Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
FIRE NEAR OSHKOSH.

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started on Saturday, two miles this sid,
OF Winneconne, and had reached t,
within half or a quarter of mile O
Oshkosh. The city was in state Of ex
element, and the people were turning
out to arrest the progress OF the con
flagration.
The mayor Of Milwaukee has order
ed all saloons closed at 9p. NJ. durio.
the present crisis. 1t has been rainine
here quite briskly at intervals sine,
6o'clock this evening.
| Slate News.
Hdbert Campbell, of Hayward, Free
born county, experimental with Nor
way oats, and six acres produced 561
bushels by measure. The oats weighed
40 pounds to the measured bushel
which would make 7O8 bushels b,
weight-118 bushels per acre.
! Two scamps from Rochester, named
Carver and Weaver, played a cleve,
swindle at St. Peter on the 29th ult.
getting elevator wheat receipts for fou,
bushels and five pounds, and getting
them cashed at the bank after chang:
ing them to "a bushels and pounds.
They were caught eight miles out OF
town and made to disgorse their i'll.
gotten gains.
The Shakopee Aryus says: The
Hastings L Dakota Railway Company
have finished the grading of the road
between Credit River and Shakopee,
and are now engaged in laying the
track down. On Saturday morning
the track layers we're within about two
miles and half Of Shakopce. The
workman then run out of rails and arc
obliged to wait about ten days before
another supply Of iron will be on
hand: When the iron arrives, about
two days. work will bring the engine
into the streets of this CITY,"
The spire of the Episcopal Church
at Mortified is being completed The
standard understands that the spire is
the donation of the Amateur Dramatic
Club of the town, who gave several
entertainments for that purpose last
winter.
A power press from the Cincinnati;
establishment is being introduced into
the Faribault Republican Office.
Mrs. Svissheln, formerly Of St.
| Cloud, is now a BaDtist preacher in
Pennsylvania.
Rev. H. F. Wood, rector of the
Episcopal church in Faribault, has COZ
sented to deliver a course of free lee
lures during the winter, on Christian
history.
About thirty citizens Of St. Charles
and vicinity INDUCED in the exciting
sport Of bear hunt, day or SO ago,
resulting in tho capture and staying Of
a 400 FOUNDER.
Frank G. Richardson of Winona.
puts in his claims for the largest pota-
to, in the form of two pound Eve
ounce specimen.
The Wright County Times says there
is pauper in Stockholm who has a
strange disease, he is mere skeleton,
and yet eats as much as two ordinary
men, and drinks t~o Buckets of water
every day.
The St. Cloud Tines says: Bears
aad wolves continue their depredations
in several towns in the county. In L.
Sank the wolves arc so thick that their
midnight howlisg furnishes mnsic to
lull the people to sleep. If they are
as thick next year the town will be
cleared Of sheep and calves.
A fatal horse distemper has appeared
in Iosco county and in GAINESVILLE, Wa
SEGA county. The Messrs. Murray
alone have lost IL horses from the dis
ease.
The heart Of Mr.. Franklin Church,
of Dakota county was made glad by a
return of tribe over IS bushels of
wheat to the acre.
The citizens of Waseca are about Or
ganizing library association.
Red Wing has just received a new
fire steamer. It is named "City of Red
Wing No. L."
The warehouscmen of Red Wing
paid an average of $4,000 day tor
wheat last week, for which total du-
ring the week Of 68,6S2 bushels was
received
The apple crop Of Minnesota, this
yea,, will not fall short Of 25, 900 bush
els, some estimates placing it as high;as
1000. In few years We will be
able to export them.
Not long sinco an Indian boy of the
Otter Tail band, killed his uncle in a
fit Of anger. The relatives of the dead
Lo have already shot the father of the
boy in revenge, and they are looking
for the rest Of the family, who took to
the woods as soon as the first accident
happened.
James Williams recently had wag-
on, loaded with liquors, cigars, etc.,
stolen out from under him while he
slept, at Rush Lake. Williams was
going off to start a saloon, stopped over
night at Rush Lake, fed his horse,
took few drinks and went to sleep on
his wagon, but walked up on the ground
to find his whole establishment sais-
sing.
Blue Earth City had a sensat ton
last week, in the elopement of Joel d.
Cahoon with Mary Cahoon, the wife of
his brother, !. N. Cahoon. The or
ring wap,an is more than ordinary in
telligen6, and had shown marked par
TALLY for her paramount for some time
past The guilty couple were traced as
far as McGregor, where they took a
boat for Dubuque.
Washington.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. Tho Prcsi,
dent has appointed Henry X. Smith
Surveyor of Customs at Omaha, and
E. B. Fevour haa been appointed In
spector of Merchandise at Detroit. Ma
jor Juoius Wheeler, Of the Engineer
Corps: lras been appointed Professor of
Engineering at West Point, vice Prof
d. H. Mahan, deceased.
The President has made tho follow
ing appointments Of Commissioners at
the Centennial Anniversary Of Ameri-
Can Independence at Philadelphia in
1876: Andrew Sweeney and Alex