Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-06
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
Minnesota.

1AAAE NIIY WILL SOOu nave Cuo eI0C"
trio light in operation.
OwAroNNA offers 500 reward for
the detection of incendiaries.
NoRTHF1ELD will put nearly $780,
600 into new buildings this year.
A DISTRICT Grand Army encampment
will be held at St. Peter, June 10 to 12.
H. B. MARTIN and son have started
the Southern Minnesota News at Fair
mont.
A AALr1NG house with a capacity of
100000 will be erected at Hastings
Immediately.
THE Milwaukee & St. Paul road will
build large elevator at Canon Falls
this summer.
The new Ulm board Of edqcation
school house.
THERE are now under treatment at
the St. Peter insane hospital 462 men
and 284 women.
The Home Mining Company, of Du-
luth, with $1,5OO,OOO capital, has
been Incorporated.
FILLMORE COUNTY has thirty-seven
post-omces, the largest number of any
county in the state.
The St. Cloud city council stands
with a majority of one in favor of
$500 saloon license.
A PREMIUM of $50 is offered for the
best ten acres of corn raised in Rock
County this summer.
COMPLAINT is made that speckled
trout in the streams about Rochester
are being exterminated.
J.H. BREHANr, of the Duluth Her.
aid, has had his arm broken in the
roller rink of that city.
REV. JAMES MCGOWAN, of the Owa-
tonna Presbyterian Church, will give
up his pastorate July /.
A NUMBER of the leading farmers at
Elgin, Wabasha County, have organ
lied q stock association for the man.
ufacture of cheese.
ROLLER rinks at Rochester are
charged IS license for each evenings
entertainment. It is stated the saloon
keepers were instrumental in securing
the tax.
A 3-YEAR-oLD boy named Dilley, of
Northfeld, swallowed 25-cent piece
FIVE months ago and his life was de-
SPARED of. The other day, however, he
vomited thepieceu up and is now recov-
ering.
A LAKE CRY correspondent says:
"Mayor Greer has found it necessary
to appoint a special policeman to pre-
vent disorderly conduct at the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church during Sunday
evening services"
AT the fifth annual contest of the
Intercollegiate Oratorical Association
of the state, held at St. Paul, L. j.
Van Fossen, of Hamline, took first
prise, and F. N. Stacy, of the state
university, second prize.
RAPID Cry has voted $4,000 for
water works.
OL1vEr is having a good many fatal
cases of diphtheria.
AURORA COUNTY will fully double the
wheat acreage this year.
DIR. GEORGE VEsEY, Clifton, COM
mitted suicide by poison.
A NEW post-office is to be opened at
French Creek, Custer County.
JAMESTOWN authorities are dead set
against roller rinks, and have put the
license at 5000.
THE Danish Lutherans have organ
lied g. church at Howard, to beknown
as Our Savior Church.
In digging a. we'll in Potter County
petri6ed wood has been found at a
depth of thirty-seven feet.
IT is reported that g. nine-foot vein
of excellent soft coal has been found
at depth of 140 feet in Day County.
H. w. GooDALE, g. big Montana
sheep man, is expected to locate O.
rancho in Barnes County, this terri
tory.
SPECIAL AGENT JAYcox reports eight
to ten government cases weekly Tor
cancellation for fraudulent entry in the
Aberdeen land district.
CAMPBELL COUNTY expects to secure
at least one hundred families of the
Vermont colony. None are allowed
to Join it with less than $500.
EXPLORERS in Logan County report
a fine belt of farming land eighty miles
in width, with numerous small lakes
and fish. 1t had been regarded as on
ly desirable for ranches.
JAMES CAUGNEY, of Aurora County,
went away a few days, and when re-
turning found that one James Mcclure
had stolen his house bodily and moved
it into another county. Mcclure was
arrested.
A Sioux FALLS paper notes that
those in that section who grow wheat
| mainly drive OK teams, while the
farmer who diversifes and has corn
and stock rides in a spring wagon with
high steppers.
REV. J. C. SHETLAND, of De Smet,
who was charged by DR.. Conlin, of Al
exandria, with assault and robbery,
has been fully exonerated by the
Methodist Church committee ap-
pointed to investigate.
CLAM jumpers are making settlers
much trouble. The house, barn and
| seventy-five acres of broken land OF
William Thomas, of Traill County,
has been jumped by a stranger who :, d
| mands 5000 to get of. The neigh 70
are telling Thomas to shoot him.
A Poker Story.
From the Seattle Chronicle]
The Inlander, at Dayton. this terri
tory, relates that two lawyers named