The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-08-16
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Rochester's new wooden mills have
started up. 4 81 f3i 5,sg iii HI
s The barley crop is poor, on account
Of late rains. eet3fI mo
Il Crops west OF Winona are better
than expected. a8s
Edward Holland. an old resident, Is
dead at, Nprthfield i, 4. Ia
George Ramsey of Ottawa was
found dead on the road @
Il Becker county will yield fully one
third of a crop OF wheat.
6 Rudolph yegener, a prominent brew
er', is dead at Alexandria. 5R{s
John Hogan was arrested in Preston
charged With robbery in iowa.
IS, Johnt.A. lJ.sIIadden; aaCiviI war VET
eran, iss dead at New Paynesviile,
ta lightning destroyed q large flour
mill at Long Prairie. Loss, $4,000.
Seventeen bushels per acre is the
wheat average for Marshall, county,
Official reports show that Mlnneso-
ta's mortality tigures are very small,
Five men were arrested at Mankato
for burglarizing Great Western car
ii The total assessment Of real and per-
esonal property in stillwate is $780,
8sT. iaH iff MI!
The wheat crop at Vernon Center av-l
erages eighteen to twenty-five bushels
per acre. II s5a s3 .s N,
The state auditor suspects that
wolves are being raised for the sake Of
the bounty. .Es
Secretary Randall has secured an
unusually large list OF fast horses for
the state fair races NJ Il, 4. .5.ts
&. The Great Northern Steamship com-
pany has been Incorporated at st. Paul
to carry on trade with the Orient. wa
Charles Kimball, the alleged robber
OF Mrs. Young, at ST. Cloud, was held
to the grand jury in bonds Of $4,000. n
The firm Of Rock s. Lyons, furniture
dealers Of Osakis, has been dissolved,
s. j.. Lyons continuing the business. {
,f3 The Osakis Milling company viii be-;
gin furnishing electric lights to- the
village OF Osakis and their patrons on
Aug. 15., ,'gy 9s
The report OF Capt.EO. Il. Lee. who
inspected the national guard attiLake-i
view, shows that the First regiment
stood the highest. .I,
a lanes Da1mphy of Carlton has "a
crew Of men constructing a saw mill
on Embarrass lake, at. Sparta. Heyex-
poets to log heavily this winter. AZ sf
The Greene s. Western Telephone
company is stretching wire into Dodge
Center, and will at once open an Office
/ This Is competing line to the Twin
Cities. 1895 glR8 fSES bitBia gs5 s. Z
h The theological seminary of the
United Norwegian Lutheran church is
located at st. Anthony Park, ST. Paul,
and work will be hcommenced soon on
an, $50 900 building. l=sgsls 5s.5 #
During an electrical storm at Anoka,
the barn of s. Thorn was struck by
lightning, the structure destroyed, and
4 driving horse, buggy and valuable
dog were consumed. $sS
William Erdman, aged nfty-eight,
janitor of the Third Ward schoolhouse
at Waseca, committed suicide by hang
ing. Ill-health was the cause. He
was married man.
Terrence Brazil a farmer of Red
wood Falls had both hands bitten by
wolf whichshe found In his barnyard.,
Mrs. Brazil brought a rope, and the
animal was strangled to death.
The West Newton Rafting works.
near Winona, have closed for the sea
son. THIS throws about 400 men out Of
employment. The majority Of the men
will go to Western harvest fields. ait8E
! Frankie Bruhender, five years old,
was shot by his playmate, Willie Cher
Is, at Sleepy Eye. and died In short
time, They were playing in buggy
in which a loaded shotgun had been
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The fourteen-year-o ld son of Anton
Wanous, a farmer living six miles
south Of Owatonna, In the township OF
Somerset, was drowned while bathing
In the Straight river. The body was
recovered. f@ ss
~ The large barn Of J. II. Mer3inks.
two miles southeast of Stephen, was
struck By lightning during the recent
storm and burned, with seven horses,
four calves, twenty tons of hay, har-
ness, etc. Loss $4,000; Insurance, $500.
A terrific thunder storm passed over
Hibbing recently. The rain fell in tor
rents, and water is now standing on
many fields, so that wheat harvesting
wiz be delayed several days and much
loss VIII occur, as the wheat is now
dead ripe. s' sc
Mantorville VIII now have electric
lights. The council has granted a ten
year franchise and gave d five-year
contract to CTS. Wedge & Sons, who
WIFI run the plant in connection with
their -four mill" The system Is to be
completed by Oct. !, 1900.
h Rev. DIR. Allen Bell pastor tof the
First Presbyterian church of Winona
for the past nine years, has rendered
his resignation to the session, and, 1t is
understood, will accept a. call to a
larger charge elsewhere. The church
has as yet taken no action in the mat
ter. $4,000 sn&s5tH Orb BID
+ A severe and damaging hail storm
occurred about two miles north of
Warren. During the storm the whole
section Of country was shrouded in
total darkness. which continued for