The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-10
NEWS FROM SALTWATER
JOHN L. MILLER'S DEATH MAY
HAVE BEEN DUE TO
FALL
CAPT. BARNES MAKES A CATCH
On the Request of OvatOnna Par.
ties He Arrests n Man Loaded
Down With Burglars
Tools.

the Central house, late Friday evening
and although it was said his death was
due to heart disease, the presumption is
that his death was due to conclusion of
the brain, resulting from a fall a few
days ago He was about sixty years of
age and has for many years followed the
occupation Of a carpenter and house
mover. He is survived by a widow and
a number of grown children
Capt. Barnes, of the Saltwater police
force, on Friday received notice from
parties interested in the capture of A O.
Hendrickson, who is charged with having
stolen horse and buggy at Owatonna,
that Hendrickson had left La Crosse, pre-
sumably TO go 10 Saltwater Late Friday
night Capt. Barnes made a tour of the
hotels and boarding houses in the city
and had visited nearly every hotel when
he CHARGED to remember the Pitman
house. After scanning the register there
he found Hendrickson's name and calling
Landlord Lee he went to HendricksOu's
room and Immediately recognized him as
the man wanted. He was taken to the
city jail, where he admitted to Capt.
Barnes that he had stolen the horse and
said he had left it at Waseca. He had a
kit of burglars tools in his possession
together with dozen sets of dice and
made Capt. Barnes notified the sheriff at
OwatOnna and that official stated that he
would be here after his man last evening.
Capt Barnes says that Hendrickson had
evidently come to Saltwater with the in,
tention OF plying his vocation Ill this city
Rain fell yesterday for the first time in
several weeks ard farmers in the vicinity
of Saltwater are jubilant. Crops We're
drying up at a rapid rate and even with
va Sf ORC 81 he &c
made that crops will be poor. Rye is
thin, wheat and oats are weak, and corn
has scarcely started to grow. Loggers,
who are also looking for rain said last
evening that they had heard nothing
from the logging districts on tributaries
Of the st. Cox, bat they hoped that the
storm was general and that they would
get water enough to enable them to
start their drives
The ST. Croix boom has been III opera
ton the past week and d large number
of old legs have been turned out. One or
two drives are coming along nicely and
the boom company hopes to be able to
secure logs enough from now on to keep
a large crew busy.
The Elks of this city are in the midst Of
arranging for an Elks' burlesquc circus.
to be given at the opera house on Friday
and Saturday evenings of this week. Re
ready a large advance sale OF tickets. At
the closing performance on Saturday, it
Is said about 100 Ellls from st. Paul with
be in attendance. The committee having
tie entertainments in charge is working
hard and have great hopes that it will
be financial and social success.
A Democratic county convention will be
held here next Thursday for the election
of delegates to the state convention to
be aeld in Minneapolis on the Goth inst.
The Democrats of this county are better
united than ever before and a large and
enthusiastic convention will be held here.
Many of the leading Democrats of this
city are preparing to attend the national
convention to be held at Kansas City,
July 4, among them Insurance Commits
sioner O'Shaughnessy and Surveyor Gen
eral B. j. Mosier. They will accompany
the st. Paul delegation.
Personal AND SOCIAL.
H H. Harrison, of the Saltwater Wa
ter company, has returned from short
business trip to Duluth.
Timothy Hennessey, resident of this
city, who spends every summer In the
East, has gone to Boston, Mass, to spend
a few months.
Mrs Ernest Ringwald and children, OF
Great Falls, Mont, is a guest Of her
parents Mr. and Mrs. w. NJ. May.
Miss May Mccarthy has returned from
a TRIP to WinOna, where she attended
the graduating exercises at the normal.
George r. Stevens returned yesterday
from an extended trip to South Dakota.
Robert Seibert has gone to Honolulu,
where he will Superintend the conStruc-
ton of a mansion for J. B. Castle,
wealthy sugar planter. Nearly all of the
interior fixtures for the building were
manufactured by the Saltwater Manu-
featuring company.
Miss Ellen Stowe, who has been teach
few days the past week with her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. A D. Stowe, and
has gone to Milwaukee to visit her sis
ter, Mrs. Fish.
J. E. Jackman, a former resident of this
city who is now engaged in orange
growing near Ontario, Cal, spent a few
days the past week with friends in this
city.
The Knights of Pythias have issued in
VitatiOnS for steamboat excursion to be
given on the Columbia and barge, June IA.
The Swiss society of this city will give
an excursion on the steamer Columbia
next Sunday. In view of the low water
in the river above this city, the excur-
sionists will probably go to Red Wing.
The marriage of Alex c. Mackey and
Miss Lillian McDermott, both we'll known
Saltwater young folks, will be solemn
lied at ST. Michaers church on the 18th
inst.
Mrs. N. A Nelson and children left
yesterday for Lake Minnetonka, where
they Will visit with Mr.. and Mrs. c. f.
kilgOTe.
ROCHESTER, IS READY.