Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-20
The News Briefly Chronicled.

:Anre insurance company, manufacture
Ing concern and new railroad company
filed articles of incorporation the other day
with the Secretary of State. The railroad
company is the Duluth, Crookston & North
ern.
Mrs. Gould, of St. Paul, an insane patient,
escaped recently from tbs sanitarium at
Wauwatosa Wis, and committed suicide
by drowning.
The grain elevator and warehouse of W.
G. MeCutcheon & Co., at Winona, was
burned the other night. It contained five
thousand bushels of wheat and barley,
which was partially damaged Loss on
building, $1,000; partially insured
The Central ". G. T. U. has decided to
!, erect coffee house building in MINNEAPOLIS.
The building will be four stories and base
ment, containing sixty rooms, and will cost
about So, GOO
The St. Paul & Minneapolis Mortgage.
Loan Trust Company is the name of a
new corporation which filed articles recent
" with the Secretary of State. Capital stock,
$4,000.
Two chandeliers in the Universalist
church at Rochester fell on a recent Sun
day evening about fifteen minutes before
the service, throwing thirty-six lighted
lamps on to the floor. The majority of them
went out, but one end of the church was in
a blaze in a second, and the flames were not
subdued until $500 damage had been DONE
In Duluth recently two vessels, the Key
stone and Masten, owned by Axworthy, the
Cleveland tO.) defaulter, and held by his
bondsmen, were sold at sheriff's SALE They
were bid in for s54,0 600.
Surveying parties have completed their
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railroad and work has been commenced on
the construction. Williston, Charnley & Co.
are the propr1etors. The road goes into the
heart Of one of the richest pine regions in
the State
Dowd Son & Co.'s cooper shops at Winona
were burned the other night. Loss, 5000;
insurance, $500.
Fire destroyed large part of the village
of North Branch the other morning It
started in La Quillin's store and spread
rapidly Loss, $12, $50; insurance, 81,
Cap Charles Russell, an old resident
of Minneapolis, committed suicide few
days ago while temporarily insane, the
malady being brought on by dropsy of the
heart
D. W. Shook, grain dealer, money loaner
Justice and farmer, who recently alb
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other peoples money, has been heard from
at Yaneouyer's Island, British Columbia His
family has gone to join him.
The general belief among the loggers at
Minneapolis is that the log crop will, when
the final figures are all in, show short
age of twenty five per cent. from the calcu-
lations made at the beginning of the sea-
son. This will not be detrimental to the
lumber market
Judge D. B. Searle, at Little Falls. re.
Gently pronounced the death sentence upon
Albert Bulow, who pleaded guilty to the
charge OF murder in the first degree He
will be hanged within three months.
George NJ Leary, a Duluth blacksmith
turned and fitted lightweight horseshoet
In one hour and two minutes recently
beating the record
Charles ID. Sherman, who arrived in St
/. Paul from Buffalo, N. Y, six years ago anC
had amassed a fortune of 100000 in rea
estate, died the other evening of peculiar
disease. The tissue of the pharynx an(
1arnyx were swollen to such an extent thai
they closed over the neck of the cartilages
of the trachea, thus preventing breathing
J. A. Long, burg ar in the Jail at Duluth
escaped the other day by telling the turn
key with blunt iron instrument as he un
locked the door,
William Preble, a pioneer, died at Ma,
zeppa recently, aged eighty two years
Frank Murgett, of Maplewood, was killed
the other day while cleaning out a well
He was at the bottom when the rope broke
and the bucket dropped on him. A MAJ
went down at once and found him dead il
8 the water. 49,.
Miss Annie Roach, of Ida, Douglas Coun
q ty, employed as a waitor in the Brandon
House the last six months, committed sui
eide the other day by hanging herself Il
one of the rooms Of the hotel. Disappoint
ment In love was the cause