Stevens County tribune., 1878-11-21

now engaged In constructing the trestle
work for the last long span for the new
bridge.
Somewhere in the vicinity of thirty thou
sand bushels of wheat have been shipped
from Rice's Station, Benton county, this
seasen.
Samuel Randall, of Mankato, has lost five
children this, fall by that dreaded disease
diptheria, and eight in all during his resi-
dence in Mankato. The afflicted family are
now childless.
It is stated that the Waukon narrow gauge
railroad is going to be made into broad
gauge, and extended fifty miles, the work to
be commenced early next spring. Fifty
miles will reach Preston.
Miss Annie Buttruf, of Lake City, five
days after the removal of an ovarian tumor
which weighed seventeen and one-half
pounds, was pronounced by her physician,
DIR. Crary, who has charge of the af'er treat
ment of the patient, to be doing well.
Luverne (Rock county, Herald: A fine
span of mares of Norman stock and valued
at $500, were smothered to death by the
breaking down of a bin of oats in the loft
of a barn belonging to their owner, Mr.
Chase, about three miles north of town.
dI1OduLI 1bGpUUtECOUs 1ODNDC OuOS0
81. A. Scandrett received a telegram an
nouncing the death of his father, which had
occurred from a gun shot wound received
while hunting. Mr.. Scandrett took the first
train for Pittsburg, Pa, whore his father re-
sided.
Lake City (Wabashaw county, Sentinel.
Some mischievous cuss tied three of the
telegraph wires together with a cord near
Eggleston, the night of the election, which
interrupted the transmission of messages for
number of hours before the trick was dis
covered.
A fve-foot vein of coal. slate and fire clay
has been found at Dresbach, near Winona,
and is believed to be an outcrop or part of
continuous vein. The drill has pierced
the following strata in descending 116 feet:
Ten feet of sand rock, "a feet of gray slate,
12 feet of dark sand rock, 3 feet of coal and
slate mixed, 10 feet black sand rock. 90 feet
of gray slate, / foot dark hard rock, feet
gray slate, 13 feet of black slate, 5 feet coal
slate and fire clay mixed, and feet of sand.
Elk River Star: There is not. another
county in the State, of the same size, that is
SO well fixed, financially, as Sherburne coun-
ty. A good court house has been built dur
ing the year, which is all paid for without
lar of debt of any kind, and there is the nice
little sum of about two thousand dollars in
the county treasury. The county revenue
tax this year is only three mills on the dol
lar, and lower than it has been before for
several years. These are facts that speak
for themselves and which suit the intelligent
people of this county.
Mankato ReUiew: Waseca county recently
had seven prisoners in the Mankato jail.
The court was in session there last week,
and the following were tried and disposed
of: Abe Warner, for larceny at Smith
Mills, six years in the penitentiary; John
Miller and Henry Moran, one year and
three months each in the penitentiary;
Frank Boyd and Chas. Douglas, each three
months in the county Jail to await the next
term of court and answer to another indict-
ment; Scribner, the bigamist, was acquitted.
The witnesses against him were two of his
wives, their testimony and marriage certif-
Gates not being admissible evidence.