Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-26
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.
MA11ARD ducks are plenty on Bi, Is
Island.
The wool clip of Osborne Cor' ty
averages about 100, 600 pounds annut. ~.
THE Bishop Whipple School at
Northfield has largely increased: At
tendance this year.
MANKATo has o street railroad COM
pany organized and work on the l-y-
ing of tracks will commence shortly.
STERLING is paving her streets with
stone screenings, from Florence. They
are said to make cheap and durable
work.
The work of removing the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway shops
from Wells to Albert Lea is progressing
rapidly.
CHARLES E. Row1EY, station agent at
Ramsey, caught his foot in frog. and .
train ran over his leg necessitatlng am
putation.
Tom DRv1NE and his gang of conf
dence swindlers put in an appearance at
the fair grounds at Rochester and were
summarily elected.
MARSHAL BRACKET has gone to Agate
Bay to lock up the status of a score of
saloons whose proprietors are said to be
selling liquor without license.
THE Minnesota Horticultural Society
was awarded the Welden medal for ap-
pies and pears, by the American Pomo-
logical Society at Philadelphia.
The sugar cane crop in the vicinity
of Franconia was entirely ruined by the
frosts and several of the cane mills will
not be operated at all this season.
THIRTEEN Mormo: arrived in Minne-
apolis the other mor;,il:g, on proselyt'
ing tour, and held n,, tings in which
| they boldly advocate :: '''eir creed.
MRS. Z1MMERMa j. Waseca, while
| attempting to stop ~ way horse had
an arm broken, besides receiving inter-
nal injuries which may prove fatal.
The drug store of Langdon s Bur-
chard, of Plainview, was burglarized
and the safe blown open and its con-
tents riAed. Fifty dollars in cash was
taken.
LIGHTNING strucs the elevator of Mr..
McMichael at Canton, igniting the
building, but the citizens coming to the
rescue extinguishe,; the flames. Shortly
after another bolt struck the building,
this time destros ing it, besides pros
trating three youn men who were IN the
cupola. Several adjoining buildings
were also destroyel.
Ar the marriage of MIR. Arthur Rob
erts to Miss Laura LoDgtoD, in Duluth,
young lady startled the spectators by
obiecting to the ceremony on the ground
that she was previously engaged to the
groom and the engagement was not
broken of. She failed to make good her
claim, and the ceremony proceeded
without further interruption.
DAKOTA.
GRAND Forks has closed its gambling
houses.
JAMESTOWN has raised it's saloon L.
cense to $500.
The supreme court will meet in Yak"
ton October I'd.
An artesian well is being sunk at Wsb-
ster, Day County.
MANDAN and Bismarck are to be con-
nected by telephone.
An electric light company has zen
formed in jamestown.
| WALL LAKE has a town well two
hundred feet deep with ITO feet OF ster
in it.
| A COURT house for Miner Cor 1ty,
costing 5000. will be erecte>' at
Howard.
| A PETITION is being circulate in
Grand Forks for the closing of all Uses
of i'll fame.
! DAVID BArEMAN, of Grand Fork con-
nected With the case of extortion lur
deed, was held for trial in$5O0 bal;.
A THREE months old girl baby was left
on the steps Of the residence of II. @.
Applegate, Mitchell, the other night.
i A D1AP1DATED old man, with sorry
looking horse, took in the Sioux sports
about $500 worth on running race the
other day.
A BARN on the farm of Thos. Browell,
near Ojata, was burned, together with
horse, some oats and q stack OF hay.
Loss $500.
MINER COUNTY has negotiated The
| and will at once build courthouse o.
/ Howard.
TIE iron bridge of the Chicago ant
North Western Railroad across the Yer
, million at Centerville is almost com
j pleted now.
Or their own accord the saloo1
, keepers at jamestown are going to shu
! up on Sunday and close their doors .
II o'clock on weekday nights.
!! TIE postmaster at Mandan has re
signed. The name OF r. D Taylor ha'
t been mentioned in connection with th
" position should it become vacant.
MITCHELL entered on her second yea
with q population Of 900, on her thirt
i with l.5OO. and ale is now entering Of
her fourth with not less than I, 800,