Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-04
Odin T. Renning, the son OF q prominent
resident of Milwaukee, was drowned while
bathing the other night.
MICHIGAN.

resident Of Milwaukee, was drowned while
bathing the other night.
i MICHIGAN.
The large brewery of Meeske & Hoch,
at Negawnee was damaged by fire to the
extent Of $1,000
BY fall of earth in tho Jackson mine at
Ishpeming the other day Michael Morgan,
a married man, was Instantly killed
Calix Charron was drowned at Muske-
gon recently by the capsizing Of boat.
Bernard G. Whitemore, aged seventeen,
and Willie Sasherland, aged fourteen,
were drowned the other evening while
bathing in the river at Bay City
William Frazer called at the farm house
Of William Nelson, nine miles from Red
Jacket few nights ago, and, finding Mrs.
Nelson alone, knocked her down and GRIM
inally assaulted her
! F. w. Wheeler offers to invest $500, 900 in
a new plant at his West Bay City ship.
yard if the city authorities will relieve
! him of certain amount Of tax alton for q
certain number of years.
| Prof G. N. Jones, fourteen years con.
nected with the Michigan University, has
| resigned to become general special agent
| for a Milwaukee insurance company.
The Greenback State Central Committee
met in Grand Rapids recently and decided
| to hold their State convention in that city
July 49,
The body of an unknown man was found
floating in the Flint & Pere Marquette
railroad slip the other morning at Bay
City.
Frank Wright was fatally hurt by q
three-year- old bull in Plymouth few days
ago.
| Creighton's saw-mill near Nirvana was
burned recently. Loss, 5000; partly in
sured
Ray Bedford, a young lad of Grand Rap
ids, spending his vacation at Ravenna, &C
cidently killed himself while hunting the
other morning by the discharge of his gun.
Thomas Hyland, who snatched purse
from Sedie Seitell upon the street in Grand
Rapids, and knocked her down, has been
sentenced to five years in Jackson. The
purse only contained one cent
The photograph gallery of William Judd
at Mancelona was partially burned a few
mornings ago. Incendiary.
Thirteen good-sized safes, which passed
through the recent Norway fire, will DO
used IN the building of monument COM
memorating the disaster.
|
The wife Of Michael Sullivan, Of Lake
City, was removed to the asylum of the in
sane at Rochester the other day. She
leaves large family.
There was severe frost at Lake Benton
the other night, which showed plainly on
the grain fields. The apple and small fruit
crop seemed to be destroyed.
Tha first annual convention of the Twelfth
district W. c. T. U. was held recently At
Glenwood.
| Duluth's first large vessel was launched
q few afternoons ago in the presence of
5000 spectators. who lined the elevator
roofs, wharves, sheds, buildings, and
crowded into numerous boats. The craft
is named '1O1," is built entirely of steel, ID
a great, cigar shaped craft of 1877 feet ex-
IRENE length, Is feet beam, and IS feet 8
inches nodded depth.
| At Minneapolis few nights ago Silas
Robinson, whose wife had deserted him.
met her on the street walking with Nick
Weiss and shot them both, killing her and
fatally wounding Weiss, and then shot
himself and would probably die. -:
Horsemen from Tennessee, Illinois, Iowa
and Dakota attended the auction sale Of
the late Commodore Kittson's trotting
stock at Midway Park, St. Paul, a few days
l
So, 600. The famous mare, $685., was
bought by F. D. Stout, of Dubuque Ia, for
$500, the highest price ever paid for
brood mare in America,
By the burning of frame house in st.
Paul early the other morning, occupied
by l.. Burmeister and family, Mr. Bur-
meister's thirteen year-old daughter Maud
and Mrs. Maggie Ross, a relative from
Chippewa Falls, Wis, were suffocated.
The Grand Commandery Of the Minne2
sofa Knights Templar, at its recent ses-
sion in Duluth, elected the following OH
GERS: John A. Sehlener, Minneapolis,
Grand Commander; W. II. Sanborn, St.
Paul, Deputy Grand Commander; G. L.
Spaulding, Winona, Grand Captain Gen
eral; P. P. Hubbell, Winona, Grand Pre-
late; A. L. Livering, Minneapolis, Grand
Senior Warden; NJ. P. Powell, Redwood
Falls, Grand Junior Warden; j. G. Mac
Farlane, Minneapolis, Grand Treasurer;
A. I. c. Pierson, st. Paul, Grand Recorder;
F. F. Grant, Owatonna, Grand Standard
Bearer; C.: s. Allen, Duluth} Grand Sword
Bearer; D. r. Sutherland, Norris, Grand
Warder. The next meeting takes place at
Austin.
| DAKOTA.
is reported from Kimball. Some time ago
Louis Richards sold lot Of horses to J. O.
York, and among the number was black
that had been owned by him half dozen
years. No sooner had the horse changed
stables than he began to grow sick. refused
all food, and was thoroughly i'll, but when