Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-04


nos assembled recently at Bloomington
and held an institute, which was the first
of series Mr. J. Il Evans, of Ell Paso,
gave an interesting talk on dehorning cat
tie. Since October he has dehorned twenty
three hundred, and not one has died.
iowa
The brewers Of Cedar Rapids have been
given until March to dispose of the stocks
they have on hand upon their promising
to close after that date
By the collision of two construction trains
at Waterloo the other night Fireman Davis
was fatally and Engineer CaffelI slightly in
jured
The dynamite bomb exploded OF Mar
shalltOwp recently was to nd out the per-
petrators of practical jokes with bombs
filed with sawdust It was successful. the
jokers having confessed
At the recent State poultry show at Mar
shalltown there were FIVE hundred and fifty
entries and a fine display Of flowers
Miss Laura A. Brouse, a daughter of Rev.
J. A. Brouse, of Rockford, was found dead
in bed the other morning by her mother:
The day previous she was about, apparent
~ as well as usual
Milton Stout. of Jacksonville, and Miss
Gillian NJ Bowlley, of Dillon, both deaf and
dumb, were married few evenings ago.
Elias Sauseard's burn was burned near
Ashmore the other night, and a fine Clydes-
dale stallion pe1ished in Vie flames.
Ten stores were burned at Northwood a
few days ago, involving loss of 800, OOO
The fire was incendiary.
Judge A. J. Lefingwell, of Clinton, Ia
died at the Becker House, Maquoketa, the
other morning, of Inflammation of the
bowels He was fifty six years of age.
Governor Larrabee has appointed A. S.
Garretson, of Sioux City, and B. s
Schermerhorn. of Des Moines, honorary
commissioners to the centennial celebra-
ton at Cincinnati of the States carved out
OF the Northwestern Territory.
Farmers in the vicinity of Drakeville
have successfully experimental in thresh-
ing their corn fodder
The Iowa Alcohol Company, of Iowa City,
and the Atlant Q distllery, of Atlantic, have
consolidated and will remove to Omaha,
where one immense distillery will be es-
tabished.
farmer near Cherokee has lost $4,000
worth of hogs in three weeks from some
unknown disease.
Reliable information is to the effect that
all the conspirators in the Haddock murder
case at Sioux City will be tried, Paul Leader
being the first His trial will occur In Jan
uary. He is the one who gave such valu-
abe testimony for Arcnsdorf
Peter Smith, OF Waterloo, has fallen heir to
a good share Of q 5000, 600 estate In Mime
apolis
WISCONSIN.
ago conveying the following iron-mining
property to John IL Rice, of New York:
Kakagon. $3.50. 900; Nimikon, $3.50. 900:
Bessemer, $3.50, 900. Although the NOM
ind transfer is made to MI Rice, it is
known that it is for the Superior Iron Com
pany:
A verdict of murder was rendered the
other day against William Sass for killing
William Martin at Hartford year ago
Mrs Carl Homkel, whose husband and
children were recently lost in burning
house at Wausau, has been reunited to a
brother she had not heard from in ten years,
and supposed dead, through the publicity
given the burning OF the family in the
papers
Governor Rusk has pardoned Ole John
son, supplemented farmer, who was
serving six years term at Waupun for
trying, while drunk, to wreck q passenger
ira H.
Fifty thousand acres of State swamp, col
lege and school lands were sold at Madison
recently. Appleton, Madison, and Menasha
parties were the principal purchasers
Cholera is carrying off the hogs in many
townships in Southern Wisconsin. The
epidemic is especially severe in Lafayette
County
Rev: Robert Thompson, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Oregon, was COM
mitted to the State Insane Hospital few
days ago Overstudy was the cause
Mrs George Skinner, wife of prominent
farmer residing In La Prairie. committed
suicide the other evening by taking poison.
Family trouble was the cause She had
been married only three months
Reports from the logging operations on
the L. tile Wolf rivor are to the effect that
the Gu alis winter will be seventeen mill
ion feet against twenty-six million brought
down last year. -. -
John Fischer, Of Marathon City, is mourn
ing tho loss of q one hundr9d-dollar bill
During his absence from nome three-year-
old boy secured the note, tore 1t up and
swallowed it.
Miss Elisabeth Wolenberger, Of Horizon,
in At of anger swallowed Paris green the
other night and died from the enec*a