*fj MINNESOTA LEGISLATUKE. SENAT E, Jan. 7,The Senate organized tw^ S3 the amount on^a4t|.^cv at 12 5i., Lieut. Gov. Wakefield'presiding. Sales for the Year Ending Dec. 81, 1877, and for Eleven Months of 1878. John Jacob Astor's fortune? whoxTue died Chas. M- Johfl|lte?ifas elected secretary, receivings in 1848. In 1875 Mr. Stewart's city real es votep to 16 cast for J. Wjf tyood, of tatesituated for the most part below Union SAXES AND CONTRACTS, St. Paul. M. A.. Dailey, ofcOwatonna, "was Acres re- Yet to In- TOTAL AMoujrr COSTSACTED-UP JAN. 1 TO DEC. 1,1878. squarewas asseessed at $6,212,700 at that electee-assistant secretary, over. Jpshus Martin, Acreage ceived of ure from TO DEC. 31,1877. ONTKACTED. coali-1tM B&ILBOADS. price in of Winona, by the name vote." A time the assessed valuation represented only Grant Grant. ow held. Amount Received 1877. tion had been attempted between the Democrats, Amount Paid, 60 per cent, of the real value, so- that' the Acres. received. In 1877. in 1877. Acres. Greenbackers and Independent Republicans then actual value of the real estate was $10,- which received the-nex two offices. 398,996 River div. C. M. & St. 62,453 354,500, which forms but an eighth of his 3,166 4,645 7,517 5,608 581 51,441 00 $ 3 75 3 00 With the sixteen Democrats, Page, of^Olmsted, 173,000 I. & M. Division^. M. & St. P.. 10,289 141,473 214,451 27,844 31,106 00 7,448 estimated wealth. Mr. Stewart, however, (Greenback) Powers, of Fillmpre^ 24,968 Hastings & Dakota owned real estate in nearly every city in. which 827,918 (Greenback) Brown, of Douglas, (Independent 164,081 Sti-Paul&Dulitfh 978,673 6,344 3,698 87,036 153,413 he had dealings. He owned a number of 593,704 St. P. & D. enamp lands 100,695 Republican & Williams, of Waseca, (Probibition^aB* 744,245 Northern'Papific 2,174,154 319,858 2,033,211 61,958 55 62,978 322,887 261,404 62 woolen and thread mills in this country Hellingf of Brown], (Republican) 4 86 5 00 854,268 "S t. Paul $ Sioux Pity. 72,637 199,440 1,0U2,756 91,326. 35,475 185,374 621,487 00 7 19 4.80 cash, 6.00 time were expected ^to-'--act. .That among them the Mohawk and Elbceuf, at 231,146 2,144,433 ^SjonxQity &St. Paul.: 46,570 12,456 72,177 27,433 302,90100 6 814.80 cash, 6.00 tune would ha?e3 given the coalition twentyone Little Falls the New York mills, at Holyoke 1,130,072 3,245,922 133,218 St. Paul & Pacific, Main line 183,888 74,317 493,359 383,400 862,128 00 6 30 6 00 votes and controlled the Senate. On- the 405,756 405,719 20,000 15,010 14,157 the Woodward mills, at Woodstock the St. Paul Pacific, Branch line.. 75,465 51,936 00 49,440 4 13 350 two offices of enrolling and engrossing* clerk 753,747 1,294,252 St. Paul ^Pacific Extension...-. Yantico mills, in New Jersey the Washington it was successful^ defeating J. R.- Carey, 44.246 St. Paul, Staiwater'iTaylors.Fallfi 1,218 138 296 1,499 mills, at New Hartford the Catskill and 65,113 Stillwater & St. Paul Dulutb, and James Jennison, of Red Wing, 4,568 800 5.00 to 8.00 Waterville Woolen mills. There are also 337,959 Southern Miane^ota 2,226 8,699 7,437 139,845 the Republican nominees, and electing C." W.f 56,261 00 Southern Minneapifaj, swamp lands 35,042 64,734 24,092 large mills at Nottingham, England, and Cressup and A. W. Powers. The remainder Winona & St. Peter 1,676.928 notadj't'd 271,996 67,529 50,359 5 87 900 of the Republican ticket was elected a ollows: Glasgow, Scotland. The property of the 99,570 Western 290,830 Sergeant-ai-arms, G. W. Pugh assistant house of A. T. Stewart & Co. is greatly scattered. sergean,j -at-arms, C. M. Resse chaplain, Rsv. Total. 