Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-11
There were five murders, thirty-three
suicides and forty violent deaths in Mil
waukee during 1887 Ill.,
MICHIGAN.

suicides and forty violent deaths In Mil
waukee during 1887.
- MICHIGAN.
E. D. Colbarth, dealer in Agricultural
implements ct Mason, committed suicide
the other day by cutting his throat
The State Board Of Agriculture has ar
ranged for institutes at South Haven. Jan.
uary 24-25; Grand Rapids, January 26-27;
Maple River, January 81 and February l:
Ithaca, February 2-3; Harrisville February
| 80; Cassopolis. February 1914; Adrian,
February 14-16: Tecumseh, February
1917. >' '>'. - -'~4.- -c--T.0~'
stabbing affray in which six Poles were
engaged occurred at Detroit few days ago.
three of the men being fatally injured.
| The State swamp-land Board appropri-
ated fifteen hundred acres recently to aid
In the Improvement of Grand river from
the Jackson city limits to the junction of
Portage river. abo ut four miles distant
At Vermontville the Central Touring mills
were burned the other morning, together
with one thousand bushels Of wheat Loss.
$l6, 900; partly insured.
| Rev. J. L. Robe, of Kalamazoo, died few
days ago. aged eighty years He was the
pioneer Methodist minister of Kalamazoo
County, preaching the first sermon there in
1882, and he organized most of the earlv
Methodist churches in Southwestern Mich
1gan and Northern Indiana.
! Ralph Jones, eleven years old. of Jack
son, while coasting the other day was car
ried under street car and fatally injured
The first train crossed the International
bridge at Sault Ste. Marie the other after
noon. Many prominent people were on
| board The train was given a grand send
OH on the Canadian side and met with an
Immense reception on the American side.
Through trains are now running.
! fire at Vandalia the other dav DESTROYED
several buildings, entailing a loss of $25,
600; insurance, $4,000.
| The Executive Committee Of the Grand
Army Association of Michigan, in session at
Adrian recently, Endorsed the pension leg;s-
latlon now before Congress, and voted to
| pledge one thousand veterans to the Ma
uonal Encampment at Columbus
Senator Palmer has 100000 worth Of
Percheron horses on his farm near De-
| trolt, and he has just sent an agent to Da-
| mascuS to purchase some Arabian stock
for him. Senator Palmer's farm consists of
| 657 acres and log cabin which cost
$4,000. His specialties are Percheron
horses, Jersey COWS and Blenheim spaniela
! MINNESOTA.
fire at Fergus Falls recently DESTROYED
the high school building. Loss, $50, 900:
insurance. $4,000
The Northwestern elevator at Ada was
burned the other afternoon, together with
thirty thousand bushels of wheat Loss.
1925. 900.
John Crosby, of Minneapolis, president of
the National Millers' Association and senior
member of the big -four milling firm of
Washburn, Crosby & Co., died the other
morning of paralysis Of the heart
! The Church Hotel at Owatonna, owned
by Mr. Albro, was burned the other morn
ing. The fire was caused by the explosion
of gasoline stove.
L. s. Mortimer, owner of the Mortimer
| Apartment House, burned at Minneapolis
| recently, has assigned on account of the at
tachment of his insurance. Assets include
$5O, 600 real estate, said to be heavily incum-
bered, and insurance $47, 500; liabilities,
$40, 175, due local creditors
An investigation by the Adjutant- General
shows that the State funds have not been
tempered with.
Eugene Lucy. for the murder of James
| Gates at dance at Henning, was sentenced
| by Judge Searle at Fergus Falls the ,other
! day to imprisonment for life in the States
prison.
General E. B Alexander, of ST. Paul, died
| at the residence of his son-in-law, Colonel
G. n. Lieber, in Washington, the other
evening, aged eighty-six years General
| Alexander graduated at West Point in 1928,
Timothy Barrett, whose brother testified
to seeing him kill Thomas Oiafson, was
rr,1i1f 1f
at Minneapolis few days ago.
The saw and planing-mill of J. N. Howes,
at St Hillaire. was burned the other after
noon Loss, $14, ZOO.
The Rum River Boom Company will put
in sorting boom at ST. Cloud to handle
thirty million feet of logs
Duluth wants crematorv, A prominent
citizen has offered to donate the site.
While working on the ice palace at St
Paul few days ago Ernst Hoenspet fell
from the top of the turret, distance of
sixty-fve feet, and landed at the bottom in
bed of chopped ice He was fatally in
jured
Coffee John, the proprietor of Min
neapolis restaurant on bet of $40, recent
~ ate 500 oysters in two hours He ate
125 raw, 125 stewed and $50 steamed. and
finished with thirteen minutes to spare
DAKOTA.
The fourteen skeletons said to have been
found in an Indians hut in Dakota have
dwlndled to one Indians corpse found in a
beaver-hole.
Deadwood talks of raising the liquor Ii
cense of that city to 81 900 per year:
Bishop Walker, Of Dakota, denies the
story that he will soon marry Mrs Kate
Noel, daughter of Judge Wakeman. The
Bishop says that it is against the tenets of
the Episcopal church to ever solemnize
marriage with divorced person.
Three railroads are surveyed to Dead
wood and asking the right of way through
the gulch
The Mandan Bachelors Club, seventy-fve
members, has opened a correspondence
with Colonel Pat DOMAIN with view to hav-
ing about seventy-fve young ladies emil
CRATE to that part Of the Territory.
Rutel & Adler, extensive furniture deal
ers at Huron, closed the other day. Liabili-
ties, $12, 1000 to $4,000; assets sufficient
%r>o oil ~