Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-17
Minnesota Matters.
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Mr.. j. Ames, of Worthiugton,is lis act
lively engaged in introducing sheep in
Mobiles county, and is satisfied ,that much
may he done to bridge over the rather dis
couraging prospects for next season.
= The celebrated Okabena mills have
been fitted up for burning straw and hay to
generate steam, and Mr.. Sutton, the wide
awake and tireless proprietor is satisfied that
he will make it a success and soon send out
his hundred barrels of flour a day without
drawing on the "big woods'' or Iowa coal
mines tor his fuel.
The Worthington papers are accus-
ing each other of ''going back" on the tenn
perancc work of the "Colony," but no saloon
nary observer would fail to see where the
"worll" is to be done.
The Rock County granger turns his
gaze eastward and sees the smoke of the loco
motive as it takes its loads OF railroad iron to
the tend of the trac!z' in the western part Of
Mobiles county, and rejoioes greatly at the
prospect of soon hearing the whistle.
rREEBoRN.
Albert Lea has had a season of the
tramp nuisance, and extra police supervision
was voted by the town council. That is the
only way to deal with the outlaws give them
a full benefit of the law-no more.
! Editor Parker, of the Standard will
return from the East in few days to find his
household goods in a chaotic state. A visit
from tramps on the night Of the 10Th lett
nothing nnturncd III a search for valuables.
1t may bc mentioned just here that they got
very little
STEELE.
ThOman Thompson. treasurer of
Steele county was visiting his farm, one day
last We 81. nnd Hanged Ills CuaL Ill tic llvusv
while he went to the field to look after the
harvesting. In the coat was hundred and
fifty dollars, and two tramps investigated its
pockets making off with the contents. The
loss was soon discovered and the officer
chartered a lumber wagon and started in per-
suit with single companion and shot gun
The thieves were 0vertaken, invited into the
wagon at the muzzle of the shot gun, and
were dmly lodged in Jail where. they will
await trial in District court. About hun
dred dollars Of the money was recovered.
rARIBAULT.
Winnebago City has for solno time
pCCIi ~ d CIcH VI fouHo iONNItS
who have made night hidcous, insultcd wo-
men and injured property. Forbcarance
ceased to be q virtue, however, and the
scamps were brought before a justice and
suitably punished.
a Blue Eearth City husband is after
a physician of the county for damages for i'll
truding himself under the husbands vine and
| fig tree at unreasonable hours. Unless the
injured mans demands are honored ''rch'
scandal is promised, that will raise the roofs
OF many houses in the county and reyea
gross crookcdness in various first families.
II. l.. Gordon, of st. Cloud, has
turned his attention to poetry, and the result
is the publication of book Of l52 pages for pri-
vate circulation, entitled "Pauline, and other
Poems" The Journal-Prcss pron"unces
some of the productions to he of much more
than ordinary merit, and the collection is
printed on tinted paper, too.
Mrs. May has a husband whose af-
fcctons are cold as December, and as he at
tempted to coerce her with revolver, last
week, she appears in the courts and asks
for a divorce. 1t is to bc hoped that she will
receive justice.