8,587,927 4,171,730 247,187 10,177,358 It owns property in most of the $1,262,377 1,737,388 430,902.55iS2,158,664 621 S. C. Gale, of^Northfield. Geo. Kanteman, of large cities here and abroad, and has continually The amount received in 1877 includes interest, stumpage and payments on sales of former yeare. All of the lands of the Chicago & S Paul, part of the St. Paul, and Cyrus Wilkin (colored), of Minneapolis, in its employ, outside of New York, lands of the Southern Minnesota, and part of the St. Paul & Duluth weie State swamp lands. All othera Congressional grants. For Barney lands see R. R. re- were appointed messengers. port 1873-4. Balance inure ^'Extension company. over six thousand persons. There are branch houses at Bradford, Manchester, Belfast, HOUS E, Jan. 7.This body was called to oger jat 12 mM OUE EAILKOADS. Paris, Lyons, Berlin, and Chemnitz in by Secretary Irgens, and the members were sworn in by Chief Justice Saxony. The transfer by Cornelia M. Stewart, Gilfillan. C. A. Gilman, of St.,Cloud was widow of the late A. T. Stewart, to elected by acclamation, the Democrats presenting Henry Hilton of all her interest in the firm Gross Earnings, and Operating Expenses of Railroads in Minnesota for the Year Ending June 30, 1878. no nominees. Chief clerk MarkD. of A. T. Stewart & Co., gives Mr. Hilton a Flower, of Washington first assistant," Robert conspicuous place among New York millionaires. Deakin, of Goodhue second assistant, M. J. Wiltsie, of Fillmore enrollipg clerk, EABNTNG8 OVEB Gross Earnings by Class, Total and Per Mile. Per OPEBATINO EXPENSES. Miles Geo. E. McKibben, of McLeod engrossing OPEKATDfG EXPENSES. cent, of Probably Mr. William H. Vanderbilt is today clerk, Eugene smith, of Benson of Road Total the richest man in New York. He inherited Earn- postmaster, Lyman D. Baird, of Mower sergeant-at-arins, Oper- Per Per Miscellan's. Total. Total. Passengers. Freight. the bulk of Commodore Vanderbilt's ings. Total. ated. Per mile. Frank, H. Dayton, of Washington. Mile. Mile. fortune, who. at the time of his death^ For assistant sei^eantat-arma. Christian was accounted a richer man than either of Johnson, of Ot*er Tail, received 87 votes, C. M. & St. P., Riv. Div. 180-47 |S 295,594 47 492,244 22 56,328 96 S 845,167 65 S 6,501 29 531,520 2' 4,088 62 62-7 $313,647 38 $2,412 67 and Mr, Churchill, of .St. Paul, 10 votes. the present Astora. With the single excepion I.&M. div. 147-521 186,848 02 605,676 66 819,414 48 26,839 80 5.574 25 499,492 56 3,397 91 61 319,921 92 2,176 34 There was quite a lively contest for chaplain. of Mr. Wm.H. Vanderbilt, our chief New H.&D. div 74-141 29,302 2d 48,322 59 9,775 81 87.390 63 1,179 74 72.013 29 973 15 83 15,287 34 206 59 Rev. Da^id Brooks, of St. t'i'ul,, winning, the C. C. Dubuque & limn, 11,0U 54 17,522 15 1,771 31 30,314 00 1,212 00 31,128 00 1,245 12 York millionaires draw their revenues from 51 $ 814 pr.ze. "After drawing for seats? the House Central 39 55.391 63 1,420 30 24,510 01 628 48 44 S0,881 00 791 84 the rents, income and profits of real estate, B.C. E.&Northern.... 12-5 11,765 65 41,408 24 adjourned. 