Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-11
NEWS OF TIE NORTHWEST.
MINNESOTA.

FAR1BAttT has invested $162 900 in
building improvements this year.
TWELVE thousand young trout have
been planted in the streams around
Houston.
THE proposition from the Princeton &
Anoka Railroad suffered defeat at the
election held last Thursday in Anoka.
Miss ALICE WADswoRrH NorEs,
daughter of Professor J. L. Noyes, and
Edwin B. Smith, of Boston, were mar
ried at Faribault.
ANoKA is excited by a scandal, Police
man Baker having received a bath show
cred on him by. Mrs. George Cole from
an upstairs window at midnight.
JACOB EvERLY, living near Brainerd,
on a wager of IS remained under water
two and quarter minutes, the wager
being on two minutes.
BURGLARS entered the residence Of
Capt. Butler in Anoka, and took a
gold watch and chain and a small
cum of money belonging to Mr.. East
man.
The government buildings at o'd Fort
Ripley are fast going into decay, and it
is proposed to give to settlers what lit
tie lumber there is good, with which to
erect buildings. ,
JAMES Lowe, of Mankato, while bath
Jog with.twent7 young companions in
mill pond at Hazel Green, was seized
with cramps and drowned before assist
ance could reach him.
THE loss on Heasley's -four and saw
mill, Delano, burned on Wednesday,
was $4,000, and on contents 5000; in.
sured for $1,000 in the Home of New
York and one other company.
'JonN Hill, who was serving out a
ten days sentence on a Duluth street
gang, was arrested by an officer from
Superior City, Wis, to answer to the
charge Of robtnng the Trunk of his room
mate, Lewis Barrct, of 1892 and some
jewelry in that city.
STANLEY ADDISON, one Of the promi-
nent men uf Lincoln County, has been
indicted by the grand jury for rape on
the person of on. Catherine Kreuger, an
old Woman living in the town Of Verdi.
Charles Andrews md AL Woodfold have
been indicted for trying to suppress the
matter.
| A GENTLEMAN from Frankfort, Wright
County, tells the st. Paul Pioneer Press
that the smallpox is entirely extinct
rh+ re have been seven deaths in all ami
the disease did not spread beyond the
houses in which it existed when the
authorities to k charge. 1t is proposed,
he says, to destroy all the goods in F.
T. Aydt's store, and fumigate the build
ing before resuming business.
AT meeting of the German Lutheran
synod ut New Ulm, q resolution was
adopted to build at the earliest time pos.
sible 40 ins ti,ution combining prepar'
atory school for divluity students and
an academy, or high school, so.calie1
the building to cost about $14 900. The
pc )ple OF New Uim have made p1Opo
eitivu to d"u ,te the necessary grounds
about one block, and some IS, 900.
WILLIAM JACKSON, prisoner who
vas tried ut the last tenn OF the distric
court for stealing wheat in the town O.
Warren an'l acquitted, and who wa'
subsequently arrested on another charg.
connected with the same offense, ant
place ia jail, was taken out in the jai
yard Tor exercise III moving grass thi
msrning 10y an fficer, aud while the of
ficer st pprl into tho ja'l for a whet
stone, jackson stepped over the fence
aud continued stepping over fences
through yar:s, down alleys, and arsun'
blocks until be finally stepped down au'
on, ol tie view OF the pursuing otfi' a's