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

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ganized by the 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 J.. Randall secretary. at
a salary of $500 per year.
A deliyeryman at Rrainerd was
thrown under his wagon and a wheel
passed over him and crushed his head.
causing death.
The f~our-year-oll boy Of Charles
Schermerhoug of Monticello helped
himself to a t]easpoonful Of oil of win
tergreen, and died, after several hours
of suffering.
n 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 IN 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 81, 200 insurance in the st.
Paul Fire and Marine, and 800 in the
MankatO Mutual Insurance company.
Andrew G. Brown Of Willmar has
commenced suit at WinOna against
Hans G.. Yepson for $1,000 damages
for alleged alienation of the affections
of his wife, resulting in the breaking
'up of his home on Aug. l, 1896.
DR.. a. n. KnutsOn, se~venty-three
years old. walked off a shed roof ut
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. +. 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 TO have hung fire.
Nelson Johnson met with a very Sc
riOuS accident at Gushing Station, re-
sulting in the amputatiOn of one OF his
arms. He tried TO board a train, but
slipped and fell with his arm lying
I! across the track, and it was horribly
crushed and mangled.
1t is announced that Messrs. &.
Horgerding. A. Linderholm and Ner-
lein Il COlbiornsen, all leading BUSH
ness men of Belgrade, have formed a
! syndicate, and will erect in that vii
lace during the coming summer a
handsome brick hotel building, to cost
Daniel O'Brien, ex-county treasurer
of Dakota county, who died from ap-
cess of the lungs, was one or DaKota
c%ounty's old and prominent residents.
Elmer Gilchrist OF Buffalo is ABOUT
10 bring an action against the 500
railway for damages sustained by
| linn i'm an accident a few weeks ago.
Two men were killed and four others
more or less injured by the caving-in
| of a ninety-foOt bank on he Eastern
Minnesota railroad, near Carleton.
Tho catastrophe was caused by the
melting of the immense frozen mass.
zl-,,.1 u.aS nnlnnlpfplV DUR
| led and part of the grayel tralh was
covered over.
Indian Agent Sutherland or the
white Earth Agency, has been IN
strUcted to purchase N distribute
the following amount of seed grain
! etc. TO needy Indian farmers: Two
thousand eight hundred bushels OF
seed wheat. 1900 bushels of oats anu
! 1000 bushels of potatoes. Seeding has
! already commenced.
At a special meeting of the Golden
star Mining and Exploration
at puluth. the capital stock was III
a,oocod from S1.OOO,000 to ~Sl,2Oo,ooO.
rho increase will be used to develop
the property and to repay ceit
Eastern capitalists for fuilds auNaue
on DEVELOPMENT WOIh bIiVA'
IL came a self-sustaining propositloh'
Charles A. Purcell, the vice presi-
dent. and II. ID. Weshler, another ON
cor Of the American Mating company,
the largest mailing concern IN lnu
United States, are in Winona, ana VIII
travel through the barley district ol
Southern Minnesota, with a view 70
selecting a location for a branch lhai'
inc establishment in that sectioh.
Nearly $1,000 has been raised ~
the business men Of New PayhesNlIe
and others interested for the purpose
81 aiding in the establishing az Una.
mace q Catholic mission. Appilca'los
has been made TO Bishop lropec, 81 "
the diocese of st. Cloud, ana tnere -
M doubt but that the very near liz
,nra will see. the erection OF a oa'noi'o
mission at that place.
Mrs. II. Baker of Oronoco was an
rested nj the railroad station at w. -
.ster ms She was making her way ~
cando \. D., leaving her huspailu a
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