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

MlNNESOIA NEWS.
The Southern Minnesota railroad has
been completed to jackson.
WABAsHA county has sent six dele
gates to the state penitentiary this term.
BEN OLEsoN committed suicide at
by cutting his throat with a
razor.
THE county seat of Watonwan county
has lately been changed from Madelia to
st. James.
RESIDENTS of Pine island are desir-
ous of having their township annexed
to Olmstead county.
MANY of the farmers of Murray coun-
ty intend to cultivate the sugar cane ex-
tensively next season.
A SUIT is to 20 up to the Supreme
Court from LIE Sueuer on the question of
over charges by county commissioners
for their services.
Inst. Cloud last week wildcat was
caught in trap set by some children to
catch rabbits. 1t measured six feet from
tip of nose to tip of tail.
p. w. KENsLY, of Lake Prairie, has
lost eight head of cattle from eating
smutty corn, and his neighbors have lost
quite number from the same cause.
The new tax law prohibits the levy
ing of more than nine mills of tax on
the dollar for school purposes, and ten
mills on the dollar for building purposes.
On the Both ult., daughter of Mr.. B.
Meloy, of Mapleton, living with family
in the vicinity of Minnesota Lake, Blue
Earth county, was drowned in that lake.
r. E. WAINWRIGHT, for eighteen
years express agent at st. Peter, died re-
Gently. His age was 46 years. He had
lived at St. Peter for twenty years. He
was native Of Vermont.
JACKSON, in Jackson county, Plain
view, in Wabasha county, Chatfeld,
in Fillmore county, and Alexandria, in
Douglas county, are all rejoicing in the
first enjoyment of railroad benefits and
facilities.
| I'D. HARKER, of Little Falls, while
hunting deer in Wadena county, was
shot by another hunter, who, in the
bushes mistook him for deer. He had
an ugly flesh wound in the leg, but was
not fatally injured.
The first accident on the Plainview
railroad occurred few days since, at
i Elgin. Four box cars were piled up in
an unshapely mass, cansed by a car in
the middle of the train dumping the
frog" as it was passing the switch.
TIE dead body Of newborn infant
was found in Chaska near the track OF
Hastings and Dakota railroad, short
distance from Liverman's brewery. The
coroner was summoned. 1t is not
thought the guilty parties reside III
Chaska.
PIpEsroEE county has elected Mr.. F.
Whitehead county school superintend'
ent. The county is not yet organized,
but the legislature at its coming session
will be asked to legalize this action OF
the people, and the legislature, it may
we'll be presumed, will not be so ungal'
liant as to refuse.
We caution the farmers in season to
look out for the patent-right swindlers
There are several operating through the
country, claiming everything-even or
on the barbed wire fence they are ask.
, ing royalty. Kick every snooper of
, your farm, or at least consult an attor
ney before being bled.-Lake City Sen
t;enl.
MICHAEL EAGAN, an old resident O.
| Sharon township, has become violently
e insane within the past week. He ha
/ been apparently deranged for the pas
; two weeks, but his symptoms were no
i alarming until the latter part of las
week, when it required several stron'
men to mango him. Mr.. Eagan is abou
60 years old.-Le Sueur Sentinel
, The result of business in the St. Clou
+ Office for the year ending Dec. l, 1878,
n as follows: