Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-28
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

Sept. 10, 20 and 21.
In radius of one mile from Wells are
twenty artesian wells.
OwAToNNA is out of debt and has $5,-
600 in the city treasury.
B. F. HARTLEY was elected mayor Of
Brainerd over j. A. Davis by 49 ma
jority.
DR.. TOWNSEND was found dead sitting
in his chair in his Office at Candy few
days ago.
A STREET railway company has been
organized in St. Cloud, with capital of
$25O,00O.
MRS. BoLM, wife Of Delano barber,
suicided Sunday by taking chloroform.
Family trouble was the cause.
A STOCK company is being formed at
Rich Prairie with capital stock of $15,-
600, for the purpose OF building steam
grist mill.
MONROE TH1MENs, of Moorhead, was
accidently shot by companion named
Thomas, last Monday, the wound prov
ing fatal in few hours.
The University Of Minnesota IS richly
endowed. From Its permanent fund of
nearly $500, 900, and the sum appro-
priated by the state, it has an annual in
come of nearly $50. 900.
The Poles located in the settlement
northeast of Arcadia have been manu-
featuring willow baskets quite extensive
]y this winter. They have shipped sew
eral carloads of their work recently.
OVER 100000 worth Of property in
Fergus Falls has been sold to a syndi-
cate Of S.. Paul aad eastern capitalists.
The water power of Tod & Hull is in
cluded, and it is said the syndicate will
use it for large manufacturing Works.
NEARLY every morning now there is a
beautiful mirage north or west of Pipe
stone. To the north can be plainly seen
the snow. capped hills Of Lake Benton,
while to the west Flandrau, d. IL Rapids
and Highland, Dak., have appeared to
us only a few miles distant.
Star.
AUGUST STROHsCHEIN and wife, OF
Lyon County, have been in the habit Of
locking their five little children-the
Oldest but five years old--in the house
while they, the parents, would go off to
parties. They went home from party
about l o'clock one night last week ard
found the baby on the floor frozen tc
death.
| DAKOTA
FARMERS are sowing wheat in the
vicinity of Huron.
The Bennett family, of Nordland,
have trapped ], ZOO muskrats during the
past winter.
/ PRESIDENT EDDY, of the First Ma
tional Bank OF Fargo, has taken the en-.
tire $50, 900 sewer bonds OF that city.
AT Huron, on Monday morning, re.
markable mirage occurred, when Ret
Heights, fifty-fve miles distant, coulc
be plainly seen.
| The remanins of the eleven person!
burned to death in boarding house al
Deadwood, will be buried in one grave
in Mount Moriah cemetery.
| GRAND FORKS has a population Of
6, 200; number of voters, l, 1870; number
of families, 1850; number of houses,
$40; number of shanties, 130
| ROBERT HARDIN, of Andrews, Ind, 8
passenger on west-bound Northern Pa.
ci6c traip, was killed at Cleveland by
being run over by the care, being fount
dead on the track by switchman.
RAPID CITY journal: We understand
that some Of the ]ynche1s who banged
the two me,. ar d the boy at Rapid City
in 1877, are liable to come to grief, az
the friends and relatives of the hoy have
expressed their determination TO prose.
cute his murderers.
AN old hunter named Donahue, hay
ing cabin on the Little Missouri, was
murdered by fellow known as Henry
Forbes, who, after killing him, robbed
the cabin, set fire to it and lett. He
took two horses belonging to Donahue,
also Ill beaver skins, which he took tc
Spearish, sold to Frank Welch and then
left for parts unknown.