The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-08-30
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e, State News of the :
!. Week Briefly Told.

Maud Cutting Of Fairmont commit
ted suicide.
Thomas O'Neil was found guilty Of
burglary at Dover.
John Mondl was arrested at st. Jo-
seph for forgery.
Chief of Police Mic Bruels of Man
kato has resigned.
st. Cloud wants the new public build
ing to be of granite.
Burglars robbed store in Luverne
in full view Of passers-by.
The Northern Pacific wool warehouse
received 100000 pounds Of wool this
season.
Perrin L. Smith Of Winona has been
made second lieutenant in the regu-
lar army. FAT,
The Wipona board of education has
decided to spend $1,000 on extended
text book system.
About fifty cases of typhoid fever are
reported in the vicinity OF Sparta, with
new ones every day.
The East Side Lumber company of
Saltwater has shut down its mills
owing to scarcity of logs.
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A laborer named Dan McRae was
drowned in the Partridge river, near
Allen Junction, while swimming.
Fire destroyed the residence Of Aid
Kiichii of Minneapolis, en- Pelican lake,
near Monticello. Loss $780, partially
insured.
Deputy Sheriff Carroll arrested Frank
Butler at Willard on a charge of as
saulting a thirteen year-old daughter
Of Joseph Ernst.
James E. Morrissey Of Crookston- has
been awarded the contract for putting
the new steam heating plant in the
school house at Fosston
Three large stacks of wheat and a
valuable separator were destroyed by
fire on farm near Rochester. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
Eberhardt Mubel, for many years
sidewalk inspector for the city of Mani
kato, was instantly skilled by passen-
ger train. He leaves a family.
Mrs. Elsie Thayer Of Spring Valley,
widow of T. B. Thayer. died at the age
of seventy-seven years of heart failure.
She came to this country in 1857.
Another case Of smallpox has devel-
oped at Winona, the victim being the
sixteen-yea -old daughter Of Andrew
Josinski. The case is light one.
Fred Henselin, farmer living near
Appleton, cut his little six-year-old
! daughters leg completely off with a
moving machine. The child is not ex-
pected to live. LIZ.
William Anderson of Jasper was ar
rested for violating the chicken law.
Forty-seven birds We're found in his
| possession. He was fined the full ex-
tent of the law.
| The fireman on the steamer J. w.
Van SAINT was drowned some distance
/ down the river from Winona. 1t Is sup
posed he walked off the boat and was
Il lost in the darkness. a.5
! a terrific rain and wind storm did
considerable damage to trees, CHM
neys. outbuildings and store fronts at
| Pelican Rapids. Grain In shock Is un-
| doubtedly damaged. 4
Mrs McNfahan OF Saux Center was
accidentally shot by her husband, who
handled rifle carelessly. The ball
took effect in the left shoulder, cause
a 4
+ The Northern Pacific road, in order
| to handle its own local freight and that
of the roads for which 1t is now doing
business or is arranging with, Will erect
q large freight warehouse at Duluth.
The Farmers State Bank Of Wilder
has Just been organized at Wilder, with
e. P. Coleman, f. H. Vail, Charles
Malchow, G. B. Cheedle, A. A. Opperud
M. II. Evans Of Lakefied as directors.
Henry Harrison Hodgklns, a naval
veteran, who was acting second officer
under Dewey when the Mississippi was
sunk during the Civil war, died at
Marshall suddenly from, overwork in
the harvest field.
A very severe wind storm passed
over Perham, blowing down signs.
chimneys houses and the steeple of the
Zion Lutheran church. The wind was
followed by very heavy rain, which
damaged shocked wheat
County Surveyor Brown and Mike
Morrison have completed a plat OF a
forty-one acre townsite for Tams Blk
by at Big Falls on the Big Fork river.
At this point the Brainerd & Northern
and the ItaSCa COInpdhS
roads are surveyed to cross
While watering their team in Clear
water lake, near Annandale, Robert
Marvin of Clearwater and Carl Allison
of Smith Lake drove over a steep bank
into deep water. Marvin escaped by
jumping from the buggy, but Allison
and the horses were drowned.
John P. Dolezal, a farmer residing in
Henryvile, Renville county, was held
I'D and robbed on the road between
Redwood Falls and North Redwood re-
Gently. Dolezal stated that one man
held his team while two others jumped
into the buggy. and after humping
him into insensibility robbed him Of
all his money, about $25
Martin Murray, one Of the three par
ties who assaulted Miss Edith Watson
while in a hack between Mankato and
Kasota the night of Aug 3, was cap
tured at waseca by the deputy sheriff
OF that county Murray was badly
wanted and the county and city had
offered a reward for his capture. He
| was brought to Mankato.
A stranger was struck by the west
bound North Coast limited passenger
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