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 4,
Zumbrota in few weeks.
The Near, says there is not vacant
residence in Alexandria and plenty Of
applicants for houses.
The strawberry vines are blo5soming
for the second time in some localities IN
Minnesota.
i JOHN FAHEY, former resident in
Hastings, has fallen a victim to yellow
fever in Memphis.
WIN. CHASE, of Richland, Pine cou1-
tv, lost the wheat from twen1y-eight
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 :.nc.
Pine Island.
THERE are a great many cases OF
typhoid fever in the county, and quite
number have proven fatal Glencoe En-
terpriss.
AIoUNG married woman was burned
to death recently by prairie tire. 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 WASHINGTON, 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, Oh
the northern boundary of the state. IN
few days. The connection with Wine
peg will thus shortly be made.
TIE 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 Earti!
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 a
depth of thirty feet from the surface OF
the ground, the petrifed trunk or branch
of a tree was found, six inches in diane
ter.
Mrs. JOSEPH HOWARD, Ct Chattield,
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
q side on the evening of the 10th inst.
t She had gone to visit a neighbor, ard il
is supposed that she was Frustrated by
heart disease.
}. J. P. HAGBERG, living about nine
D miles north of New Ulra, in Siblev coun-
. ty, lost his stable, span Of horses. sew
eral hundred bushels of grain, and all
L his farm machinery, by fire last Satur-
day.
RoBBER1Es and other criminal depre-
. dations have become SO fragrant in Dun
= das, Rice county, that a vigilance com
, mittee" is talked Of to punish the offend
Y ers, in the absence of the application OF
legal penalties.
! TAE friends of David Vaughan, a
l-o l-;11o1 fho SOrfHar Min
: nesota road last fall, will bring suit
: against said company for the sum of S.
> 600 at the coming session Of the district
; court of Houston county.
: TIE case of Dr. VIM. A. Bailey VS..
u Chisago county, in the supreme court,
has been decided in favor Of the county.
The decision of the court being that one
8 county commissioner cannot bind the
i county.
|, AT Eyota, Olmsted county, Calvin
e Brooks shot and badly wounded John
b Leaden. They had both been INDUCING
= quite freely in strong drink, and Leaden
s attaked Crooks, pounding him quite St
|, yerelv. Crooks having hut one arm for
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
bv fire last Sunday, making fifty in all
. burned by incendiaries; and that a horse
:. belonging to a poor man, named Flor
! ence Conner, was shot last week by some
+ unknown miscreant.
s HIRAM GRANGER, of lie Sueur Cen
+ 1,~ Ia oh III, b,..~,, ,,oiSSe1 his
t footing and fell to the ground, receiving
) injuries that caused his death IN aoout
d three hours, and before medlcat assist
d ance could be procured Mr. granger
j. was widely known and respecteu' an9
e his funeral was the largest ever a''enoeo
n in the county.
e S1rEpy EYE is lively town just now.
Is Ratween 100 and 200 workmen are now
% ENGAGED in building a round house and
e machine shops for the Winona and St.
IS Peter railroad company. The round,
h house will have twelve "stalls," and
r the machine shop is to b. quite An ex-
re tensive affair. The insurance on the
y property recently burned in Sleepy Eye
&c amounts $4,000.
y A CALL is issued for meeting at
=. Lanesboro. on Tuesday, November 10Th,
d of the old settlers of the southern tier OF
q. counties of Minnesota who were resi-.
ia dents Of the state sr territory prior tC
20 December Slst, 1858, for the purpose OF
- permanently organizing an old settlers
~ association. The prominent old settler
r. residing elsewhere are to receive invita-
r. tions to be present.