Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-08-06
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. Locnsts eggs, deposited Il Henyille
county this season are shatching sc 3
lively rate.
The Plunkett troupe arc finishing up j
successful week At Mank ato,
a steam Touring mill Il "a Is put up
this season at Owatonna
Girla q Farihault complain. 81 frequent
Insults from gracolcss scanps Of that
city. s s.=,
# At Mantorville no harm was done by
the. storm Of last Saturday evening,
though tho hail fell.
8. a Bunting, ono of tho prominent
business men Of Dassel, died suddenly
Friday afternoon. g..
Three horses were stolen Thursday
night rom D. 6heperd, q farmer near
Dover, 0lmstead county. ss~syes =
A poor man named AL, liyinsr nine
miles northwest of Marshall, had his
horses stolen on the of the 10th.
The Echo, At Cannon Falls, saws the
board of equalization of Goodhue coun.
ty, fluids it necessary to raise tho valua.
tion Of some Of the towns ninety per
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swanto Anderson of Wastedo, Goodhue
county, finished cutting flfty-flvo acres of
new and early variety of sprinp wheat
on the 24th inst.
The counterfeit fives on tho Traders
National, of Chicago, which Smith and
Macdonald of st. Charles, Winona coun-
ty, were caught showing, arc.said to have
come to them by express from Mason
City, Iowa. = J..
Mayor Boyd of St. Cloud went through
a deaf and and dumb beggar the other
day and found $50 hid in the: fellows
hat.
AT Mankato Saturday last, q young sa-
loon keeper, having had quarrel with
his love, pretended to try to commit sui.
eide, and so won the girl back again.
D. b.. Coleman, in Clayton, Mower
county, found horse thief in his stable
one night of last week, and had the salts.
faction Of firing two Or three pistol shots
at the rascal, though hs got away unhurt
On vacant lot in Mankato the other
day, young man dug out the locust's
egg sacks from two square feet Of ground
and found they numbered over hundred
averaging thirty eggs to each sack.
Near Monticello, the other day, little
child of John Whites bit a caterpillar in
two and swallowed a part Of it. The
child was instantly seized with; convul-
sions, as of poisoning, but was saved from
death by the prompt administration Of
an emetic.
Lightning struck the granasy Of Geo.
Anett, of Lemond, Steele county, on Sat
urday last, killing valuable horse which
was hitchcd in one end of the building
Two children near by were stunned, ono
of them remaining insensiblc for three OF
four hours.
Ayoung man, giving his name as John
son, was arrested at Rochester, Friday
having borrowed a horse from his EN-
ployer, living near Owatonna, to go to
town with. He did not return as agreed
but went on to Dodge Centre Thursday
night, where he exchanged for anothe,
horse, which he rode to Rochester ycster
day. Both horses were restored to thci;
owners, and the man was taken to Dodge
Centre for trial.
The Winona Republican reports q
boarders at the boarding house kept by
Sheriff Dill.
The grasshoppcrs are rapidly moving
eastward in myriads, and will doubtless
reach Wisconsin, perhaps Illinois, before
the flying season is past. They are re
ported to-day very abundant at a numbe,
of points far cast of the former scene Of
activity. Even in this city several gar
dens are overrun with them. All damage
the late corners can do is to deposit eggs
which will hatch out millions, devasta
ting sections another year. 1t is absolute
ly certain that other States than this will
complain of the scourge next year, and il
the clouds of insects continue the presen
movement, even Central and Eastern
States will not escape st. Paul Press.
Special Dispatch to tho Evening Wisconsin
! LA CROSSE, WIS, July 31,-The past
six or eight months we'll organized sys
tenn Of car robbery has been In existence
on the west shore opposite this. city, thu
Milwaukee and st. Paul, the D. & NJ,
and the s. NJ. railroads suffering to the
lcxtent Of fhnusands of dollars Some