Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.

NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.
A TIN mine has been discovered in the
Harvey range.
Work has begun on. tho Bismarck
peniteDtiary. '"7
WALSH COUNTY voted against the
court house bonds.
OVER $4,000 worth Of buildings are
going up in Parker.
A WHOLESALE grocery house has been
established at Pierre.
A VALUABLE lead mine has been dis
covered near Canton.
HORSE thieves are getting in their
work around Mitchell.
HURON is to have prohibition con-
| ve1.tion on tho 18th inst.
A $4,000 BONUS is offered for a grist
mill in the lower Whitewood valley.
WITHIN nine months $50 postofices
have been established in this territory.
The Bismarck artesian we'll is down
1900 feet and is still going down in hard
rock.
JACK and Harry Maxwell, two noted
Montana horse thieves, have been cap
tured at Mitchell.
WM. DUaaAN has been jailed at Grand
Forks, in default Of $500 bail, for the &C.
ductlon of Sophia Miller.
The property and franchises of the
southeastern Dakota Telephone Company
have been sold to the Lowell syndicate
for $40, 100.
MRS. MARSHALL MCCLURE, wife of the
| editor Of the jamestown Alert, is seri-
ously sick at her former home in Cedar
Springs, Mich.
The numerical strength of the Sew.
ertb Cavalry at Fort Meade, has been
very seriously weakened recently by
wholesale desertions.
| DlPHTHERA prevails to an alarming
extent in the vicinity of Clay Point. The
school las beeu closed on this account.
There have been many cases, several OF
which proved fatal.
In five hours Bismarck citizens raised
and deposited the 800, 900 offered as
q bonus for the location of the capital at
that city. Ex-President Billings, of the
Northern Pacific, gave $4,000.
DEADwooD Times: A wagon came
over from Galena yesterday with twelve
silver bricks from the Sitting Bull
smelter. They. weighed about 955
ounces each aud are worth about 81, ,OO(
each.
ANsLEY GREY, formerly member o.
tile territorial legislature from one o.
the northern counties, now lecturer ir
the temperance cause, got beastly drunk
at Albany, No., where lie was billed the
other night.
In the police court at Mandan, Mar.
quis DeMores and his men were acquit.
ted, and O'Donnell and Wennigan held.
They will be charged with manslaughter,
for having provoked the affair which re-
suited in the death of Lufrey.
MINNESOTA.
The street railway in Duluth is nov
in operation.
A PROHIBITION convention Of ten me-
at Faribault.
The boom company at Saltwater EN-
ploy 500 men.
l.. G. LUCE has bought half-interes'
III the Albert Lea Enterprise.
The Office OF the central House, Fari
bault was burglarized last week.
OVER 100 head of cattle changed hands
at the last regular monthly fair at Car
yer.
Mr.. FREDERICK SMrTHsoN of Atwater
was thrown from his wagon and instant
ly killed.
The depot at Sauk Center Was strucl
by Lightning, but the building was no
destroyed.
LEVI RExEoRD has bought the Vale,
House at Spring Valley, paying therefor
81, 900 in cash.
TIE wife of Mr.. Ferdinand Lanee O
Arlington, recently e!oped with yount
mao, 20 years of age.
ANDREW LEVIN Of Cambridge, Isant
County, was killed last week by beill {
thrown fron wagon.
AN old man name Christopherson fel
in front Of reaper at Sauk Center ant
received fatal injuries.
ABOUT 1000 of the SIS, 900 bonu
required to tecure Albert Lea College il
all that Low remains to be subscribed.
| Mr.. SwARTz, of Kasota, attempted t,
commit suicide recently by drowning
He is IS years old, snd the attempt wa
owing to disagreement with his in
law.
The headless, armless and otherwis
mutilated remains of The young lad,
found after the recent fire at Benson
| still await Identification by friends o
relatives.
! JAMES THOMAS, of Parker's Prairie
was buried IN we'll thirty feet deep a
that place, and was rescued alive afte
nine hours digging by relays of larg
force of men.
The Princeton Union fays the Yves
Branch drive Is hopelessly hung up ant
has been abandoned. 1t contains thirt,
million feet of logs which will not b.
got out this year.
| AT meeting of the Scandinavia
Baptist ministers at Clara's Grove,
conference was organized comprising TIL
states of Iowa and Minnesota. The mex
annual meeting will be held at Ceda
Falls, Iowa.
THE body of James Woods, a promi
nent farmer ivingnesr st. Vincent, wa
found on the railroad track horribly man
gled. 1t is suspected that be was mu1
dered by tramp ond the body throw
on the track.
| G. c. GooDNow, of Pipestone City
has created sensation by squattinI
upon the famous pipe-stoue quarry
which WAS given by the governmeu
to the Yankton Sioux, and has sine
been recognized IS an Indian reserva
ton.
BARNEY MErzaER, a boy, shot himsel
in the leg while fishing on Leaf Lake
Otter Tail County. Taking downwar
course, the ball lodged above the hex
between the bone and cords, where
still remains. The doctors fear to Gu
for it, aud are hoping that it will 500
maks an appearance near the surface.
} MAJOR WM. A. SWAN, United State