Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-09
MINNESOTA.

Ready's three story brick building in Du-
buque collapsed the other morning. 1t was
a total wreck, and caused loss of $12 OOO
No one was injured.
Andrew Roefer shot himself in the breast
few days ago at Tower, and died in a
short time. He was a war veteran, mem
Der of Fargo Post, G. A. r., and thirty five
years on Lake Superior.
Wegman Bros farm house, three miles
northwest of St. Charles, was burned the
other night, the occupants barely escaping
with their lives. Nothing was saved and
but little insurance.
The offer which Fergus Falls made of
site and $4,000 has been accepted by the
committee appointed to locate Methodist
seminary.
It is said that an agent of Phil Armour,
Of Chicago, was in Crookston recently and
secured site for the establishment of
packing house:
The new weather indications Office at ST.
Paul is pronounced success.
John Gorris, farmer of the town of
Willow Lake, had a quarrel with his hired
man the other day and struck him over the
head with a fork handle, infiicting such in
juries that he died shortly after.
The men who have returned to Duluth
from the pineries during the past few days
received $500, 900 in hard cash from their
employers.
Rev. Joseph Lanman has resigned the
pastorate of Bethlehem Presbyterian
Church Of Minneapolis, after five years Of
successful labor He will travel and study
in the old world.
Albert DeKay, proprietor Of the Morris
and Duluth elevator, failed recently for
$40, 900.
A syndicate at St. Paul, owning the Du-
luth gas and water works, have sold to N.
W. Harris & Co., bankers of Chicago, tho
balance and large share of the first mort
gage twenty years six per cent bonds.
Total issue, 500, 900.
William Ward, lumberman, dropped
dead in Duluth q few days ago. He had
just come out of the woods. Whisky was
the cause.
Paul Berdle and Margaret Elizabeth Hop
kins, a dwarf aged eighteen years, were
arrested at Minneapolis recently. Berdle
was charged with abducting the girl from
her home in St. Paul, with the intention of
exhibiting her as freak.
DAKOTA.
John Thornwald, q farmer, claims to
have discovered vein of silver near Bis
marck. He has exhibited specimens that
are very rich
A number of Charles Mix County parties
were before the United States grand jury.
at Yankton recently charged with appro-
priaring timber from Government land in
the Missouri bottoms
Frank E. Newton, an attorney at Henry,
was arrested a few nights ago and lodged
in Jail on a charge Of forgery. He was to
how hon ind In Soh<
Surveyors have gone to the DEVILS Lake
Indian reservation to survey it into tracts
for allotment to the Indians
The temporary injunction in Burke town
| ship against new survey of property lines
| on account of the obliteration of the marks
| of tho Government survey has been dis
solved.
John Stukey, butcher at Gettysburg,
committed suicide the other day. Whisky
was the cause.
The people of Mapleton chose rotten eggs
as an expression of their sentiments toward
Mr.. W. j. Judd, who was their postmaster,
but who sold out his store in their town
| and succeeded in transferring the post
| mastership to the purchaser. Mr.. Judd is
the son of the postmaster of Chicago.
Fifteen dollars per acre was recently paid
| for ninety acres Of raw land in the eastern
part of Clay County:
After five years of anxious watching
Pierre's fondest hopes were realized the
| other afternoon, when a telegram was re-
ceived from Delegate Clifford that the Sioux
! bill had been signed by the President Five
minutes later the streets were lined with
| people, flags were waving and bands play
ing, while cheer after cheer rent the air.
Speeches were made and all business was
suspended during the remainder of the day.
A well-to-do farmer named Ferdinand
Richerts, living three miles east of New
| Salem, shot himself dead a few mornings
ago. He leaves a wife. Illness was the
| cause.
Two brothers named Cronin, prosperous
farmers of Deuel. County, met P. J. Tomilty,
| neighbor, and, knowing he had some
money with him, demanded money owed
them. Tomilty refused to pay, when the
| Cronins assaulted him and took his money
from him. They gave him terrible beat
| ing, leaving him on the prairie to his own
| fate.
The new City Council of Huron, has re-
duced the salaries of nearly the entire list