Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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"A LITTLE daughter|of N. A. Sumner,
Of the town of Sergeant, Mower county,
was scalded to death, last week.
FILLMORE county paid out during
last year the sum of 1894 for wolf scalps
the largest amount paid by any county
in the state.
LYMAN 81. TUCKER, of Scambler, had
about 400 bushels of wheat and barley
burned in the stack by fire from steam
| thresher.
Mr.. D. VALENTINE, q farmer living
two miles northeast of Cannon Falls
was badly gored by vicious bull be-
longing to himself.
| /. A.. HUNT, of Mortified, Rice
county, had rib broken, and was other
wise severely injured by kick from a
horse.
D1PHrHERlA is making sad ravages in
Mankat0 and some of the adjoining
towns. Mr.. Randall of Mankato, lost
four children last week from this disease.
All the schools have been closed.
A LITTLE daughter of Mr.. Roscoe,
living about ten miles south of Wadena,
was bitten by dog on Saturday last.
The brute tore off the whole side of her
face and the piece could not be found.
The people Of Monticello have voted
in favor of giving the right of way to
the Minneapolis and S.. Cloud railway,
provided the road is built through that
village anda depot is established there.
MOSES STAR TITUS, one of the earliest
Of. the early settlers of Shakopee, died
on the 22d inst. He was a nephew of
the Rev. Samuel W. Pond, of Shakopee,
and Of the late Rev. Gideon Pond, of
Hennepin county.
Two HUNDRED car loads of iron are
at Fairnont, to be used on the Southern
Minnesota extension from that place to
Jackson, and the quantity is being in
creased at the rate of ten or twelve car
loads per day.
LAST Friday, ten miles south of Lake
Kampeska, George Owens was shot and
instantly killed by George Ball. Ball
had an examination before a Justices
court, and in light of the evidence pre-
sented he was acquitted.
FIVE canoes loaded with Indians made
their appearance last week on Lake
Eliza, near Pelican Rapids, for the pur-
pose OF SHINING the cranberry marsh at
that place. The settlers hearing Of the
fact mustered force and drove them off.
Fergus Falls Journal.
| The stockholders of the Cannon VAL
ley Agricultural and Mechanical Asso-
citation have voted to sell their grounds,
thirty acres, near Faribault, MINI, if a
sum can be realized sufficient to pay
their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $500. The
| improveme Mt alone cost about $4,000.
A TRUST deed giving to New York
parties the Southern Minnesota Exten-
sion company tor the sum of 81, 200, 900,
to be used in completing their road was
fled in the registers Office at Jackson
last week. 1t covers upwards of twenty
pages, and conveys all the company's
lands from Winnebago city to the state
line.
FIVE or six families of Polanders ar
rived by railroad at Sank Rapids, Ben
ton county, and proceeded in teams on
their way to the town of Alberta, where
they intend to settle. About thirty fam
lilies of these people are yet to arrive
here this fall, and will settle in Alberta.
-Sauk Rapids Sentinel.
GEN. JOHN N1N1NGRR, one of the
pioneers of St. Paul, the founder of the
town of Nininger, and the husband of a
sister Of ex-Gov. Ramsey, died suddenly
at his plantation, near Montgomery, Ala,
the other day, of malarial fever. His
wife and daughter-the latter a dis.
tinguished prima donna-are now TEN.
porarily residing in Europe.
LAST year the assessment OF the grass.
hopper counties was placed very low and
allowed to remain so. This year they
demanded the same discrimination in
their favor, but the state board insisted
on an increase somewhat proportional tc
the increase in their prosperity. The
equalization between village and farm
property is said to be the fairest that
has been made for years.
DURING the month of July and An
gust the Ancient Order of United
Workingmen of Minnesota paid $4,000
for five deaths of members of the orde,
that have occurred since May LIST, each
family of the deceased being paid $4,000
The order is now called upon to pay g..
500 for the members of the order in the
south who are suffering from yellow
fever.
THE prospectors for coal at Dresbach,
Winona county, are still confident OF
success. The impression prevails in
Dresbach that vein of coal has beer
struck. Be this as it may. the prospect
ors absolutely refuse to sell any share
!, in their enterprise, and the addition tt
their working force is, to say the least, 8
fair Indication that their efforts have not
been entirely futile.
SOME dastardly villain applied the
torch to Eli Grifin's hay stacks, situated
near Fort Ripley, undoubtedly with the
intention of burning the whole lot
. about 20 tons-but fortunately only
about half of that amount was destroy
ed. Other parties in the same locality
have also had their hay burned, and it il
estimated that not less than 800 tons
have been destroyed by incendiaries the
past two months.-Sauk Rapids Press.
MICHAEL SP1LANE, ST., a farmer re
siding near Meriden, Waseca county, or
Tuesday last had his barn, granary, sheds
and one hundred tons of hay destroyed
by fire, besides one thousand bushels OF
oats and between seven and eight hun
dred bushels of wheat. There was also
burned one stack of wheat, one McCor.
mick reaper and part of another, plows
cultivators and other farming utensils
to the amount of about $500. The total
loss is estimated at about $4,000.
A MAN named G. P. johnson, of New
Sweden, died in singular manner last
week. He had been working in the
harvest field with his brother, and about
4 O'Clock in the afternoon they went to
the house and ate some bread and milk,
and Immediately afterwards he said he
was sick, but his brother laughed at him
for eating SO heartily and then complain
ing of being sick. He, however, went
back to work, and in about an hour
jumped about two or three feet high and
fell to the ground. His brother went to
his assistance, and although he was help
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