Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-04
Minnesota Matters.
NICOLLET.

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AZ. M. Perry, for many years editor
es:he st. Peter Advertiser, is teaching music
Rr q living. -.'
ia new Touring mill with capacity
q, 100 barrels day has just been started ur
x st. Peter.
The black leg is prevailing among
itli. cattle of Lake Prairie, and many are dy.
Iitg.
The pork trade in St. Peter, as we'll
as in every other town in Minnesota, is as-
sttning quite important proportions.
John Schusky wanted an overcoat,
Fas4a being too poor to buy one, stole it, and
Will be tried before the next term of the dis
|:rSft court tor ''grand'' larceny that is he is
cARged with theft, and if the coat fits him he
vii. have to wear it.
OLMSTED.
Joseph Pierce, of Rochester, went
With his wife to visit relatives at Watertown
sSs9ci*..se ago, and while there went down
JE1h one tiay, rs he had made practice OF
while there, but did not return. All efforts
to obtain clue to his whereabouts have been
abortive. He was man of steady habits and
with many friends.
John Bunyea, of Kalmar, was ar
rested last week Oh charge of cruelty to his
wife and mother-in-law Bunyea is man OF
forty years of age and his wife eighteen, and
since their marriage, one year ago, he has
bren lazy, drunken and Quarrelsome. The
brutal fellow was sent to Jail in default of S4OO
bail. ~ ~
Three brothers named Falon, re-
returning home from Eyota, last week, got
into quarrel and two of them threw out the
third on the frozen ground. The wagon
wheel passed over his leg, fracturing the
bone, but the heartless brothers passed on
without noticing his cries for help The in
jured man was soon after picked up and
cared for.
A citizen of High Forest was re-.
turning home from Rochester and got out Of
his wagon to walk and warm his feet by ex-
e1cise. The horses got away from him and
leaving the road he could not find them un-
til next day, when search discovered them
in athicket, one Of them frozen to death.
Mr.. Merritt, living three miles from
Rochester, killed monstre wolf OH his farm
last week.
Sbme sacreligious scamp broke into
he Methodist church in Rochester and stole
aboit four dollars OF Sunday school money.
GOODIIUE.
Milton Wilson, who last summer
murdered his wife at Cherry Grove, pleaded
guilty to the charge of murder, and was sent
enced to Imprisonment at Saltwater. Before
his sentence he made a full confession of the
murder to an Argus reporter. 1t appears from
tbeevidence Of ncighbors that the untortun-
ate man was a good neighbor, excepting that
lie was very passionate.
WADAsIIAW.
Peter Young, a farmer living on
Greenwood Prairie, fell off load OF wheat
while intoxicated and was 50 badly injured by
the horses hoofs and the wheels of the wagon
that he died.
The fund Tor erecting a monument
to the memory Of Nettie Slayton who was MUIR
:aera2. by her lover. has. reached the sum Of
e74.50 paid in, and all subscribers have been
notified to forward their prospective amounts.
Reeds Landing has: an even dozen
saloons, and in 1860 thestown had twenty
three.
Reeds Landing sages have wrestled
with the proposition that "the fear OF punish
ment has greater influence upon mankind
than the prospect of reward }" and it was de-
cided that the proposition is sound.