Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-22
Manitowoo intends to dredge tn river to
uniform depth Ut sixteen feet from tho har-
Dor piers to the new coal dock.

Manitowoo intends to dredge tn river to
uniform depth Ut sixteen feet from tho har-
Dor piers to the new coal dook
~ ~. MICHIGAN. ~
Il Is said that the State law Of 1883, FIX
ing tho status and powers of social clubs,
10 to be used by the anti-prchibition ale
ment In svading the Looal-Optlou law
where prohibition has been voted
An explosion at tho dynamite works at
Woodside RECENTLY destroyed two packing.
houses and killed three men, Joseph Um-
end, Adam Usela and John Oleson, all Gin
gle
Wentworth at Calumet ended tho ether day
in an acQuittal .-...t-. 49,. ..
E G. Merck, prominent vessel-owner
OF Detroit, dropped dead in the street a
few days ago He was eighty.six years old
Richard Landon, who shot and killed
Peter W. Bursha In Detroit last July, was
acquitted Of murder tho other day, the Jury
being out but minute and half
A frightened horse near Jackson threw
George Harr from . cutter recently and
broke his neck.
Scion Preston. aged nineteen years, WINS
|
Coral the other afternoon
Chauncey Davis, one Of the Oldest lum-
bermen, most liberal and htghly-respeo5-
cd citizen, died at Muskegon tho other
morning, aged seventy-six years He was
president OF the Lumbermen's Bank, once a
member Of the Senate and House Of Miohi-
gan and mayor Of Muskegon twice
The report Of the Michigan Salt Assooia-
tion shows 2, zoo, 600 barrels sold in 1887.
Amount on hand January /, 1888, 1,5OO,-
600 barrels
The Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows
Andrew Harshan, of Alpena, Grand Patri-
| arch.
The jury at Reed City, in the case of Wal.
! lace Chaplin, charged with the murder OF
Gus Helbring, rendered verdict of not
guilty recently.
| Mr.: Gertrude Whitaker, woman OF
| Portland, succeeded in defrauding the Ian.
sing National Bank out Of $4,000 few
days ago.
Berry County residents have contracted
for a New England granite monument ten
feet square ut base and forty feet high
which will be erected on court house square
at Hastings us q memorial to soldiers anC
sailors of the late war;
Mrs Charles Davenport of Battle Creek
aged twenty-five, committed suicide the
| other night by taking morphine. Sho lef
a note saying trouble with her mother-in
law was the cause.
| MINNESOTA.
Apecul1ar phenomenon was witnessed IL
Western Minnesota recently. The ground
had been covered with several inches o.
snow. Rain fell upon this and froze Tht
whole country was covered by this SMOOTH
glare OF ice Then heavy snow-storn
fell ut the Black Hills, in Dakota The
snow was accompanied by bowling biz
card. The big deposit of snew at the Blach
Hills was showed bodily over into Mime.
sofa by the tempest 1t was q genuine
avalanche. A man would have been Gov
cred in it to his neck in second
A. Allan, the absconding cashier of To
rontO, Can, has been located in Minneapo
lis
A broken f1ange on q wheel on the engine
of NJ lnitoba express going west CAUSED
the train to leave the track half mile cas-
of Clontarf recently, and six passenger
were badly injured The thermometer reg
istered forty-three degrees below zero a
the time of the accident
John Janausohek, farmer living nea
New Prague, killed his wife, fatally wound
ed his ten-year-old daughter and killed
himself few days ago He had gu srreleG
with his wife oyer her property, and sh'
had sued for divorce.
George W. Clark, real estate dealer a
Duluth. died few days ago. He was in tn
Treasury Department at Washington 81,
years.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
proposing to pension Muck-a-Peck-Wak
Ken-Zlh, otherwise known as John. an In
dian of the Dakota claim of the Sioux tribe
now residing at Hastings who aided in say
ing the lives of many white people in Min
nesota in 1862, and who afterward serve,
as scout for the United States Army.
The records of Minneapolis and Hennepi
County show that eighteen thousand di
vorces have been granted there since 1855
A recent fire In the Ryan block, in tn
wholesale mercantile center of St Paul, dc
stroycd the boot and shoe establishment Q
Foote, Schultz & Co.; loss, about $500, DOC
insurance, 100000.
Hon. George Pillsbury, Of Minneapolis
has offered to build college at Owatonn
to cost not less than $25, 600, and have
completed within two years, and TO add $25
the Baptists of the State will raise $50, OO<
The City Council would appropriate SD, OO'
and the proposition would be accepted
, DAKOTA.
Coal is now the tavorlte quest of pro
pect0rs in the Black Hills Late last ia
the discovery Of large vein of coal on tt
\ southern margin Of the hills, in Red canyo1
on the line of the old Rodney stage roa'
gave coal prospecting another boom, an
Z since then the search has been active
prospecting was needed to determine til
r fact of the existence Of coal around the ~
lift that forms the hills proper.
In the absence Of something more suit
t bic Dakota man kept a team in his kitcl
T On during the night Of the blizzard
The cold weather and deep SHOWS ha,
q driven the wolves from their usual haunt
f and pinched by hunger they are becomi1
d altogether too familiar with barn-yards a1
s hen-coopA
The reports Of the death in q school-hou
), at Taylor of George Patrick and five chi
s dren during the great blizzard are said