Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
EFFORTS are being made in Faribault |
to establish sugar refinery, with cap
ital Of $4,000.
In digging we'll, at Renville, Rem
vile county, logs were found at a
depth Of thirty feet.
THE house of E. Winkleman, of Tyrone
township, Sibley county, was destroyed
by fire few days ago.
a THREE-YEAR-OLD son of William
Otto, of St. Cloud fell into the water
the other day, and was drowned.
OTTER TAIL county is receiving bids
for 100000 brick and ninety cords Of
stone for building the new court house.
LAST week the trustees of the hospital
for the insane at Rochester, appointed
A. H. Kerr steward, at salary of 81, 200
year.
LOUIS J. JOHNSON, of Burns, Brown
county, cut his throat from ear to ear
with a table-knife, ground sharp, and
a sickle section of a mower.
The Faribault council have placed
the Gcence for druggists and mannlac-
turers of malt liquors at $50, and the
general or saloon license at $3.50.
0. F. ROGERS has purchased Michael
O'Laughlin's residence farm in Mount
Pleasant, Wabasha county, and is now
engaged seeding. Consideration, &c.
600.
DIsPENsAT1oN has been granted the
Royal arch Masons in Wahasha to or
ono, T:,xh\ ~,
ne.ubcrs heve adopted the name Of
Relief Chapter of Wabasha.
CONTROLLING parties Of the St. Paul
and Pacific railroad still talk Of spur
Or branch from near this place to Buft,,-
10 Lake, thence westward between the
present lines of that road.--Deloro
Eu4|e.
PETER H. SHUTTLE had leg ampu-
tated in Willmar, the other day, to get
rid of cancer that had largely and
virulently developed itself above the
knee. His recovery is by no means
certain.
FARIBAULT city council has ordered
special election for May 18th, to vote
$4,000 bonds towards building the Can
non Valley railroad. The election in
Red Wing, for the same purpose, occurs
May II.
F., APRIL 18th, John Holtberg was to
work in the bottom of q we'll in St. Peter,
when the man at the windlass lost his
hold, and the bucket fell distance of
thlrty-two feet and struck Holtberg on
the head, intiicting q terrible wound.
JOSEPH B. FRASER, of Preston, Fill
more county, one Of the early settlers, died
last week, aged So years. He was a
native of Ohio, and located in Fillmore
in 1856. He was an enterprising and
respected citizen, He was buried with
Masonic honors.
A PRAIRIE fire across the lake from
Worthington, the other day, destroyed
four stacks and about twenty-five tons
of hay for Mr.. Hoffman. His stable was
saved by the most vigorous exertion.
One of the men who fought the fire had
his face badly burned.
News reached us last week of the
death Of Harvey D. Kellogg, aged 70
years, at Oakland, CAL, on Easter mora
ing, the 18th inst. Deceased was an
early settler of Lake Pepin valley, and
tor many years resident of this city.
He was d brother.in-law of Alexander
Dunn, of Pepin.-Lake City Sentinel.
| MINNEAPoL1s is having the measles
on the Minneapolis plan, and in several
different languages. Twelve hundred
school children are down with the ep;.
demic. Physicians report that many
children are having them the second
time, and cases are reported where the
disease has made third call.
Fo*GER PETERSON, of Brighton,
Nicollet county, was killed the other
day by being caught in the wheels of
his seed drill and thrown in between the
wheel and the seed box. His head was
terribly crushed, and when his family
found him, Immediately after, he was
dead. His team had been suddenly
started up by some running colts.
i CHARLES PREMLow was arrested the
other day at Brainerd and taken to Sank
Rapids, and had an examination before
Justice Spur on charge of committing
a rape upon two girls named Shadeau,
living in the town Of haywood, Benton
! county. The evidence was direct, full
and clear, and the prisoner was held in
$4,000 to appear at the next term OF
court, and in default Of bail was taken
to Stearns county Jail to await trial.
WHILE a small boy was driving span
OF horses to harrow on the Ingham
farm in Dover, Olmstead county, one OF
the horses started to run, and the mate
not inclining to take a part in the race
the running horse ran around the other
one and threw the harrow wrong side
up. The horses fell, one of them onto
the upturned harrow teeth. Several Of
the teeth were driven into the boo,
animal, injuring it so badly that it will
probably die. The harrow struck the
other horse on the leg, crushing The
bone, and the animal was shot to put il
out of misery.
JOHN YORK, owner of York's hote
and saloon, is Wabasha, is suspected O.
having started the second fire in Wa
basha on the 18th, which broke out ir
York's stable. The Herald says thai
about the time this blaze had been con
trolled York was caught, under suspi
cious circumstances, with fire in the
upper story of his house. The incipient
blaze was squelched and watch nut
over York's actions, and little later he
was caught in the act of firing a box OF
straw in and to the rear of the cellar OF
his house. He was arrested and ad
mitted to bail in the sum OF 81 900 fol
his appearance at the May term of court
An Eeotistical Duke.
The respect paid to royal rank in.
variably gives the Duke of Cambridge