Western appeal., 1888-02-04
A preliminary course in medicine will be

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A preliminary coursein in medicins will be
given ,reafter at the State University.
st gnes Convent at Fond du Lac is the
motl II house for thirty-nine schools lo-
cated in the States of Wisconsin, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Da-
kota Kansas and Texas. Sister Mary Ag-
mes, the mother superior, is Euperior-ge gen.
eral over all these States She i1sr borne
her title for about eighteen years sts She
! took the white vail twenty-five years ago.
MICHIGAN.
ohm Reardon and James Morrissey were
! killed and five others severely injured by a
recent accident on Smith & Foyer's lumber
railroad at O.sego Lake
David Putnam, a wealthy farmer of Will
JAMESTOWN, was caught in a hay press few
days ago and fatally injured
| Indian Agent Mark Stevens, of Flint,
went to Washington the other day to pre-
pare his records in connection with the big
] timber steals Wuich he claims he has un-
earthed in Isabella and other Northern
counties
The blind prophet and some of his
preaching followers have left the Morley
region, and didn't get out a minute too
soon, as the people had grown very tired of
| their Mormon faith and had decided to tar
and feather them.
| ASouth Lyon man is so firmly convinced
that the liquor traffic is damage to the
town that he agrees in case the City Coun-
cilwill close the saloons to make good the
amount of pecuniary loss the municipality
may suffer thereby.
The case of William Black, for assaulting
| ir1 fo1I
ing at ChebOy AN, but the defendant, who
was under $4,000 bonds, had fed to Cam
ada, and his bail was declared forfeited
Paul Leblanc walked across the ice from
Beaver Island to Harbor Springs, forty
miles, afew days ago to get the mail, the
island having been cut off for over a
month.
Mrs. Della Clark, of Manistee, has been paid
| $3.50 by two saloon keepers as their cheap
est way to get out of serious trouble for sell
ing liquor to her husband after being
warned not to do SO.
At the recent session in Grand Rapids Of
the State Forestry Commission Secretary
Hotchkiss, Of the Chicago Lumberman's
Exchange, gave figures showing Michigan's
standing pine was 1000, 100000 to 90
OOO, ,OOO,O 900, while the original amount
was abou5 10000, 100000 Arthur Hill.
of Saginaw, estimated the stumpage at
10000, 100000
The dwelling of Dennis Clifford, five
miles from Tawas City, burned the other
night, and Clifford and his wife, who were
an aged couple, perished in the flames
Another and her daughter appeared in
the Gladwin circuit court the other day,
each bent on getting a divorce from her re-
spective husband, and both succeeded.
Nelson Rowe, of Hartford, was arrested
at church recently, while attending a
funeral service, on charge of arson.
| MINNESOTA
1t is sid the Standard Oil Company will
erect oil docks at Duluth The docks are to
cost about $3.50, 600, and to be completed
| this year. This move presages the estab-
lishment of a line of tank steamers for car
rying oil from Pennsylvania to the West,
Duluth to be made the general Western
headquarters OF the company.
The Central House and TWO adjoining
buildings at Prescott were burned few
nights ago. Loss, $4,000; no insurance
The Arctic Cracker and Spice Manufact-
uring Company at Mimi eapolis failed re-
Gently The liabilities were 500, 1000, and
the assets about half that amount.
man named W lson serving a life SEN
tence in the Saltwater penitentiary, has
distingu shed himself by forbidding the ef-
forts of his friends to secure his pardon.
He says that he prefers the penitentiary to
the poor-house.
]. X S.dle, president of the FIRST National
Bank of M nneapolis, died recently, aged
sixty seven years He arrived in M jnneapo-
lis in 1887 from Pennsylvania He leaves
an estate valued at over 81, 100000.
Theodore Frazee, the largest merchant at
Pelican Rlpids, failed the other day for
$2O, 900; assets, $15, ,0OO ..., .s..
Lille B. Wilkins, resident of St. Paul.
recently brought suit in the district court
for divorce from John Wilkins, on the
ground of adultery and bigamy. The case
proves the defendant to be rival of Brig
ham Young, he having living at the present
time at least five wives.
Frank Mics, of Hastings, now in France,
will bring over seYenty-six Percheron horses
next spring.
A recent fire partly destroyed the shingle
yards of the Laird Norton Company at
Winona Loss, about $3, 600. ..r
A miscellaneous assortment of black
I eyes and broken noses resulted from an at
tempt OF several young MEN to break up a
gospel meeting the other night in st. Paul
The Minnesota State Pharmacy Board is
prosecuting pharmacists who do not en-
ploy registered clerks
A. N. Carpenter, travelling for a St Paul
firm, was killed near Deadwood, D. T., a
few days ago by bowlder falling from the
mountain and striking him.
| The Minnesota horticulturists completed
recently the most successful meeting in
their history at Minneapolis.
At Fergus Falls the other day Mr.. Emma
Stetson, one of the wives of John Wilkins.
said it was untrue that he had five wives:
that he only had one other wife, and she
! was getting a divorce, and as soon as it was
| DONE she Mrs. Stetson) would be married
to him again. Mrs Stetson is wealthy
widow.
| & DAKOTA.
While cutting ice in the Jim river, near
Huron, Ed w. Hines caught a catfish weigh
/ ing fifteen pounds.
An old blind man, Abel Allen, of Miner
| County, was recently taken to Sioux Falls
4 by the sheriff of that county He was
found in Oregon, where his daughter has
held him a prisoner since October. The old
man has considerable property and gets a
Govern ment pension of $72 a month. To
| get possession of his money his daughter
kidnapped him and ran him off to the Pacific
| coast
The Black Hills gypsum deposits are pro-
nounced equal to those of Nova Scotia,
which are the purest yet discovered The
| manufacture of plaster Of paris has begun
already at four poin s.
A locomotive boiler exploded at Egan