Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
TIE state auditor sold $500 acres OF
state land in Jackson county.
DONALD STEVENSON has laid out
forty-acre addition to Osakis village.
A WILDCAT was killed on the farm OF
Mr.. Green, of Janesville, the other day.
The Elk River Star has news of
granite quarry about three miles west Of
Big Lake.
A LAMP exploded in the house OF John
Wheeler, of Iosco county, causing its
total destruction.
TRACK laid within nine miles of Alex
andria, and coming at the rate OF mile
a day.-Alerandria Post.
Mr.. D. MCKINNEY and wife, who
was the first lady settler IN Bralnerd,
have removed to Bismarck.
The new bridge ACROSS the Missis-
sippi at ST. Cloud has been accepted by
the city council and opened for travel.
MR. A. G. CARR, of St. James, had the
misfortune to have his pocket 1ified by
five roughs while on his way to New
York.
A MAN near Fergus Falls sold this
year 5000 fruit trees, and $4,000 shrubs,
such as raspberries, gooseberries cur
rants, etc.
The Isanti County Press says theretis
an unusual demand for oxen for the
woods this fall. They are bringing from
500 to 1925.
TIE Benton County Press tells how a
poor widow was swindled by her spirit
ual adviser out of over 81 900, but oes
not give names.
The railroad company has decided to
locate it's station midway between Jack
son and Fairmont On section seven, near
Temperance lake.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
Red Wing board of trade recommending
that the city give bonus of $4,000 TO
any company that would build stand
ard road between Red Wing and Mankato.
FRANK HoAR killed very large she
bear about two miles and half east OF
town which weighed about $50 pounds,
and which was 50 fat that the fat on her
back was five inches thick.-Rush Clty
Post
Mr.. DEWITT, of Marshall, Lyon
county, was burned out a short time ago
by a prairie fire, losing seventy-fve tons
Of hay, and the wheat grown on twenty
five acres of land. A Nh. BogaIdis,
also, lost his house.
G. w. TAUGHT, Esq, residing near
Elysian, has manufactured this fall L.
500 gallons of very fine syrup. He sold
$50 gallons at New Richland On Thurs
; day last. This be made from seven acres
of ground Wa ecu Radical.
AT Minnesota Fails Mr.. Dibble lost all
his hay, top buggy, several hogs, hay
vester, grain, etc. w. F. Skinner ali bis,
wheat; Geo. Odds quite an amount Il
wheat; II. Hodgkins his wheat, and WI :.
Dodge all his hay by prairie fires.
The St. Peter Tribune announces tae
death of Jesse II. Durham, of Hebrcnz
? Nicollet township. Nh. Dunnam was 8
. prominent citizen of his town, was post
, master at Hebron, and represented his
= district in the legislature in 1872.
2 Mr.. A. II. WILCOX, of Detroit, Becker
, county, with party OF surveyors, mar
, rowly escaped death from prairie fires:
7 recently near the Cheyenne river, in Da-
t kota, during gale of wind. He ran
) race for dear life, and finally reached
: place of safety.
REV. CHAs. T. CoER, of St. Peters
7 parish, Shakopee, will take his family
south for the winter, but expects to re-
turn to Minnesota next spring, in TIM
: to attend the twenty'second annus-
council of the diocese, Of which he i
secretary, and which meetsin June.
IT is stated that the Waukon narrow
gauge railroad is going to be made int
! a broad gauge, and extended fifty miles,
the work to be commenced early next
spring. Fifty miles will reach Preston.
, This is the road recently purchased by
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy COM
pany.
JOHANNES NELSON, an old resident
and highly respected farmer of Spring
t Garden, south of Cannon Falls, died
3 very suddenly last Sunday evening. he
q was in perfect health apparently an
e hour before his death, which took place
q in a few minutes after he was found to
Z be ill.
$ JOHN HoMPE, of Deer Creek, was shot
Z in the left hip on Saturday morning.
Who ever made the shot did it with a
shot gun charged with buckshot, two Of
which struck Mr.. Hompe, one entering
: the feshy part of the hip, and one hit
ting his pocketbook and glancing off,
1 Wddena Tribune.
A BARN belonging to Swan Erickson,
farmer living in the town of Burnside,
i. Goodhue county, was burned on Thurs
. day last, together with 900 bushels of
wheat, a portion being of last year :
crop, 800 bushels of oats, 800 bushels of
corn, 90 tons Of hay, two reapers and
= one pair of bobsleds.
= The Southern Minnesota railroad de-
- pot at Jackson will be located about &
half mile from the village, and the road
;. between town and the depot will be
o graded, widening it to forty feet, gravel
:, ed and made easy for the heaviest loads
p and presenting 8 view when entering
J, town romantic in the extreme.
A PAINFUL accident occurred near the
n stone crusher on the Rochester road
Monday afternoon. Aaron Stafford, en-
e ployed driving one of D. A. Crego's
IS teams, slipped and fell under a wagon
. loaded with stone, which passed over his
s leg below the knee, the enormous weight
producing serious fracture.-La<e City
Sentinel
e The house of Ole J. Tollerud, of Free
b man, Freedom county, was recently
!, struck by lightning. The lightning
= came down through the stove pipe. At
y the time little boy was sitting in front
of the stove playing with little dog,
which was struck and instantly killed.
The BOY was knocked down senseless
and did not recover for long time. A
!, little girl sitting short distance from
a the boy had her feet badly blistered' but
:. otherwise was not injured. A very mar
+ row escape, to say the least, to the boy
: THIS is a big year for corn. The re.
| 4nrns from the huskinps now verify all