Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A LARGE fat deer was shot near Can
non Falls village the other day.
Two young men in Hartford, Todd
county, shot two bears in one tree.
The state auditor has just sold about
two thousand acres in Pope county.
Col. MOODY, of Sank Rapids, lost
nine sheep by an inroad of worthless ours.
AT his residence in Alexandra. on the
morning of the 18th inst, Samuel Matte
son, Esq, died, in the 5sth year of his age.
OTro PHILLIPS, a German, of Daniel
son, Meeker county, had nine stacks of
wheat burned by prairie fire recently.
-LitchfeM Independent.
HENRY HUTCHEEs, of Morris, Stevens
county, claims to have found q genuine
peat deposit upon his farm. It burns
we'll, but gives out but little heat.
The Rochester and Northern Railroad
company is building a bridge about
three miles from Zumbrota, Goodhue
county, 40 feet high and over 800 feet
long.
CLARK CAMPBELL, of Reno, Pope
county, had all his oat stacks burned
from eighteen acres of land, lot of lum-
Der, stable and harness and eighteen tons
of hay.
THE remains of Charley Eartung, of
Birch Dale, Todd county, who was lost
year ago this fall, was discovered in a
tamarack swamp about two miles from
the Farm House.
P. HAGBERG, of Sibley county, re-
Gently lost a pair of colts, two granaries
nfc oil hSot nd
Loes estimated at $500. Besides he was
severely injured in the fire.
The farmers out near Marshall who
lost hay and other property by prairie
tires, are to commence action against the
section men on the Winona and St. Pc
ter railroad, for firing the grass.
SEVERAL lines have been run for a
railroad direct from White Bear to lay
lor's Falls. The work on the surveys
have thus far been completed only from
White Bear to the north line Of Wish
ington county.
A PRAIRIE fire near Kandiyohi station
destroyed about nine tons of hay and
md forty rods of fence for A. A. Sodren,
and sixteen tons of hay belonging to 9,
Garrison. Both of these men came near
losing their buildings.'
r. A. IRWIN, ESQ.,, of Belle PLANE,
met with q serious accident recently.
Owing to defect in the sidewalk, he fell,
seriously injuring his wrist by cutting
the radial artery and several Of the
branch arteries, and losing a gallon of
blood.
THE case of Vaughn va. the southern
Minnesota Railroad Company, has been
tried at Caledonia, and verdict render
ed for $780, The claim was for 5000.
1t will be remembered that Vaug was
killed in the yard, at Hokah, l. Oc-
tober.
JACK NORRIS, of Morris, Stevens
county, lost between thirty and forty
; tons of hay by late prairie fire. BE
had burned around his stacks, but the
furious gale of wind swept the flames
across the burned strips and into his
sticks.
On last Tuesday night a storm swept
over Hartland, which for severity has
had no equal for some time. The school
house, which was raised and sheeted to
the plates, was caught by the wind, car
ried from the foundation and smashed to
pieces Waseca Radical.
Mrs. MARTIN CARTR1GHT, living in
Faribault county, was taken out of bed
by two strange men, a few days ago,
gagged and taken out of the house to the
banks of creek, where she succeeded
in pulling the gag from her mouth and
screamed. Her son who heard her, came
to the rescue, and the men fed.
| WHEN 81. S. Parkins and Kelley, of
Alexandria, Douglas county, were near
James river with large drove of cattle,
Parkins accidentally discharged double
barreled shot gun into his left arm, max
ing amputation necessary. He was taken
to Fort Wadsworth, D. T., where the
rost surgeon amputated his arm half
way between the hand and the elbow.
The taial of Mrs. Townsend for the
murder of one Durham q hired man in
the employ of her husband at Clear
Lake, lost summer, took place at Buffalo
on the 18th and 18th of October. Tie
defense made out clear case of insanity
and the jury found q verdict of not
guilty. The court ordered the sheriff
to remove the prisoner to the insane
asylum.
Mrs. SARAH BRYANT, while attending
Sabbath school at the Congregational
church, left her seat and walked out
doors. It was noticed she appeared i'll,
and her daughter FASTENED to her relief.
As soon as possible she was carried home,
but she expired in ten minutes after
reaching her residence. The doctors
agree on apoplexy as the cause of her
death.-Anoka Union.
JUDGE BRILL, of the Ramsey county
district court, decides that 50 much of
the election laws, passed last winter, as
requires the numbering of ballots to cor
respond with a numbered poll list is I'M
constitutional, because opposed to the
principle of secret ballot. The law is
peculiarly stringent and has attracted
much attention. 1tapplies only to cities
having population of $4,000 and up
ward.
A NAN working about threshing ma
chine on the farm of Adam Marks had
been in oiling the horse power, and was
struck down by one of the sweeps and
carried between two wheels, passing
through a space of about four inches,
breaking his collar bone and pressing his
heart over to the right side. The patient
lived until Friday night, when death re-
lieved him of his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Republican.
CHEF ENGINEER MORRIS was up this
week, accompanied by G. S. Hurlburt,
agent of the Minneapolis Millers' Asso-
citation. Mr.. Morris marked out the
ground for the associations twenty five
thousand bushel grain house, which will
be built as soon as the cars can bring in
the lumber. Next spring the associa-
tion will build a seventy-6ve thousand
bushel elevator and handle the grain by
steam power.-Alerandria Post.
HERMAN Won HADELN, of Perham,
Otter Iail county, was in the woods
hunting and saw two cub bears and was
about to fire at them, when he heard a
fierce growl behind him. Turning about,
he found himself face to face with Mrs.
Bear, and her ladyship seemed inclined