Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-21

Peter Myers, tho largest real estate owner
In GAINESVILLE, and reported to be the wealth.
| lest man In Southern Wisconsin, dropped
dead Of heart disease few days ago.
| MICHIGAN.
Station Agent Williams, of the 500 line
at Hermansville, absconded recently with
quite large amount of the company's
money.
1t Is said that the Michigan Adventists are
fully persuaded that the world will come
to al end during the coming summer, and
are making their preparations accordingly.
The house Of William Slocum, ut Port
Huron, was visited by officers recently who
captured counterfelter's outfit for max
ing bogus twenty hve-cent pieces A
quantity Of the bogus coin was found in the
place. and S,ocum and his wife were placed
| under arrest
Lorenzo Sawyer and Mrs. Huldah Skim
ner, who were married at Chelsea few
days ago, were each seventy years old.
| The Jackson State prison contains 772
convicta
Hon. Alexander Cameron and wife cele-
DRAFTED their golden wedding ut Kalamazoo
the other day. Mr.: Cameron went to Kala-
mazoo County in 1888, and has always
been prominent citizen.
Mrs William Norris, of Port Huron, while
ripping up an old dress a few days ago let
the scissors slip, putting out her right eye.
charge Of conspiracy to murder Dr. ].
r. Todd. OF Clare, was recently preferred
against DIR. John Lansing, also of Glare.
who was placed under 81, 500 bail
August Balske, his wife and three chill
dren, OF Detroit, were poisoned from drink
Ing butter-milk few days ago, and the
mother and two children would probably
! die.
Mrs Parmelia A. Sawyer died the other
night ut the residence OF her daughter, Mrs
l. c. Chaplin, in Kalamazoo, aged ninety
eight years.
EaPresten, well-known Detroit crook !
was recently sentenced to the jackson
penitentiary for twenty-five years for par
ticipating in the robbery Of Captain Ira
Holt.
George Haddock, retired merchant Of
Battle Creek, was led, by intense neuralgia
pains, to attempt suicide the other day by
cutting his throat with pair Of shears
Peter Carr, a fireman, scaled the walls
with tifteen-foot hook-ladder, from Win
dow to window, and took man down
from the fifth story of the Union mills fire
III Detroit the other evening. 1t was q re-
| markable feat
MINNESOTA.
man named Emil Richenberger. a resi-
dent OF Wabasha, died very suddenly while
at work in the woods Il short distance south
of here the other afternoon
| Thomas D. Skies, one of the best known
business men of Minneapolis, died at his
home in that city few days ago.
Frank Carrollton, an escaped convict
from Minnesota inc
Chicago bart ershop recently and turned
over to the Minnesota authorities
Retail merchants in St Paul are said to
be considerably agitated over the proposed
| movement of the Clerks Association to
| bring suit against those who open their
| places OF business on Sunday. The revised
statutes of 1878 expressly provide that all
! persons who transact business on the first
day of the week shall be fined not less than
two dollars for each offense
| Fifty pounds of dynamite exploded at the
great rock cut in Duluth the other after
| noon, shaking buildings as much as dozen
blocks distant, but causing no fatalities
One lady was cut by broken glass
A fast mail is to be established over the
! Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul road from
| St Paul to Chicago
A fire in Gustave Heineman's dry-goods
and notion store in St Paul the other night
did damage to the amount OF $50, 600:
| fully insured.
Citizens League. having for it's object
the suppression of the liquor traffic, has
been organized at Winnebago City with
fifty members, all prominent citizens
Thomas Ketchlick, young man, was
found dead tue othar day near Spruce Hill,
Douglas County. He was out hunting, and
wa hat h
ally discharged.
| Element of the upper Mississippi valley
| started the first lo5 Of settlers few DAYS
ago.
Willie Welch, Willie Brennan and Joseph
Tichman Minneapolis lads, were convicted
of grand larceny the other day and sent to
the reform school for three years.
The blockade of the Northwestern rail-
road at Lake Benton was raised the other
day, and through passenger traffic was re-
sumed for the first time for nine days
Parties having occasion to dig into the
ground found it frozen fully eight feet
deep.
l. Bolinder, q farmer living six miles
south of Watertown, dropped dead of heart
disease recently while trying to discover
| supposed fire in his house
A company will be incorporated at Ash
ton, with capital stock of 500, 600, to de-
velop the recent find of gas at that place.
The Press offers prize of ten dollars to
the boy under sixteen years of age who
plants the most and best trees before July
of the current year in the city of Sioux
Falls Girls under fifteen years of age are
to have chance at a fve-dollar pri1R
Florin Schneider, living on q farm near
Iroquois. accidentally shot and killed him