Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-19
Tha Nawa Brlatix Chronioled

Ine news t5f1ony CnrOn1CJo0s
Charles E. Lightner, st. Paul jeweler,
made an assignment the other evening.
His stock was valued At so, 900; liabilities
unknown.
The Minnesota Commercial Company has
effected q loan Of $22, 200 from the Massa.
chusetts Loan & Trust Company on lands
In Ashland County. Wis.,, and others in
Minnesota.
The D. D. Lambie Dental and Surgical
Instrument Company, doing business in
Minneapolis, failed recently for $4,000.
A very small Russian went into the
Office OF County Clerk O'Connor in St.
Paul the other day, and in the transaction
of business signed his name Stepanovitsz
Trczilinobosczinskov Clerk O'Connor
suggested that he invent au alphabet Of his
own, and not try to monopolize all the let
ters in the English alphabet
Mr.. Almon Hull, an old resident of Ohm.
sted County, living about six miles south.
east Of Rochester, dropped dead from ap.
oplexy while at the asylum the other aft
ernoon.
At Owatonna the other evening the Pills.
bury Academy prize declarations were
given at the Baptist Church, in which
eleven young men, who are attending the
academy, took part. The first prize of
eight dollars was awarded to r. S. Shep.
herd; the second of seven dollars to G. E.
Reynolds, of Minneapolis, and the third of
five dollars to George o. HAWKING
Leopold Hubert, German about seven
ty-five years Of age, reported recently that
he had been robbed Of 500 in money and
$500 in notes ut the Washington Hotel,
near Bassett's Greek.
G. A. Pillsbury & Co., of Minneapolis,
have issued a circular letter on the condi-
ton of the wheat aud -four market They
estimate that there will be forty four mill
ion bushels as against seventy two mill
ion bushels Of spring wheat last year for
merchant millers to grind. The winter
crep is also short from twenty five millions
to fifty million bushels, and the shortage
abroad is enormous.
The Philharmonic Society has made ar
engagements for an elaborate mardi gras
carnival in Winona.
Emma Barnholtz daughter of one Ct the
wealth. est farmers in Burns County,
eloped few days ago with Albert Closer,
q stonemason, and were married.
Upward of eleven hundred new build.
ings have been erected in Duluth this year,
costing considerably over $1,000 00), and
nearly .6.00O OO0 had been expended in i'm
'provements of all kinds. -~~'
The new 100000 hotel at Little Falls will
be opened on New Years day, with W. H.
Barnes, of Worcester, Mass, as landlord.
A few nights ago Kendalps store, q
blacksmith shop, Whitcombs meat mar.
ket and the depot at Byron were burglar.
lied, but the amount Of money secured
was small y 80
A fellow by the name of Krieg, OF
Gppro J, Oh IN, T.,
a Winona saloon the other morning He
had run in debt to a good many of his
neighbors, and skipped out.
The express company's safe at Wood.
stock was broken into few nights age
and package containing something over
!0ne hundred dollars was stolen.
, The infant child Of Charles n. Essler. OF
st. Peter, died recently from the effects OF
poison. The child managed to get hold of
q box of rough on rats and swallowed 9
considerable portion CT its contents.
Andrew Hamilton recently shipped
thirty Thousand pounds Of wool from his
farm near Winona to Philadelphia Il
filled three cars, and was the largest wool
shipment ever made from that section.
Hon. Nathan Richardson, of Little Falls,
recently received notice that patent had
been issued on his bilge water pump. he
has applied for patents IN France Ger.
many, Spain, England, Austria and Cana
da. This invention will clear vessel OF
all bilge water while in motion.
! Miss Perry, editress of the St Peter
Journal who was visiting friends Il
Winona, had narrow escape from drown.
ing the other day, breaking through the
] ice in Lake Winona. She was rescued IN
time, however. III n, ga6 sz:%
' The First National Bank Of Pipeston4
was organized the other night, and after
March next will succeed Mylin Bros,
bankers Charles Myths was elected
president.
! Martin Jensen, Of Crookston, who was
released from the insane asylum last
lspring, beat his wife with club the other
night and she would probably die from her
injuries 3.
/ In West Duluth there are three manu-
featuring concerns with q combined cap
,itl Of nearly s, 000, 900.