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


The St Paul ice carnival will open Janu-
airy 26, and close February 4.
Captain 81. G. Shea, of the Emmett light
artillery. left St Paul recently, and the
officials Of the State militia have discovered
that nearly all the vouchers for money ex-
pended for the command are false.
Recent reports received at Minneapolis
indicated that the wheat crop in the North
west would exceed the estimates 1t was
now calculated that the total product of
Minnesota and Dakota would be about Co.
OOO, 600 bushels
A very sensational scene occurred in Min
neapolis recently at the trial of the Barrett
brothers for the murder of Tollefsen, q
street-car driver Henry Barrett brother
of the accused. was called to the Witness
stand, and told the story Of the crime, which
he said they had committed at the instiga-
ton of their mother, who he declared, was
responsible for the criminal actions of her
sons
Rev: Dr. Samuel G. Smith, of St Paul, re-
Gently sent in his resignation to Bishop
Foss, as he could no longer submit to the
Methodist church government.
P. D. Armour l. Co., of Chicago, will erect
acold-storage house at Duluth
The saloon-men of St. Paul have come to
the conclusion that they have nothing to
gain by continuing their fight against the
81, 600 liquor license.
A recent fire at Monteyideo burned ten
buildings, causing a loss of $4,000! The
fire apparatus was rendered useless by
freezing up.
Over 500, 900 was found secreted in the
bed of a dead miser by a deputy coroner at
Minneapolis q few days ago.
William Sowders, who pitched last season
for the St Paul Baseball Club, has been
paid was 81, 200
The question of building cheese factories
being agitated pretty thoroughly in differ
ent portions of Otter Tail County.
The annual review of the milling interest
in Minneapolis shows that the years prod
ucu of -four will be 6,616, 700 barrels The
December were 45, ST., 100 bushels, the
shipments -, 49,, 200, against 80, S32. O2o
receipts and 5,729, $50 shipments last year:
The cooper shops made 2,740,950 barrels
during the last crop year and 9SS, 500 IN
the last three months
DAKOTA.
A queen was crowned the other night at
Old Fort Pierre, on the Sioux reservation, be-
fore an interested crowd of Indians, many
of whom travelled for miles to witness the
ceremony: Her royal highness was pre-
sented with forty buffalo robes and two
horses
George Green, a noted horse-thief, was
hanged by vigilantes recently near F1em-
ington.
Judge Seward Smith, formerly Judge Of
the Supreme Court of Dakota, died in tho
insane hospital at Mount Pleasant, la. the
other day.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids 4 Northern
railroad has contracted for q new $4,000
bridge at Sioux Falls.
An attempt is soon to be made to organ
ize an oratorical association OF the high
schools of South Dakota
The university at Vermilion now has 200
students
The Office Of the Nelson County Mems. at
Lakota, was burned the other morning, to-
gether with the presses and OUTFIT Loss,
SIS, 600; insurance, 81, 200
Mitchell has been selected as the place
for holding the next meeting Of the Terri
torial Horticultural Society, which takes
place in December, 1888.
The grain warehouse at Montpelier Of the
North Dakota Elevator Company, contain
ing ten CnOuSanu DusnelS or Wneat, WAS
burned few nights ago.
Under the new law county superintend-
ents are obliged to turn in to the county
commissioners with their bills for per diem
and mileage certificates from the teachers
and schools visited
Threa brothers Of Gladstone loaned $500
few days ago On a $1,000 bond at Chi
cago They still have the bond and with it
world Of experience.
The United States Collector Of Revenues
from Omaha has brought suit against
liquor dealers at Aberdeen to obtain $500
in fines for liquors shipped c O. D. to towns
near there, the law being that liquors shipped
can not be paid for in outside townA
The Prohibitionists have called q con-
ference in Huron January II to organize
Prohibition party in Dakota