Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-25
N0RTHW Els RN NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.


Interesting Items Gathered from
| Various Localities.
ILLINOIS.
William Deatharga, aged one hundred
Years, died at his home in Morgan County
the other day He was an early settler and
tia Oldest man in that region.
| Thomas Houston, an old citizen of
Logan County, WEE drowned the other
eight In Sugar creek at Lincoln.
William Johnson, Rockford grocer, was
gwen small fine the other day Tor slap
ping q customer. Mrs. Lizzie Ganoung. 10
! Ryl Bassett, Of Shelby vile, who murdered
| his brother Albert, was recently sentenced
To eighteen years in the penltentiary
Thomas Hetty, pioneer, who about 184l
was engaged in the wagon business in Chi
| cagO, and who Boosted of having killed
game within o short distance of where
Cook County court house now stands. died
the other night at Freeport, aged ninety
| two years
A high grade of iron ore has been discoy-
cred in the Embarras river hills, two miles
east OF Charleston, and company is being
! formed to marketit -.
Two miners al work in coal mine near
Paramount were crushed to death recently
! by mass Of slate falling upon them
| r n Dodd's drug store and s. w. Hickox's
| grocery store at Springfield were burned a
few days ago Loss, $35, 900!
A semi-annual dividend Of 3le per cent.
payable March l. has been declared by the
| Illinois Central Road
The twenty years passionate of DR.. Good
win at the FIRST Congregational Church in
Chicago was celebrated the other night by
Il sociable and reunion.
Dr.. +. W. Phillips, superintendent of the
illinois Institution for the Blind, died at
Jacksonville few afternoons ago.
Governor Ogleshy has pardoned Charles
F. Huston, two-year man, because he had
his arm crushed in in accident at the peni-
Tertiary:
The village of Maroa was visited by a de-
structlve fire the other morning, which
swept away $25, 900 worth of property.
Rockford boasts the only woman station
agent in the State. The Chicago g. North
| western Hallway Company has appointed
Mrs. A B. Whitmeyer to fill that position,
made vacant by the death of her husband.
B. IOWA.
Martin l. Mcclure, dealers in wholesale
cigars at M4rshalltown, were closed the
other morning on 1nortg. ges for SIS, 600.
Estimated liabilities, So, 900
Governor Lrrrabee has reappointed W. l.
Alexander as Adjutant-
Dwight l. Moody and Major Whittle will
make an evangelical campaign in Burling-
ton
T. J. Jones and c. s. Porter, medical
students at Des MOines, were recently SEN
eanced to six months each in the peniten-
tiary for robbing grave.
The men who have been charged with
completely in the Haddock murder at
Sioux City are already scattering to differ
emf parts of the country. Koschnikki, or
Bismarck" has gone with his family to San
Francisco, whence he was brought by Chief
Nelson. Harry Sherman has disappeared,
AMI John Arensdorf, the principal, has gone
to Milwaukee,, where he has chance to
take charge OF brewery. OF the orig nal
ten indicted, only three are in Sioux City.
1t is said that John Arensdorf will return
to Sioux City as the agent of the Philip
Ble: Brewing Company:
Superintendent Wilcox has perfected ar
engagements for the North Iowa oratorical
contest, to be held at Mason City in March
Henry Schmidt who murdered Miss Peek,
was hanged at West Union the other day..
In his speech from the scaffold the con-
delnned man said that Ellison T. Smith in
stigated the crime, and had also offered
him $500 to kill Abram Leonard
A fire a few nights ago burned out the
Martin & Schulein building at Sioux CITY,
leaving nothing but the walls standing.
Loss, 800, 900.
Frank F. Thul, book-keeper for the King
Iron Bridge Company at Des Moines was
recently indicted for embezzle,neat and
forgery: He confessed to having robbed
his employers of $4,000.
Many of the farmers throughout Iowa are
hsavy losers from peculiarly fatal disease
among their csttle In some instances en-
tire herds numbering as high as twenty
have died within few hours
In the recent blizzard in this State the
two sons of Byron Cleveland, of Manchester,
were from to death, and John Olney met
q like fate at Marathon
A collision on the Rock Island railroad
occurred few days ago near o tumwa, be-
tween a passenger and freight train, re-
sult;nw IN the deaths Of three parsons and
the manning of four others Arthur E.
French, tho stat; on telegraph opera; or. had
been held in SIS, 900 bonds for causing the
disaster through negligence.
WISCONSIN.
The State Supreme Court has reversed the
decision OF the superior court of Milwau-