Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-11
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.

Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
ILLINOIS.
Ihomas Helston, prominent business
man, OF H1llsboro, aged seventy-years, was
found dead in his bed the other day.
During. 1887 there were 12,263 marriage
Licenses issued in Chicago, and the
coroner held 1,4O9 inqaests. The muir
ders for the year averaged one for each
week. The deaths were IL, 400 The mum.
Der or fires reported was 1850, and the
total loss was 81, 94l, 1888. The receipts
tor Licenses of oil kinds aggregated 49,
2ol.9OS, of which the saloons paid ST.,
072,O2l The real-estate transfers aggre-
gated $75, ISL ,O25, and over seventeen
miles of new buildings were erected ut g
cost of over $40, 100000
Mrs J. R Thompson, well-known tenn
perance worker, died at Cairo the other
day. aged eighty years
cent session in Springfield elected A. F..
Nightingale, of Lake View, as president
The little daughter of George W. Robbins,
OF Decatur, was burned to death recent
~ while playing with the fire while her
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q. d. Sackett, for years member Of tn e
State Board of Equalization, died tho other
morning at his home in Paxton.
Fire early the other morning DESTROYED the
general store Of G. w. Pavey & Sons. Mount
Vernon, one of the owners Of the building,
Mr. James A White, perishing in the flames.
Peoria distillers paid 100000 reve-
nue. taxes last year.
! A decision was recently rendered in Chi
cago by Judge Waterman to the effect that
the State Board of Health has no power to
revoke the certificate of practicing ply
slc1an merely because he advertises in the
newspapers
post-oftice has been established at Edge
water, Cook County.
DR.. James Montgomery, one of the Oldest
and best-known physicians in Central ILL
nols, died at Bloomington the other NOM
ing or blood-poisoning, being the fifth ply
slclan who had died in that city within four
months.
Two farmer boys, Frank and Gere Moore,
living south of Hume, Edgar County, were
frozen to death recently while hunting
Mrs John McNellis died at Morris the
other morning, aged seventy three years
her gifts to churches and to charity. when
her husband and herself were worth $780,
OOO, amounted to many thousands of dol
lars She died comparatively poor.
| IOWA.
At Des Moines the other morning Will
lam s., the seventeen-year- old son of State
treasurer Twombley, received fatal injuries
at the toboggan slide
Patrick O'Brien, an Iowa contractor was
found freezing in doorway at Cincinnati.
! o., a few nights ago He had been drinking.
and on his person was found SIS, 1000 in
money and Sc, 600 in checks
| The auth critics of Council Bluffs have
ordered all gamblers to leave the city under
pain OF prosecution.
The question of dancing was sprung upon
the State Teachers, Association at its re-
sent session in the form of resolution
! censuring the dancing at the reception the
night before. After stormy debate the res
| olutiOn was withdrawn.
| A coal mine has been discovered near
Akron The coal is in immense quantities
and of excellent quality.
The barn and feed stable connected with
the Geneva House at Rock Rapids was
burned the other morning: Seven horses.
two mules, one COW and twenty hogs per-
ished in the building
Miss Lizzie Maggie, daughter of one of Du-
buque's Oldest citizens, left for Baltimore
| the other night to enter the Convent OF Car
mellte nuns in that city.
Dora Erwin, wife of one-legged clog
dancer at Sioux City, died recently. She
was the daughter of Mrs. Dora Byers, of
Chicago, a wealthy lady, and was disowned
when she left home to go upon the stage
William Wilson, a farmer living near Des
Molnes, whose mind had become disor
dered, burned himself to death recently by
getting into the haymow of his barn and set
ting it on fire
mail car, with twenty-five pouches of
mail and other contents, was burned at
Waverly the other night.
All the gambling houses at Sioux City
have been closed by the authorities
George W. Snyder, a pioneer physician,
expired at his residence in Burlington the
other day, aged eghty-four years.
Several loaded cartridges left by IN
known parties in Main street, Council
Bluffs, few days ago were exploded by
passing vehicles Two balls crashed through
the windows of harness shop causing
great CONSERVATION among the occupants,
but no one was injured
William A. Dowell, well-known young
man of Burlington shot himself through
the head the other night with suicidal in
tent
WISCONSIN.
All reports from the Gogebic iron range
point to speedy revival of business in the
ron-producing regions Many OF the mines
that have been shut down for several
months are commencing work again
Hog-cholera is still committing ravages
in Grant County, and in Glen Haven town
ship the loss has been especially heavy
A carload Of beans for use in logging
camps has been received at Green Bay di-
rect from California The freight bill was
$500
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Art
and Letters convened at Madison the other
evening Prof. W. F. Allen, of Madison, was
os}1ert for throo vooro