Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-26
MINNESOTA ITEMS.


A BOY in Anoka sliding down hill run
into fence, and piece of board pene-
trated his cheek and entered his mouth.
WABAsHA boasts of SIC, $50 worth of
this year. Elgin has q
list of Improvements that foot up $685.
40.
Mr.. c. n. BRETT, an early settler of
Dover, aged seventy years, was adjudged
insane on Wednesday last and sent to
St. Peter.
JAMES P. HOLMES, who embezzled
$500 from the Zumbreta bank, plead
guilty and was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary.
A PROJECT is on foot to form a new
county out of parts of Lac qui Parle,
Yellow Medicine and Lincoln counties,
with Candy for the county seat
AT Glyndon, the Northern Pacific
railroad has a fine PERCEPTION house."
erected at cost of $40, 900, for the &C.
commodatioh OF incoming settlers.
Dr.. J. E. BOWERS, who has been q
physician at the main hospital at St.
Peter for several years, is to be superin-
tendent of the Rochester institution.
A BOY at Zumbrota started to 20 to
his home at 9 o'clock at 9 O'Clock at
night. He was chased by a pack of
wolves. He ran back to the village and
escaped.
TIE Henderson Independent says tina
Sibley county has not yet foot of rail
road, though it is actually surrounded
by railroads running within very short
distance of its boundary lines.
DENNIS DOYLE, a well known citizen
of LIE Sueur, was thrown from his wagon
by runaway team a few days ago,
and had both of his legs broken, and it
is feared sustained other serious injuries.
P. MCKAsEY, county treasurer of L.
Sueur county, has gone to New Orleans
to look up fortune of $3.50, 900 left BY
q relative who died of yellow fever.
Mr.. McKasey hopes to establish claim
to some of the money.
THoRE MILLER, living in Highland
Prairie, seven miles south of Rushford,
left his home before dinner to chop wood
on land near by. Shortly afterward he
was found dead sitting on log with his
head resting on his hands. Death en-
sued from heart disease.
The proposed separation Of Plainview
and Elgin from Wabasha county, and
annexation to Olmsted, is earnestly op-
posed by the eastern section of Wabasha
county, and would probably fail by
large majority if submitted to the peo-
pie, as it must be under the law.
AN insane Norwegian, aged % years,
Stephen Hagan by name, attacked q
ighbor, Edward Schonstad, with an
axe, inficting fortunately only a flesh
wound. His mind has been failing for
two years, but has not been considered
dangerous. He will be taken to the
asylum.
J. w. BOND secretary of the state
board of immigration, is in daily receipt
of letters from all parts of the country,
the writer's generally making application
for Mr.. Bonds pamphlet, but not few
asking for facts relating to the best
means of removing families and colonies
to Minnesota in the spring.
A BOY years old, son of G. o. Porter,
of Litchfeld, while at eighbors, shot
himself with a revolver, which had been
carelessly kept loaded on the mantle
piece. The bullet passed into the pit of
his stomach, causing nearly instant
death. The parents were absent from
home, and were teiegraphed to return.
WHILE skating, the other day, at Al
bert Lea, Mr.. John Clark and Miss Root
broke through the ice, and when found
they were clinging to the tickle ice for
dear life, only their heads above water.
When rescued they were chilled through,
although their garments we're not frozen
when going from the lake to their bone.
JOHN o. CURTIN, of Red Wing,
dropped dead few days since. He WIS
at work as usual during the day. and
after eating his supper went out to saw
some wood, when his death occurred as
stated. Heart disease is supposed to
have been the cause. he leaves wife
and three children.-Red Wing Adrocate.
TRE Mile Laos Indians were paid
their annuities some five weeks ago, and
since that time about half of what In
dams there are in the vicinity of the lake
manage to keep gloriously drunk. The
Princeton Union, which makes this
statement, also charges that the Indians
get their whisky at Little Falls and Rich
Prairie.
WILLIAM LINCOLN, who ente'el a
plea of guilty to the charge of embez-
cling the funds of the Albert Lea school
district, has been sentenced to be pun
ished by imprisonment in the state
prison, at Saltwater, at hard labor, for
the period of one year and fine of
81 ,273, which is twice the amount that
il specified in the indictment,
The third annual meeting of the Old
Settlers Association of LIE Sueur county
will be held in LIE Sueur on the second
Thursday evening in January next,
which will be on the 9th, at which time
the usual address will be delivered by
Hon. Morton S. Wilkinson. His imme-
diate predecessors in the same line were
Judge G. E. Flandrau and Gen. James
81. Baker.
RECENTLY, while Valentine Wolk, of
the town of St. Wendell, Stearns county,
was at work rolling log on sled, the
rope which he was using broke, and the
log rolled back, knocking him down and
crushing him to death. His two little
sons were with him, but the log was be-
yond their strength, and they were com
PEELED to 60 to neighboring house to
get help.
G. W. BRANT, of Mankato, has already
taken nearly 1000 muskrats this season.
The skins are worth from five to eight
cents each. Mr.. B. is the boss trapper
of that section. He makes from 800 to
5000 season trapping, besides taking
cvre of his stock and his farm. He uses
spear at present, with which he takes
the rats, and does not resort to traps
until the ice becomes too thick to use
the spear.
A YEAR ago, W. S. Cox, f1om Nevada,
county. While there he married q
young lady of that place, and, prepare
tory to settling down, he re turned to
Nevada. On his return trip he came by
the way of the Black Hills. About the
time he arrived at the Hill, q man by
the name If T.ee was murdered, and Cox