Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.


A YOUNG daughter of VIM. Blowers,
of Waseca, was burned 10 death re-
Gently.
ABOUT $1,000 gallons Of Chinese amber
syrup we're produced in WatOnWan coun-
ty last autumn.
MRS. LA BoSTE, a French woman,
living in Cleveland township, LSueur
county, died on the 4th inst, ut the age
of 1O4 years.
IT is 1umored that Gen. LIE Due in
tends to plant one hundred acres Of tea
on his eighty acre lot joining Landlow-
Hastings New Era.
PETER MONTAGUE, living four miles
from Mankato, had his shanty burned
the other day and in it his youngezt
child, aged 10 months.
The steam Touring mill at New Dlm
is using the bran made in the mill for
fuel, claiming that bran at S. a ton is
cheaper fuel than wood at 81 per cord.
FRANK FoCRSJER, barber at Fair
mont, Martin county, committed suicide
by taking corrosive poison. Love Of
liquor is the principie cause assigned for
the act.
MRS. JOSHUA KIDNEY, of Miadletown,
Jackson county, took corrosive subljmate
by mistake. Her life was saved by
prompt remedies administered by
physician.
PLA1Ev1Ew Nepe: Mr.. Thomas
Hanabury, brakeman on the P]ainview
railroad, has experienced an unusual
streak Of luck, having recently received
a legacy Of some forty or fifty thousand
dyliars.
CHARLES II. CRANE, living near
Rochester, killed wild cat, recently,
weighing twenty-eight and one-half
pounds. His dog had brought tie cat
to bay in a 1hicket where Mr.. Crane
killed it with pitcLfo,k.
THE Minneapolis millers are expert
menting with machinery for compress
ing bran, for the purpose Of shipment TO
Europe. Il is believed that it caD be Sc
compressed as to get as much We ght into
a given package as the same would hold
of -four.
The Wabasha Herald published the
marriage at that place, On the 81 inst,
: of Benjamin Stagner and Mary Berg,
and Gideon II. Stagner ard Miss Theresa
Berg. The bridegrooms are brothers,
.. while the brides hear relationship 10 one
; another as twin sisters.
r DURING the fall and winter past, the
, diphtheria has prevailed to a large extent
in the town of Lime, Blue Earth county,
and thirteen deaths in all have occurred.
The progress Of the disease can he clear.
e their visiting back and forth during the
2 sickness.
The late James Neville, who was killed
. by falling from bridge at Mount
: Pleasant, Iowa, recently, was Ole Of the
pioneers of Winona, coming to Winuna
i in 1852. He was about thirtysiz years
;. of age, unmarried, and leaves an aged
y father and brother living in Winona, be-
d sides one sister in California.
Is The other day two teamsters met on a
t. road near Red Wing, and each refused
l. to give half the way. A quarrti and s
< fight ensued, when one inflicted ter
!. rible wound with an az on the head 0!
S. the other. The blow was glanc;Dg one
" and the skull was rot penetrated. The
y wounded man is likely to recover.
a CEAs. EssLER, son of ". c. Eszler
=, - met with g very serious accident OF the
II 1st inst. While taking OF q heat Al
e. the foundry, he tapped the cupola, enc
y a drop of molten iron struck him il ont
y eye, entering the eyeball. The iron wa
e, afterwards taken out, but it is feared b
~ will lose the sight of the eye.-.St. Pete
n Tribune.
e TIE school house of Iberia: Brown
70 county, was entirely DESTROYED by fir,
y few nights since, with all the furniture
II books, etc. Thou Oh tie building zsoot
,e in the midst Of the village, and tn
g. nearest house was only four rods dis
tant, no person knew of the fire until tn
morning dawned, when a heap Of ashe
and smouldering emhers alone remained
y A GANG Of rondies, men and boys
y some forty or fifty in number, in IL
r town of Brainerd, assailed Z drunkel
=. Indian with snow balls, brici.hats AM
ii hootings, till the poor creature, nlaCdene'
d and sobered By their abuse, turned upol
# his prosecutors with drawn knife. 81,
IF giving a terrific war whoop, sent tn
Il crowd flying i'll every direction, whel
is one of the m;screants drew a rvvolve
e. and fred upon the Indian, breaking on
t. of his legs.
/; A YOUNG man by the name OF JOIN
t. Beckes, who was working fer Henri.
1e Court, Of Hampton, met with a painful
IN death on the >ih inst by the caviug i
es of a we'll which buried him unde
ut twenty. two feet Of earth. Help vas in
1e mediately summoned and the work Q
q; digging him out continued from Sn'c }oc
~ P. N. on Saturday until O'Clock sur
er day morning. He was alive, AID spok
e. to his deliverers, but died il q f=v mc
X ments after his release.
Is On Friday, March I, Knut To]i1 fsou
as a we'll known citizen Of Meeksr county
le rusiding about six miles north, at G
W Forest City, committed suicide, III Pau
pc sons timber. about one mile south OF hi
ne farm, by hanging himself to 3 tree
n Mr.. Tollefson committed the set Will
le under depression Ct spirits, occasioned
lis it is supposed, by domestic troubles. Tn
re deceased was about 30 years old, an
er leaves a wife and several children, til
ne eldest about Is years Of age.
e.; Ware this week called upon to recor
er three deaths from diphtheria in TIE fan
~ lily of Tor Torsen, of tie town of Roser
~ dale, of whose illness mention was mad
e1 in our last issue. The first death OF
le CURED at 3 o'clock Monday morning
as Henry, aged years, being the victim
as The next was the baby Nellie, aged l
at months, who died about o'clock O
~ Tuesday morning. Ten hours later 81
us wss followed byJennie, aged II. Hsnr
70 and the infant we're buried Tue day al
u ternoon. Two others are sick, Charll
VI and Knudt, aged respectively II and
':e Charlie is very low and will not recover
lis st. James Journal.
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ne Tame Birds.
lls A correspondent of Land and Hatt
y gives these Interesting instances OF tn
ae tameness of birds: ! had jsckda'