Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-02
Hon. Absalom A. Townsend, OF shuls-
berg, ex-State Senator. died the other
night, aged seventy-eight years
MICHIGAN,

night aged seventy-eight years
MICHIGAN.
An explosion occurred in ono of the ovens
of the corset steel works in Jackson the
other afternoon, causing about S., 500 dam
age
Jesse H Farwell, of Detroit, has present.
cd frst-class schoOl-hOus, to North
Charlestown, N. H., his BIRTH place.
An other victim to the wiles of Brown,
the Detroit bigamist has been found at
Port Huron, making twenty one women he
is said to have married
At Howard City the other night William
l. Angel, laborer. aged twenty years,
| while Respondent took a fatal dose Of
| morphine. He leaves widow:
Mrs Margaret McAfrerty, Of Muskegon,
was recently arrested for bigamy:
Ben Langner, Of jackson, aged nineteen
years, committed suicide the other after
noon leoause his father scoldel him for
| drinking beer:
The Merchants National Bank of Battle
| Creek was organized u few days ago
s N. Hawley. wealthy farmer, aged
eighty years. was struck by the engine of
| the Detroit & Milwaukee passenger train
the other night near Fenton and killed
Since last fall $40, 900 has been spent
| In Port Huron in repairing and fitting out
lake craft
Governor Luce on a rec mt visit to the
Soldiers Home gave each OF the veterans q
| new felt hat, and Governor Alger promised
to send enough straw ones to, 60 around
| when the weather lecame warm.
Haoknelps saw-mill and lumber yard at
Juniata were entirely destroyed by fire
| recently. Loss. So, 600; no insurance
John Roman, alderman for the Fifth ward
at Port Huron, was born in Ireland and has
| no naturalization papers A special election
must he held to name his successor
The second annual convention of the
Christian Endeavor societies of the State
| was held recent]y at Lansing
Charles Washington, Greenville school,
boy, while playing with pitchfork the
other day hit George Cory on the temple
with tine, which pierced the lone and
penetrated his brain He was in a critical
condition.
No 1 shaft of tho Calumet and Hecla
| mine, which had been on fire for six
| months, was reopened a few days ago, aud
the Indications were that the fire was en-
| tirely extinguished, although the damage
| to the mine could not be estimated
MINNESOTA.
Rev: Louis Salzerer, OF ST. Paul, Ger
man Catholic priest, who was being taken
! from Wabasha to an insane asylum at
| Chicago, jumped from car window near
| Reads Landing the other afternoon and
| was fatally injured
Mlchael Kelly, who was serving life SEN
| tence in the penitentiHry for the murder Of
| Barney Lamb at S.. Paul, in 1874, was par
| doned the other day.
Frederick Mix. a carpenter, fell from a
| scatfold on a dock at Duluth the other day,
I."ceiving fatal injuries
I A sad case of drowning occurred recently
four miles from Delano, in the South fork
OF Crow river Mary Hem, her brother,
sister and her lover. Andrew Biebel, of New
Ulnl, We're crossing the river in Loaf when
they were upset Andrew Biebel and Mary
HEM were drowned. but the others were
saved by cllnging to the boat
Twenty-one carloads of hay were shipped
out OF Laketield in one day recently.
| Minnesota and English capitalists have
formed company at St Paul to export
wheat directly from Minnesota and Da-
kota, and thus avoid the mixing in the e!e-
! vators
| Near Ada few days ago Mic5alus Boer-
| neI, Sky ycar-OiO farmer. uaQ q dispute
with his son John, aged twenty years, and
shot him, killing him instantly. Boerner
YVES believed to be crazy:
Henry Endicorr,a brother of Secretary-of-
War Endicott. recently purchased for cash
1886, 600 worth Of st Paul business prop
erty, in four blocks, all belonging TO the
Davidson estate.
The elevator at Northfield was burned a
few days ago. LOSS $4,000
A new Roman Catholic Archbishopric will
be formed of Minnesota and Dakota, with
Bishop Ireland, of St Paul, for the Arch
bishop. and Rev. Father McGollrick, of
Minneapolis as diocesan.
The -four output at Minneapolis for the
week ended April II was 178, 200 barrels,
more than ever made there In one week
before.
The loss to Wabasha County on account
of the destruction of bridges by the late
flood is estimated at $50, 600 The county
commissioners would meet in special ses-
sion to arrange for the replacing of as
many of the bridges as the finances of The
county would warrant