2,217 74 48,381 50 3.790 52 30,940 50 2,475 24 65 17,441 00 1,315 28 which has shrank fully one-third since Mumeapolis & St. L.... 12-3 57,187 52 296,872 66 5,750 37 359,850 55 2,925 61 241,938 98 1,966 98 67J4 117,911 57 958 63 253-5 Northern Pacific 153,605 60 493,561 92 33,301 47 689,468 99 2,719 79 1873. If the Astor fortune was then $90,- 323,467 31 1,295 73 47-7 361,001 68 1,428 07 207 St. P. & P., Mam Line 188,497 64 382,374 10 44,954 80 595,826 54 2,878 39 359,217 45 1,735 35 60-3 236,609 09 1,143 04 000,000, it is to-day worth not over $60,000,- MINNESOTA NEWS. Branch Line 76 188,689 61 121,834 40,872 29 351.395 37 4,623 62 167,832 21 2,208 32 47-7 183,563 36 2,415 31 000, and so on throughout the list. Since St. Vin. Ex 121 86,574 40 52,089 70 141,112 73 1,166 21 1,848 6 95,401 09 788 43 45,711 64 377 77 Bishop Whipple's health is reported to be Melrose Imp 36 1825 New York has grown with a rapidity 20,863 66 13,189 33 1,102 05 2,380 73 36,433 72 28,394 70 788 74 8,039 02 223 30 St. Paul & Duluth 169 86,667 67 408,057 42 3,046 23 514,823 14 very poor.. 20,098 05 398,4b9 85 2,357 92 116,333 31 hitherto unknown in any of the great centers 77-4 683 36 St. Paul & Sioux City 121-27 461,692 95 113,711 09 620,829 70 5,088 77 25,425 66 351,474 83 2,280 94 56-6 269,354 87 2,207 83 of population of the world, and this growth Sioux City & St. Paul 66-25 129,723 The Reliance inill3, at Janesville, has been 38,805 09 2,753 20 183.396 88 14,867 81 115,335 90 1,731 00 62-S 68,160 98 1,027 30 St. P., S. & Talor Falls gave wealth to the fortunate few who bought 23-8 42,094 38 26,601 25 4,431 66 106,259 91 37,664 28 57,073 78 2,378 00 49,286 13 shut down for repairs. 2,053 59 Southern Minnesota 167-5 704,024 41 119,515 35 5,093 42 29,608 68 853,148 44 359,643 00 2.147 12 or inherited city real estate. Their descendants 493,505 44 2.946 30 Western 60-5 38,044 69 50.833 34 1,530 00 4,035 01 92,963 04 47,174 95 Three business failures, have lately been 779 00 45,788 00 756 00 are among our richest citizensChief West Wisconsin. 22-8 51,213 58 28,109 98 3,493 04 3,401 65 82,785 21 89,119 51 8,760 31 6.334 announced at Faribault. among real estate owners Winona & S Peter 288-5 55,691 19 251,519 83 2,883 19 24,590 66 831,801 68 619,784 76 2.148 30 212,016 92 734 89 Winona, M. & New TJhn, 3-75 51,307 44 2,581 77 1,098 37 who rank as millionaires 229 66 41S 87 10,878 87 2,901 03 John Rakowsky was arrested in Duluth 6,760 Wortkagton & S P.. 44 66,581 53 15,848 06 2,417 93 2,197 83 84,627 42 31,216 17 819 89 37 54,411 25 1,526 04 are the Astors, the Khinelanders, the Goelets, the other day for selling whiskv to an Indian. Mrs. A. T. Stewart, the Lonllards, the Total 2097-84 $1,845,833 75j 4,681.330 43 $388,251 20 $7,431,199 29 $4,482,048 77 59.8? The death of farm stock, sheep and cattle, 82,958,871 90 13,913 Schemerhorns, the Lenoxes, Kobert J. Liv continues to be reported by eating smutty Minneapolis & 8t. Louis includes business of branch to White Bear Lake. The whole in line to Albert Lea was opened Nov. 1, 1877, hence report does not iugston and Frederic Stevens, who is the give an entire year's business of whole line. Burlington, Cedar Bapids & Northern operated only eigct months. Worthington & Sioux Falls has not been in corn. youngest millionaire on the list, and who occupies, operation the wholelength for a year. The same true of St. Vincent extension, and Western. The sleighing is very poor in most parts of on the corner ot Fifty-seventh street the State, and in some portions there is none and Fifth avenue, the finest private residence MINl^ESOT-AT TAXEB. at all. in the city. It is a singular fact that of all GOTHAM MILLIONAIRES. the gentlemen we have named who, together Wolves destroyed some forty head of sheep represent certainly between $100,000,- in' Birch Coolie, Kenville county, a few days Abstract of the Tax Lists of the Several Counties of the State for tlie Year 000 and $150,000,000 of real estate, since. Personal Sketches of Astor, Vanderbilt, not one concerns himself personally Stewart and LenoxHow They Acquired Up to Dec. 21 the receipts of wheat at Benson 1878. about