Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-06-06
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities. ,
ILLINOIS,.
John NJ Gould, of Moline has been re.
appointed member of the State Board Of
Charities by Governor Oglesby.
c. G. Ellingsworth, Of Richland County,
supposed to be the last of band of oper-
ators in counterfeit money in Southern
Illinois, was captured few days ago.
liver Anderson obtained decree of d.
vorce in Chicago the other day by proving
that his wife was in the habit of chastising
him with stick of cordwood.
Milton p Funk, farmer of Marco,
while crossing street at Decatur recently,
was kicked in the breast by horse and
fatally injured.
David Webster, q wealthy bachelor liv-
Ing near Naperville, was tortured by
masked burglars the other night to make
him give up his money, and left bound and
gagged until found by neighbors. The des-
peradoes secured only <27.
George Cronk, man twenty years Of
age, committed suicide ut Geneseo the
other morning by hanging himself No
cause was known.
A passenger train ON the Lake Erie &
Western road ran into q drove Of horses
near Saybrook the other day and killed
seven, valued at $1,000.
August has been decided upon as the
date for the meeting Of the State Forestry
Association at Springfield.
j. NJ. Hoole, of Moline, has been appoint
Cd by the Governor to succeed himself on
the State Board of Charities.
Recent reports from various points
throughout Illinois indicated that the crop
prospects wecc not very f1attering.
W. 8. Phillips has been appointed by
Governor 0gLesby superintendent of the
State Blind Asylum, to succeed his
brother, Rev. F. W. Phillips, who died last
winter, after having held the position for
thirteen years.
A son OF Edwin Stone of Cerro Gordo,
was struck by lightning recently and
killed.
Mrs. William Valley, living near I'LL
opolis, committed suicide the other day by
cutting her throat.
Cut-worms are reported by Prof Forbes,
State Entomologist, to be more numerous
in Illinois this year than for many years,
and he also reports the root web-worm to
be doing an immense amount of damage in
certain sections of the State.
IOWA.
Some students at the State University
in Iowa City hung Dr. Fellows in effigy
recently because of their dislike for him.
At Fort Dodge the butter-pai factory
was burned few days ago. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, $4,000.
The State Homeopathic Society at its re-
cent annual meeting in Iowa City elected
officers as follows: President, Dr. B.
Benter, Waterloo; Vice-President, DR.. J.
G. Gilchrist, Iowa City; Secretary, DR..
George Royal, Des Moines; Treasurer, Dr.
H. G. Griffith, Burlington.
Charles Lindstrom, of Boone, was killed
recently by being run over by a Chi
cago & Northwestern train.
Mayor Chase, of Clinton, notified the sa
loon-keepers that all places must be closed
by May l. They were not, however, and
injunction suits have been begun against
twenty saloons.
The body Of Daniel Wolford, of Clinton,
who had been missing for some time, was
found the other day in we'll near his
home, covered with rubbish and with
marks of violence on the head Suspicion
pointed to Dan Ridge, who had disappeared
the same day as the murderer, and the
suspicion was confirmed when Ridge, who
was arrested at Republican City, blew out
his brains.
Joseph Calvert was drowned recently
while attempting to cross the Mississippi
river at Dubuque.
T. V. Harrison, of Clarke County, has a
Bible which was printed in 100, and be-
longed in 1723 to Joshua Swank, an ances-
tor of Harrison's, who lived in Kentucky.
In that year Mr.. Swank was killed by a
party of Indians, and fell with the open
Bible beneath him. The point OF the spear
with which he was killed pierced part of
the Bible. The blood stains in the book are
yet rusty marks.
The craze of saving ten-cent pieces is all
the rage in number of Iowa cities and
towns. The scheme is this: Every ten
cent piece you receive through change is
not allowed to be pent, but is placed in a
bank for safe keeping. 1t will be found
that one-tenth of ones income will be
saved.
A hail-storm near Des Moines the other
night caused much damage to crops and
fruit.
William Ficklin, who passed spurious
check at l. G. Mann's store in Milwaukee,
was few days ago sentenced to two years.
imprisonment.
The coroner's jury Investigating the kill
ing of the Drake family flour in number)
at Sugar Grove, near Viroqua, returned a
verdict recently that the four persons were
murdered by unknown parties. The object
of the murderer was thought to be robbery.
The Hawes- Cove case at Waukesha was
amicably settled the other morning by the
second marriage of George F. Halves and
Jennie May Cove. The consent of the
father had evidently been obtained.
Rev. Evan Owen, pastor of Zoar Church
at Nickimi, and one of the oldest Welsh
clergymen in the State, died recently of
cancer.
The machine works at Berlin. employing
one hundred hands, is to moved to Beloit.
Stephen Nowak, driver of grocery
wagon in Milwaukee, ran over and killed q
child named Sophie Monroe a few days ago.
He was arrested.
At st. Croix recently officers of the St..
CrOix and Lacrosse district land Office in