Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-23
J. 81. Kiel was murdered and robbed at'
Menominee a few days ago, his body being
found in Cedar river soon after

y. u. hlol was murdered and robbed At
Menominee few days ago, his body being
found in Cedar river soon after.
X. MICHIGAN.
The breaking Of . lamp the other after
noon caused the burning Of the south half
OF the Michigan Wood-Pulp Company's
mill at Niles, mourning loss Of $sO, 900. ,
The Michigan monthly crop report, COM
piled from 9O1 reports from 673 townships,
estimates the probable wheat yield at 50. 8
per cent, 81 per cent. less than last year,
promising 1S,OOO,O 900 bushels, decrease Of
5,0OO,OO0 ~'." '".~> ~-"~r- '~e~.~e s~~~,.-s.>
Careless "trammers " at the Cleveland
mine at Ispheming the other morning al
lowed a tram-car loaded with two tons of
iron to fall down the shaft. August Turn
quist, aged twenty seven, was killed, and
E. J. Sitley was injured ut the bottom Of the
shaft "a g..
Burglars secured 81 800 in cash, checks
for b, $50, and other valuable papers from
the safe Of Lyman Jennison, at Jennison-
vile, the other night
A boiler in the Caro- wooden works ex-
ploded the other morning, killing one man
and badly wounding four others.
The residence of DR.. w. b. Church, in
Marshall, was entered a few evenings ago
and $415 was taken.
The new twenty stamp mill of Ropes
gold mine 1T Ashpeming has started up.
This doubles the capacity of the mill Last
months product of gold and silver of the
mine was worth 81 200.
Erastus Freelyn, aged thirty five years,
living near Belleville, gave some medicine
to his sick wife the other morning, and
then laid down ON q lounge and died OF
congestion of the lungs.
Sault Ste. Marie is greatly excited over
the find Of =, 900 gold nugget at the Sud.
bury mine ON the Canadian side of the
river. Many smaller nuggets have been
found there.
Maggie Philputt has sued ex-Mayor
Langdon, of Detroit, for $4,000 damages
for alleged breach Of promise of marriage
He is fifty-five years old, widower, and
the father of grown daughters; and she is
twenty and said to be handsome and styl.
ish.
The other evening a crowd of Hollanders
in Grand Rapids stoned off the watchma,
on the new track of the street railway on
East street, and tore up the track The
police and railroad men were stoned and
shot at, several being badly hurt.
MINNESOTA.
Alexander Johnston, q we'll known Jour-
nalist of St. Paul, ex-secretary of the Cham.
Der of Commerce, and ex- register of deeds
of Ramsey County, died recently, aged
fifty five years, leaving wife and four
children.
Jim Hills recent sale of short horns from
his farm at North Oaks included thirty
seven head which sold for s14.SS5.
1t is said that there is big oversupply OF
logs in the Mississippi this season. There
are more logs in the streams than the Min.
neapolis mills can possibly saw, and there
are no storage booms and no market for the
logs. A decentralization of the lumber mar.
ket is threatened.
Peter Leville and P. Mcmahon were
drowned recently at Duluth by the upset
ting of their canoe.
Two children at Red Lake Falls were
poisoned to death recently by eating wild
parsnips.
Twenty six men employed in excavatina
canal for the Electric Light Company's
new building at St. Cloud, struck for an
increase of twenty five cents the other day
They were discharged and their places filled
with new hands at old prices.
At Garden Grove twenty-four cases o.
scarlet fever and ninety-six cases o.
measles were recently reported
The funeral of Commodore Kittson took
place at St. Paul recently, and many place:
of business were closed out of respect fol
his memory His estate is estimated a
s., 100000
The Congregational church at Fergus
Falls, costing SIS, 600, was dedicated free o.
debt few days ago.
The Minnesota division of railway station
agents met at Winona recently, and the
old officers were reelected, headed by G
F. Talmage, of Hastings.
A seven-year old son of o. II. Brown, o!
Lyle township. while watching his fathe,
fell trees recent. 7as struck by a tree an6
had his skull crushed.
The tow-boat Charlotte Boeckler, belong
ing to the Schulenberg- Boeckler Lumber
Company, while taking out raft at Still
| water a few days ago struck against thu
bridge, demolishing one span of forty feet
The damage amounted to $i0,0 and would
delay travel for ten days. The loss tt
farmers and saw-mill men on the other side
was great.
DAKOTA.
Charles Herr, near Washington, had hi!
barn destroyed by fire the other night, to
gether with grain, machinery, etc. Loss
81, 500.
It is said the opening of the great Siou1
Reservation will be no special advantag,
to the people at large for several years. 1
will require the remainder of this year t,
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