Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-18
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

A BONUS of $3,215 is offe, Ell any one
who will build $4,000 hotel in d.
troit.
WILLIAM JEP.oN, living near Ashton,
Sibley county, cut his throat while tenn
porari'y insane, dying soon after.
The contract for building tue new
schoolhousc at Pipess one has been let
to George Souter of chat place for 49,
649.
The Hutchinson foundry will be
moved to Litch6eld, citizens of the latter
place donating a site and bonus OF
81, 200.
TaE cloth pcdllers are arounl again.
Belgrade furnished twenty victims last
week, bitten TO the extent Of 800 to
$l5U each.
IT is stated that 25 per cent. of the
hogs in Mower County ". re lost during
the past winter by improper protection
from the cold.
DAVID HEFT1, an old citizen of Still
water, suicided Monday morning by
blowing out h brains with revolver.
He leaves wife and four children.
Two HUNDRED DOLLARS has been
placed 10 the Banh of Gaylord for any
persoo who will walk from that place to
Henderson and back in eight hours.
G. f. WAsHBURN, of Herman, Offers
all his properly for sale, from 600 acres
of land to several shirts, suits OF clothes,
etc., and announces that creditors Of the
Bank of Herman will be paid 100 cents
On the dollar.
A WILD goose weighing twelve and a
half pounds and measuring six feet from
tip to tip of wings, was killed the Other
day in White field, Kandiyohi County.
Old hunters say It was the largest goose
they ever saw.
Mrs. HORACE THOMPSON, Of st. Paul.
has presented to the state institution for
the deaf and dumb in Faribault, autotype
copies OF Sharple's portraits of Gen.
Washington and Martha, his wife.
| Copies If the same have also been pre-
sented to st. Mays Hall by Hon. Cor
don E. Cole.
A GOVERNMENT surveyor has been at
work on the Red River, aud has located
the spot for new lock and dam. II will
be four miles above Belmont, and tC
cost in the neighhorhood OF $3.50, 900.
It will make head above that now had
of ten feet, and cut through bend
three miles around.
TEE Long Prairie Argus says: 'Ids
Monette, the little 9 yea1-o'd daughter
of L. Monette, was relieved Of liz lrd
by DR.. Mattero, Monday last. The liz.
ard was about Fix inches ia length, and
every palt perfect, the head, feet and
body being perfectly djstlnguishable
The child has been ailing for the past
three years. She is nov perfectly we'll.
A STRANGE and fatal accident occurred
at the residence of Peter Freeman, {
Jew miles west of Howard, by which bi:
five months old grandchild, Frank,
Swift, lost his life. A double barrclee
shotgun hung en- the wall, one barre
Of which ali of sudden was discharged
This caused the gun to fall to the floor
when the secon barrel went off, th'
contents of which went through a pillow
and struck the child in its right shoul
der and penetrate d its vitals as it lay j,
it's cradle near by, caueing instan
death.
ANOTHER sad case of suicide, caused
by disappointed financial matters
cores to sight. A farmer namt
Sontag, who lives some distance
north Of Moorhead, on the Wild Rice
River, came to town Saturday TO pay u!
a mortgage held by Briggs & Elder, TO
5000. Finding the debt held agains
him amounted TO at least four times tina
sun, be procured a revolver and sho
himself This is the second suicide re-
sulting from the same cause in this city
du,ing the past year.-Mo0rh: :0d \ e1Os