Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-16
Mrs. J. H. Rooney died at Chippewa Falls
few days ago from modification result
ing from the extraction Of tooth.
MICHIGAN.

low days ago from m0rtldcati0n result
ing from the extraction Of tooth.
Ter MICHIGAN. il @E
At Newberry the other day Postmaster
Fred j. Stewart and his deputy, Clyde w.
Heux, were arrested for embezzleing 8, 400.
A fire at .Hillsdale few mornings ago
destroyed tho residences Of w. B. Bout
we'll and John lambert and five barns.
Loss, $4,000.
Lyman Hawkins, blacksmith, was
severely horsewhipped at Charlotte the
other AFTERNOON by Mrs. Addie Prescott.
She claimed that Hawkins insulted her two
children. t,,~
Cadet Stanley, of the Michigan Military
Academy, near Pontiac, was drowned at
Orchard lake, recently. He was out In
rowboat contrary to the orders Of the in
titutiOn.
Captain e. w. Watson, U. s. N, retired,
died in Detroit recently.
John McKinnon, of Port Huron, mate of
the barge Norway, was caught between the
vessel and dock at East Tawas the other
day and killed.
Avein Of coal twenty-five inches thick
was struck recently on Whitmore's place,
near Mason, while drilling we'll
Coldwater is all broken out with measles.
A bridge at Republic, on the NJ. & N.
road, went down under freight train with
the engine and eight cars few days ago
and two mon were killed.
Lyman Hawkins, the Charlotte black
smith, horsewhipped by Mrs. Addie Pres
colt for indecent actions towards her two
little girls, has been sentenced to nine
months imprisonment.
Fire and water the other morning dam
aged General Withington's residence at
jackson to the extent of $l2, 900.
Adynamite explosion in the Colby mine
at Bessemer the other day killed Frank
RObalsky and fatally injured three others
and caused damage Of S, 900.
Martin Bros, dry-goods dealers at Port
Huron assigned few days ago for the benz
eft of their creditors Liabilities about $5O,-
Co.,
James Birneg, of Bay City, died tho
other morning Of heart troubles at the age
Of seventy years. BE was the son of the
late James G. Birney, the Abolition candi-
date for President, and was appointed Min
lister to the Netherlands by President Grant.
He was at different times Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor of Michigan and member Of the
Legislature.
Jesse Holmes shot himself through the
head in Browns Hotel in Union City re-
Gently. Cause, whisky.
During April LOIS aliens took out their
first naturalization papers in Marquette
County so as to vote next November.
MINNESOTA.
The other day a ragpicker in st. Paul,
Ewhile poking among pile Of rags, discov-
cred the body of an infant apparently
month old. A small rope made into moose
was drawn about the child's neck, indicat-
ing foul play.
The reported sale of tho Minneapolis,
Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic, Minneapolis
& Pacific, and Aberdeen & Bismarck rail-
ways is denied by 81. E. Fletcher, the
treasurer.
The Farmers Alliance which, in conjunc-
ton with the Scandinavian Elevator Com
pany, own about fifty small elevators in
Minnesota and Dakota, propose to build
two large elevators in Duluth and ship the
wheat direct to England.
A man giving his name as Flucken was
arrested at Little Falls recently by de-
tective who says that he is Thomas Dunn,
who killed Ecker in Wallace, Kan, in De-
cember last.
A st. Paul man named West was arrest
ed the other afternoon charged with COM
hitting the recent $500 bank robbery in
Amigo, Wis.
John Messenger, lately express messen-
ger Of the United States Company at Du-
luth was arrested at Brainerd Tuesday
night charged with stealing $500 from the
company.
At Owatonna the other night burglars
opened the safe in P. Sanders hardware
store and secured $500 in currency. At
Rochester an attempt to blow open safe
was frustrated after tho burglars had
drilled nearly through the door.
Mrs. Anna Verberge, of Lake Benton,
committed suicide at her home the other
day. She was temporarily insane.
Joseph Robler and Charles Miller were
killed, and John Tart badly injured by the
falling of a freight elevator at Horns brew
cry in St. Paul few days ago.
Owing to continuous rain the Minnesota
river at Mankato overlooked it's banks
few days ago, and families on the lowlands
were compelled to move out.
Some william recently attempted to burn
up crowded boarding house at Duluth.
He had set fire to bundle of rags and
placed it under the stairs. One of the
boarders very fortunately awoke and ex-
tinguished the flames, otherwise large
loss OF life must nave followed.
DAKOTA.
A number Of Indian churches are being
constructed on the reservation above Fort
Bennett.
A Brookings County school-t teacher was
recently fined twenty-five dollars in JUS
tice's court for using undue violence in
punisning q scholar.
The participates in the recent assault on
Postmaster Judd, of Fargo, while in Maple
ton, had hearing the other day, and they
were bound over to the grand jury. Pa
pers were served on the same men by Judd,
claiming $25, 900 damages.
Reports from all parts Of the Territory
show general tendency toward mixed
farming.
The citizens committee to rebuild the
university at Mitchell have begun the work
of raising funds and are confident of sue
cess.
There is living six miles northwest of
Flandreau, Moody County, an Indian wom-
an by the name of Hannah Weston (Cetan-
! winna). At present she is living with her
sixty FIVE year-old grandson. She claims
! to have been about six years old when the
revolutionary war broke out, which would