Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-03-16
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
MANroRv1LLE has organized IN old set
tiers society.
A NEW wagon factory is to be started
in Rochester.
d. S. McGRAw has been elected city
assessor of Mankato.
A NUMBER of large farms will be opened
this year near Alden.
The Mississippi river at Winona has
risen foot and half from the effects of
the recent rain and thaw.
AN Anoka man has succeeded in COIN
ing $50 words out Of tho letters used in
the word "demonstrativc."
A MAN named Vincent escaped from the
Mile 1.acs county Jail last week. He
forced the door by means of wedges and
cord wood.
THE treasurer Of Freeborn county,
Chas. kittleson, had narrow escape from
a watery grave, last week, in attempting
to cross Fountain Lake.
Now they have got it in Albert Lea.
1t took three days to try . case and ac-
quiz the defendant. Brooklyn could
have done as much in one day.
HARRY S1MoNDs, Of Rochester, was re-
Gently badly hurt by being run over by
loaded sled, the horses attached to
which had taken fright and run off.
THE Mankato State Normal School will
be opened os usual for the fall term, not
withstanding tho legislature failed to ap.
propriate money to pay its expenses.
TIE County Auditor of Isanti is
charged with having cut and carried away
some twenty-five cords of wood from the
St. Paul 4 Pacific railroad lands. So
says the Anoka Republican.
IT will be some time before the damage
to the Southern Minnesota railroad, by
last weeks rains, can be repaired. Sew
cral important bridges and some two or
three miles of track were washed away.
WoRTHINGroN, the temperance town in
Mobiles county, is infested by = gang OF
young rowdics, who keep nervous people
in continuous strain of excitement in
anticipation Of fresh outbreaks Of lawlcss.
| ness.
OK the 4th inst. man named ChecS-
bro, from tho town Of Troy, Wis, was
thrown from his wagon at Lakeland,
Washington county, dragged some 300
yards and so badly injured that he died
the next afternoon.
A CLUB called the Lake Pepin Sports
mems Club has been organized 1T Lake
City-the object of which is to enforce
the game laws, to promote the study Of
natural history and the collection and
preservation of specimens relating thereto.
In Rochester on the morning Of the
9th ult., a blacksmith shop and an ad.
joining building used as 4 hotel caught
fire and were both burned. The loss on
the former was about 5000. and on the
latter from $2,500 to $1,000, including
furniture, &c.
WHILE the team OF Louis Lorcnc. ol
Cambridge, was drawing sled loaded
with wood down steep hill recently, the
neck.ycke broke and the sled ran on the
> hind legs Of one Of the horses, breaking
!, them instantly. The other horse saved
, himself by Jumping to one side.
Sr. PETER Aduertiser: An insane mar
was recently brought to the Insane
. Asylum, from St. Cloud, who, for three
, years, has made his home in the woods
! refusing to enter house. He would
| urSC DUlIU lArcS anu 6ltCE OuTUlnS u lONE
, time wonld scrape away the sshes and
, lie down upon the warm ground and
sleep.
A YOUNG man named Julius Prcll, o.
l Winona, aged Is years, who was en-
E ploycd in blacksmith shop, drank some
. strong brandy and at four o'clock became
l unconscious and fell to the ground. HI
! remained in this condition until the mex
5 morning, when he died. The jury rem
dercd verdict Of death from apoplexy
Hon. NJ. j. SEVERANCE, ono of Mime
sota's best lawyers, delivered = temper
; ance lecture in Mankato, last week, to ,
large and appreciative audience. Th'
,, lecture is spoken of as being at once abls
and original, abound'ng in argument. elo
n quence and satire. Mr.. Severance, as 1
- public speaker, has no superior in tn
State.
JAMES and IIoyden Wylie have on sec
ton 24, Yellow Medicine county, 1900
!. young trees planted since 1869, and al
growing finely. On 800 acres in tn
= same section were grown last year, 200
= bushels Of wheat, $50 bushels Of flax
- l,5OO bushels of oats, $50 bushels of pc
= = tatocs. and 1000 bushels Of corn beside
~ ~ large quantities Of vegetables, &c.
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