municipal affairs. This reflection Their 3Ioney, and How The if Kept It and the present season amounted to 271,400 Added to ItPeculiarities of Their Kn.siiie&s addresses itself with peculiar force, not only bushels. and Social RelationsTheir Livinq to millionaires, but to our moderately wellto-do Value of Average Bate of A tramp at Beaver Falls slept in a straw Value of Town No. of acres w- Total taxes Total value. Representatii'es. taxable Per- taxation classes, and to all those who own property value and City Lots, of land ex- stack a few nights since, and had his hands sonal Prop- per acre clusive of including struc- in the city. If a sharp remedy is not New York Times.l badly frozen. erty. Mills. town lots. tures thereon, quickly applied to the present uselessly and The founders of the great New York fortunes A son of J. C. Congdon, of Brainerd, fell criminally extravagant modes of municipal 3,33464 26.6 124.427 14,522 $ 2,710 48,938 2 18 Aitken of the present centuryJohn Jacob through a window, the other evening, and 28,471 39 1,497,309 19.0 451,306 427,948 government, the profession of millionaires 187,949 3 47 Anoka Astor, Kobert Lenox, Alexander T. Stewart 19,460 39 25 0 was badly est by the glass. 740,186 187,441 131,543 3 77 55,993 Becker will soon become extinct, and the preservation 5 0 282 90 56,570 and Cornelius Vanderbilthave all passed Beltrami 29,843 1 89 Mrs. Ole Jacobson, of Hawley, Clay county, of accumulated wealth at this centre 26.0 16,640 53 639,696 77,500 133,365 3 18 137,652 Benton away. 637 80 had one of his legs broken by being thrown 84,521 can be classed among the lost aits. 51,780 7,670 364 4,845 Big Stone John Jacob Astor arrived in this city at a 137,136 25 17.7 7,630,873 1,354,022 453,855 10 76 1,391,211 from a carriage a few days since. Blue Earth... 15 9 47,295 19 2,956,288 period of great depression, in 1784. During 538,044 282,490 7 24 370,839 Brown 27& Mr. Stark has built and just commenced 5,159 37 188,862 22,121 64,393 2 43 10,438 Carlton the latter part of 1783 some 15,000 refugees, 15.5 KILLED BY HIS S1TEK. 43.627 71 10 17 2,941,999 running a new steam saw mill in Mankato. 555,589 221,255 134,721 Carver men, women and children, left New York, 11.1 7,375 93 664,498 2,932 303,637 2 17 3,692 Cass The engine if forty horse power. 21 0 17,254 21 Long Island and Staten Island for Nova 578,696 196,439 [Johnstown Tribune.! 83,133 4 45 12,108 Chippewa.... 16.8 27,402 6i 1,620,048 A number of persons in Spencer Brook 293,086 247,590 4 74 Chisago 152,976 Scotia and St. John, among them many persons One of the saddest of tragedies was that 23 8 20,264.9 847,245 207,590 129,547 4 00 121,060 Clay. and vicinity, Mille Lacs county, are afflicted of fortune and estate. These estates 21 5 on Friday evening at the home of Mr. Richard 19,105 97 728,577 237,832 90,980 5 04 31,512 Cottonwood... with a virulent type of the measles. 35.0 7,875 17 Astor began to buy whenever he could spare 209,325 54,696 19,929 2 28 109,027 Hothem, near Hillside. Westmoreland Crow Wing... 96.260 17 The Ohatfield depot is one of the best and 6,421,171 14 9 1,302,318 357,498 12 49 611,222 Dakota the money as soon as he got a little ahead in county, Pa. Mr. H. and his wife went away 61.878 73 4,599,179 13.5 832,228 274.892 12 22 Dodge 409,527 most convenient structures in Southern Min thewoild. John Jacob Astor's first purchase on a visit on Friday, leaving at home tbeir 35.879 92 1,550,794 21 2 306,704 281,329 3 98 125,463 Douglas nesota, so claims the ChatfieM Democrat. 73,541 13 4,052,145 16 7 of city real estatetwo lots on the t-w 610,123 son Joseph, aged 22, their daughter Maiy, 392,190 7 34 364,882 Faribault..... 