Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-05

AuuOeIS ylelO up CuolT A1VeS 10 Tie IreaCNer-
O, 8 waters, their bodies being washed to the
shores. $40, the poor INDIAN" predicts
from this strange emigration hard winter.
St. Cloud Journal-P Press: While Charles
Jewell was at work in Tufts camp, making
ties for the extension of the st. Cloud Il st.
Vincent railroad, his ak slipped, splitting mis-,
GOT from the great toe to the instep. He
was brought to this city and had the injuries
dressed by DR.. Gilman, after which he started
for Minneapolis.
brave, intelligent, enterprising wife is
of value inestimable. Such an one is the
wife of Major T. r. Toole, advertising agent
of Forepaugh's show. The ma jor being tenn
porarily confined by sickness, she took up
his work and passed through the towns as
the forerunner of the great show, duly ad
vertising the advent of the same-and she
did the work we'll. 'i.'
The dead body of man was found on the
roadside in clump Of bushes, between Rose
mount and Mendoza. The body was much
decayed, but was supposed to be that of
John Shannon, who had been missing for
some time. He is supposed to have been
murdered, as he was known to have had $50
in money in his pockets. Two bullet holes
were found in his breast.
Rochester Record md CN50n:: Chas.
Fosdick, of Salem, had the needle of Chap
man binder run through one of his hands,
recently, making terrible wound, He cut
the flesh from around the wound himself,
and did not call physician to attend him
until this week. His hand is in q bad con-
dition. John Bint, who lives north of Farm
Hill, had the needle of a Chapman binder
run through the deshy part Of his arm, tear
ing ing the flesh badly. It is getting we'll, how
ever. ,.,:
III Buffalo, Wright county, the harvest is
over and farmers feel the need of rest, They
say it has been the most tlresome and inger-
ing harvest ever experienced in the county,
owing to the immense growth of straw,
much of which was badly lodged, excessive
heat and the scarcity of help. They feel
quite we'll satisfied with their crop. 1t is
not No. in quality, but the quantity is
good. What wheat has been threshed in
that vicinity yields from twenty to twenty
| five bushels per acre, oats, forty to fifty. -!
LIE Sueur Sentinel, Aug 20: We learn that
| fifty to fifty-two pounds; to the Dushel,
ground by Chas. Haverland, at the old Paul
mill, near town.. produced twenty-five
pounds of -four after having been tolled,
which, with the toll, would require
| about 6 IL. bushels. of wheat. for, a
barrel of flour, and we learn that ct
some other mills it; is claimed that seven
| bushels. are consumed in making barrel.
The relative; prices are about IS cents per
bushel for No. l, and As cents for rejected,
which leaves the millers over 81 in favor of
the rejected wheat in making a barrel of
of flour. IL or ....,.... "a r..
Caledonia (Houston county, Courier, Aug,
20: Wheat is turning out much better than
| was expected. Mr.. Ed. Stewart threshed
| last week, and it is said his wheat turned ont
we'll, much of it grading No. and, No. 9.
Mr.. J. H. Cooper threshed his on Monday, a
| sample of which we saw, and which will,
Swhen properly: cleaned, grade No.; 2. We
understand that. some of !. it weighed
nearly sixty pounds to the sbushel.
! George ~!r Grove, s7 of Mound II. Prairie,,
threshed from field seven and one-half
acres of golden drop wheat, 157 bushels, or
nearly twenty bushels to the acre., VIM.
Orr, Of the same locality, had field of white
amber wheat which averaged seventeen bush
els to the acre, and a field of fife that turned
out ten bushels to the acre. Another farmer
in the locality claims to have fifty acres that
will yield seventeen bushels to the acre
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