Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-11
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.


paper mill at Crockston.
STORY Bros millers of G1aceville,
have failed, with liabilities at $4,000.
Nc ,LLEr County has Sl7,e00 in cash
over all Indebtedness.
THE contract is signed for 1000
school house at Pipestone.
AUDITOR SToR1A. Of Clay County, is
advertising for bids for SOL 900 twenty
year county bonds.
IT has cost 1852 to heat the new
school house in Albert Lea the past
winter.
A MAN named Kenyon was drowned
while crossing the Yellow River on
the ice.
The county commissioners OF Martin
County are trying to buy farmfor
poorhouse.
HENRY SPECKERMAN, of Becker, died
on the Oath inst. Of heart disease, aged
63 years.
MALcoM SMITH, respected citi. en- Of
Alexandria, died in that city on Sunday
aged 70 years.
JOHN j. CANTwELL, q veteran Of the
Fourth Minnesota Volunteers, died in
LIE oueuf recently.
The residence of E. s. Pettijohn,
county auditor, at st. Pe;ey, was burned
recently. Loss 81, 900.
A CANNING establishment has been
undertaken It Austin by local stock
company, with $4,000 capital.
Mr.. FARNHAM proposes to erect and
put in operation at Fergus Falls six
ton paper mill if be receives bonus Of
So, 900.
A 3 YEAR OLD COW belonging to John
Phalen, of Belle Plaine, recently gave
birth to three healthy, we'll developed
calves.
DR.. ScoBoR1A, of Elk River, who has
just returned from the smallpox region,
reports that there have been 70 cases and
26 deaths.
W1NTERER, who shot himself at Man
kato, because he could not get his
sweetheart saway from her father, is
getting we'll.
Mrs. G. 81. GooDwArER, OF Little
Sauk, who shot and killed her husband
some three months ago, has been in.
dicted by the grand jury for the crime
of murder in the first degree.
A STOCK company has been organized
at Winona, with $s250,000 capital, to
manufacture harveste,s and other i'm
plements. Judge Wilson, ex-Lieut.
Gov. Yale and Fl. w. Lamberton are
among the stockholders.
! A GOVERNMENT surveyor has been at
work on the Red River, and has located
the spot for a pew lock and dam. 1t
will he four miles above Belmont, and
to cost in the neighborhood of $3.50, 600.
It will make head above that now had
of ten feet, and cut through bend three
miles around.
A SURVEY is being made by the
Winona and St. Peter Company for lay
ing water pipe between Tracy and Lake
Sigel, about two miles from town, witt
which they will be enabled to fully sup
ply the demand for water for their en-.
gines.
BEFORE the streams were taken Oft the
Duluth fire an enterprisirg harness
maker had wheel barrow load Of bricl
placed upon the charred sidewalk aDC
the following sign put upon them: "a
brick block will be commenced here to
morrow by DR.. Austin.''
THERE was sold from the Maple Poin
Stock farm, Dakota County, Leonard
johnson, proprietor, last week, a two
year. old imported colt to VIM. Booth
royd, of Welcb, Goodhue County, fol
81 800, and an imported stallion, fiftee1
years old, to P. H. Fockler, OF lnde
pendence, Iowa, 1850.
| J. NJ. SCHWARTZ, cashier of the Bell
Plaine Bank. is about to commence 1
libel euit against S. A. Hooper, claim
ing damages to the amount of $4,000
The difficulty grew out of the settlemen
of the Huntsman estate, of whicl
Hooper was administrator, he having &C
cused Schwartz in the presence OF other
Of breach of business fidelity.
A. NJ. RADc11FFE, of st. Paul. has
been appointed supervising architect O
the state prison, under the provisions O
the law approved March l, 1888. Th
architect, warden and inspt ctors of th
prison constitute building committc
and will have about $500, 600 at thei
disposal for enlargement and improve
ments Of the prison during the next te1
years.