Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-18
STATE Jews.

STATE NEWS.
PRESTON is to indulge in an old.fash-
toned Fourth of July tilis year.
MINNEAPOLIS, according to q late di
rectory, claim population of $1,000.
Tho Winona county jail has two in
mates only.
Red Wing complains that it has not
a hospital.
Winona is discussing the propricty
Of having water-works.
The Catholics Of kitchfeld are talk
ing Of building church.
Telegraphio communication with
Plainview il now open.
Work On tho Mankato Gas House 10
to be commenced Immediately.
Indications are favorable for good
apple crop in Dodge county this season.
Scarlet fever, ola viruleut type is
raging with fatal effect in Mcleod
county.
Hail stones two inches In diameter
ratified upon tho p.ses Of shakopeeites
tho other day.
4 chap in Winona eats cotton on
the streets and then sells snuff to the
crowd that gathers.
A poet fiend At Mankato offers to fur.
nish tho Union with illusions fat Is
cents i. fuse.
A little son Of john Balthis Of South
Bend, fell into = we'll the other DAY
and was drowned.
The Post Office Department has set
aside $500 year for rent for the Post
Office At Rochester.
Tommy Bertram Of Delana has it,
and wants to see Barnum. It is a
fourteen legged chicken.
Frank Daggett is green with jealousy.
A sturgeon has been caught at Fergus
Ralb, which weighed 1o9 pounds.
Lightning struck tho earth OF Litch-
field last week, and tore tho ground up
for 4 distance Of thirty feet.
The Minnesota Grand Lodge of
Good Templara, will meet At Roches-
ter in June.
A barn was blown upon John PER-
son Of Shakopee, during = heavy storm
last week, and quite severely ipjuring
him.
Some fellows Of low degree, set q
stone rolling from the top Of Barn
Bluff, IT. Red Wing, and il crashed
through the side Of a house.
A young man named Frank Herzog,
whose parents reside in Minneapolis,
was run over and killed by a train Of
ears at White Bear Lake last Wednes-
day.
A boot and shoe store at Kellogg
Was robbed of $500 worth of stock one
night last week. Part Of it has been
recovered, bnt there is no certain clue
to the thieves.
The Star says that several citizens
Of Rushford who have seen age;and e.
perisnce,' were lately aeeced Of their
money in sums ranging from IS to $50
BY the gamblers that followed Robbins
Circus.
Grading has been commenced on
the narrow.guags railroad, to run from
Calsdonis, Houston county, to the
Mississippi river, and viii be known
n the Called onia & Mississippi Rail-
way.
A man by the name Of J. @. Far
rand, IN old citizen Of Duluth, has
married too many women. He Wa
visited BY two wives the other day, and
ineontinsatly put in = disappearance
over tho Canadian border.
The Albert Lea Enterprise Gays: A
granary belonging to Hslvor Thoreson
ia Bancroft, was struck by lightning
Thursday morning, which set it on FIRE,
consuming it, together with about
there hundred bushels Of grain. Mr..
Thoreson managed to save al his farm
machinery etc., which Was close to it.
No insura nee.
A country man At Fergus Falls used
= grain sack as a common receptacle
for miscellaneous purchases. Among
the articles deposited were matches,
powder, and loaded revolver. By
some means the matches became igni-
ted, and now the citizens up there
have lively idea Of what constitutes
= general skedaddls.
Several citizens Of Winona subscri-
bed about $35, 900 a. a bonus to the
Green Bay railway, to induce the
building Of that road to Winona.
Thomas Simpson subscribed $1,000
and now the railway company has
commenced suit against him to collect
that sum. The case is to be tried at
St. Paul, in June, and will of course be
\ test case. IF the courts hold the de-
PENDANT liable, there are about 500
more Wiuonians left to call and settle
with Ketchum and his company.
j The Blue Earth City Post says !:
West Of US, the grasshoppers are NOV
ing south, and report informs us that