Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-04
|. J. v. Norcross, of GAINESVILLE, will repre-
sented the State in the Interstate oratoric-
al contest ut Greencastle, Ind, May g.

. y. V. NOrcrOSS, OF GAINESVILLE, Will repre-
sented the State in the In interstate oratoric.
al contest at Greencastle, Ind, May 8.
MICHIGAN.
The sum of SIS, 900 has been unearthed
In the cellar OF tho late Augustus Bell, ut
Oshtemo He was q miser, and left $50, 900
for his heirs.
Every State and Territory in the Union is
represented among this years students at
the University Of Michigan. while in adj
clifton there are students from Ontario,
Japan, England, New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Sandwich Islands, Italy, Turkey.
Costa RIGA, Quebec, Russia. Scotland and
United States Of Columbia
Joseph H. Whipple, ex-president of tho
Pembroke knitting mills ut Battle Creek.
who fled month ago with widow, leav-
ing his wife and family was captured in
New York recently and held ON charge of
forgery and embezzlement to await reoui-
stion from Michigan.
Twenty-Five years in the Michigan peni-
tentiary is tho sentence. of William Gala
CHER, member OF a gang Of burglars at Jack
son.
Martin Brown, aged tifty-four years, was
found dead in bed at the Doland House in
Edmore few mornings ago Apoplexy
was the cause.
Joseph Hamilton, Of Newaygo County.
was recently sentenced to twenty years in
the State prison for whipping his child to
death
A Social and Business MEMS Club has
been organized in Ishpeming: One of it's
objects is to promote the business interests
of the place
From March /. 1856. to March, 1, 1888,
thoNo I>or 1>,o ~ q
and sic, SO4. 81 of silver, total of $lll.-
O9o 25 taken from the Ropes mine, near
Ishpeming.
Richard F. Carew, clerk in the whole
sale dry-goods house of Burnham, Stoepel
4 Co., at Detroit, was arrested the other day
on charge OF stealing So, 900 in goods
from the firm.
There is a possible silver and copper dis
trlct on Black river north of Sunday lake.
in Gogebic County, which has never been
explored, and party of capitalists has
made something OF furry in mining cir
cles by generous purchases in the region
named.
Kate Walker, OF Jackson, while sleeping
neal stove few nights ago allowed her
self to get too close to the tire and she was
fearfully burned
A. d. Clark, superintendent of Neff's
single mill at Harrison, was found dead
in bed the other morning from poison.
MINNESOTA.
Judge T. r. Alexander died at his home
in St. Paul the other day after lingering
Illness aged six years. He was for twenty
years circuit Judge at Louisville, Ky, and
once member of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture.
The Minnesota 4 Iowa Improvement Com
panv filed articles Of Incorporation recently
in Minneapolis.
corpse seemingly that of a suicide and
answering in many particulars the descrip-
ton OF the miss ng Tascott, the Chicago
murderer, was found at Inner Grove few
days ago. \ man who said he knew Tas-
colt affirmed that the body was his, though
admitting that decomposition had pro-
crossed so far as to render Identification
difficult. Later the body was identified as
that of James c. McFeely, clerk
The dwelling of Louis Longtin, at
Duluth, was destroyed by fire the other
morning, and their little girl was burned to
death. Mrs. Longtin was badly burned
Peterson & Co., Duluth grain merchants,
suspended tle other day: Liabil ties small
The State Methodist convention held q
Uhree-days' session at st. Paul recently
Mr.: Stephen Burke, OF Minneapolis, has
had ruling ambition since his marriage
twenty-five years ago, to have thirteen
children in his family, and, by singular
coincidence, the thirteenth was born on
the 18th day of last month.
Mrs Edna A. Barnard, the well-known
authoress, died at Long Prairie the other
morning, aged ffty-eight years.
The German Methodists OF Winona will
build q church to cost So, 600 and to be
re dy for occupancy by July
Company D, of St Paul, has voted
unanimously to go to Nashville to take
part in the Interstate competitive drill May
II to 26. This company won second prize
at the recent competitive drill at Washing
ton.
John F. Wilkins the young man who was
tried in st: Paul two months ago for bigamy
and acquit' ed, the interesting discovery be-
ing made that eight women claimed him as
husban |, disappeared few days ago from
Scanber with the deed to the farm of the
last Mrs Wilkins, nee Miss Emily Stetson.
to whom he was married at Erie. Pa. last
May: It is said that Wilkins got the deed
in consideration for his agreeing to wed
Miss Stetson.
DAKOTA.
Huronites are thinking of sinking an ar
tesian well in a natural basin some three
miles out of town, building dam across
one end of the basin and flooding it with
water from the we'll, thus converting the
basin into lake. The project, if SUCCESS
full, will result in lake some three miles
long, fifteen rods wide and forty feet deep.
DR.: Pearman, dentist formerly of Pal
myra and Waukesha, Wis. died few days
ago in Hghmore.
1t was learned at Spokane Falls the other
day that Pelkey. Pendleton and Pipkins,
three men who left the Falls last fall to
prospect had been murdered at Priest
Lake, Idaho, by Indians
There are now nineteen inmates in the
United States peni1entiary at Sioux Falls
Thomas H. B. Jones, who was recently
nominated by the President as Indian
agent at Fort Berthold, is resident Of
Steele. Kidder County.
DR.. H. D. Valin, of Fargo, became insane
on the street in Chicago few days ago.
The Minnehaha and the Citizens Nation
al banks Of SiOnx Falls have cOnso1jdato