Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

LIVE hogs are selling at LIE Sueur for
1915 per 100 pounds.
The legal deer hunting season COM
menced on Friday, Nov. 1st.
RICHARD F. THOMPSON, of CRANKY,
Nicolet county, died recently, at the
age of 81.
D1PTHER1A has made its appearance
at Pine Island. There have been two
fatal cases.
A MONTHLY live stock market has
been established by the board of trade of
the city of New Ulm.
WILLIAM SNYDER, of Pickerel Lake,
Freedom county, killed seventeen ducks
at one shot with gun of one barrel.
A BEAR weighing nearly fifty pounds
was killed in the town of Yucatan, Fill
more county, last week.
NJ. T. GRArTAN, of Preston, has been
relieved of tumor the size of hickory
nut, taken from the right cheek.
Henry BURY, Of the township of
Belle Prairie, Morrison county,, was
drowned recently in Rice lake, near Mile
Laos lake.
A DAUGHTER of Michael Anderson, Of
RichIand, Freedom county, aged 20
years, died almost instantaneously few
days since.
A MAN in Brown county had his arm
broken in two places by windlass, and
a little girl had her ankle put out Of
joint on turn table.
Mr. O. G. LAUGEN, senior member Of
the drug firm of Laugen & Crogstag,
Lanesboro, died in Rushford on the I'd
inst, of consumption.
JOHN BUCHANAN, a young man living
in Gordonsville, Freedom county, has
Just returned from the Black Hills, and
proves to be insane, and will be sent to
the asylum for the insane.
IT is stated that the Waukon narrow
gauge railroad is going to be made into
a broad-gauge and extended fifty miles,
!. the work to be commenced early next
spring. Fifty miles will reach Preston
A PLA1SvIEw merchant was brought
, to Wabasha last week, on a warrant, for
: insulting lady customer. Ten dollars
and costs he paid for the insult, and was
? sued on the spot for $500 personal dam
l ages.
IHE stockholders of Cannon River
Improvement company and of the Min
nesota Central Railroad will consolidate,
after which it is thought measures are
likely to be taken for the construction of
the Cannon River railroad.
A FARMER living over the Faribault
county line, near Banks postohce, had
eight wheat stacks destroyed by fire, the
work Of an incendiary, last week. It
leaves him almost destitute of wheat Tor
bread and seed.-4Uert Lee Enterprise.
a RAILROAD man had an altercs ton
with two companions at Zumbro1 on
Thursday last, and during the gu: rel
| shot them both, one in the breast, and
, the other in the arm. 1t is thought
+ that the breast wound will prove fatal.
AT Litchfeld, Meeker county, on
recent morning the dead body Of man
: was found by the side of the railroad
I track. His neck was broken, and there
5 were some bruises on his person, indicating
that he had fallen from passing train.
r On him were found a railroa; ticket and
Sc in money, but nothing TO indicate
! his name,
. MIR. BARNES, young man tor soma
time past employed in the cooper shop
:. at Colman's mill in this city, few days
since received the intelligence that
through the generosity of some reiativehe
had fallen heir to fortune Of SIS, 900.
: BE has received remittance of $500,
4. and will in few days return to his home
in Canada, and take possession of his
=, suddenly acquired wealth. Winne6ago
+ City Press.
d LAST Thursday evening Mr. I. Carlisle,
= accompanied by his little son William,
d aged ten years, was driving along with a
o load Of wheat, when going down sharp
+ pitch in the road, the little boy fell from
is the load to the ground. As he did not
e get up, the father went to him and pick
f ed him up in his arms and started for
the house, but the child died before be
IS got there. 1t is thought his neck was
It broken Vinnebago tity Press.
i As two young farmers, Christian II.
q Gustrud and Ole 81. Gustrud were pre-
o ceeding from Willmar to their home in
l. the country, their horses took fright and
ran away. Both were thrown from the
g. wagon and were taken up in an insensi-
5. BILE condition, badly injured. The
e youngest brother, Ole, soon recovered
n consciousness. The other is believed to
a be fatally injured, his skull being broken
e in several places.
- Mr.. S. D. ROUSE, while engaged with
- his ditching machine in Marshall's and
Parents meadow, in the town of St
George, plowed out pair of elk horns.
L They we're twenty-five inches beneath
n the surface, and though the prongs and
n tip ends were considerably decayed, the
e main part of the horns were in a good
Il state of preservation. It must have been
Il great many years since they were de-
g posited.-Sauk Rapids Sentinel.
y A BARN belonging to Swan Erickson,
~ farmer living in the town of Burnside
- Faribault county, was burned few
~ days since, together with 600 bushels Of
= wheat, portion being of last years.
- crop, 500 bushels of oats, 800 bushels OF
IL corn, 20 tons of hay, 2 reapers and pair
g of bob-sleds. Some horses were in the
=, = barn when the fire was first noticed, but
~ ~ they we saved. There was 81 900 on The
o building and grain; but the loss will ex'
!, coed that by about $2,00o.-Canno'
- Falls Beacon.
y Col. CROOKS, Of St. Paul, received the
J. sad intelligence, few days since
n through telegram addressed to Major
e G. J. Allen, United States engineer corps,
d that his son William, aged II, had been
le drowned in Lake Pokegama, in Akin
d county, together with two companions
named Bliss Stewart and George Cum
n ningham, by the capsizing of their
d canoe. The young man left st. Paul
h August sth with a United States sur
: veying party under Rufus Davenport
e and Mr.. McCallom.
i Grating Operation on an Eye.
n The Syracuse, n. Y, Journal reports a
It remarkable surgical operation. The eye
e of workman in an iron foundry was
injured by some molten iron being spat-