
upon the question of issuing $4,000
in bonds TO build and equip a new
school house.
Robert King, who fell from a water
tank at Milaca and sustained injuries
rendering him sightless, has brought
suit against the Great Northern for
$4,000.
Work on the Watonwan Valley rail
way Is being rushed as fast as an
army of men and teams, equipped
with all the modern appliances for
railroad building, can complete it.
Charles Ripley of st. Cloud, for sew
eral months past an inmate of the Pr
Ion hospital at New Paynesville, is
dead. He had been operated upon for
cancer, and had not the strength to
rally.
Fire destroyed Boedingheimer e.
Waitman's general store at Stewart,
with the stock. Loss, $1,000, on which
there was $1,000 insurance in the st.
Paul Fire and Marine, and $500 in the
MankatO Mutual Insurance company.
Andrew C.. Brown Of Willmar has
commenced suit at Winona against
Hans C.. YepsOn for 5000 damages
for alleged alienation of the affections
of his wife, resulting in the breaking
up of his home on Aug. 1, 1896.
Or. A. n. Knutson, seventy-three
years old, walked off a shed roof at
Rochester and sustained injuries from
which he will die. He has no known
relatives in this country He has re-
sided in Rochester three years, con-
Quoting n Russian bath parlor.
! The case against Banker NJ. II. Todd
at Preston. has been transferred to
the November term of court. Mean
| while, the eXtradition proceedings,
which have been brought TO secure
the person of Joseph X. Clements OF
La Crosse. appear 10 have hung fire.
Nelson Johnson met with a very Sc
rious accident at Gushing Station, re-
sulting in the amputation Of one OF ms
arms. lie tried TO board a train, but
slipped and fell with his arm lying
across the track, and it was horribly
| crushed and mangled.
1t is announced that Messrs. G.
Horgerding. A. Linderholm and Ner-
lein d Colbiornsen, all leading bust
ness men of Belgrade, have formed a
! syndicate, and will erect in that VII
LACE during the coming summer n
handsome brick hotel building, to cost
Daniel O'Brien, ~ex-county treasurer
of Dakota county, who died from an
cess of the lungs, was n OF Dakota
county's old and prominent residents.
Elmer Gilchrist of Buffalo is about
10 bring an action against the 800
| railway for damages sustained by
him in an accident a few weeks ago.
Two men were killed and four others
more or less injured by the cayingln
of n ninety-foot bank on the Eastern
Minnesota railroad, near Carleton.
The catastrophe was caused by the
melting of the immense frozen mass.
A steam shovel was completely bur-
led and part of the gravel tram was
covered over.
Indian Agent Sutherland OF the
White Earth Agency, has been IN
! strUcted to purchase and distribute
! the following amount OF seed grain
etc, 70 needy Indian farmers: Two
thousand eight hundred bushels Oh
seed wheat. 1000 bushels OF oats ana
1000 bushels of potatoes. Seeding mas
| already commenced.
AT n special meeting of the Golden
Star Mining and Exploration III
at Duluth. the capital stock Was ln-
| creased from Sl.vpV,VV' W |'
The increase will be used to develop
the property and to repay certain
Eastern capitalists for funds advanced
on development work before the mine
/ became a self-sustaining proposl'ioh'
Charles A. Purcell, the vice presi-
dent and r. ID. Weshler, another ON
Ger Of the American Mailing company,
the largest mailing concern IN lnu
United States, are in Winona, ana VIZ
travel through the barley district VI
Southern Minnesota, with a view 10
selecting a location for a branch luait-
ing establishment in that section.
Nearly $1,000 has been raised 10y
the business men OF New Paynesslle
and others interested for the purpose
~ aiding in the establishing Mt that
Mace n Catholic mission. Appilea'ion
has been made to Bishop Iropec' o. o.
me diocese of st. Cloud, and there -
M doubt but that the very near ~
tnre will see the erection OF a 'a'hoi'
mission at that place.
Mrs. III. Baker of Ofonoco was a.,
rested Mt the railroad station at w. -
.ster ms She was making her way "a -
Cando, y. d. leaving her HUSBAND a
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