11.5 108,652 18 9,441,493 1,885,523 542,871 12 53 749,965 "VTe'%p*!tqn the/sabujMjng of the White- Fillmore Bowery Jane or road, near Elizabeth street aged 19, and two other daughters, 9 and 11 5,309,894 13 3 83,978,42 791,346 394,127 10 66 312,879 T^1'' is?^^ dostrtoyed by fire at Freeborn madsteady and constant buyer froom rea thalt was in August, 1789, and a years of age respectively. In the evening 'n^H^ 13.7 178,322 49 12,974,841 486,854 16 51 2,595,244 Goodhue 2,339,180 dat,ea 26.5 to the time of his death,r Marchj, 1848, 11,374 06 Joseph attended a spelling "bee," cautioning "LaHeshprivwjn ataeiniiieneed immediately. 413,323 100,012 3 37 90,775 Grant 6,385 B56'oo3 36 7 20.4 28,594,496 5,652,628 22 13 349,228 15,211,053 Hennepin.. his sister Mary, as he went away, to beware Th^lJ^trpit (BeGZe? "county) Record says 56,203 36 4,441,020 9.97 958,106 9 08 340,830 Houston...... 387,565 of tramps. At about 9 o'clock he started estate. The last conveyance to John Jacob nearly-all of the 'floor" mahiilactured there 13,827 37 22 0 602,107 2 58 100,964 189,317 12,220 Isanti ?ff$#Whereafter be^shipped^ west^instead of 7 4 for home, and as he approached the house the Astor was made shortly before his death in 1,930 98 260,942 202 128,721 Itasca 31 4 23,835 49 765,314 4 18 171,125 138,388 barking of the dogs alarmed his sisters, as Jackson 15,666 1847. The conveyances made to him during f'* ^^(a^hardofore^ fVI 17 0 5,983 31 350,783 154,197 2 15 19,138 Kanabec Joseph was not expected back at so early an the fifty-nine years which elapsed between 2,433,565 12.7 47,072 16 5 43 621,081 320,283 170,626 tofrj^he Kandiyohi w HRfep&ti* troW ajl parts at thej State are hour. It is probable the young man intended his first and last purchases of real estate in 20.8 372,769 7,753 68 129,670 3 87 61,645 4,334 Lac qui Parle. effect that the ice crop is growing' rapdly^and 15 5 2,186 32 to test his sister Mary's courage, for he 113,893 2,562 70,952 1 53 Lake this city form sevene pages of closely printesd swollen into enormou 3,483,943 18 0 61,846 02 -06,368 276,692 9 83 will'produce Wriburidarit yield. ton 265,884 tim Le Sueur,.... pulled his hat down over his face, and otherwise matter in thwei index of conveyances on file b42,612 mktsuAcrniet'B cbiisumpfeon. 22 4 1,833 59 75,242 10,788 2 83 2,095 Lincoln disguised himself. When he was withiin 20J395 17 iu the register's office. These wise invest25 Lfon t, 30 2 571,727 199,288 63,866 4 83 60,873 bav ''j On the late cold Monday Biornjnga man a few rods of the house Mary appeared in McLeod 17 0 443,946 2,692,437 380,431 7 47 151,912 ment 765 65 i 21 1 243,461 1,219,336 210,107 4 36 Martin 60,280 the doorway and hailed him: ''Is that yoa, 'tt'Scbde fourteen m'ijea to catch "the-train" at 42,316 92 wealth, and the Astor fortune to-day, as 15 5 453,356 2,735,231 299,000 Meeker. 6 84 235,445 Astor Mr(grandsons JacobfAstor the first Joe?" But he did not answer and continued f^X)h^tfie$. Ho reached the station iu time, representem s',389 8d I by John and 10 9 40,942 493,514 193,185 2 13 39,923 ted illness caused by get Mille Lacs. Willia witrh?hisr otrac to advance. The girl, now worked up to a j.5i 24.1 125,260 845,099 217,396 3 13 27,941 jbut ears badly frozen.