Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-07


recent session in Waupaca elected Richard
Hoe, of'Jetferson, Grand Patriarch.
MICHlGAN.
AT Iron Mountain recently a, detective
arrested Mr.. ana Mrs c. H. Wolhaupter fol
murder committed two years ago neal
GAINESVILLE, Wis. Mr. and Mrs Search We're
found murdered in their bed July 16,
1886 Warren Wolhaupter, a son of the
couple arrested in Iron Mountain, was In
the employ of Search. and discovered the
bodies The murderers secured S., OO0
It is said that New York and Minnesota
capitalists propose to construct a ship
canal, connecting Lakes Superior and
Michigan The canal is to be forty miles in
length, cost about $50, 600, 600, and win
save one days time between, the two lakes
A curious phase of the bitter cold VIM
ter has been the freezing to death of hun
dreds of mice in the wheat elevators and
barns of Rochester and vicinity:
silk factory, employing three hundred
men, will 60 to Jackson IL the people of
the town will take $lOO, 600 worth of
stock.
1t is reported that beautiful and popu-
lar young man at St Ignace has already
had seven leap-year proposals.
Miss johnson. daughter of wealthy
farmer, Of Augusta, was killed at Indian
Station few days ago. She was struck by
a passenger train, knocked under the
wteels and her head cut entirely OFT.
Wergeit 4 Reese, Detroit auctioneers, as
signed recently. Liabilities, ST., 200; as
sets, $4,000
Hattie Olney, a young woman in jail at
Lapeer awaiting trial for dropping her ille-
Ultimate baby from train and killing it,
has become insane.
The Michigan societies of Christian En-
deavor will hold a State convention in
Lansing April "a.
Governor Luce has appointed Mrs Jane
NJ Kinney, of Port Huron, a member OF the
Board of Control of the State Industrial
School for Girls, vice Mrs Stebbins, de-
ceased.
Wenzen Matzka, cook in lumber camp
near Newaygo, stabbed and killed John
Puff the other night Matzka was in jail
An elm tree one hundred and sixty years
old was cut down near Three Rivers the
other day. scar, apparently made with
Ratchet, was found twenty feet from the
ground and foot from the inside Of the
tree.
MINNESOTA.
An explosion in quarry at Duluth few
mornings ago wounded thirty -four men and
killed four.
Frederick Lamp, a prominent citizen Of
High Forest, fell down cellar at his resi-
dence recently and received internal injur-
les from which he died soon afterwards
The title to nearly all the property in the
addition to Minneapolis called Kenwood is
aft fa0 nv ha nf
sion in a mortgage. Nelson Stoddard owned
Kenwood in 1850 and mortgaged it to a
man named Barter, who foreclosed and
sold the property in 1870. Stoddard's
wife did not JON her husband in making
the mortgage. His sons are about to begin
fight for possession. The property is
worth $5OO,OOO
Governor McGill has sentenced Nels
Olson Holong to be hanged on April IS for
the murder of Miss Lily Field, committed
last May near Fergus Falls. After killing
his victim Holong, to escape detection, fed
the body to the hogs
j. NJ. Black, a teamster at A. c. Wilson &
Co.'S, Sullivan lake camp. was killed re-
Gently. A loaded sled passed over the body
above the hips, cutting it in Two.
The Minneapolis Paper Company, which
has been losing money, applied for a disco
luton recently. Its liabilities were $40
900; assets, $l1O,
The Norwegian Evangelists of Wisconsin
have selected Albert Lea as the place of
location for sectarian college, to be erect
ed in the spring Citizens of Albert Lea
subscribed So, 600 toward the enterprise.
Herman Harms, of Utica, who has at
tracted considt rable attention throughout
the country by reason of his extended
sleep, being termed the minnesota Mar
vel" recently awoke from his somnolent
state which has extended over a period OF
nearly twelve years
The two-story brick owned by w. e.
Eustis, and used as the Union League club
house, burned at NJ nneapolis the other
morning: Loss, 1913, 800; insurance, $12,-
400
Alta meeting in St. Paul few evenings
ago of the Trades and Labor Assembly, rep
resenting all the workingmen's organiza-
tons in the city, Emil Constant, the Social
ist Labor Union delega tie, was unanimously
ordered to withdraw, and a resolution was
passed that hereafter delegates from the
Socialists Union be refused admission to the
| assembly.
DAKOTA.
The latest figures of the loss of life by the
storm of January II are as follows: Aurora
! County, 5 deaths; Brown, 1; Bon Homme,
10; Brule, l.; Beadle, 8; Clark, 4; David
son, /; Day, 1; Douglas, 2; Faulk, 5; Han
son, 1; Hyde, q; Hand 6; Hutchinson, 6;
Jerauld, 2; Kingsbury, l.; Lake, 1; Lincoln,
6; McCook, 1; Minnehaha, z; Sphinx, 4;
sanborn, 4; Turner, 8; Yankton, 3. Total,
1O5
There are ninety-seven artesian wells in
Dakota, extending in line from Yankton
to Grafton. They have cost from SO, 900 tc
81, 900 each, and range in depth from 52s
to 1862
Corn in large quantities is being marketed
at Yankton, the reigning price being TWEEN
ty cents per bushel
M. O. Poulson, of Watertown, was harness.