Mower County transcript., 1888-01-18
There are 446 prisoners at tho State PEN
1tentiary, OF which number twelve are fe-
MICHIGAN.

1neTe are $40 prisoners 1C GnO SGaG0 p0n-
1tentiary, of which number twelve arc fe-
males
MICHIGAN.
Mrs. Emma Kallam, of Detroit, by mis-
cake swallowed medicine prescribed ass
llniment and died recently.
George Rugh, of Charlotte, committed
suicide the other night with morphine He
had been on q spree for over O week.
workman who fell through hole in a
saw-mil at Grand Rapids and had his hand
cut OFT by a saw in consequence has recov-
cred 50, 600 damages from the proprietors
Of the mill
While three men were vanishing an iron
beer-vat at Detroit few days ago the var
nlsh took fire, and before the men were
rescued two of them were fatally burned.
Fifty cords of wood were distributed
| among the poor of Charlotte recently, and
Congressman Fischer gave two hundred
sacks of flour to tho poor of West Bay City,
The Detroit Light Infantry Armory was
partially destroyed by fire the other even
ing Loss, $l5, 5,OO0
Mrs Fisher, living near Bay City, whose
husband mysteriously disappeared, con-
fessed recently that he was murdered by her
paramour, Isaiah Wallace.
-Four OF a gang OF burglars and cut -throats
were arrested at Detroit few days ago on
testimony Of member Of the band
Simpson l. Co., tho leading general mer-
chant at Parma for years, failed recently
The assets and liabilities would reach $50, =
600 each.
Among the marriage licenses recently is
sued ut Grand Rapids was one to John A
Patterson and Mrs Edith A. Patterson, his
deceased brothers wife.
Robert Mckinney, of Jackson, was fatal Y
shot by Jack King in Sioux City, Ia, q few
days ago.
Four thieves with a wagon raided several
farms in Ecorse, Wayne County, the other
night
Since December G,266, 900 pounds Of
copper have been shipped from Houghton
to New England and the Atlantic seaboard
". j. McRoberts q dealer in notions at
Lansing, NIch, is financially embarrassed
His stock is worth $4,000.
Prof. Vaughn, before the State Board of
Health at Lansing, recently announced the
satisfactory result of his attempt to pro-
duce ON an animal 4 disease similar to ty-
phoid fever, by the use of germs found in
water used by typhoid victims
MINNESOTA.
Colonel Alexander Chambers. command
ing the Fourth Infantry at Fort Smelling,
died in San Antonia, Tex, recently, Of pleu-
ro-pneumonia He came here for the benefit
of his health.
The members of Coopers' Assembly Of the
Knights of Labor at Minneapolis mourn the
| absence OF their receiving secretary. W. P
Ssson, and with him all the funds of the
assembly.
Minnesota has $50 saloons, against 334
one year ago. The license revenue in 1887
was $3.50, 900
Rev. DR.. S. G. Smith, who recently re-
tired from the pastorate of the First Meth
odist Church at St. Paul, held his first serv-
ice as the pastor of an independent churcl,
recently. His plan is to establish a church
where pastor and people can be on the
same plane, and where every body can
worship without regard to belief in any de-
nominational creed
The saloon keepers of St Paul are taxed
81, 600 for license. They are working on a
scheme to consolidate the business OF
hquor-selling on the @trust" principle, the
brewers to furnish the capital and give en-
ployment to men now engaged in the bust
ness
The Itasca Lumber Company of Mime
q.
Martin &; Co., of Chicago. There were 23,-
OOO, 600 feet OF lumber, 5000, 900 shingles
and $500, 900 lath.
Governor McGill says that high license in
the State has proved a success.
Charles Campbell, manager of the Duluth
Gas Company, abscondsd the other day
with So, 600 Of the company's funds
Herman Hearnes, of Utica, Mimi, is af-
tlicted with strange disease, under the
influence of which he has slept almost con
tinuously for seven years.
Squat5ers are rushing to the Government
land recently opened in Cass County, ant
fully two hundred families have take1
claims
Senator Davis has informed the Duluth
Chamber OF Commerce that he will in.
troduce a bill to make Duluth q port O.
entry
: A blast fired in sewer excavation neal
the Bay View House in Duluth recently
threw out several pieces Of rock, one O.
which went through the roof of the Bay
!, View House The rock was picked up ant
as it strongly resembles iron ore it wa
carefully examined by experts who said i
. was rich in non ore.
! DAKOTA.
B. S. Holland, of Bachelors Grove wa
frozen to death in the recent great storm
He had gono to Larimore TO procure medi
cine for his sick wife, and when returning
on foot he was lost in the snow and died
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