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

The NORTHWEST.
3rief Mention Of News Of General
Interest.
ILLINOIS.
Morton Elliott, employed in a saw mill
aear Ramsey, fell upon . moving saw q
Few days ago and was cut in two.
The Chicago & Alton depot at Lexington
was burned the other evening.
Charles Clark. q farmer living near De-
satur, recently lost thirteen head of good
cattle which he had been feeding all winter
On wheat straw. An examination found in
the stomach of each ball of Irvine the
size Of = baseball and of the kind used on
his Irvine binder during harvest.
George Hense was killed at Marshall q
few days ago by the accidental discharge
sf pistol in the hands of James Sullivan.
Andrew Russell, ST., prominent busi-
aess man of jacksonville, was killed the
sther evening by fall from q tree.
Peterborough & Heffer, dry goods dealers
At Lanark, failed recently for 81, 900, with
assets estimated at $4,000
At Alton few days ago the Right Rev.
James Ryan was consecrated Catholic
Bishop at Alton.
Near Hindsboro the other day Misses
stokes and Williams, aged thirteen and
fourteen years, while wading in pond
stepped in an old we'll and were drowned.
Mrs. s. N. Shoup, Of Sangamon County,
was probably fatally injured by vicious
pigs few days ago.
Oliver Miselljohn, Rockford boy who
was frightened by another boy who threat
ened to throw him into printing press,
died the other day from the effects OF his
fright.
Monticello camp, Sons of Veterans, was
mustered in at Monticello few days ago
with twenty five members.
Charles II. Newman, night switchman on
the %" road at Abingdon, was killed the
other night in jumping off from the fast
mali train.
Three Northern Illinois switches were
opened at Syracuse few days ago by
some unknown person, and freight train
was wrecked.
George Steiner, of Decatur, aged fifty
nine years, was found dead in an office
stairway the other day, the coroner's YER
dict being accidental death.
Recent reports regarding the imprisoned
effect that they were handwriting, we'll
behaved and in good health.
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John Mcguire, a prosperous farmer liv
ing near holy Cross, Dubuque County,
committed suicide by poison recently.
Mrs. George Jones, wife of General
Jones, of Dubuque, died suddenly the other
morning, aged seventy-six years. Her hus-
band, who survives her, was the first Sen
ator from Iowa on its admission, serving
from 1S4S to 1856, when he was appointed
Minister to Bogata. General and Mrs.
Jones were married in January, 1929.
The Iowa sportsmens' annual tourna-
ment will be held at Des Moines June 5,
and7.
"a little four year old son of William AUX
run, of Union township, was playing around
q team of horses recently when, getting be-
tween the hind feet Of one of them, the
horses suddenly backed, stamping the life
out Of the boy.
The remains of Mrs. Anna Kaebrick,
who suddenly disappeared from her home
in Charles City some time ago, were found
a few days since in the Cedar river, two
miles north of there. She leaves two chill
was a case of suicide.
The twenty sixth annual session Of the
Iowa State Dental Association was held re-
Gently at Iowa City
The sons of Jacob Hum in Hardin County
unearthed a nest Of eight young wolves the
other day and got pocketful of silver for
their scalps.
A gasoline tank exploded in Cherokee re-
Gently and " shook up" the natives in a
lively manner. No lives lost; one man is
minus his beard
Rome Woodworth, of Algona, recently
killed a trumpeter swan measuring seven
feet from tip to tip.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad Company has filed 103
suits of ejectment against squatters in
Woodbury. County on lands claimed by the
company under the old Sioux City and ST..
Paul land grant.
Horse thieves were raiding Dubuque
County recently. Mr.. Keiter, living near
Dyersville, had four valuable horses stolen
from his barn. The Anti Horse-Thief Asso-
citation would take steps to secure and pun
ish the thieves.
Constable Chapman raided the Monitor
House at Des Moines few days ago and
TOOK IN twelve bottles OF peer.
WISCONSIN,.
The hunters in Northern Wisconsin are
much provoked at the wholesale slaughter
of deer by wolves during the last winter,
and say that, as result, there will be no
deer hunting in season this year. The for
ests are Uttered with the bones of deers
that, owing to the extreme depth Of snow,
fell easy victims to the ravenous wolves.
Wisconsin lumber-drives have got along
SO well that the three heaviest concerns in
the Chippewa valley have begun saving.
The Indebtedness of Milwaukee is 81, 844,
500, reduction of 1896 800 since the last re-
port.
Mrs. Ann T. Mather, widow of Judge
II. F. Mather; who was one of the first set
tiers of Chicago, died ut Beloit a few days
ago.
Nathan Foote, of Rhinelander, was given
q judgment recently against the Minneapo-