Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-24
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NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.
THE meeting of the State Firemen's
Association will be held in st. Cloud,
January 13.
HAaENKoFF & GERL1cK's saw mill
near Winnebago Agency, was burned
by an incendiary.
The county jail at Fergus Falls has
only one occupants fellow who
thumped his wife.
The trial of Jacobs, who murdered
Officer Blair, at Owatonna, has been
continued till January 19.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Company, has granted site for the peo-
ple's elevator at Pennington.
BURGLARS entered the tailor shop of
M. E. Lund, at st. Charles, and carried
away $4O0 worth of cloth and clothing.
J.C. PHILLIPS, Brainerd mechanic,
started to walk to Gull River, was over
come by the cold and will probably die.
JOHN KAEs, of Frankford, a young
man of 2l years, was almost instantly
killed by a log rolling off sleigh and
crushing him.
The notorious Albert Burns, who is
wanted in Stearns County on charge
of demonstrating, has been captured
near New Albion, La.
A STRANGER named John Carter was
run away with by his team in the town
of Dewald and so seriously injured that
his life is despaired of.
Mrs. MATTHIAS BROWN, living near
Pennington, spoke to her husband OF
an oppressive feeling near her heart,
but was dead before he could reach her.
A TRIO of commercial travellers hired
q hack at Duluth and started for Supe-
rior City across the ice. They broke
through and left the hack. No lives
were lost.
NoRLAND and Waisonen, arrested for
the murder of Farley, near Duluth,
have made full confession. They
killed Farley with club and dragging
his body into q shanty, set fire to it.
The object was robbery and was pre-
meditated.
Mr.. R1LLYER has finally agreed to
sign the deed to the bank property at
Pennington, and that document has
been forwarded for his signature. If
no further hitch in tho proceedings oo-
ours another dividend will probably be
received by the creditors of the late
Bank of Pennington in the course Of
time.
GEORGE BENNETT, the man arrested
by Sheriff Vanstrum, of st. Vincent, on
charge of stealing team of horses
from s. A. Wilkinson, of Crookston,
which he had just taken from Lyman
Weller by virtue of chattel mortgage,
and which were stolen from the barn OF
Philo Stone, of Argyle. on the night of
December 8, had hearing at the latter
place before justice of the peace and
implicated Lyman Weller and George
Belrose, whereupon they were arrested,
and the trio were bound over to the
spring term of court, Weller and Bel
rose giving bonds. Bennett will be
taken to the Polk County jail to await
trial. He bears hard name, and is
credited with two terms in Saltwater.
The horses have been recovered.
DAKOTA.
BISMARCK hotels will board legislators
at $14 per week.
J. G1FFs was arrested at Mitchell for
forging land Office papers.
Stock thieves are devastating the
premises of absentees in Sully County.
OKoBoJ1 will soon have first class
Touring mill, the first in Sul1y County.
The fight between Wilmot and Tro-
varre for the county seat resulted in
victory for the latter.
WILLIE FLANAGAN, of Yankton, who,
some weeks since, was kicked by mule,
has died from his injuries.
CLAUS NJ. STEGEMANN was found
guilty of stealing $110, at Milbank, and
sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
IT is stated that after January l
there will be fifteen or sixteen counties
in South Dakota in which no licenses
to sell liquor will be granted.
CHARLES WAGNER, a butcher of How
ard, mortgaged property which he did
not own, on which he secured several
hundred dollars from Kendall Brothers,
and left the country.
The Minor Press claims that fully
80 per cent. of the population OF that
section are voters. The other towns al
lege that more than 100 per cent. OF the
residents voted on the county seat
question.
THE well.known Towner farm, near
Mapes, comprising 2,240 acres, 1000 of
which is broken, and upon which there
are some frst-class buildings, bas been
purchased by John S. Sinclair, a Scotch
capitalist.
THE Madison Sentinel says Walker
B. Smith has given dozens of chattel
mortgages on property that he did not
nown and decamped, leaving his credit
ors to mourn to the amount of between
1000 and $4,000.
THE Northwestern Association of Re-
tail Lumber Dealers has been organized
at Fargo, with the following officers: {:
President, W. E. Jones, of Valley City {;
vice president, 81. n. Butler, of Wahpe-
ton: secretary, P. F. Crochet, of Farg.
JAMESTOWN has had another costly
confagratipn. Clark Sisters, Nj. 3.
Barnes, Nj. Wirtz, H. E. Mueller, r..
Clark, Metzel & Sons, e. Stallman and
II. Mulberger were the losers. The
damage amounted to So, $50, fully cover
ed by insurance.
| YANKroN jokers advertised Eli Per-
kins to, lecture in the opera house, but
when he reached the hall, though brill
iantly lighted, not q soul was to be
seen, nor did any one come in during
the half hour the committee spent in
expressing its surprise to the great fab
ricator. Then they took him over to
Market Hall, where packed house
greeted him with great laugh.
The Wife,s Confidence.
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aPoor John," said trustful wife
ahas so much to do at the Office that he
is often compelled to work nights"
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