Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-22

lands which have been kept out of the mar
ket for many years because claimed by
| railroad corporations.
There was a heavy rain and hail
storm in the western part of
Grand Forks Co., D. T. Beginning at
Niagara, near the Nelson county line, the
hail cut down the grain in path about
four miles extending in a southeasterly
course to Red River, near Reynolds, on
the Train county line. All the grain in
one of the best wheat growing regions of
the country is reported utterly effaced.
The loss will cover an acreage of about ten
thousand acres. At an average of twenty
bushels to the acre the crop loss will be
100000 bushels. Many farmers were
partly insured.
Highmore, D. T., had disastrous cyclone
involving a loss of $4,000. Two men
living in a shack seven miles out are
missing together with their shack, and
are supposed to be killed. There were
several instances of personal injury, some
of which will prove fatal. The same storm
struck the town of Holabird and sub
stantially destroyed it, killing one man
instantly.
Charles Jonas, of Racine, Wis, who was
| appointed consul to Prague, has had con-
| ference with Secretary Bayard in regard
! to the objections raised by the Austrian
government to his appointment. Mr.. Bay
| ard assured him that the opposition was not
on personal but on political and general
! grounds. His name will be withdrawn and
another place given him.
VIM. II. Goddard, the Minneapolis mer-
chant who was arrested few weeks ago
for embezzling $4,000 fifteen years ago
while clerk of the Corbin banking company
| of New York, has been released and will
return to his business at Minneapolis
| Influential friends interceded AMI the fact
that he has led an exemplary life ever
| since the act saved him.
When the First Regiment, Minnesota
militia broke camp at White Bear after a
weeks service on the tented field, the boys
burned Mccarthy, Adjutant General of the
State, in effigy and burned the remains
| This was because Mccarthy ordered their
| Colonel (Bend) to be court martialed and
thus prevented his being in command
at the camp.
A tragedy occurred in Buckeye township,
four miles south of Alden, Iowa., on the
| 18th. Geo. johnson, married man q
years of age killed his sister -in-law, beau
tiful girl of nineteen, by cutting her throat
and then killed himself in similar manner
His wife and her sister were sleeping to-
gether when the deed was committed.
The first prisoners we're received at the
new penitentiary at Bismarck, D. T. on the
18th. They numbered five and we're sent up
from Fargo. Bismarck is anxious to secure
more residents of that kind and is negotiat
| ing with the Montana authorities for the
contract of keeping the prisoners of that
territory.
Judge Mcconnell in charging the grand
jury at Fargo said there were serious
charges against the land officers at DEVILS
Lake, D. T., and urged their investigation.
One of the charges is that one of the officers
is interested in the newspaper which pub
fishes the advertisements of the land Of
| flee.
The aggregate value ofpersonal property
in Wabasha county, as returned by the sew
eral assessors is 81 ,143, 129 and is distribut
ed among the towns, cities and villages as
follows: Chester, $52,353; Elgin, $67, ,962;
Clifford, ,$4s, 40; Glasgow, $39, 1893; Green
field, 3,41O; Hyde Parke, $24, 4,131; High
land, ,$41 ,2559; Kellogg village $11 ,174; Lake,
$27, ,636; Lake City, 1926, ,2S4; Minnesota, $23-
5s1; Mazeppa, $l4,953; Mount Pleasant,
$45,2 Mezeppa village, $3s, $40; Oakwood,
36,O19; Pepin, 81, $50; Plainview, $134, 500;
Reads village, 1923, lS9; West Albany, $685.
542; Wabasha, $12914l; Watopa, s24, sos;
Zumbro, s39,7o5
The Sunday storm which caused such
terrible disaster at Lake Minnetonka, did
good deal of damage in Meeker county and
also at Duluth. Rice and Olmsted counties
Mimi, were also touched, and in q portion
of the latter county the storm was a regu-
lar cyclone, destroying many buildings.
Mrs. Henry Plumb of PEORIA ILL.,, paid
a visit to her daughter Mrs. A. G. Triebel
of Saltwater, Minn., the past week and on
her way home she went out ON the car
platform on account of feeling dizzy, and
fell off and was killed. The accident hap
pened near Brooklyn Wis.
The senate subcommittee on Indian af-
fairs is about to visit Dakota to inquire into
the troubles arising from the opening
Of the Winnebago reservation in ac-
cordance with ex-President Arthur's order,
which has recently been revoked by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
The funeral Of the eight members of the
Rand family Gncluding Mr.. Coykendall
the son-in-law) took place from the Rand
family residence in Minneapolis on tn af-
ternoon of the 18th. All of the public Of
fees were closed and business was practic-
ally suspended.
A. H. Reed, prominent grain dealer of
Miller, D. T., while on his way home was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
The horse was uninjured and proceeded
home with the buggy, when the dead body
of Mr.. Reed was found by his wife.
Grading is in progress on the Minneap-
oils, SAUL Ste. Marie & Atlantic, between
Bruce and Main creek, distance of twenty
five miles. On this section of the road
bridges will have to be erected over the
Chippewa and Flambeau rivers.
In the town of Arthur, Wis, fifteen miles
from Chippewa Falls, a man named John
Cane, went to Edward Davers house while
drunk and assaulted Daver. A young man
} named Stephen johnson went to the rescue
and shot Cane dead.
The secretary of the interior has
appointed Samuel N. Holiday, Jr.,
of st. Louis, Mo-, and William r
Henderson of Martinsville, Ind, assistant
superintendent of the Yellowstone Nation
al park.
Lars Gunderson, late postmaster at
Cumberland, Wis, absconded leaving
5000 deficit in his nancy order accounts.
He has now been arrested in Manitoba
and taken to Milwaukee to await trial
David Hill and his sixteen-year old son,
were drowned few days ago in West
Silent Lake, near Fergus Falls, MINI.
Their row boat upset and the father