Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Freeman Pearson, of Zumbrota, had
horse stolen from his stable the other night.
Two of the three prisoners who broke
! Jail in Red Wing in August, have been re-
taken.
George Anderson. of Granite Falls, got
his hand caught in threshing machine and
lost two fingers.
An incendiary fire lately occurred III Lake
City by which an unoccupied house was en-
tirely destroyed.
Charles G. Stenberg, of Carver county,
aged SO wears. commrIueu su1c1ue Dy cutting
his throat with a razor.
St. Charles Times. Sept. s. Corn is out
of the way of the frost and the farmers are
cutting it and putting it in shock. This is E
great corn State.
Charles Rice, of St. Charles. Winons
machine, and it was go -n,angled as to make
amputation necessary.
Miss Lydia Austin. late natron of the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Fa1ibault, was
seriously and it was at first thought fatally
injured by fall from buggy.
4 tramp fire at Morristown. Rice county.
caused the destruction of cooper-shop-
contents 10000 shaved hoop poles, tools and
other property. Loss over $1,000.
Two desperadoes horse thieves, in Jail III
Stearns county, made a desperate effort to
break iail The sheriff has put bracelets
upon them. and confined them in cells. They
will stay.
Fires have been raging in the woods for q
distance of 100 miles along the north shore
of Lake Superior. The fire started back of
Duluth. and at the last accounts had entend~
o.} hee ond Silver Islet.
A prize ring fight between two roughs
| took place in Red Wing. The light lasted
! an hour and fifteen minutes. 1t resulted III
draw game. and the two bullies being
| thoroughly exhausted. cried quits shook
hands and agreed to call it even.
| The dead body of John Schroeder Was
found in the town of Pennington. He was
possessed of small sun, Of money. He
was last seen about in company with Fred
Hittman. All the circumstances point to
! Hittman as the murderer. Officers are II.
pursuit of him.
Warren Brayton, of New Haven township,
Dodge county, while in the bush WITH his
gum had the hammer accidentally caught By
a twie. and the contents discharged into his
| arm between the shoulder and the elbow.
No bone was injured. but the flesh wound
was very severe one.
Shakopee argus: A whole family have
been swept away by that dire disease, con-
sumption. About two years ago Mr.. Thom-
as McGrath. of Glendale, died. Afterwards
| his widow died. Since her death four or her
| children have died, all of consumption.
John. an excellent young man of % years.
is the last victim, whose death occurred
few days ago.
Fergus Falls 4idcocate, Sept. 6: Mr..
Ames, of Alexandria,, collecting agent for
Tom Cowing, is continually travelling over
this county, and from the nature OF his
},nsiness paws particular attention to the
CROPS. he estimates the average yield for
the county at between twenty and twenty-one
bushels to the acre. H. NJ. Wangness.
Trondihem, has threshed, his wheat yielding
nineteen bushels to the acre, and oats seventy
bushels. Louis Nelson's wheat went seven
teen bushels, and Peter Hset's twenty three
bushels, both in the neighborhood of Pelican
Rapids.
A robber went into the house of a MIR. Gun
thor near Mankato. Mrs Gunther was
: alone: her husband was some distance away.
=. at work on the farm. The fellow told her
he wanted her money; she replied she had
, J none for him. He declared he would search
, the house and proceeded to do it. She
7 rushed out and made an outcry, caAlng nef
: husband. The william started to leave when
she seized him bravely, hoping to detain him
till her husband came, but he broke violently
, away from her grasp, and ran into the
> woods. Her husband coming, she described
: the tramp. Mr.. .Gunther took gun and
1 went in pursuit, but could not find him.
The other day in Reed & Sherwood's saw
= mill at Anoka the saws run on to seven diff
d ferent pieces of iron and steel which some
v miserable and dastardly william had driver
INTO the logs, in spirit of revenge. Ont
n of the circular saws had a great number o
% teeth knocked out, utterly running it TO
further work, while another was injured con
y ! siderably. Fourteen gang. saws also sutteret
" the loss of teeth, and altogether pecunlar:
:, loss of not less than $500 has been causet
r TO- the proprietors, besides the lite g 9
n almost every man who works IN the mill en-
!. daneered. Considering the danger +
# human life, nothing less than the spirit Q
le q fiend could influence the 5pespetration o
: such an outrage. 2l:.4 -. :s; ~ EA~>T