Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-05-23
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
ST.. CLOUD is to have creamery.
AT Crooks+on, the other day, $50 cords
of wood went over the dam.
The Lockheart farm, in the Red
River Valley, gets its water from $50
foot we'll.
CAMPBELL and Smith, the heavy dry
goods men of Duluth, have sell out to
J. Frcemuth, of Tonawanda, Pa.
The Bralnerd Telephone Exchange has
beer sold to the Northwestern Telephone
Exchange.
TIE lakes Of Polk County are alive
with fish, and wagon loads are daily
being caught and salted for summer use.
The bodies of both of the girls drowned
while crossing Lake Pepin last winter
have been found.
JOHN HUssER. machine egent at
Heron Lake, has skipped out, leaving
numerous bills and br0k en- hearts
An unknown man in LIE Sueur, at
tempting to rescuea girl from drowning,
was drowned himself. He saved the girl,
however.
IRA STEPHENS of Riverdale set some
stubble thirty rods from his house afre,
and sparks set his house burning. He
lost the building and its contents.
The Ohio Central coal dock at Duluth
is nearly completed. The company in
tends to chip in 250, 900 tons this sum-
mer.
The body of the man found at Moor
head few days since is supposed to be
that of Peter Knudson, who has been
missing since last fall.
J. W. GREGG working in brickyard
at Chaska, was caught in the tumbling'
rod of the mill, and whirled around 20
or 80 times before he was liberated. He
received fatal INJURIES.
CHAR1EMAGNE TOWER has bought
1896 acres of iron land, on the Vermil-
lion Range, of Helen Williams, paying
$4,000, and an equal number of acres
of Corelia E. Numson for an equal sum.
Sr. CLOUD claims citizen who regu-
larly drinks eight gallons Of beer each
working day during working hours.
He empties four gallon keg each fore
noon and similar keg each afternoon.
HousroN elected high license board
and finds that it's charter grants it no
power to raise the license. So it pro-
poses to- take vote to determine whether
| it will abandon it's charter and Ieorganize
under the general law.
The Winpebago City Press says r
ger, the horse thief who stole team
Mr.. Mitchell near that place, is
the most notorious characters
business, and is now servir"
in the Michigan penitent'
The board of trust
asylum at Rochester
question Of light
grounds hereafte'
object being to j.
fire.
Henry FUHRs.
| q few days ago,
of age,. He t.
calmly, though he
to be shot. The crI.
suffered was the shooting
law, Jacob Kenck, in Septemb>
THERE are numerous good artesla4.
wells on the Minnesota side of the Red
River Valley. The Lockheart farm has
good water at $50 feet; the Russian
farm at 14O; the Corser farm at 100; the
Erskine at 200; Childs & Co. at 200, and
Ada we'll at 220.
The passengers on North Pacific ;
train fled from their car the other night
at the report that there was a case OF
small pox ON board. The car was
switched off at Brainerd and the sick man
examined, the doctors pronounclng 1t a
false alarm.
THREE years ago Carl Fletcher, Of
Pelican, was arrested, tried and acquit.
ted for the burning of Chae. Hyatt's
house. A year later one Osborne was
robbed, but there was no clue to the
thief. Recently Fletcher rented hif
house, ard the family found the Osborne
Bible hidden under the caves OF the
house. Suspicious were aroused and the
house was thoroughly searched and many
things belonging to Mr.. Hyatt, whose
house Fletcher was charged with burning.
Fletcher was arrested and will be held on
a charge of robbery.
DAKOTA.
A $4,000 hotel is to be erected al