Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

; MINNESOTA NEWS.
The broad gauge branch railroad from
Rochester is expected to be running ~
Zumbrota in few weeks
! The New, says there is not vacant
residence in Alexandria and plenty of
applicants for houses.
: The strawberry vines are blossoming
for the second time in some localities IN
Minnesota.
! JOHN FAHEY, a former resident in
Hastings, has fallen a victim to yellow
fever in Memphis.
! WIN. CHASE, of Richland, Pine couI-
ty, lost the wheat from twenty-elght
acres of land by prairie fires.
: SEVEN of the so called state railroad
! bonds were recently sold at auction in
St. Paul to Thomas Cochrane, Jr.
GEO. w. MCCARTY, on old resident Of
Orion township, Olmsted county, Is
! dead.
New JERUSALEM is the name g.:
new. station on the Northwestern, low
being located between Zumbrota and
Pine Island.
THERE are a great many cases OF
typhoid fever in the county, and quite
number have proven fatal Glencoe En-
! terDrase.
! AYoUNG married woman was burned
! to death recently by prairie fire. be-
tween Lone Tree Lake and Prescott, In
Brown county.
A MAN named Peter Haggerty fell
dead from heart disease, just as be was
leaving the supper table, at the Smith
House, Wabasha.
A LAKE WAsH1NGToN, lie Seuer
county farmer, has sold over 5000
worth of watermelons the present season
from one acre of ground.
AT least 5000 gallons of cane syrup,
mostly from amber cane, have been
made this autumn by three mills in and
near Cleveland, LIE Sueur county.
The extention of the St. Paul and Pa
cifc railroad will reach St. Vincent, on
the northern boundary of the state, in a
few days. The connection with Wine
peg will thus shortly be made.
The Albert Lea Enterprise says that
many farmers in that vicinity are COM
PEELED to mortgage their farms, and that
the money loaners are doing an unusu-
ally brisk business.
The Chippewa Indians of White Earth
agency are enjoying visit from party
Of their old enemies, the Sioux. The
visitors, some six or eight lodges, are
from Devil Lake agency.
In digging a we'll in the new brewery
cellar in Fairmont, Martin county, at
depth of thirty feet from the surface of
the ground, the petrifed trunk or branch
of tree was found, six inches in diane
ter.
Mrs. JOSEPH HOWARD, of Chatfeld,
Fillmore county, while on her way home
from the village, was struck with paraly-
: sis and remained unconscious till her
: death which occurred three days after
wards.
The wife of William E. Daw, near
Rush City, was found dead by the road
l side on the evening of the 18th inst.
t She had gone to visit a neighbor, ard it
is supposed that she was Frustrated by
heart disease.
> J. P. HAGBERG, living about nine
! miles north of New Ulm, in Sibley coun-
ty, lost his stable, span of horses, sew
eral hundred bushels of grain, and all
his farm machinery, by FIRE last Satur-
day.
R0BBER1Es and other criminal depre-
dations have become so fragrant in Dun.
, das, Rice county, that "vigilance com
mittee" is talked OF to punish the offend
? ers, in the absence of the application of
legal penalties.
The friends of David Vaughan,
brakeman killed on the Southern Min
> nesota road last fall, will bring suit
, against said company for the sum of S.
GOO at the coming session of the district
> court of Houston county.
The case of DR.. VIM. A. Bailey VS..
Chisago county, in the supreme court,
has been decided in favor Of the county.
The decision of the court being that one
, county commissioner cannot bind the
county.
, AT Eyota, Olmsted county, Calvin
Brooks shot and badly wounded John
Leaden. They had both been indulging
quite freely in strong drink, and Leaden
attaked Crooks, pounding him quite Sc
, verely. Crooks having but one arm Tor
use was unable to defend himself.
The Benton County Press says that
the wolves are making sad havoc with
the farmers sheep in Gilmanton; that
Eli Griffin lost twenty-five tons of hay
by fire last Sunday, making fifty in all
burned by incendiaries; and that horse
belonging to poor man, named Flor
ence Conner, was shot last week by some
unknown miscreant.
HIRAM GRANGER, of lie Sueur Cen
; ter, while shingling his barn, missed his
J footing and fell to the ground, receiving
injuries that caused his death in ABOUT
three hours, and before medical ASSIST
ance could be procured Mr.. Granger
: was widely known and respected, ana
. his funeral was the largest ever attenoeo
\ in the county.
SLEEPY EYE is lively town just now.
3 Ratween 100 and 200 workmen are now
, engaged in building round house and
. machine shops for the Winona and st.
5 Peter. railroad company. The round.
house will have twelve stalls" and
: the machine shop is to b. quite an ex-
tensive affair. The insurance on the
property recently burned in Sleepy Eye
amounts $4,000.
, A CALL is issued for a meeting at
Lanesboro, on Tuesday, November 10Th,
of the old settlers of the southern tier OF
. counties of Minnesota who were resi-
dents of the state tr territory PRIOR to
, December 9lst, 1858, for the purpose OF
: permanently organizing an old settlers
y association. The prominent old settlers
). residing elsewhere are to receive invita-
). tions to be present.