Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-11-04
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.


field, and 500 blue carp to stock Lake Beauty,
Minnesota.
The jury in the Thompson libel suit at
Minneapolis against the Pioneer Press has
brought in a verdict of $25, 600 against the
paper. Thompson was accused of
embezzlement by Farnham & Lovejoy his
employers, and the libel consisted of an
editorial commenting upon the charge.
A drunken man and lunatic were locked
up in the basement of the court house at
Ortonville, Minn., and the happy pair got
into a fight, resulting in upsetting the
stove and burning the court house together
with the lunatic. The drunken man es-
capped aud the records were saved.
In the Indian township bond swindle, the
Davis county circuit court, in the suit to
enforce the payment of warrants issued by
the trustee of Rose township, held that the
plaintiff could not recover, as it was not
averred that the alleged school supplies
were suitable or necessary.
Minnesota inventors have obtained the
following patents: John H. Ames, St.
Paul, railway signal; Edward W. Howard,
Montevideo, middlings purifier and separa-
tor; James B. Quinn, st. Paul, valve gear:
Louis Wommer and J. Buck, Minneapolis,
centrifugal boiling reel.
In the Ramsey county district court the
jury found August Towsky guilty of as
sault with intent to murder his wife. The
tragedy took place at St. Paul some two
months ago. For the next five years or so,
Towsky will reside ut Saltwater.
A Chicago telegram states that Ed. 8.
Stokes, of New York, and VIM. s. King, of
Minneapolis, will build a telegraph line
from St. Louis to Duluth The estimated
cost of the plant is $500, 900 and part of the
construction will be done in 1885.
Secretary Lamar has made a lease to a
new Yellowstone Park hotel company of
which Frederick Billings, ex-president of
the Northern Pacific railroad, and J. c..
Casey, of Minneapolis are members.
Six new hotels will be built.
In the district court at st. Paul, Wednes
day, Judge Wilkin passed sentence upon
eight offenders to serve twenty years and
four months at Saltwater. The shortest
years and six months
At Lanesboro, Minn., during the fore
noon of Oct. Goth the barn of Hon. R. R.
Green was set on fire by his children play.
ing therein with matches. Mr.. Green's
youngest son, two years of age, perished in
the burning building.
The Grand Jury of Gallatin, Co. Mon
tano, report shortages in the accounts of
the sheriff and treasurer Of over S., 600, and
that the county commissioners have paid
out $35, 600 on bills not certified and some
not itemized.
Shufeldt & Westover, a firm of Chicago
lawyers have received a verdict of $4,000
against F. g. Roberts of the Fargo ID. T.)
Republican for legal services in the libel
suit of Maj. Edwards Of the Argus against
the Republican.
Hon. Alex. Ramsey, of Minnesota, chair
man Of the Utah commission, has submit
ted his annual report. 1t shows that with
in two years there have been 80 indictments
for polygamy, % convictions and 43 still
awaiting trial.
An attempt was made to wreck passen-
ger train of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad, near Fort Howard, Sunday night
by hooking a log chain across the rails. 1t
was discovered in time to save frightful
loss of life
By the action of the Supreme Court Of
Minnesota, s. L. NJ. Moore, lawyer Of
Scott county now in the Saltwater
hoo lie
barred from practice of the law.
At meeting at st. Paul, in aid of the
Irish cause, fifteen hundred people assem-
bled at Market Hall, and after number of
speeches s., 900 was subscribed and pledged
for the Parnell fund.
W. F. Mirick, the man who wantonly
shot and killed man at Anoka, Minn,
while drunk, has just been convicted of
murder and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
comfy clerk, has been arrested and held to
the grand jury for the alleged la, ceny of
county warrants, stolen about two years
| ago.
| 1t is believed at La crosse that the miss
| ing schoolmaster, Cleveland, has eloped
with Mary Mcmillan, niece of the two
| wealthiest men Of that city.
At Duluth, on the 18th, by the explosion
Of the cast iron jacket on the cylinder of
| the Steamer Myles the first and second en-
| gineers were scalded to death.
Prof. J. J. Cleveland, formerly of Blue
Earth City, Mimi, has disappeared from
| La Crosse, where he was teaching school,
! without known cause.
| Mrs. DIR. Lincoln OF Wabaha, received Sc
! we're injuries in a railroad accident at Eau
! Claire, on the Goth. She was the only per
son seriously injured.
The erection of the government building
| at Winona, cannot proceed until the
Minnesota legislature cedes the land to the
United States.
Hon. Bruce Florer, former mayor of Wa,
basha- and, at the time of his death county
auditor, died Oct. 18th, of consumption,
aged 80 years.
J. G. Chandler, receiver of the land Office
at Yankton, D. r., has resigned He is the
son of the ex-secretary of the navy.
| William E. Smith of New York, has been
appointed Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury, vice G. E. Coon resigned.
The Red Wing Republican, nominates
Hon. Albert Sche1er of st. Paul, fol
| governor of Minnesota.
D. B. Searle, q. 8. District Attorney fol