Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-25
MICHIGAN.

| William II. Jewell, a prominent farmer of
Assyria township. and for several terms
register Of deeds of Barry County, was
found the other morning In the wood
| shed Of the courthouse at Hastings with
his legs frozen solid to the knees and his
arms frozen to the elbows He had been
drinking heavily and would die
The John spry Lumber Company's saw
mill at Sault Ste Marie was burned the
other night Loss, $35, 600; fully insured
The Seventh Day Adventists have 1l9
| churches in Michigan, and the members
| there>f paid hthes to the amount of over
$50, 600 last year They have 1856 men,
bers in the State se
Alice Ragin, aged eighteen years, and
| employed as box-maker at the Diamond
! Salt Works at St. Clair. was caught in the
shafIng the other morning while crossing
room and was whrled around pulley
several times and killed instantly. ~
Milton ID. Frost, q well-known wooden
ware manufacturer, died at Detroit the
other morning, aged sixty years.
The Michigan Grand Chapter, Royal Arch
Mas0ns, at Its recent session at Grand Rap
ids elected Benjamin F. Watts, of Ann
Arbor, Grand High Priest
A falling building at Odessa few daya
ago killed James Converse and injured J.
W. Boder perhaps fatally.
The Grand Trunk road is building a
branch from Eikhart, Ind, to Jackson
R. E. Butterworth, of Grand Rapids, the
| first to develop the plaster resources Of the
vicinity of Grand Rapids, died recently,
aged eighty two years.
William II. Fisher, the missing farmer of
Bay City, was found a few days ago at
! Rochester, MINI.
A pioneer of Coldwater, Thomas Daugh-
| erty, residing there since 1885, died the
| other day, aged e:ghty-eight years
| Faith, Hope and Charity are three of the
prettiest little girls in Bay City: They are
| triplets and their age is eleven yeara They
are the daughters of Mr.. and Mrs Elias
Baker, and they are the picture of health.
The Continental Oil Refining Company
| was recently incorporated at Detroit with
a capital of $5,O00,O0O to manufacture
and sell petroleum products.
MINNESOTA.
According to the best estimates, the
value of the new building Improvements
in NJ nneapols in 1887 was $12, 200. 00e.-
the greatest in the city's history: The real
estate transfers amounted to $50. OoO. 600.
A remarkable discovery is reported in St
| Paul of geese, that divide their time be-
tween shallow river and a gravel bank,
being killed and found to have gold in their
| crops
William Wood vents the army twenty
! five years ago, leaving a young wife and
child in New York The wife died while be
! was In the service. and the child was cared
for by strangers He was never able to
le .rn who hal the child until recently he
found her servant girl at Bronson, Mich.
BE is wealthy, and would take the girl to
his home in Minneapolis
Bishop Foss, of thu Methodist Episcopal
church, has made nearly $500, 600 in Min
| neapoGs real estate.
VI interest in railway circles is the action
OF the Minneapolis / ST. Louis Railroad Com
pany in their letter to the Railroad Com
misSioners of Minnesota informing them
that their action has ruined the company's
business The action referred to. WIS
ruling based on the slong and short haul,
clause of the Safe law.
At the annual election of the Duluth
Board of Trade recently Owen Ferguson
was reelected president
The State Horticultural Society held
three-days' session at Minneapolis recently:
Secretary c. l. Smith, of the State Forestry
Association, read a paper in VIII oh he pre-
dicted that the timber of the Northwest
would be exhausted in twenty-five years
unless the Government took steps to pre-
vent it
Lumbermen from Little Falls who have
crossed the country from Primo ton, con-
firm the recent report that Swede had
murdered his wife and seven childrsn> This
Swede was far ner named Henry Ostrum,
settlement about twenty miles from,
Princeton Ostrum gave as reason for
the crime that he feared his wife and chill
dren would freeze to death
DAKOTA.