Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-10-04
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Week Briefly Told.

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Duluth complains of a scarcity of
houses.
Iowa parties are arranging to settle
on land in Northern Minnesota.
The state board of assessment raised
the assessments of twenty-four lumber
firms.
Mrs. Hans Hanson Of Hoffman was
fatally injured by being gored and
trampled by cattle.
/ DR.. Whittemore, veterinary sur
geon of Ada, was kicked by horse
and instantly killed.
The state board of equalization add
ed A59O. 69s.65 to the real estate assess
ments of fourteen counties.
| The city of Hutchinson viii have
electric lights in the near future. A
company has been formed with cap
ital of $4,000.
| The St. Charles Creamery associa-
ton has Incorporated. 1t is composed
of siyty-two residents of Winona and
Olmsted counties.
| The attorney general has ruled that
loans made by state banks on ware
house receipts must be protected by in
curance in admitted companies.
William Brenner aged twenty-one,
accidentally shot himself with re-
volver whie trying to remove a rusty
rhel. There is little hope of his re-
Covery
Nels and Herman Nord entered n
house in the extreme western part of
Red Wing, where Mrs. Viola Hempft-
| ling lives alone. They beat her unmer-
cifully, but escaped when neighbors ar
rived.
Henry Hinsch Of Goodhue. who dis.
appeared some time ago. and who was
thought to have committed suicide, has
returned home of his own accord, but
gives no account of his mysterious alb
5ence.
Kismet Temple Knights of Khoras-
san, was instituted at Crookston re-
Gently. II will have jurisdiction over
sixteen counties in the upper Red river
valley. Five hundred Pythians were In
| attendance.
Mrs. Dorf. wife of Fred w Dorf of
| Buffalo, was Found at the home of Mr..
Pautzke, a few miles from that town.
She was brought before the probate
court, adjudged insane, and sent to the
asylum at Fergus Falls.
| In the ease of The State VS. Martin
Murray. for criminal assault. near Ka-
sofa, of Edith Wilson. the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty. A stay was
taken until Oct. L., when the defense
will argue motion for new trial.
The large grain elevator on the Chi
cago Great Western road at North
field, was burned, with a quantity of
grain. The building was owned by A.
Palon of Dundas, MINI. The building
was valued at $1,000 and was partially
insured.
While hunting at Rice lake, near
Owatonna, NJ. l.. Wentworth's boat
capsized just as he was about to shoot.
the charge, blowing off too fingers on
one hand and one on the other. His
eyes We're so injured that 1t Is thought
he will be totally blind.
Edward Emgert of ST. Paul was acci-
dentally shot while duck hunting south
Of Glencoe. He pulled the gun toward
him and the hammer caught on the
seat of the boat, the charge entering
the left side, leg and hand A thumb
| was ciipuldteu Wy pIlysicidH.
| o'Neil the Dover bank robber, was
taken to Saltwater by Sheriff Vine, A.
Van Campen and II. Brown. His last
words in leaving Rochester were:
THE next time am sent up it will be
for longer than four years: 1t will be
for shooting Larkin, the Chicago de-
tective."
4 TIa fol.f al
and Mrs. Horton, living near Mazeppa.
was thrown from load of hay and fen
on pitchfork. One tine penetrated
the girls face, and her life was de-
SPARED of. The attending physician is
Of the opinion that she will recover if
no complications set in.
John and Michael Czaplowski two
brothers, residing in Winona, were
drowned in the Mississippi river. They
were out fishing in a slliff with Mrs.
John Czaplowski when the boat cap
sized. The lady was rescued with con-
siderable difficulty, but help arrived too
late TO save the men, who were both
unable to swim.
The Scanlon-Gipson dam at the out
let of Cass lake. was carried out, ow-
Ing to the exceedingly high water in
the lake. Indians who have lived there
sixty and seventy years, state that the
water is higher than 1t has ever been,
and the removal of the dam was neces-
sary to avoid the flooding of the Glen
mont & Neil Lumber company's mill.
George steiger, watchman on Capt.
A. Birchner's fleet. was drowned at
Fountain City. Steiger, in company
with John LAUDER. returned to the boat
at l o'clock, and, while crossing on a
plank from the barge to the boat.
slipped and fell overheard LAUDER
tried to rescue his friend, but the cur
rent, being swift, carried him under