Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-15
THE NORTHWEST.
Briof Mention of News of General
interest.
ILLINOIS.

ILLINOIS.
Benjamin Tinkhum, for tifty-two years a
prominent resident OF Warren County and
for seven y years member OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, died suddenly few
days ago
Frank Flowers was arrested at Princeton
recently FOR fatally shooting q Spring Valley
satoonkaeper in quarrel over a game Of
billiards = - -
All hopes of good yield of peaches next
year in Central Illinois are said to be at
an end Fruit men who have carefully ex-
amined the buds declare that they are all
winter killed, and that the crop the coming
season will be extremely light
Allen Thurman, OF Atwood, Kan, and
Miss Amanda Hunt of Columbus, O., were
married at Galesburg the other d>y. The
couple haS never before met, and had mere
ly correspondent and changed photographs.
". E. W.'stErook, who murdered Joseph
Gross, at Euo Mound, has been sentenced
to be hanged on March 80
The tive atty third annual meeting of the
Illinois Press Association was held recently
at BLOOMINGTON.
Bird W. Price, q well-known resident of
Lsomi, b. ng ed himself in his barn recently.
Engine r William Cobb, Of Tatfee's wagon
shop, ut FART Id was killed recently by a
boiler explosion.
The 81 Lou 4 Springfield Railroad Com
pany, to construct line from Mt Olive
to East St Lou 8. was Incorporated ut
Srr n"tald Eecently; capital stock, 81
GOO, OOtA
An accommodate ion train on the Jackson
vile 4 Southwestern road was derailed
near A ihens the other night, and the CO.
boose rolled down an embankment, all of
the eig::t pass. ngers being more or less in
jured
The ',skilwa bank burgl rs, Fan Burnes
an | Jimmie Wi son, Were brought from
Clinton, Ia, to Tskilwa the other day on q
requ:s:tion from Governor Ogiesby.
The will of Nicholas H, Ridgely, banker,
of Springfield, provides that his estate, val
ned at over s., 600, 600. shall re ma n intact
for w envy years, the revenue to be equally
divid I'd among the heirs meantime
IOWA
Th. women have taken the public
sohoos of Iowa There are 24,675 pub
lie school teachers In the State, Of wAom
increased more than four Thousand in SIX
years In the same time male teachers
hav.: decreased from z. 253 to 1927.
Tae Illinois Cen raj road will erect six
story building at Dubuque for the gen raj
OH >:e Of the Iowa division
jack King. who was un;'er indictm ent for
conspiracy to whip Rev. Dr. Haddock. At
to1ney Walker and Witness Walker, dur
ing the first days of the temperance cru
SAGE that was the direct cause of Haddock's
de 9Th, was few days ago sentenced to SIX
years in the pen tertiary for an ass u
with intent 10 kill Robert Mckenzie on New
Vars d y
Or. Herry Cox, one of the oldest and
bt$t-known physicians in Des MONIES, died
recently
The public schools at Washington were
closed recently on account OF the prev
alance of scarlet fever, and all public meet
inys had been suspended
The Central Iowa has record of not a
sir gle passenger being killed in the past
ten years
Tie Boston Tea Co. g store at Council
Bluffs was recently closed by the sheriff
Liabilities, $12, OoO; assets, $4,000.
An excavation for a frozen water pipe ut
Council Bluffs the other day showed that
the ground was frozen to dep h OF twelve
feet.
A convict named Parke, who was sent to
the Anam osa en'tentiary from Sioux City,
comm tied suicide the other night by hang
Ing himself with a pair of suspenders in his
Gel He had two years to serve.
TIE State Board of Health was recently
notified that six cases OF smallpox existed
in small town in Southern Iowa.
Judge Given, having decided that permits
to sell liquor for legal purposes can be used
only ty persons to whom they are issued,
the stock of every wholesale liquor firm in
Des Moines was seized few days ago
Each firm has been doing business under a
company title, and the Judges rulings for
bids such latitude.
Mrs. George Lees, aged sixty years,
dropped dead at Council Bluffs the other
afternoon on hearing of the news of the
death Of her son. She had suffered for some
time With heart disease.
At a recent Distribution by an Atlantic
merchant poor wash-woman drew the
capital prize, $500 piano.
WISCONSIN.
At Chippewa Falls the other day Dr. Ju-
den made savage attack on j. N. Phillips,
editor OF the Inlependent, hitting him on
the head with q club, to revenge bitter al
lusions in the PIPER: Juden was placed I'M
der So, 900 bonda
The Iron Mound Cranberry Company,
which sued the Chicago, st. Paul. Mime
apolis d Omaha Railroad Company, at
Back River Falls, for $75, 900 for damages
done to it's cranberry marsh by fire, got a
verdict of $50, 600 so few days ago.
Jackson Wright, an old colored man,