Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-20
MINNESOTA ITEMS

! Feter Mitson OF Canton, an aged citi
! Zen OF that locality is dead.
Emil Miller, one of Sauk Center's
leading citizens, died of intiammatory
rheumatism.
! Two members Of the Thirteenth Min.
nesota are killed and fourteen wound
ed In an attack by the Fillipnos.
The thirty-first anniversary OF the
settlement OF the Ojibways on the
| White Earth reservation will be cele-
brated Wednesday, June IA.
NJ l.. Moore's large sawmill at Axe,
/ ley burned. Loss, $1,000; no insur-
ance. He will have sawmill running
the last Of the week.
Mrs. Martin Mettel died at Verndale
! of blood-poisoning She leaves hus-
! band and three small children, one a
/ babe few days old.
The contract for building the new
German Lutheran church at Ovation
ma has been let to Hammel Bros, for
| $4.4T5.
! Bert Haga. young man about twen-
! ty-hve years of age and residing few
miles from Montevideo. hanged him
self In well. Ill-health was the cause
r. j. Kuntz Of Aledo, ILL.,, was elected
superintendent Of the public schools at
Owatonna, vice Prof c. IL. Ford, re-
sigped.
The fourteen-year.old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. McNulty of Fertile, while playing
ball, was caught in the machinery of
the coal dock and instantly killed.
Recorder Jerome Case of Cnatfield
died recently Of pneumonia, aged sixty
,, two years. He was formerly rail-
road man, and leaves wife and two
children.
Mrs. Ida NJ. weiser has let the con-
tract for the erection, at Preston, of q
modern two-story brick block, 25xS0
feet, to cost $1,000. Work will be com.
menced at once.
At a special meeting Of the voters Of
the Perham Independent school dis
trict 1t was decided to bond the dis
trict for $4,000 for the purpose Of rails
Ing funds to erect a new schoolhouse.
A. ID. Aldrich was seriously injured
In runaway at Benson. His head and
face were badly cut and bruised and
one arm and three ribs broken. His
recovery Is doubtful
stranger passed thirty Peruvian
dollars on Winona salOonkeepers, and,
as the dollars are worth only 40 cents,
he cleared $12 in a short time, and then
skipped out.
A man supposed to be C. A. Mcclure
OF West Duluth was killed by a North
ern Pacific train at Elk Point. A note
was found upon him which indicates
that he was in Morris Jan. /.
The city council Of Shakopee has ap-
propriated $1,000 to the L. Christian
Touring mills Of that city to help de-
fray the expense Of building a side
track mile and half long.
Farmers at Halstad are beginning to
raise more stock, because they are in
terested in dairying. In two or three
years every little hamlet there will
own a creamery and q cheese factory.
The new city council at Shakopee
elected the following officers: City re-
cOrder, Henry Schroeder; city assess
or, Andrew Kopp: chief Of police, A.
Schmitz; night watchman, Joseph Os-
terfield.
The st. Charles board Of education
has reelected all the teachers in the
school for the ensuing year, with Prof
A. @. Tibbetts as principal. The sal
aries Of several Of the teachers were
raised.
A rear-end collision occurred at
Spring Valley In the Milwaukee yards.
An extra freight crashed into the CA
boose Of the regular freight, standing
on the main track. The caboose Of the
regular freight and the engine of the
extra were badly damaged. No one
was injured.
The Wadena counterfeiter, Oscar Sa-
ther, pleaded guilty at Fergus Falls,
and was sentenced to pay fine Of 500
and spend one year In prison. David
Van Hook and Frank Weston of Vern-
dale, pleaded guilty to using the mails
to defraud. Slack Of Minneapolis is
not sentenced yet.
Gold to the amount of $500 reached
Duluth the other day from the Golden
Star mine, on the Seine river The val
ue Of twenty-one days run was $22,-
600, and the rock averaged S25 per ton.
The company will add ten stamps to
the mill and erect a chlOrination plant.
hoping to thus double the output.
Joseph Mcdonald, general delivery
clerk in the Duluth postoffice, shot
himself through the lower left leg,
shattering the bone. He was opening
gun and II discharged. The leg had
to be amputated between the ankle
and knee. The shock was severe, but
II Is believed he will recover.
The grand jury at Mantorville found
indictments against l.. f. Cowdery and
J. G. Wheeler, of the firm Of Cowdery
4 Co, grain dealers, for having stored
grain which they could not produce,
when they failed about a year ago.
This case Is attracting much attention,
as many farmers had grain stored In
the elevators at the time Of the failure.
Stm Kinmore. way freight conduct
or on the Chicago & Northwestern,
was, killed by being run over by his
train. The accident took place a mile
west Of Sleepy Eye. He was for twen-
ty years a, well known and popular
railroad man. He leaves a wife and
one SON., Mr.. Kinmore was fifty-four
yeers of age. |