Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-21
THE GREAT NORTHWEST

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News Items from Various States
and Territories
A young child of C. L. Shafer, a poultry
dealer ut Tolono, fell INFO vessel filed
with boiling water the other afternoon
and was scalded to death.
Jacob and Henry Jackson, who have
lived in Piatt County some thirty -four
years, claim to have discovered gold and
silver in that and Cumberland counties
The Indianapolis, Decatur 4 Western
Railway Company executed a mortgage ro-
Gently at Decatur for SIS, $3.50, 900 on it's
property to the Farmers Loan l. Trust
Company, of New York
James W. Sykes. the well-known Chicago
warehouseman. was found guilty OF issuing
fraudulent receipts recently and given
three years at Joliet
General G. A. Gilchrist is surveying a
route for the proposed canal to be built
along the Illinois shore ut Hamilton, for the
purpose of securing water power with
which to operate mills and factories 1t Is
proposed to run the canal from Des Moines
rapids to point below Hamilton.
Governor Ogiesby has appointed Repre-
sentative A. X. Lowry, of Mount Sterling,
to be public administrator of Brown
County.
Near Ramsey few days ago the body of
John Tilton, aged thirty-five years, was
found In the woods near his house, where,
as circumstances seemed to show, he had
shot himself
The dining-car Oriental, belonging to the
Chicago 4 Alton Railro ID Company. was
burned at Delavan the other evening Loss.
$50,
Governor Oglesby has issued proclama-
ton designating Friday, April ID, as Arbor
day
The funeral of Daniel Williams. widely
known as "Fa,her Williams" took place a
few days ago at Moline The deceased was
ninety-nine years old February Ii last. He
had three sons killed in the Union army
during the war He was walking about the
streets less than Il week before he died.
The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs Uriah
Hair was celebrated few days ago in Chi
cago.
Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross Soci-
ETY., Washington, D. c.. called at the may
or's office in Chicago the other day on her
return from Mount Vernon, where she had
been since the disaster Miss Barton, who
has had National experience in charity
work, pronounced the ruin wrought bv the
Mount Vernon cyclone as the moss complete
and disastrous she had ever seen
IOWA
The new Pottawattamie County court
house was dedicated at Council Bluffs re-
Gently. The building is OF stone four
stories high and cost $1S5, 900
Tn, no
OF Mount Carroll recently Judge + chard S.
Tuthill OF Oh cago, sentenced Albert A.
Spalding of Fort Madison, this State, ar
rested at Savannah, Ill, for bigamy, to pay
fine of fifty dollars and to serve three
years in the penitentiary.
The State Supreme Count has decided
that it is not crime undo r the law to give
drink OF Intoxicating liquor to a man if
ne Is not minor or in the habit of getting
intoxicated
In the case of Chase against the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Com
pany, tried at Montezuma, $50, 800 DAM
ages We're awarded Chase few days ago.
He was in ured while switching
The Eight-Hour law with ten hours paw
in local labor circles at Sioux City, such as
stonemasons brick-layers, carpenters, ETC.,
by the decision of the Trades Union went
into effect a few ,ys ago.
Atwo-year-Old son of John s. Black, cash
Ter of the States Savings Bank at Creston.
died the other afternoon from the effect of
drinking solution of concentrated I've.
In the case of Wells and Champlain.
charged with assaulting Miles Sweeney, of
Dubuque, knocking him off moving pas
senger train and robbing him of 81, 600,
the jury at Manchester, where the case was
tried, returned verdict the other day of
acquittal
The trial at Davenport of Toby Alexan-
der (colore6 for murder was closed the
other day, the jury returning verdict of
mansaughter:
The last wholesale liquor store in Sioux
City moved it's stock few days ago to
Covlngton. Neb., which is on the opposite
shore of the Missouri river.
After fifty days of difficult work the Gals
son of the third pier of the railroad bridge
reache its foundation the other day. The
caisson weighs six thousand tons and the
foundation Is one hundred feet below the
bottom OF the river:
The Julien House, one of the leading
hotels in Dubuque, was recently sold to +.
D. Stout for about $40. 600
WISCONSIN.
A gentleman living few miles out of