The Grange advance., 1873-12-17
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The Winona Republican, Of Thurs
day evening says regular trains on the
new Green Bay road will commence run
ming on the 18th Of this month.
The LIE Sueur Sentinel recommends
the erection Of first class grist mill in
that place. 1t further says: The
Northwestern Life Insurance Company,
Of Milwaukee, has recently paid to the
executor, Mr.. E. r. Smith, $1,000 in
surance on the life of the late Geo. D.
Snow The St. Paul company owes
S.. 900 on Mr.. Shows life.
AUGUST Bower, an old resident of
St. Lawrence, Scott county, committed
suicide by strychnine on Wednesday of
last week. The causes leading to the
act Of self destruction are thus given by
the .Shakopee argus: "Some two
or three years ago Mr.. Bower married
widow woman then just from the old
country She had family, with one
or more boys grown up. Mr. Bower
had two or three children, all under
sixteen years Of age. This marriage,
and the bringing of the two families to-
gether, seems to have been the cause of
much sorrow and deep seated grief on
the part Of Mr.. Bower. The woman
he married and her grown up children
proved perfect torment to him, and
his torment was greatly aggravated on
their part by efforts to induce Bower to
make over to them part Of his proper
ty. Quarrels between them were of
frequent occurrence, and on one occa-
sion about a year ago, the wife had been
arrested for assault and battery.
AN elderly man named Luther Whit
on was found dead in his room at the
Eagle Hotel in Winona, Monday even
ing, the 1st inst, at about six o'clock.
He had gone to his room about II
o'clock in the forenoon and was not
seen again until called for supper, when,
not responding, his room was opened
and he was found lying upon the floor
dead. A post-mortem examination
made under direction of Coroner
McGaughey showed plainly that the
man had died from apoplexy, and YER
dict was rendered accordingly. The
mans name was ascertained from letters
upon his person written by L. Fuller,
Of New Ulm, to whom the coroner tele-
graphed the fact Of Mr.. Whiton's death.
On the I'd he received an answer which
tersely read: "Let Winona county
take care Of his corpse" Signed l..
Fuller As there was nothing else to
do, the remains of the stranger were
decently inferred by the county authori-
ties. It is said that Mr.. Wilton was
formerly in business with Mr.. Fuller -;
that he owned farm Of 180 acres, and
was reputed to be worth from twenty to
thirty thousand dollars. He was Z
bachelor, and evidently about fifty years
ofage.
A MESSENGER arrived in Winona on
Wednesday bringing news of a brutal
assault and robbery committed at the
hill near the residence Of Mr.. John
Gile, about seven miles from Winona,
on Monday evening, the LIST inst. Mr..
Keefe, proprietor Of the Money Greek
Mills, had been in the city on that day,
and had drawn 5000 from the bank and
started home. Toward nightfall he was
met at lonely and secluded spot in the
road, by four men who assaulted him in
brutal manner, pulled him out of his
wagon and dragged him into the woods,
robbed him Of his money and left him
in an insensible condition. Then the
robbers fled with their booty, while the
faithful horses went on home. The ar