Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-08
Minnesota Gossip.
YELLOW MEDICINE.

cAamng the minnesota River instead Of spend.
ing thousands in surveys every year, would
make good navigation for three months each
season. :''| @@s
VIM. Dodge. of Minnesota Falls has
planted over 20, 900 trees this season,
Eli Broughton does not aspire to the
fame Of Weston, O'Leary nor any Of the noted
pedestrians of the time, but last week he
| made the distance from Minnesota Falls to
Redwood Falls and returned inside Of eight
cen hours, and gets credit for over seventy
five miles over rough, crooked prairie road.
DODGE.
Several thousand cattle are being
herded on the low prairies south OF Kasson.
Dodge county was organized twenty
age" sff
Twenty. five buildings are in course
| of construction in Kasson, besides those COM
menced several years ago. .
Several men who went from Dodge
| Center to Texas, several weeks ago, have re-
turned, satisfied that times are no better there
than here.
Alf. Griffith. of MankatO has NO need
| to complain OF a lack of attention on the part
of the grand jury. Five indictments for
'sraising" wheat checks are filed against him.
IIouse-breakers keep quiet citizens
of Mankato on the scrrated edge from night
till morn.
Geo. r. Boynton, a Mankato boy,
has been awarded the first prize by the New
upon the study Of portrait painting.
! An encampment OF ex-sO1d1erS will
Ike held ut Mankato on the Sd, 4th and 9Th Of
July. RatiOns and quarters will he provided
for all veterans of the war who attend, and
all are invited. Those who accept the invita-
| -. A->c l,,se has
The Central Railroad has been sold
at Sheriff's sale for si3, ,593, but transfer Of
the property can take place until question
of appeal is settled.
! wABAsHAw.
A party of hunters armed to the
teeth with revolvers, Henry rifles and cheese
knives, made raid upon a "den' of wolves,
| at Elgin, and after much labor unearthed
three OF the ierocious animals which they at
tackled, each man with brace Of six shooters
in each hand. The doughty hunters tri-
| umplled and returned to the village with three
pairs of very small ears.
A man living III O.kwood recently
found Il chunk OF copper which some iceberg
in the "driit" period had taken from the
Lake Superior region and deposited there.
lie thought he had struck Centennial wealth,
but will surely he disappointed.
| WabashaW has i heavy artillery
company, organized especially for blow ing of
somebody's limbs on tile Centennial Fourth.
| HOUSTON.
| Two men were drowned ut Houston,
last week, by tooiishly rocking boat in
which they were fishing.
A mans body was run over by
| train rear RushtOrd, on the Southern Mime
sofa road, but from the tact that it was entire
| " cold when examined by the train men,
| foul play must have caused his death.
The female population of Caledonia
| propose to take advantage Of the school sutf-
rage act and become ballot girls.
The chap who runs the La Crosse
Leader complains of the sameness in cooper
ativc weeklies, and the Journal asks it the
"associatctl" tlailics. The Leader cannot Ike
accused OF \ resemblance to any other paper
its stupidity and great spread Of nothing
ness Icing beyond Imitation.
1IENNEi'fS.
i Col. Lornsbury, of Bismark, spent Il
few days in Minneapolis, last week; trying to
find a purchaser for his Tribune newspaper.
A small trout has considerably rolled
the water Oh the brains of two or three Mill
neapolis nimrods, and Il war Of letters and
attidavits is promised to continue throughout
the summer.
The State convention of tooth car
penters, usually styled dentists, was we'll at
tended by members of the tOrturOus profess
ion of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and several
new methods of dealing out sudden death
; were discussed.
Thomas jefferson, who is still living,
, ut MantOrvillc, remembers OF 'thnnder-
bolt" Icing dug from the ground at the foot
of stricken tree when lie was hoy,
! which matches the St. Cloud story Of week
: ago.
,, The old settlers of Dodge county
will celebrate the Fourth at Mantorville.
Kasson wheat buyers wax wrOth be-
l cause wheat is hauled past their warehouses
=. and marketed ut Dodge Center.
GooDHUE.
, Red Wing is organizing a company
for manufacturing the Dewey Harvester.
Liquor dealers of Red Wing are fined
G bylthe Justice to placate the temperance folks,
l when charged with selling liquor to minors,
p | and the fines are remitted by the council t"
placate the saloon folks. A sort OF double
, acting, compensating, reciprocal, balance, you
. see.
4 The new paper at Litchfield is likely
: | to lc q better representative county paper
3 than Dagget's Ledger-it is Meeker.
Litchfield has Il committee which is
e empowered to purchase fire engine or other
8 apparatus, if necessary. They will probably
D wait until the town is in ashes, then conclude
q a purchase is necessary.
q Burglars in Litchfield crawl through
= cellar windows and steal whatever they can
= carry away. Daggett is safe from suspicion
i he couldn't crawl through an ordinary cellar
u door.
It is estimated that the immigrants
/ 30
: hundred families a week.
G Patriotic Owatonnians will cele-
!. brate the Fourth in some wide-awake neigh
o boring town. old seeds and boys will gel
=, drunk while the avariciOus will stick to bus
u mess and rake in the sheckles.
IL A grand division of Sons of Temper
= ance was organized in Owatonna, on the 24tl
,. ult., with NJ T. Anderson, Of Minneapolis, as
d G. W.P.
e The stable and granary of Geo. Nay
l. lor of Merton, was destroyed by fire, last week
n caused by lightning. A span9f horses, tnre'
w of grain were burned. Insured for $500.
= At the time of the fire at Mr.. Nay
= lor's, in Merton, he sent his little girl to
=, neighbor's for help, when large dog attack
NJ ed the child, tearing her flesh so badly tina
Is it was only by the Lest of care that her llt'
e was saved.
al NICOILETT.
Is The more excitable of St. Peter III
III natics have organized q base ball club, but re
NJ fuse to admit to membership their more SAM
T. brethren of the asylum.
lie The wheat crop never looked bctte
n at this season of the year. ~ ~
The Advertiser, after four spasmod
[e ic kicks, has turned up its little toes and Civ
j. en- up the ghost with no re-harks.
=. An addition to the Insane Asylum
,r for laundry, bath rooms, etc., is being erected
Thousands of rods of wire fence ar
being built in this county.
n. THE NEW SULTAN
l9 Dispatch to New York Herald, 3lst 90
=. / had a conversation to-day with
in well.informed Turkish gentleman VIII
=. is just now staying in Paris. He say
N tho now Su1tan Murad EffeDdi. is no