Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

WaterVll'0.
OLIVER Hill. noted horse thief, is
now in Jail at Benson.
FRED W. KlLLoea, of Red Wing,
died at New Haven, Conn, recently.
Two hundred and fifty dwelling
houses have been built in Anoka since
January l, 1883.
Hon. A. II. BULLS, of Winnebago
City, has lost several head of valuable
cattle with black leg.
NOTHING has yet been heard from the
missing Manistee, and all hopes for her
safety are now given up.
LOUIS LAVA11E, an old and respected
citizen of Centerville, is missing under
circumstances which point to foul play.
OLE HENDR1cKsoN attempted to get
into Wabasha hotel by using knife
on the proprietor. he was held over to
the grand jury.
| A THousAND tons of hay were de-
stroyed by prairie fire on or near the old
McEwen place in the town of Hutchia-
son, few days ago.
JAMES ARMSTRONG, recently from
British Columbia, slipped and fell into
the hold of the steamer Ingles at Du-
luth, and received probable fatal in
juries.
THOMAS M1NNErrE, brakeman on a
freight train, had his foot crushed by
car wheel at Nortbfield, last week, and
amputation of the injured member was
found to be necessary.
BEN ANUNsHINsKY, of Lunesboro, has
made an assignment placing liabilities
at S., 900. he formerly had business in
st. Paul on Seventh Street, but was
burned out.
A RAILWAY bridge near Glencoe was
partially destroyed by fire, and terri
BILE disaster would have occurred had not
the defect been discovered by MI. Tum-
mere, who sent his little daughter to
Glencoe to warn the telegraph operator,
while he tagged the train from the other
direction.
ALBERT WERNER. the prisoner who e.
capped from the penitentiary, recently,
belonged to the cooking crew, and after
the wall guard had been called in. man
aged to elude the watchfulness of the
inside guard, and in the darkness car
ried an iron poker about eight feet in
length, used to clean the Goals from the
bake oven, to the fence in the back of
the yard and pulled himself over with
it, and has thus far escaped capture.
He was sent up about three weeks ago
from Winona County for three years.
GEORGE B. COOLEY, civil engineer of
Minneapolis, has just submitted to the
Anoka bridge commission his estimates
of the cost of free iron wagon bridge
spanning the Mississippi at that point.
The report contemplates bridge with
an eighteen foot roadway, capable of
sustaining seventy pounds to the square
foot, with six foot walk on one side,
and to cost nearly $4,000. The report
was adopted, and the bridge located be-
tween the foot of Ferry Street in Auoka,
and Oak Street in the town of Champlin.
Work will be commenced on the struc-
ture at an early day.
DAKOTA.
Sioux FALLS expects to be lighted by
electricity by Christmas.
LETcHER has an artesian well III
flows forty barrels per day.
NORTH DAKOTA has ninety seven ele-
vators, all filled with wheat.
/ WooNsocKET has ITO buildings, and q
population of 800 in five weeks growth.
Col. GEORGE ORDwAY will build q
brick business block in Pierre next
spring.
MAYv1L1E is to have new bank, to
be called the Bank of Mayville, Brown
Bros, & Co., p1oprietors.
AN old man named Burget was struck
by falling ladder at recent fire in
Aberdeen, receiving fatal injurie'.
Two hundred dollars reward has been
offered for tho arrest of Rev. Isaac NJ.
Frey, the fugitive Valley City preacher.
ESQUIRE MYERS. of Middleton, has
been sorely afflicted. One daughter and
a grandchild were burned to death by
prairie fire, one grandchild killed by hogs
and now q son insane.
E. W. FOSTER & Co., of Red6eld, farm
machinery, etc. has made an assignment
Liabilities SIG 600, with assets of $l8,-
QUO. Mr. Foster is brother CT the st.
Paul Foster, of Griggs Il Foster, and has
always rated we'll financially.
DIR. SCOTT, in communication to the
Grand Forks Plaindealer and Bismarck
Tribune, asserts that the associated press
, dispatch stating that fifteen out of SIX
teen members Of the grand jury were in
favor of finding an Indictment aga nst
him, is absolutely false, and adds that
"if the truth we're known, more of the
grand jurors favored indictirg Winship
and his confederate, Holmes, than my
self, and were ouly let off at the earnest
interceseion of the district attorney"
PIERRE has organized committee, oi
which L. Bullard is president, and w.
Ustick is secretary, to bead movement
= in favor of the opening of the Sioux In
. dian reservation. This committee hal
= called q convention to meet at Pierre
! early in December, at which time the
subject will be considered and discussed
and plan agreed upon for presenting
the matter to congress. Each Missour
River county, beginning with Campbell
r County, and ending with Yankton Coun
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