Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-23

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Embellishments. ................. 1850
S.tnk Center, villnge ..".................. 1,579
S6illwater, city JIG, 437
WlhsJed, town ........................... 1,517
tNheatland, town. 1859
Wabasfla city 49,. Observation-Disclosures. 2,5l4
Waseca, city 2,513
Minona, city Neutrality-suspicious.. Is, 624
Dung america, town .-................ 1853
John r. Bannan OF Brainerd has been
appointed deputy collector OF customs,
with headquarters at st. Vincent, under
Collector Guernon. The appointment was
dictated by P. II. Kelly Bannan has
been engaged in the Northern Pacific shops
at Brainerd.
John Anderson was hauled up in Chicago
on the charge OF robbing Albert Dunke, .
Minnesota farmer, OF $500.
c. C. Wrenshall superintendent OF bridges
tracks, ETC., for the Northern Pacific il
preparing plans for the improvement OF the
lands recently purchased by the company
at Duluth from the Duluth Improvement
company. The improvements are to con-
sist OF new docks and warehouses. The
docks arc to be 1,4OO feet long and 800
feet wide. They will be entered by Il new
slip to be built by the Improvement com
pany.
The Omaha reduced it's lumber rates
from all local and competitive points to
Omaha, three cents per hundred pounds.
This makes the rate from St. Paul aud
Minneapolis IL cents. 1t was formerly 20
cents. This reduction is in consequence OF
that made by the Milwaukee & St. Paul,
in its rates from Chicago, Milwaukee and
Racine to the same point.
1t is definitely settled that the Burlington
Nh hnr t1n P,,1l f.
line to ST. Paul, will enter st. Paul by shaw
ing Dayton's Bluff and building between the
bluff and the Milwaukee 4 St. Paul tracks.
A Northern Pacific train runs into Mani
tOba grain train at East St. Cloud, and
there is quite a tumble in No. hard
William Moore, II peddler, is wanted at
Owntonna for .lssaulting the young daugh-
ter oi James Sheldon.
Minnesota pheasants sell at 81 a pair i'm
st, Louis and are much sought after.
The news OF the death OF Col. Clark w.
Thompson will be termed with deep regret
throughout the State OF Minnesota. Es-
peciaHy will this be the case with the older
residents, the men with whom he has
worked in tie great cause OF Minnesota's
development and progress. It is nearly u
third OF "a century since Col. Thompson
settled in Houston county, and during that
growth OF the state, but he has had the
satisfaction of knowing that lie himself
had done much to aid that growth.
Albert Dnnke, q German farmer from
Norman county, on his way to visit his
old home in Germany, was robbed on the
train near Chicago. One OF the robbers
has been arrested and identified.
John Becker, proprietor OF a Touring
mill ON the north branch oil the Vermiiion
river, in ,Goodhue county, while oiling the
machinery, was caught in u shalt and
killed.
Mrs. Kate Le,nan OF Elgin has BEEN
granted I. divorce from her husband, Fl. Il.
Lcman, ON the ground OF adultery, and
granted alimony to the amount OF 81 500
State Auditor Braden sold twenty thou
sand acres ofestate land at Redwood Falls,
on the 4 9Th inst. N. c. Frederickson and
NJ. w. Prins Of Chicae 90 bought nearly four
teen thousand acres. which they propose
dividing into tracts to suit purchasers.
The father. of Hon. III. NJ. Hastings one
Of the Oldest and most esteemed citizens iii
Owatowna, is on his deathbetl His son
al Brookings, Oak, has been telegraphed
fur. 1E..55 = sf-..I,
Thefamily 81 ex-senator Window are in
Washington preparing for the removal of
their household effects to Winona. p 81
/ About three Thousand acres OF land were
sold ut Fairmont by Auditor Braden at
the state land sale, the average price pr
acre being about 5 go. Twenty Thousand
acres we're sold i year ago 1t a similar sals-
But afew thousand acres remain, and
these arein small subdivisions.
. David w. Humphrey OF Faribault dice
suddenly Of heart disease.
A warrant was issued for George Hubbard
tnf tiae &t,Own Of hc(srea near w ryx,y1 Ss rs,