Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-27
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.


MINNESOTA.
SLEEPY EYE saloOukeeper has been
fined $50 for selling liquor to minor.
PETER ORMsBY's house, at Kokato,
was burned with it's contents. Insured
for $1,000, which will probably cover
the loss.
A NUMBER of arrests have been made
at Window for illegal selling of spirits;
one party being fined $50 and ogain
$100; another 800 and third $50 or
sixty days.
A1B1N MAGNUssoN was killed by
locomotive near Eller, the coroner's
jury finding his death resulted from his
own negligence in trying to cross the
track in front Of locomotive.
GEORGE H. ROBINSON of Anoka, has
secured judgment for 81 1000 damages
against the st. Paul & Manitoba COM
pany for being elected from train be-
fore he had time to show his ticket.
FARMERS who lost hay by the prairie
fire started by locomotive on the
Winona & St. Peter road, near Mankato,
having failed in their efforts to secure q
satisfactory settlement, have resolved to
bring suit for damages.
Rev. J. w. POWELL states in the
Marshall Messenger that some saloon
keeper in that town Threatens him with
coat of tar and feathers for his work
in the temperance cause. Rev. P. in
forms his enemies to come on, ard in
the meantime he will continue his work.
A WE'LL authenticated report comes TO
us that Dane woman, i'll the town of
London in this county, has lately be-
come the mother, at Il single birth. of
five living, healthy children. This seems
improbable, but it is vouched tor by re-
liable people living in that neighborhood
Albert Lea Standard.
HE three Riley children st Adrian are
under arrest, and the elder sister has
confessed that her brother, aged sixteen
shot their father on the morning of Feb
ruary while he was stlll sleeping IN bed,
killing him instantly. They then dragged
the body to the straw stack and buried
it, where it was found. TIE father had
been harsh with the children, but was
considered an honest and worthy man.
HENRY MILLER and James Wilson, two
prisoners held for grand larceny III the
Scott County Jail, escaped by making
their way through the roof OF the Jail.
| The sheriff, through kind feeling for the
prisoners permitted them to occupy the
| jal]or's corrider near the stove being un-
! observed, after supper, the rascals got
| on top OF the iron cells and By standing
On each other, reached the scuttle in the
low roof and escaped. Their escape was
noticed very coon, however, and the
| sheriff took the late train On the Omaha
road going to ST. Pail, and while going
through the Hamilton hottcms he
noticed small fire near one Of the hay
stacks. Stopping the train he proceeded
cuddled up under the lea OF shelte1ing
haystaek, with a small sfse to warm their
benumbed limbs. He invited them to
them to St. Paul for the night rest and
turned them to their old quarters.
THE latest discovery of gold is at
Hayrc~9: on Battle Creek.
| D1MENT BROTHERS,, of Columbia, have
made an assignment. Liabilities, $2,-
500; assets, $4,000.
A COLONY OF 100 families from
Nebraska will locate at or near New Sa-
lem, west of Bismarck.
A STOCK company has been formed to
run pony express from Deadwood to
Bellfeld, Billings County, on the North
ern Pacific.
| The Aberdeen Library Association
has been organized. Hon. B. 2. Hutch
isou, receiver, delivered very interest
ing and scholarly address.
| H0o1HrA1, rs noc N511,oo 80 IN,
Yankton with proposition for the or.
ganization of stock company, with a
capital of $4,000, to ssert a pork
packery.
The cashier of the No1the1n Pacific
railway at Bismarck is several hundred
dollars short in his accounts. The au.
d1tor is checking him up and discovered
the shortage.
MA1coM McGE1oRAN, charged with
manslaughter, was acquitted at Fargo,
there not being evidence to convict.
The accused was charged with stabbing
John Maier in a saloon row.
ssDoC'' MCCUMBER, who was in
Wahpeton some months ago, has been
arrested and returned to that city,
charged with bigamy, it being claimed
that he has three wives in that vicinity.
| FRANK BEAMER, who was found guilty
before Judge Lavayea at Grand Forks,
on charge of stealing seventy-dve
bushels of wheat, and was bound over
IN the sum of $500 bail, has skipped
| the country.
THE contract for furnishing paving
stone for two miles of streets in Council
Bluffs has just been awarded 10 Balm &
Hubbard, OF Sioux Falls. The stone re-
qnired will fill ZOO cars and keep $50
stone cutters busy for six mortbs.
CORPORAL VoohrR1GEN, stationed at
Fort Lincoln, left his cnmpany, which
was in camp cutting " ocd beIow the post,
togoi in after whisky and did not return. A
search next day resulted in finding him
in the woods SO badly frozen that he
died in five minutes after beiug placed in
the hospital.
The order of Judge Eagerton to re.
strain the city council,,of Sioux Falls from
interfering with the erection OF the tele-
phone posts and wires does not scare the
council. By unanimous vote trey have
instructed the marshal to pernit;no poles
to be put up in the streets prohibited.
The question appears to an outsider to
be which ia supreme, the OF der Of Chief
Justice EdgeIton or the ordinance Of the
counci! of Sioux Falls. The people
are anxious to have the telephone REIN
stated.