The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-26
Saltwater News.

The remains of James c. Pratt vera re.
covered shortly before o'clock Yesterday
morning, after a large number of search
ers mad been at work all night. The hodv
was lying in about eight feet of water
on sand bar. reaching across CarnnIian
Idke' near Alcorn's bay. Carl Larson.
VINO was Ole of Pratt-s aon1uanions in
the boat, said that he could not eynIain
now the boat happened to tip. He was in
the bow and in looking around saw Pratt
ana birmingham slide into the wafer
Inc boat then tipped and he also fell in.
Larson grabbed the overturned boat and
Pratt and w. B. Birmingham swan
around for minute or two and Pratt
hnaliy decided to make for shore He had
gone considerable dis. ance and Burling-
nam called TO him and asked him If he
could make 1t all right. Pratt replied
that he didn't think so, and Burlingham
started after him. hut when near him
ne sank out of sight and didn't come I'D
again. Birmingham had a hard. time get
ting back TO the boat and with his com
panlon Larson was rescued by George
Fairbrother, who resides at the lake
The funeral will be held this afternoon
and Company 4, of the First rcgin ent,
will probably turn out as an escort
Mrs. Margaret Burke, the wife of Pat
rick Burke, a well known resident of this
city, who has been i'll since last Septem-
her, passed quietly away at about Z
o'clock yesterday morning. Deceased
was native of Ireland and was seventy
five years CT age. she came. to America
when young girl and came to Saltwater
from Massachusetts in 1881. She is sur
vived by a husband and five children,
namely, John f. Burke, p e. Burke Jr.,
and Mrs. ]. H. Ward, of Stillw alter;
Thomas j. Burke, of Solway, Mimi, and
Mrs. NJ. j, ToWey, of Eau Claire, Wis.
The funeral will be held from st.
Michaels church tomorrow morning and
the interment VIII occur in the Catholic
cemetery at South Saltwater. Deceased
was well known and highly respected.
There can 30 longer De any doubt but
that Elizabeth Iferritt, whose dead body
was found floating in a pond in this city
on Saturday, committed suicide. She left
three notes in which he spoke OF her in,
tention to take her own life. one of them
at tie home CT her sister and the others
at the home of Thomas F. Connolly,
where She was employed. She asked to
he buried by the side of her mother and
named over q number of her young geIc-
tlcmen friends, whom she asked to serve
as pail bearers.
The Kit Cars on departed Sunday even
ing with a large raft of lumber for par
ties at st. Louis
Log and lumber shipments are getting
quiet, there being few lafts left In The
lake at tlis point. Some of the mills OF
the St ,Croix are gradually cleaning up
their logs and will be compelled to shut
down within A short time.
Yesterday was the hottest day Of tic
season, thermometer registering Us and
90 in the shade. 81.
Mrs. J. Campbell residing at Hugo, this
cour,ty, DIED Saturday from the effects OF
child birth.
The annual conference Of the German
Lutheran synod now being held In
SaIe:ns church in this city, Will close
! this evening. The meeting has been
| largely attended and the discussions and
papers were attentively listeIsed to.
L. D. Tubbs has returned from trip
To North Dakota, and says crop condi-
tons in that part of the Northwest are
deplorablc He says there has not onfy
| been an absence Of rain but that high
Lo,,a oaI contiDIiOlISlV