Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-11
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

NORTHWE STERN NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
ILLINOIS.
James Davis, a farmer near Todd's Point.
Shelby County, died suddenly In his barn
yard of heart disease the other day, and his
body was partially eaten by hogs before
found.
1t is stated that in thirty counties in
Illinois the winter wheat crop will fall off
about thirty per cent
Preston B. Knight of Lincoln, ex-Doputy
United States Marshal and Internal Rev.
enue Assessor, died at Lincoln few days
ago.
R H Anderson, aged forty-five years, a
well-known Citizen of Moline, was found
dead in bed the other morning The cor
oner's jury ascribed his death to excessive
drink"
Rev. Charles W. Morse, who had been
active in the ministry Of the Methodist
church for over fifty years, died the other
afternoon at his sons residence in Evanston
of paralysis, aged eighty three years.
Governor Oglesby has ordered an cleo
ton for June in the Thirteenth Judicial
Circuit to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Judge Eustace.
Messrs Gross, Hawks Drew have opened
new bank at Atwood with cash capital
OF $4,000
At Camden the other day, while pros
pectors were boring we'll, the drill, at a
depth of 600 feet struck a pocket of gas
and was thrown out of the hole and far up
in the air
At Champaign recently Mrs Onia An
drews, a widow, was convicted of poisoning
some cattle belonging to neighbor, Will
lam Black. and fined $500 and costs
Henry G. Childs, aged seventy-seven
years, and Jared H Hitchcock, aged sew
enty- nine years, early settlers of Freeport,
died the other day.
Joseph Barns, sixty years lold, of Logan
County, was found dead in the road few
days ago. Alcoholism and exposure were
the cause of death.
A E. Smith, who had been conducting
bad-debt collection agency at Decatur for
several months, left suddenly the other
day, after borrowing money and contract
Ing debts for some other agency to collect
The Chicago & Western Illinois Railway
Company, capital $4,000, 900, to construct
q road from Sycamore to Keithsburg and
at Springfield recently
Financial troubles caused Isaac Smith, a
wellknown banker of Lovington, to COM
init suicide the other day by hanging: He
leaves family.
IOWA.
Governor Larrabee has appointed Dr..
Beardsley Oil Inspector, and E. r Hutchins
Labor Commissioner.
Wiederholt's Hotel and three other build
ings at Hamburg were burned recently
Loss, $12, 600; insurance, $4,000!
William Lamb, brakeman on the Bur-
ington. was knocked off train the other
day by an overhead bridge near Burlng-
ton and run over and killed 1t was his
first and last trip
Mr. and Mrs J. W. Markle, of Dubuque,
celebrated their golden wedding 4 few days
ago. MIR. Markle went to Dubuque in 1884.
Ex-Governor Stems, of Florida. has moved
to Atlantic and gone into business He is
the second Ex-Governor to settle in Iowa of
late
Judge Ryan, of Waterloo, has decid I'd that
the introduction of a druggists reports to
the State Auditor as evidence against him
In liquor-selling clse is unconstitutional.
At Blairstown recently paying vein of
soft coal was struck at depth OF $50 feet
The last brick was laid the other day on
the great packing establishment of Fowler
Brothers in Sioux City, which will have a
capacity for slaughuering five thousand
hogs and one thousand cattle day.
Pete Ringo, who was elected a member of
the City Council of Montezuma recently, is
the first negro ever elected to position in
Poweshiek County:
fro hr0ko ont at Erl1vviI1o tho hor
afternoon in the KILLER building and for
two hours was uncomfortable, owing to the
huge wind The loss was $50, 600.
Two white swans were noticed to alight
in the river in front of Fort Madison the
other day. An old hunter said that it had
been more than twenty years since a swan
was killed in that vicinity.
Judge L. o. Hatch, of the Tenth district,
decided recently that county is obliged to
pay for the services of deputy treasurers.
The law was held to be mandatory and not
discretionary The case in which this de-
cision was rendered was that Of the ex-
treasurer of Chicksaw County, WHO found
it necessary to employ ex ra help and whose
bill for the deputy's services the Board OF
Supervisors refused to allow
M. Alexander, dry-goois merchants at
Dubuque, fell through an open hatchway
the other night and was fatally injured
WISCONSIN,.
Over one hundred AMI fifty Indians liv-
ing in the woods in Trempeleau County
have gone West within the past three
weeks
Charles Kellogg the other day shot large
bear and captured three cubs near his home
at Oakdale, Monroe County
Evangelist Wolf converted about sixty
persons during his revival at Reedsburg
He has gone to In lian Territory, but will
return to Wisconsin in the fall with a tent
that will hold one thousand persons.
It is claimed that five hundred tons oil
coal were stolen the past winter from
the railroad sheds at Fond du Lac.
Michael Harteau, an explorer and Indian
fighter in the early years OF the century
died at Green Bay recently, aged eighty.
seven years
The National Hotel at Medford was burned
a few days ago. Loss, $40, OOO
The completion and opening of the new
Freeport, Dodgeville & Northern railroad
was celebrated at Dodgeville few days