* tt Morrison wr I04'i20 15 i te 14.0 443,727 7,231,940 12 48 1,140,895 high pitch of excitement, again hailed the 550,020 V^f ffl Mower...., 10^626 34 i Astor), is one of the greatest fortunes of the 300,042 27 0 59,271 3 50 91,034 1,822 Murray advancing figure with, "Who are youV Hingar pine, sliver in her lungs, the little !848 the, his timfortun was estimated at 44,521 47 world. At of John Jacob Astor's 11 7 3,405,526 264,609 8 96 702,534 334,094 Nicollet. Still no answer, and Mary shouted again, i -"daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dibbles, of Mar^baUj-Lyon 39% 773,134 170,173 227,976 4 24 90,854 death Nobles wnl $30,000,000 to $40,000,000. and he was "Is that you, Joe?" and ran into the house 13.2 418,402 2,167,163 10,337,473 16 22 1,382,230 Olmsted ro county, is slowly recovering. 50|844 75 I a 25 8 1,970,169 408,032 598,386 3 03 132,799 Otter Tail.... Rothschild,the Loui Philippe,mene, th and armed herself with a shot-gun. Reutrning 21,012 89 counted the fifth on list of rich 611,521 34 3 236,239 43,468 2 25 35,728 Pine.r ffi jfjjfhe school afcJEted Jacket Mills, Faribault Devonshire and Sir Kobert Peel to the door she discovered to her 25 1 356,211 56,670 2 51 150,633 28,326 account of the Bolk.. Bart 2i'a37 14 a ^c9nty? on1 been closed surprise, the strange man standing on the 17.1 1,039.916 221,253 213,108 3 70 6,542 Pope....j Duk 3ic,'990 69 diphtheria,^whielb has prostrated many of 18 12 12.8 5,743,694 24,704,092 81,021 17,491,536 steps, and as soon as she appeareu he advanced Bainsey 32,346 78 I only exceeding him. 21 2 1,342,885 225,976 196,362 5 32 71,028 'the Scholars,.,, One death hap occurred.,, 'Redwdod.. toward her. "Stop,'' she shouted, self-mad.eRobert man He was lik,e when Astore, 37.2 1,208,316 388,972 162,472 492 12,671 Benville ,990 oo The late Mr Lenox, Mr. a N "stop, or I will shoot you!" He took another of Lenox is now so greatly 16 9 7,534,883 313,294 13 47 1,930,965 1,383,587 Bice eh j- -J T^e^ush Cityi Jfotf chronicles a number wa 26,'l06 82 nam 30 8 761,824 226,888 100,028 492 step, and at the same instant the girl 41,823 Bck., :r 'OfftCcidentsbyteaBasbreakihg through the 3o)712 12 I first began, an entire stranger in this city, tn 125,647 1,267,484 28 2 258,871 2 60 469,083 $t.,-IiOUiS.. raised the gun and fired, and he sank down 14.5 ice in crossing thassistancedalriver, lake an but fortu- 617,554 3,199,525 wher 213,773 10 87 257,899 li'finfi 97 I Scott..".!*. rhately"by timely (li teams were on the porch, groaning, "Oh, my dear sis- ,r te because of the noble deeds of 16.5 149,691 715,902 177,136 2 93 45,519 Sherburne rf venera 48)o92 63 rPoses of his only son, James ter!" "Oh, my dear brother, I have killed 13.8 309,034 8 57 496,557 3,250,175 103,265 Sibley P Tesctred: 9o)645 40 charittye and the lavish donations for religious w,. iirar 18 6 819,895 639,643 4,548,566 4 87 614,483 Stearns... you!" the poor girl screamed as she threw an ''The light fantastic toe," whatever thaimay 889,022 14.1 263,123 495,244 1M72 2? 1190 474,047 Steelo...'. Kobert Lenox commenced down the gun and carried him into the Mr 20.0 149,930 107,898 664,420 4 77 Btevens. 55,876 Lenox be, judging from the notices of one or ^2704 42 I house, where he soon died. 21.9 223,857 4 91 780,315 Swift....". 98,742 71,563 two hundred local papers, WBB very numerous 20)131 59 business in 1783the, yearh before Johni 26.6 98,594 2 39 787,176 death whic occurred Todd 284.314 8,277 hi 232 72 Jacob Astor arrivedand remained here per4194 "throughout the State of Minnesota on 11.5 4,470 2 70 20,236 Traverse 580,52 Richard Hothem, the father, is the man unti 18.7 13 36 1,084,285 1,126,290 6,705,251 manentl Wabashaw. 336,385 28 Christmas Eve. who, in 1861 or 1862, picked up a fortune on 31.2 2 50 134,194 6,995 25,995 Wadena 40,426 59)934 38 I December, 1879, the 81st jear of his age. On Curistmas day as O. M. Bnrnstadt was 16 5 the railroad near his home. He was 10 46 3,607,374 303,365 558,474 Waseca 262,325 For many years his operations greatly exceeded driving a span of colts in Lake Park they 19.8 120,724 61 1147 6,097,843 Washington. 