Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-25
THE NORTHWEST.
Brief Mention of News of General
interest.

Brief Mention of News of General
Interest.
ILLINOIS.
A Chicago syndicate has sent an agent to
California to buy twenty thousand acres Of
\ land on the Sonora river for orange culture
ss freight train ON the Chicago l. Alton
Jacksonville the other morning, and twelve
oars demolished, but no one badly hurt
Jim Foster and Fan Burns, the Tiskilwa
bank robbers, were a few days ago sentenced
+ to ten years imprisonment
Conversation by telephone was carried on
with perfect ease the other day between
bloomington and Kansas City, St. Joseph.
Mo, and Topeka, Kan a distance of four
hundred miles Tho long-distanoe trans-
nitter was used
% Arecent fire destroyed tho elevator and
flour mill OF the Cowder Milling Company
ut Edwardsville, causing a loss Of $50. 600:
insurance. $4,000
An attempt was made to blow up the
drug store of r ". Johnson, Moweaqua,
few days ago with bomb. The miscreants
and their motives were alike unknown
At Pekin the other afternoon George
6chonebaunl, laborer out of work and
Respondent. hung himself in his house
during his wife's absence He left four
children
part Of Washington County the other night,
demolish1ng houses, barns and fences No
lives We're lost
Governor Oglesby recently received no.
tice from Governor Foraker, of Ohio, that
the remaining quarantine against Cook
County cattle had been removed.
Two funeral professions in Chicago raced
for the cemetery recently, and several per-
sons were hurt by q collision that took
place
Governor Oglesby has appointed John n
Collier, OF Paxton, to succeed W. O. Sackett
on the State Board of Equalization.
NJ. NJ Powell was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for eight years few days ago for
killing William Huddleston in Harrisburg
last fall
Thomas Stafford, seventy three years old
and an old resident of Galesburg, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in barn
the other night for fear of paralysis
David Fleming, an old and respectable
citizen OF Olney, committed suicide the
other morning by shooting while insane.
Mr. Fleming served on the Richland County
IOWA.
Captain G. J. Swan, a prominent Sioux
City attorney, died suddenly the other
morning of apoplexy He was forty-eight
years old.
The wife Of Senator E. R Cassett died a
few days ago at her home at Pella.
Articles of incorporation of the Sioux
City Rapid Transit Company have been
MED. with capital stock OF 81, 900. OOO
The incorporates embrace the leading
business men of the city
The official call has been issued for a con-
vention of Republican clubs to be held in
Des Moines on Wednesday. May 2.
Three constables in Des Moines were re-
Gently indicted, charged with receiving
brides in liquor cases Their names are
Potts. Hamilton and West
Z ". A Overmire, formerly supervisor of
Carroll County, cut his throat from ear
to ear the other day in Des Moines He had
lost money.
About eight miles northeast of Altoona
lives thrifty German family, with five
.1 children, three of whom are Albinos One
is boy about sixteen years of age, with
very small pink eyes, that are Indifferent to
light He keeps his eyes shaded in day
time, and sudden glare of light would
knock him down. His pupils are scarcely
observable. He can not do any work in
day time, but frequently plows all night
The darker the night the better he can see.
The three children have lighG Abno hair
and skin as soft as velvet
The Callahan Female College and Drake
University Of Des Moines are to be combined
as normal school.
Dubuque grocers have been generally
victim zed by a man dressed like la
bOrer, who presented checks forged for
small amounts.
The Des Moines Presbytery recently
adopted resolutions condemning the order
forbidding instruction of Indians in their
native language.
= Governor Larrahee has vetoed the bill
passed by the late Legislature which pro-
vided for rebate in case of convicts who
conduc ed themselves we'll, shortening their
terms in the penitentary. The Governor
decided that it was retroactive in it's ma.
ture, and if it became a law would imme-
diataly release from the penitentiary 127
convicts.
The State Amateur Rowing Association
will hold regatta at Spirit lake July "a
and rs
WISCONSIN.
David Caribou, Weli-knOWn Indian
guide, says the entire western end of Lake
s Superior, from Port Arthur to the Wis con-
sin shore, was solidly frozen over this win
s ter. and that several trips were made by In
d ans across the immense ice foe with
. safe y.
The water at Marshfeld and vicinity was
a few dtys ago the highest known for
years. The Yellow river was a torrent and
nearly every bridge over it was swept
away
Early the other morning the California
House and twenty other structures at De-
pre- were destroyed by fire, causing loss of
$75, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Mr. and Mrs William Beebe, natives of
New England and pioneer settlers of this
State, celebrated the fftieth anniversary OF
their wedding at the family residence in
Platteryille the other evening.
The railway boarding house at GAINESVILLE,
t,xyW Gov, n