The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
NORTHWEST NOTES.

The general store Of L. G. Cairus, at
Rices, was burned Friday night
Miss Jessie Budd, of Beltrami slipped
Oh an icy sidewalk and broke her wrist.
Joseph Leicht will be a candidate for
the Democratic mayoralty nomination
at Winona.
a new paper entitled The Transcript
was started in Prescott last week, Web
ster, Austed &, Co., proprietors
Joseph Conradt, of st. Augusta, was
arrested on the charge of having stolen
ten tons of hay from A. G. Whitney.
Twenty graduates of the st. Cloud
normal school received their diplomas on
Friday And Friday is said to be an
unlucky day, too.
Mrs Donald Quinlivan. of st. Cloud
dlsiocated her jaw by yawning, and the
physician had a hard time to get it back
into place again.
In alighting from a train at New
PaEnesville, Mrs. Eta Harris was thrown
to the depot platform and rendered in
sensible for several hours.
Mrs Stevens, of Angus, put a dustpan-
full of sWeepings into the stove. A small
package Of powder happened to be among
the rubbish and in the explosion that fol-
lowed, her lace was burned seriously.
st. Cloud has a Jack the Grabber."
and the young ladies don't even dare to
go to prayer meetings alone at night,
Hence young men are very much in de-
manQ.
~. w.
foreman of surveying crew for the
Northern Pacific, got his thumb caught
IN the cogS Of his railroad velocipede and
had it almost severed from his hand.
During the two weeks ending March H.
HibbinG reported q new cases of small
pox; Minneapolis and Elmore each IS
cases; BemidJi, II; Montgomery and Lake
Crystal, Elgin and Delano, each IL:
Woodland, 10.
John Regain, of Winona, has commence
ed an action against M. J. HeaIy. of
Chicago, for damages in the sum of $40
S65 for injuries received by having had
his skull crushed in an accident while in
the employ of Mr.. Healy.
The Northern Pacific has decided to
make extensive additions to it's car shops
| at St Cloud early this spring. The COM
| pany VIII expend about $4,000 in extend
ing the shops used for repairs to both
| freight and passenger cars.
John w. Mullen, of Wells, on Wednes-
| day arrived from the Philippine islands.
Where ne was FOR a year and five days,
| IN the service of Uncle Sam as a member
| CT the Forty-ninth infantry For five
| months he was in a hospital
An explosion of turpentine set fire to
the clothing of Mrs. Henry Holtz at New
| Paynesville. Mrs Ho1tz saved her life
| by wrapping herself up in a blanket to
| smother the flames and thus escaned
with some painful burns on the hands.
Miss Ruth Greenup, q school teacher Of
Motley, went to Brainerd March g and
| known to have boarded a west bound
train out of Bfainerd on the above date
but no further trace of her can be found
The belief is gaining ground that E. q
Larson, ex-treasurer of TPempeaIeall
county, was found dead in the river at
Pigeon Falls last Thursday, was murder
ed. The attendant circumstances make
1t seem unlikely that it was a case of
accident or suicide.
Johnny" a little orphan cripple in
DR.. Pflon's hospital at New PaynesyiIIe
for the past year, became involved in an
alteration with a young friend over a
| game Of marbles, and. as result, the
friend jumped upon his crippled leg and
| broke it just above the knee joint
? The failure of congress to pass the riv
er and harbor bill means that practicable
all of the Improvement work on the ur-
per Mississippi will be suspended. saws
the Winona Republican and Herald. This
! will be the first time in sixteen years
| that this work has been at a standstiu
| The United States steamer Fury and
| twenty ether boats and barges will re-
| main at Fountain City There is atilI
| some money in the treasury at Rock ISL
| and, but this is sufficient for the i'm
| pfoVement of only few of the MANY
hundred places north of the MississiDni
| river which need attention The farpo,.
| work Will be continued at La Crosse with
/ small crew of men.