Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-02
MINNESOTA NEWS,

ounty.
THERE were 1l8 marriages and d.
orces in the county of Dakota during .
he year 1878. .
WILSON FL. CULBERTsoN, one of the =
Id residents of Saratoga, died in that -,
own on the 10Th ult.
MICHAEL KINsELLA, An old resident j
# Saltwater, dropped dead in his store ,
While waiting on customer. =.
If this thing keeps on there will be no
'oung man left to stand up with the last
20 be married. WobQsha Herald.
ONE s. E. Fillmore, claiming to be a
awyer, has been lodged in Freedom
county Jail, on charge of forgery.
A FATHER and son in Nicollet county
recently married two sisters. The con-
andrum il, what relation do the relatives
sustain to each other?
PETER NJ. PETERSON, living near
Atwater, lost two children last week
from diphtheria. They were girls, aged
four and ten.
The other day a wildcat hunt was Or
ganized at Roberts Lake, Rice county,
and the result was the killing of two
large wildcats out of four seen.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs. Or.
Flood, at Mantorville, was severely
scalded about its neck on Christmas
morning, by the upsctting OF cup Of
hot fluid.
The Dresback and Davis Brothers'
mining company, who have discovered
an extensive coal deposit in Mower couu
ty, have secured a lease of 10000 acres
OF land preparatory to sinking shafts.
The settlers in Benton county are en-
ragged at the wholesale slaughter of deer
in the woods in that county, by the
Mile Lac redskins, and threated war
if the thing continues another season.
Hon. WINTHROP You've, special adj
ministrator to the estate of the late Ovid
Pinncy, of Minneapolis, filed an inven-
tory of the personal property Of MIR. Pin
ney, showing total valuation of $l23,-
390.24.
SHERMAN BRUNsoN is a happy man.
He has Just received a soldiers pension
dating back to 1868. he gets stipend
Of $48 per year, and back pension to the
amount of about $700.-Litchfe!d Inde-
pendent.
A MAN by the name Of Freshman, &
cooper living at Brownsville, Houston
county, committed suicide at Fetzner
Bros. brewery at Brownsville. No rea-
son is assigned for committing the rash
deed.-Caledonia Courier.
! In this locality money can't be had
at II per cent now. Hundreds of farm
ers would gladly borrow a few hundred
dollars at that rate, and give good secur.
ity on quarter section of land, but the
money can't be found Wells Adrocatc.
A LITTLE daughter Of John Morrison of
Watopa, Wabasha county, aged four
years, was accidentally scalded to death
recently. the child was playing in
front Of a stove and pulled the tea ket.
tie, which was filed with boiling water.
over her.
DANIEL DOYLE, Of Tyrone township
was thrown from q bridge by his horses
running away. His rightle leg was broker
in two places below the knee, part oil
his upper lip was cut of, and be wa!
otherwise cat and bruised. H. wa
taken up in an insensible condition ane
properly cared for.
The landlord of the Flanders Ho,e
at Madelia, Watonwan county, T. L
Vought, has the Smith Il Weston pisto
which Jim Younger had on his perso1
when captured in the woods, seven mile
west of Madelia, with his two brothers
Cole and Robert, September 81, 1876
Mr.. V. was one of the seven men VIII
went into the woods and took the tire
brothers, killing Charley Pitts.
w. C. LINCOLN, who plead guilty t.
, him for embezzlement of school none
= while treasurer of the Albert Lea di:
trict was sentenced to one year in tn
state penitentiary at hard labor and
fine of 81 ,273-double the amount of hi
r embezzlement. The full amount hs
: been returned to the district, and tn
. public sentiment is that the sentenc
e will be committed by the governor.
e ARCHIE PORTER, e child between 81
r and eight years of age, son of c. G. POI
| ter, of Litchfeld, was instantly kille
}. by the accidental discharge of piEto
e on the 18th ult. His parents had gon
t to St. Panl and Minneapolis for fe'
days, leaving him with MIR. De Coster
y family. 1t is supposed that he mus
t have taken the revolver from she
:. and started out to see playmate. b
b had gone but q short distance in tn
= yard when the pistol was discharged
9 the ball entering the stomach.
e The State Grange has just closed il
s annual session at Mortified. The coul
: ties of the state were we'll represented
e and q good degree of enthusiasm pr
Z vailed. The following officers wei
J elected for the ensuing two years, viz
- Master, Sam. E. Adams; overseer, Isas
Y NJ. Westfall; lecturer, Geo. G. Chambe
. lain; steward, David Valentine; assis
= = ant stewart. Ira E. Pierce; Chaplain
u Mrs. G. S. Scofeld; treasurer, Loren1
Hoyt; secretary, T. Tunis Smith; co
responding secretary, Mrs. Augusta ,
'' Adams; fora, Mrs. D. E. Aiken; p
e mona, Mrs. Jane G. Rice; gatekeepe
IS John D. Scofeld. The next session
j. to be held at Albert Lea.
: A Joke on Senator Grover.
/; Senator Grover is the subject of