243,889 1,804,914 1,496,793 walking along the read and saw a 18.2 18,660 93 938,782 5 28 52,985 239,078 Watonwan 122,422 those of any other merchant in the took fright and ran away, upsetting the sleigh folded newspaper, and on picking it 19.0 7,88201 2 93 40,961 44,638 344,837 Wilkin 88,401 country of that day. He became, eventually, and hurting Mr. Brunstadt severely. His 13.3 up found enclosed $50,000 in bank notes. 135.428 90 10,099,635 13 00 2,224,258 Winona 391,894 2,760,388 one of the most successful merchants in the wife, who was with him, was not hurt. 17.1 57,862 14 3,367,180 7 29 466,041 Wright 371,173 192,323 He took the package to an attorney and 19.7 United States. Mr. Lenox invested his accumulations 20,271 10 865,629 yellow Medicine. 131,306 4 33 64,135 167,912 S. H. Daniels had stored 161 barrels of sought legal advice. Advertisements were chiefly in city real estate. In inserted in the newspapers throughout the flour in the depot warehouse at Rochester, Total 16,714,348 16.4 3,895,133 99 $ 54,508,475 $ 46,175,304$229,791,042 $ 7 72tf 1817 and 1818 he bought, for less than country, in the hope of discovering the loser Olmsted county. When marking the barrels, $7,000, about thirty acres of land, running of the money, and for over a year diligent preparatory to shipment, he found that from Sixty-eighth to Seventy-fourth street, Lanesboro escaped another dis astrous conflagration. and striking the conductor, Henry Spalding search was made far and wide but no one twenty-five barrels had been abstracted. between Fourth and Fifth avenues, known as (who was endeavoring to stop the affray) on ever appeared to claim it, and Mr. Hothem -/M Afewnjghts since Wandersie, of Lime the "Lennox Farm," much of which is now the left arm, between the elbow and wrist, evenually appropriated it to his own uses. township, Blue Earth county, was returning Hokah Blade: We heard Mr. J. C. Easton covered with first-class brown-stone houses. nearly breaking his arm. The poker cut A short time previous to the finding of the home with his family when his team ran say, while coming on the tram from La The enormous increase in the value of this through his overcoat, undercoat, shirt sleeve money a large express robbery had been perpetrated away, breaking his right leg below the knee, Crosse Wednesday, that the Southern Minnesota land, sold for the most part at top prices between and the flesh to the bone, and for some time near Harper's Ferry, and it was the and his wife's left arm. Others in the vehicle Eailway company intend before a 1861 and 1872, gives Mr. James the bone was thought to be broken. Had it general belief that, being closely pressed by at the time were not injured. great while to build a railroad from Lanesboro Lenox a high rank among New York milionaiires. struck Sargent'* head, as intended, it would pursuers, the thieves had thrown the money up the north branch of Root river to The Duluth Tribune of Dec. 27th, says: The Lenox farm to-day, without have killed him instantly. from a car window, intending to return for Rochester via Chatfield. This will pass a brick on it, would be worth $8,000,000. ''People abroad who suppose that navigation it on the first opportunity of eluding the detectives. Rochester Record and Union: Diptheria through a splendid country and will make a While the Lenox fortune is modest indeed, on Lake Superior is closed, are mistaken. has at last made its appearance in this