Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-06-17

II, 1885.
license, and who had committed other
breaches of law but went beyond their
province in passing resolutions censuring
the county commissioners. Hence the
action of the judge.
The annual sale of blooded horses took
place at Commodore Kittson's stables St.
Paul, on the 10th. Forty-nine head were
sold bringing S9,340 an average Of about
$50. The lowest price paid was SO and
highest $47i The animals belonged to
| Commodore Kittson, C. A. DeGraff, G. W.
Sherwood, W. L. McGrath, Isaac Staples
and E. C. Pratt.
| The commencement exercises at Hamline
University, st. Paul occurred on the 11th
The alumni met the day previous and elect
ed the following officers: President-F. W.
Hoyt of Red Wing. Vice President-L. j.
DobDer of Lake City. Secretary-L. A..
Hancock of Red Wing. Treasurer-B. B.
Herbert of Red Wing.
| Among the awards to Minnesota at the
New Orleans exposition was the Grand
Diploma of Honor for the most COM
prehensive and quite complete exhibit
illustrating the general system and present
status of education in Minnesota. 1t was
the only award of the class made to any
state in the union.
r. NJ. Hubbard, General agent of the
Minneapolis Miller's association, died at
Ashland Wis. on Sunday. He went to
| Ashland with miller's excursion, about
| a week prior to his death and was attacked
with inflammation of the bowels. He was 80
years old and leaves wife and two chill
dren.
| The Annual meeting of the Ninth
Minnesota volunteers took place at
| Mankato on the 10th. Capt. Clark Keyser
| of Mankato was elected President for the
| ensuing year and Loren Gray of Lake
! Crystal, Secretary and Treasurer. The
| next meeting will be held at Minneapolis.
The Minnesota encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic has been in session
at St. Peter this week. Gov. Hubbard was
present and delivered an address. A ban
quet and reunion of the Ninth Minnesota
took place on the 1lth, Judge Severance of
Mankato being the orator of the day.
A disgraceful prize fight between Wilson
colored man of st. Paul and a man from
Chicago styled in sporting circles, Cardiff,
took place on Sunday about five miles
below st. Paul. Cardiff won in nine
rounds. About 600 persons went down by
boat from st. Paul to witness the fight.
| A Washington special says the Minnesota
Democrats who came on in search of the
! good things of this earth have become a
good deal disgusted with the delay and
most Of them have gone home. Mr..
Donnelly aud ex-senator Wilkinson,
however, still remain.
A cyclone struck passenger train on
the 12th which was running on the Mil
waukee & st. Paul road from Sioux Falls
to Sioux City. There were three coaches
and a baggage car, all of which were thrown
from the track and a large number of
passengers injured.
A court martial has been ordered to con-
vene at st. Paul on the 9th to try COL
Bend of the state militia. The charges
grow out of Col. Bends refusal to parade
on Decoration day and his subsequent
correspondence with Adjutant General
Mccarthy.
The construction of sewer in Mime
| apU11s ny ueuus c. U,4...acl into the river
has created apprehension that the volume
tunnel and undermine the falls Work on
the sewer has been suspended in con
sequence.
William Won Ruden, who shot and killed
John Lehman in Steele county about three
weeks ago, has been convicted at Ovation
ma, of manslaughter in the second degree
and sentenced to five years in states prison
Won Ruden claimed to have acted in sell
defence.
The Bank of Mitchell is paying al
depositors who had sums less than 500, in
full. The larger creditors receive Presiden,
Buttertield's notes divided in thirty, sixty
and ninety days. This has restored con
fidence and the bank will resume business
The annual meeting of the Milwaukee
st. Paul R. r. company was held on the 10tf
and the entire old board of directors elected
, except the filling of the vacancy occasionet
by the death Of s. s. Merrill with the name
of Phil Armour of Chicago.
Geo. Casper with two of his sons tool
refuge during a storm in barn Ave mile
north of Estelline, D. T. and the barn wa
struck by lightning. Casper and his team
of horses we're instantly killed and his two
sons severely injured.
Prof. Charles Northrop the new president
of the State University was duly installed
on the 10TH Gen. H. H. Sibley, presiden
of the board of regents handed over tn,
keys. Prof Northrop is SO years old ant
: graduate Of Yale.
> Burglars made unsuccessful attempts t,
break open a couple of safes in Albert Lea
) Mimi, day or two ago but were arrested
There seems to be a regular gang of vii
lains paying especial attention to Minnesot.
at present.
James j. O'Gorman, formerly partne
in the firm of P. H. Kelly & Co., of st
Paul, died at his home in Saltwater, MINI.
on the 11th. He had been a sufferer from
asthma for fifteen years.
Spaulding, who shot Constable Wash
burn at Monticello, Mimi, last fall whe1
the constable attempted his arrest, ha
just been tried and convicted of murder il
the first degree.
c. W. Smith, Superintendent of Schools
of Hennipin county, died while riding in .
, hack in st. Paul on the 18th. Embolus O
the lungs was the cause Of the death.
The bondsmen Of the treasurer O
! Kandiyohi county have made up the sun
of 5000 which was recently stolen from
the treasurers safe.
Victory, small town on the Wisconsin
side of the river about 40 miles below La
Crosse, was nearly destroyed by a cyclon,
on Sunday.
A. j. Swellenbach, clerk in the money
order department of the Minneapoli