Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-16
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA,

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AT the village election in Zumbrota
license was voted-115 to So.
A RED WING paper sends out a free
lecturer as canvassing agent.
THERE are thirty saloons atAgate Bay,
most of which have no license, and
United States marshal has gone to bring
the proprietors to time.
j. E. MoE1RATH, q lumberman at
work chopping near Perham, was killed
by falling tree. His spine was frac-
tured and his skull crushed in.
In drunken row at Agate Bay an un-
known Swede was shot in the leg by G.
Anderson. The dive where the fight
took place was totally wrecked.
FRANK NJ. FISH. of Valley City, was
married to Miss Mary A., daughter of
Maj. and Mrs. Lewis Stowe, at Water
vile, Rev. Andrew D. Stowe, brother of
the bride, officiating.
On January LIST the Bank of Wabasha
was changed to the First National Bank,
with paid-up capital of $4,000. The
bank will remain under the same man
agement as heretofore.
LOUIS RuDBERa, of Dasse], one of the
wealthiest residents of that village is
dead. Mr.. Rudberg served one term as
representative in the legislature, and has
been in business in Dassen for number
of years. B.. 5&5-... r
ST. CLOUD will vote upon the propo-
sition to bond the city for $100, 900 to aid
in the construction of q dam across the
river at that point. The work will cost
about three times that sum, and will be
undertaken by stock company.
J. P. MARTIN, of Lake City, has sold
his FLY, Julia Goldsmith, for $500 to J.
Fl. Phillips, of Suffolk Park, Philadel-
phia. Julia Goldsmith was bred by the
noted horse breeder, Richard Richards,
of Racine, and is daughter of the
celebrated Alden Goldsmith, half broth
to St. Julien.
PETER DEAN, prominent citizen of
Duluth, who came to that city in 1859,
and has served as mayor and president
of the village, is dead, aged IS
years. he bequeathed the village all the
real estate hepossessed within the village
of Duluth, with the proviso that it be
used for public parks.
Ar the village election at Pelican
Rapids, the vote polled was for license
90, against 81. The following are the
village officers chosen: J. P. Wallace,
president; Theodore Frazee, trustee;
Melvin Leonard, trustee; K. T. Quale,
trustee; NJ. B. Gibson, recorder; Hans
Mickelson, treasurer; H. N. Bruce, JUS
tice; George B. Washburn, Nick Tyrrell,
constables.
DAKOTA.
In Hudson, within three weeks, Mr..
Millham, has lost seven children by
diphtheria.
Crow DOC has daughter at Carlisle
Indian school, whose name is Annie
Grow Dog.
THE Homestake Company have an
nounced their sixty fourth dividend of
twenty five cents share.
NEWELL, the man arrested for burn
ing the Turtle River bridge at Mauvel,
is said by his friends to have a good
reputation, and is believed to be wholly
innocent. D.-
THE Deadwood Times says concern
ing the killing of Spotted Tail by Grow
Dog: eff Grow Dog had had an i'm
partial trial, he would have been acquit-
ted, as the killing was purely in self
defense" @ ,-.' =
| TIE business of the Huron land Office
for the past year consisted Of taking up
{, ,OOO, 900 acres of government land,
and Col. Lowrey, the receiver, has turn
ed into Uncle Sans treasury the sum of
s., 200, 900. - go. D.
RICHARD NEWELL was arrested in
Grand Forks on warrant sworn out by
A. B. Wakeman, assistant general man
ager of the Manitoba railroad, for send
ING threatening letters to that company,
and was held IN 81, 600 bonds. .-,..z, a.
ACTING GOVERNOR TELLER on Monday
pardoned young Mennonite named
Samuel Kleinsaser of Bon Homme
County, who was sent up for four years
in 1881, for smuggling tools to the pris-.
oners confined in the Jail of that county.
B1cKHAM W. LAIR, one of the parties
indicted for the murder of the Ward
brothers. has been released from the
county Jail at Grand Forks, where he
has been confined for the past few
months, his friends having furnished
the requisite bonds. $685. :53 lsl
THE Huron city council has passed q
saloon ordinance to increase the amount
Of city. license for retailers from $50
TO $500, provided the county commits
sieners reduce the amount of license
from $3.50 to 5000, thus mixing the
total license fee for city and county
$500.
MAJ MoGm11oUDDY, agent of the
Cloud Indians, has written long letter
to the secretary of the interior with ref
erence to the charges that have been
made about the methods by which. the
assent Of the Indians was secured to the
Sioux treaty. He denies point blank
that the Indians. either collectively or
individually, were bulldozed into sign-
ing the treaty. He says that if there
was any undue influence brought to.
bear, it was on the part of those who
opposed the treaty. Neither was any
deception prac6ced as TO the terms and
effect of the treaty.
a CHILD was born in the eastern part
of Escanaba County, Aiabama, last week,
with full get Of upper teeth, + lived d
three days, - ss