Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINI ESOTA-

NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS LYMAN B. JA-
coBs, of Duluth, is dead.~ .. =,
J. L. DODGE, of Brainerd. died from
cold and exposure while out hunting.
BUILDING improvements in Lon Prai-
RE the past season amounted to So, 1885,.
The Sauk Center schools which were
closed on account of sickness have been
reopened. .-.=' 5.7s= r S-.z@-S
In Sank Center, A. D. Carpenter re-
covered $500 from A. M. Stiles for as
sault and battery. - -.
The building improvements of Pipe
stone for the year past foot up 800, 900.
and Plpestone is but village of 500 in
habitants.
A CAT upset a lamp in the residence
OF Moses Chevrette, Moorhead. the 9th
or night, and the house and contents
were burned, entailing loss of $3. 600.
WILLIAM BROWN, an Englishman Iy-
ing near Fort Ridgely, mysteriouslv
disappeared last August, and up to this
time no trace can be had of his where
abouts. s-'35 e.
OVER $4,000 worth Of tobacco was
lost by Hans A. Amundson, near Roch-
ester, on account of the early frost.
Nevertheless he is making preparations
to plant eighty acres in tobacco next
year.
A MANKATo firm has the contract to
furnish ourbing and gutter stone for
seventeen blocks in the. city of Omaha.
Mankato stone, lime and cement is COM
ing into general use all over the north
west. ..
| IHE Duluth Tribune says one firm in
that CITY since the LIST of November bas
sent to Prince Arthur's Landing $685.
OOO worth OF provisions, and during the
month of October $15, 1000 worth were
shipped.
AT Presbyterian Church fair at Red
| Wing, one of the attractions WAS the ap-
pearance of a church choir, the male and
female members of which 'blacked them
selves in true minstrel style and sang
minstrel songs.
| CHARLES MoNrsE11ER's cap was
blown of across the track at Fairmont.
He started for it on a run, but, strik-
ing the track, slipped and fell, when an
extra, coming from the east caught him,
the engine cutting off a leg below the
| knee. . =:
FRANK EDWARDS, son of a contractor
at Agate Bay, who disappeared suddenly
from Duluth, is in Chicago, wants his
wife and child to come to him, and his
father to make up his deficiency to the
company. When he disappeared he was
sealched for, as it was feared he had
been foully dealt with.
Two years ago Ole johnson myste-
riously disappeared from Rendsville,
stevens County, and search failing to
reveal his whereabouts, he was given up
for dead. A letter has been received
from him, dated Winnipeg, asking his
old friends for money enough to enable
him to return to his home.
.,,.ls< DAKOTA, RE .s:=*
HEAVY teams now cross Lake Pepin
with safety.
The McOook County pest house was
destroyed by fire.
r. T. PErT1aREw has built $500
roller mill at Sioux Falls.
A DROVE of wolves attacked farmer
| uoar dasLln8S last week.
SENATOR SAB1N will reach his Still
water home on Christmas.
The Santee Indians sold 12, 600 BUSH
els of wheat at Springfield.
THE last semi-monthly cleanup of the
Home-stake mines gave $50, 600.
| A MITCHELL saloon keeper was fined
$500 ard costs for selling liquor to q
man, after being forbidden by his wife.
A TOWN site war between Lakota and
Mapes has eliminated in an Injunction
preventing the completion of the bridge
over Stump Lake.
L. RENNER, of Minnehaha County,
had his stable crushed and one horse
killed by the weight of 1000 bushels of
oats stored in the loft.
! ELLISON & JOHNSON, of Mandan, have
brought suit against the Northern Pacific
Company for exorbitant freight charges
on agricultural implements.
w. q. Ho1ooMB, of the law firm of
Holcomb & Wilworth, Huron, is MISS
ing with several hundred dollars of eli
ents' money and unreceipted bills.
| A PORTION of the tools and machinery
for the Griswold gold mines have ar
rived at Lisbon and work was promptly
commenced. The first thing to be done
is to sink shaft 100 feet in depth.
The Chamberlain waterworks are now
running successfully, the engines hav-
ing started on the 18th. The sum of
$15, 900 has thus far been expended, and
$4,000 is needed to complete the
works.
w. s. KELLEY, charged with sprink-
ling arsenic on the meat to be eaten by
Capt. Hoffman and wife at Fort Ben
nett, is on trial at Yankton. Kelley
was court martialed on charge of pois-
oning and found guilty, but Gen. Terry
disapproved the finding of the court.
CHIEF JUSTICE EDaERToN has issued
an injunction restraining the city of
Sioux Falls, it's officers, agents and ser
wants, from destroying, removing CT in
terfering with the telephone lines, poles
or wires owned and lately operated by
the plaintiff in Sioux Falls, and from
obstructing, preventing or interfering
with the plaintiff, it's agents and SER
wants in restoring, repairing; erecting
| and extending it's said lines.
Bootacks Could Not Stop Him.
fFrom the Cincin, ati Saturday Nlght.l
There is a certain merchant-traveler
of our acquaintance who, notwithstard-
ing the fact that he has a good time
with the boye, never fo1gets to say his
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