section. paying feeder to the S. M. railway. when compared with the colossal accumulations Perky Johnson leaves early next week on the The family of H. B. Ellis, who lives of the Astors, Vanderbilts and Stewarts, Siskiwit, with a cargo of beef, pork, poultry, Hokah Blade: Mr. John Krock, a German, What householder who can get no rec on the Oronoco road, are down with it. A we venture to hazard the opinion that oysters fcc for Prince Arthur's Landing.' aged about 6J#ears living in the township ompense for improve ments from a grasping son aged 16, and a daughter are already dead. L' A correspondent writing from Vicksburg, Mr. James Lenox has quietly given away of Brownsville, was killed last Friday The disease was contracted in Owatonna, landlord will not sympathize with as much as the late Mr. Peabody. His donations Renville county, says that town has diminished 'by fine fall* of a large limb from a tree which and, if the doctor was correctly understood, the writer of this? "Wanted immediately, in land and money to charitable, 100 per cent, during the past year. he was cutting down. His skull was badly two or three of Mr. Ellis' neighbors have to enable me to lea ve the house which I literary and religious institutions situated on "There used to be one store, now there is fractured, and he lived only a few hours. caught the plague. have for these last five years inhabited, the Lennox farm alone, amount to over none." The correspondent pluckily a'ddsi Dr. McKenna, of Caledonia, was called to $2,500,000. This is a noble example to in the same plight and condition in 'If we don't live ih'a big town, we feel as Duluth Tribune: Capt. W. P. Spalding, see him, but he could afford no relief. those who wield the great fortunes of New which I found it, 500 Live rats, for wiiich big as anybody." the famous silver man, who has a homestead Krock was a well-to-do farmer, and leaves a York. It is to be regretted that the name of I will gladly pay the sum of five pound on what is believed to be a valuable family. Lanesboro Journal: The Carrolton mills ng and as I cannot leave the farm Lenox, so far as the founder or the family silver claim, down the north shore, about sterl of this place, belonging tq White & Beynon, in this city is concerned, dies with the present Brainerd Tribune: A fracas occurred on twentw-five miles north of Grand Marais and attached thereto in the same order in caught fire at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, Mr. Janes Lenox, a bachelor now advanced the Duluth train on Thursday, between two 1,170 feet above Lake Superior, came up a which I got it without ar least Five Millions and would have been totally destroyed had in years. As long as New York ex breakmenBranley and Sargentin which day or two ago to "prove up." He came all ,_ of Dockens, I do hereby promise not George Hyde made a timely discovery of X,D TO a lantern, a chair and some articles of freight XU1 A the way from Grand Mar&is in a small boat i ists bis memory will be remembered and the same sum for said number o: Dockens.N. the devouring element. The flame was in the car they occupied were demolished, with two Indians, and sailed all night, Dec. I cherished. B. The rats must be fullgrown quenched just in the nick of time by the two when Branley finally drew the stove poker 31st, with the mercury at 14 degrees below The fortune of A. T. Stewartof quicker and no cripples." Chamber*s Journal. "or three employes in the mill, and thu and struck at Sargent's head., missing him TOro* I growth than that of Astorwas accumulated i '}mmimM wmm INTENTIONAL HIJPI inATr cvoncnn DFFFfmx/ir DA/2C