Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-29

Rev: T. N Boss, Of the Congregational
church at La Crosse, resigned recently be-
cause the pastoral committee had requested
shorter and more pithy sermons
MICHIGAN.
squaw was found frozen to death in
Manis.ee the other morning She was drunk
when last seen alive.
fire ut Morley the other evening de-
stroyed the Grand Rapids l. Indiana depot
Loss, 50, 900; partly insured
The warden of the State prison is to adopt
the Bertillion method OF identifying Grim
inals. This cons SITS of the accurate meas
urement of the head, the length Of the
middle and little fingers, length Of the left
foot, left forearm and right ear, height Of
the figure, measurement of the arms and
measurement of the trunk. It is said to be
impossible for person to conceal his iden-
| titv under this method
Counterfeit ten dollar silver certificates
| have been circulated in Detroit and have
got into the banks A few days ago George
| A. Moross and Richard A. Gardner were ar
rested while trying to pass q bad bill and
several thousand dollars of tho stuff was
found on them
Bruce Mathews. aged twenty eight years,
was instantly killed the other afternoon at
Haffey's lumber camp, east of Stanwood,
being caught and crushed between logs
Mr.. and Mrs II. Bartholomew, of Bass
River, are the parents of baby with seven
toes on each foot and six fingers on each
hand
| A bulletin has been issued by the State
Board of Health reciting the prevalence of
smallpox in many portions of the country,
and advising the people to protect them
selves by vaccination
| Charles E. Young, former secretary and
treasurer of the Michigan Carbon Company
at Detroit, who had been locked up since
January II for the alleged defalcation of
500, 600, was released recently. compro-
mise being effected.
Joseph H. Whipple, who organized the
Pembroke knitting mills at Battle Creek
two years ago, and was president and gen.
eral manager of the company disappeared
| the other day, and investigation showed
that he was defaulter to a large amount
The present senior class of Hillsdale
College has among its members a father
and his son, aged respectively tiftythree
and twenty-five Next June the father,
| Rev c. jackson, will graduate from the
course in theology, and his son, G. A Jack
son, from the classical course
MINNESOTA.
s. Simon a prominent Hebrew citizen
! of St Paul, was found early the other
morning lying in dying condition in the
hall OF the Davidson Block in which he had
rooms He lived but a few hours and never
regained consciousness He had evidently
been murdered.
Mllard F. Bagley, assistant freight agent
of the Omaha road, died at St Paul the
other morning:
During recent storm Mrs Helen Gustav
son, living in Framnas, was frozen to death.
In going from the house to the barn she
got lost and wandered two miles from
home
A Chicago detective recently identified
Dr: August Towsky, cow ct in the Mime
sofa State prison, sentenced from ST Paul
IN 1885, as A. G: Zawtoski who disap-
peared in Chicago six years ago, and was
claimed to have drowned himself His
wife sued for the So, 500 life insurance he
carried, but payment was delayed, and the
belief OF the companies that the alleged
death was only an attempted swindle is at
last proved true
! Two freight trains On the Northern Pacific
railroad collided recently VIII. e running at
full speed, near Motley, demolishing ell
gines and cars, but no one was injured
Superin endent futile states that the
North American telegraph Company will
bui d line from Duluth to Winnipeg next
spring:
John Olenach, night-watchman at the
Owatonna Westinghouse, died the other
morning from injuries by an unknown as
sailant
A report is current that St. Paul, Mime
apolis and Chicago capitalists will build
Railroad connections with Alaska, China
| and Russia.
Three prisoners, named Billy O'Conners,
the notorious Minneapolis postofice rob-
Der; Frank st Clair and William Thomas,
both awaiting trial for highway robbery,
escap ID from the Ramsey County Jail early
the other evening
A steel steamboat to run on the Upper
Mississippi river is being built at Dubuque,
Ia tits expected that it will make the trip
between st. Louis and ST Paul in half the
time now taken up by the wooden vessels
This will be the first steel steam boat in the
passenger and freight business on the
Upper Mississippi and 1t will cost about
500, OOO
DAKOTA.
In 1878 there were about seventy-fve
Sunday-schools in the Territory, with =, 500
members Now there are 1000 with q
membership of 10000 During that time
D lkota's population increased so per cent.
while the Sunday-scAools increased loo
per cent
The women of Rapid City have organized
a Womans Christian Temperance Union.
The Bank of Central City closed its
doors the other day. It was claimed that
the suspension was caused by a lack of cur
rency and would be only temporary, the
bank having ample assets to meet all IL
abb tiles
There is Catholic population in Dakota
of 80, 900, $50 churches, "a schools, 1000
pupils and 10 indus rial schools
There are in the Territory % creameries,
10 cheese factories 10 -four mills. 2S
| breweries and bottle works, 8 packing
houses, 8 electric light plants, 4 street rail
ways and 10 railway shops.
A fire which started recently in the livery
barn of John Manning, of SGurgis, resulted
in loss of So. 600. The ADVERTISER office
was partially destroyed, and for time the
destruction of The town was threatened
The bottling works of g: W. Flock at