Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-02

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gan. kept saloon a little while in Duluth.
My father, mother and one sister live at
Nora, Hamlin county, Oak. I have not
seen them, but get letters from them"
IOWA REPUBLICANS.
After two days session the Iowa Repub-
lican state convention on Thursday, NOM
mated Senator Larrabee for governor, Cap
tain Hull for lieut.. governor, on the first bal
ready served eighteen years on the Supreme
court bench, and Mr.. Akers for his second
term as superintendent of schools.
Mr.. Larrabee is banker and miller at
Clermont, and has served eighteen years in
thelegislature. Capt Hull has been secretary
of state for sixteen years and had other Of
fees.
The first, second and third planks Of the
platform attack the Southern policy, SO
called, of the Democratic party; the fourth
and fifth are devoted to pensions and the
labor question; the sixth discourses free
trade; seventh approves civil service
reform; ninth demands the public domain
for actual settlers; tenth opposes any
changes of the currency aud finance and
favors revision of the patentlaws; eleventh
regards Prohibition as worthy OF further
trial; twelfth, favors legislative railroad
regulation; thirteenth, asks for further
state and national legislation regarding
the cattle plague; fourteenth disfavors
taking corporation litigation out Of state
courts fifteenth favors the establishment of
an Iowa Soldiers Home. Sixteenth condoles
the nation and family of Gen. Grant upon
the death ''of one Of the greatest and best
men known in history.''
NORTHWESTEKN NEWS.
At Des Moines, Iowa, August g. Rev.
John T. Brazie, late vicar general of the di-
ocese of Iowa, died after brief illness of in
fammation Of the heart. He was one of
the most prominent and best esteemed cit
izens Of the state, and the church loses one
Of its strongest pillars. He was born in
County Clare, Ireland, in 1927, educated at
Montreal and ordained at Wheeling, W. Va,
at the age of twenty-four. He was for one
year vicar general of Virginia. He went to
Iowa in 1861, and was acting vicar general
of the Dubuque diocese until the recent di-
vision.
The Chippewa Indian who succeeded to his
fathers name, Hole-in-the-Day but not to
his prominence and craftsmanship, is &c
cused Of being an informer upon those who
sell liquor to the Indians. He and another
Indian were dragged from Northern Pa
cific train on the night OF the 24th, while
the train was at Crow Wing Station, and
taken to the woods and fearfully pounded.
1t is feared that Hole-in- the-Day will not
recover. He was on his way to st. Paul at
the time, to testify against some liquor
sellers
The burglars, Fred Ellwood aud Joe
Wilson by ma me, who visited the residences
Of J.F. Oakes and w. r. Merriam at st.
Paul, have been caught at New York. Mr..
Merriam's scarf pin was found on one Of
the men and Toledo and Detroit pawn tickets
for his diamond collar button and shirt
stud. 1t is expected the men will be
brought back to St. Paul for trial. Mr..
Oakes is still confined to his residence by
the injuries he received from the burglars
assault upon him.
The third annual fair of the Dodge Coun-
ty Joint Stock Agricultural and Mechani
cal society will be held at Dodge Center
Sept Is, 16 and II. Hon. Oliver Gibbs, Jr.,
commissioner of agriculture for Minnesota
at the worlds fair in New Orleans, will de-
liver the annual address Sept. II. Dodge
county took half OF the agricultural pre-
kl~ 81, -
fair last winter.
A party Of surveyors commenced few
days ago to run a railroad line from Crook
ston to Leecr Lake It is surmised that
this is movement on the part of the st.
Paul & Manitoba road, to head OFF the
Brainerd Il Northwestern enterprise, and
that the Manitoba company intends to
build from Crookston to Duluth, and alb
sorb the Duluth Il Winnepeg land grant.
The visit Of Gov. Pierce, of Dakota, to
Washington was booming success. In
two days he fled the report of Dakota's
census, showing the population to be
A6, 600 souls, with 80, 100 farms, and secured
Secretary Lamar's requisition for $36, ,0OO
| the government portion OF the expense OF
taking the census.
A Fargo report Of the 18th inst. says tina,
the Northern Pacific Elevator company al
several stations in this vicinity have taken
| in about 200 bushels Of new wheat. most
| Of which graded No. hard, but little is
| threshed yet. The indications show good
quality, but lighter yield than was expected
At Lake Benton, Mimi, Tuesday forenoon
Capt. J. T. jacobson, with his nephew
John Olsen, went out in q small sailing
yacht for pleasure ride. The yacht cap
sized and both persons were drowned
Jacobson was 60 years OF age, his nephew
q
Spring Valley has appointed the follow
ing delegates to the River Improvement
| convention at st. Paul: B. F. Farmer, E
| G. r. Adams, G.. NJ Clark, H. C. Var
Leuven. The delegation will favor Col
Platt B. Walker for river commissioner
Litchfeld, Mimi, has elected the follow
| ing delegates to the river convention, T.
meet in St Paul. Sept 8: Hon. William II
| Campbell, Hon. ". II. Green1eaf- Hon. u
J. Flynn, Hon. Andrew Nelson and Mayor
| Howard .
R. c. Jefferson OF st. Paul is stocking u
two fine farms near Red Wing-one il
Cherry Grove and the other in Vassa
with the finest grades Of stock, intending
| to make model stock farms Of them.
| The census returns from forty-fou
counties OF Wisconsin show . net gain o