Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-23
THE NORTHWEST.

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THE NORTHWEST.
HASTINGS has a bad dose of diphthe-
ria.
The depot at Dandas was burned.
Loss $1,000.
The Baptists Of Sleepy Eye are 60
ing to put up new church.
SLEEPY EYE is to have 1ine brick
bank building to cost $1,000.
The Owatonna lacrosse club raked
in about ST. 900 on the Fourth.
A CASE of small pox, three miles from
Hastings is waking the people up.
MRS. G.. P. MORSE, of Austin, fell
down the cellar stairs and broke her
leg.
TROUT fishing in the streams of
Southern Minnesota is said to be ex-
cellent.,
JAMES WHITMAN of Waseka went in
sane, and while wandering lost consid-
erable money.
G. W. NELSON, Fergus Falls mer-
who has been travelling in Mexico, is
reported dead.
FRANK HANGa1, living north of Aus
tin, was badly cut the other day by
moving machine.
JOHN JOHNSON, of Bottle Lake, has
been fined $3.50 for selling conversation
water without license.
| PROF. BUTHERICK, of Rochester, will
take charge of the musical department
of the Quincy, ILL.,, college.
The Austin Canning and Preserving
Company will resume business. They
will put up 10000 cans of corn and to-
matoes this season.
WALKERS new lumber mill at Crook
ston, that was blown up by bursting
boiler short time since, is once more
in it's normal condition.
PROF. GRAY, superintendent of the
Mankato schools, has rendered his res
ignation, and will take charge of the
schools of Watertown, D. T.
GEORGE SoNTAa, an Anoka grocery
clerk, skipped out with $187 of his en-
ployers' money and was duly hauled
in by the arm of the law at st. Paul.
THERE is trouble in Red Lake. One
of the joint owners of the townsite
decided the whole business to Boston
parties for $4,000 and skipped with
the stuff.
The policeof Fergus Falls captured
q fellow by the name of Bruno, who
claimed to be a member of the John
Kelly gang, New York. He eloped With
a horse and carriage belonging to
Crookston citizen.
THREE horse thieves named Michael
Kane, Thomas O'Neil and Frank Falk-
man we're captured at Zumbrota by
Deputy Sheriff M. B. Anderson and
lodged in the county jail to await the
action of the grand jury.
Hon. II. G.. PAGE, of Fergus Falls,
has sold his land and water power in
that city to the Page -four mills for
100000. A new 600 barrels per day
mill is going up on the site; also
LOO, 900 bushel elevator.
The Albert Lea Mill Company has
fled articles of incorporation in the
secretary of states Office for the pur-
pose of doing a general milling busi-
ness. It has capital stock of $4,000,
and the extent of it's Indebtedness will
be $4,000. The incorporators are: R.
M. Todd and Saline Todd of Rock
Falls, Iowa; S. G. Jansen D. B. P.
Heibbs of Albert Lea.
DAKOTA.
PoTATo bugs are doing Brown Coun-
|ty up.
The Black Hills country is enjoy
ing boom.
THERE is too much rain throughout
the territory.
WILLIAM HART, of Brown County,
goes to West Point.
ABERDEEN has an artesian well in
good working order.
FAULK COUNTY will have museum
and historical society.
JUDGE SHANNON, of Faulkton, will
write history of Dakota.
The Cottonwood beetla is getting in
it's work in Southern Dakota.
ID. SrETsoN, a Jamestown citizen,
died suddenly of heart disease.
REGULAR passenger trains are not
yet run on the Fargo Southern road.
INDIAN AGENT LIGHTER of the Sanree
Agency, has rendered his resignation.
PEANK1NGToN is to have flax mill
built by Walter Bell, an Eastern capital
list.
BENSON COUNTY which was lately
organized, claims 700 resident fam
lilies.
In about six months Ipswich claims
to have put up $19O, $50 worth of build
ings.
IT is claimed that Pierre or Redfeld
will be made the capital of South Da-
kota.
CHARLES HoLLENBECK, formerly post
master at Parker, has been arrested on
the charge of embezzling $1.325 Of the
governments money.
THE residence of Attorney II. F.
Miller was burglarized few nights
since.
THERE have been but four final proofs
made on tree claims in the Fargo land
office. .-.. r.
Two hundred and fifty copper colored
scalp -lifters celebrated the Fourth at
Canning. 81
A FIRST. CLASS stage route is running
from Devils Lake City to the Turtle
mountains.
Aberdeen dealers in harvesting
machines are counting on selling 900
this season.
CHAMBERLAIN is to have q musical
festival, with Fanny Kellogg in the
front rank.
A CROWD of Bismarck journalists
have gone to st. Louis, floating down
the Missouri in boats.
A HERD of bufaloes were found near
Ipswich few days since and one man
slaughtered six of them.
WERE the Queen of England child
/ less the late Prince Of Orange would
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