Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.

. MINNESOTA NEWS. !
JAMES HYLAND, of Lakeville has |
Peter:
CAPT. JAS. A. WRIGHT, for ,any
years a resident of Red. Wing, ianow
! living at Somerset, Mass
ACCORDING to estimates of nextkear's
census report, the wealth of Minnesota
is set down at $500, 100000.
THE two bells for the Catholic church
at st. Cloud have arrived. One weigh,
ing 700 and the other 1880 pounds.
BILL WILLIS, one of the Oldest settler,
OF Houston county, has sold his farm
near Caledonia and moved to Olmstec
county.
The grand jury of Meeker county. CT
actual view, have condemned the TAI
and county office buildings as unfit 'fol
the use to which they are appropriated
AN eighteen-months old child o.
Patrick Stearin, Of Lakeville, Dakot,
county, lost its life last week from swal
lowing small screw. It was choked tt
death.
SEvENTY-F1vE Be]gians arrived al
La Crosse, the other day, who will make
for themselves permanent homes neal
the new town Of Sherburne, on tn
Southern Minnesota extension.
AT the special town meeting held il
this town to vote on the issue Of 81, 10
town bonds for the Grow river bridge IN
De!ano, not a single solitary vote vas
Polled against the issue of said tonds-
Delcno Eagle.
OLMsTED county leads the val in the
matter Of state school textbooks -Four
orders have been sent during tie year
amounting to $3,579.94, being over
81, 1000 more than any other county in
the state has ordered.
TIE other day, a son of Mr.. Upper,
had his right leg laid open open to 10 the 'Da 6SSe
just below the knee, by an accidental
blow from al axe in the hands of his
father.-Dundas News
JOHN HANSON, of swede Grove,
Meeker county, had 70 bushels of wheat
stolen from his granary one night last
week. So deliberate were the thieves
that they even swept up the floor and
took all the loose wheat.
On the 10th inst, Mrs. II. S. CLYDE
wrapt her infant, three months old. 90
closely that it could not breath, while
returning from Little Falls to her home
in Swan River, and when she reached
home the infant was dead.
The suit against Thomas Welch. ir
Henderson, in which $1,000 was claimed
for the accidental killing of child o.
MI. Lancaster, year or two ago, bv s
horse of MIR. Welch's, was decided or
Saturday in favor of WEIGH.
Wan. DEMpRy, of South Troy, Will,
going to Mazeppa, on Monday Of las
week, met with quite an adventure. II
attempting to cross the Zumbro, which
was quite high at the time, his team wa
drowned, and Mr.. Dem pry narrowly
escaped losing his life.
RICHARD DEATLY returned here las
Saturday from the diamond fields Of
South Africa, having been absent abou
year. He brought several diamonds
with him, and reports good prospects i1
that section, but the aggressive attitud,
of the natives is such that it is not SAT,
to work among them.-7aylor's Fuzk
! Journal.
! ONE morning recently, John Grady, ,
young man about twenty-fcur years O.
age, got into an alteration With Jane;
Guyer, in Montgomery, and stepping
back a few PAGES drew a revolver ant
fred at Guyer, who stepped aside Just il
time to have the ball miss his heart b,
an inch or two. Grady was bound ovel
for trial.-Le Sueur Sentinel.
The county Of Blue Eart]. is perbap
better provided with substantial brid ge
than any other county in the state
There are fifteen truss and arch bridge:
-four of wood and eleven Ct iron-the
cost of which ranges from $40 to 81, OO(
each, the total being $157,1O9 A new
iron bridge has just been erected a
Rapidan at cost of over $500.
The wolf crop in this couptyhas yield
ed very fair harvest of soaps during
the winter, the total number from
November 22d to date being f.rty-three
The last pair of heads were brought il
this morning by MIR. Young, of White
water. The bounty on each Volt is si1
dollars, three from the state and tire,
from the county Wiaona Republican.
THE first issue of the Appleton (Swif
County, Gazette gives the history of tn,
town and its resources, from which ",
learn that it is located on both sides O
The Pomme de Terre river, about tire,
miles from its confluence with the Min
nesota, in the southwestern corner O
Swift county, and on the proposed lin
of the Hastings & Dakato division O
the Milwaukee, Chicago & St. Paul rail
road, midway between Montevideo ant
the foot Of Big Stone lake.
We learn that there is an unusua
mortality among bees this spring. MI
Ozro Carter reports the loss Of fourtee
swarms out of twenty-five, and he fear
for the remainder, as considerable tim
must elapse before the bees can suppl
themselves with new honey. The caus
of death is dysentery, which is suppose;
to arise from the thin and watery quality
of the honey made during the wet seasu
in June last, and which fermented 4
the comb. The young swarms that wet
entirely supplied with this thin honey
suffer the most.-Far;bauM Republican.
Mr.. DENNIS L. SMITH, of Cosmos
brought us in fine lot of specimens OF
coal which was found from eighteen t.
thirty feet below the surface of the
ground, on the farm Of MIR. Tvombly il
the town Of Cosmos The parties were
digging a we'll, and began finding Goa,
st depth of eighteen feet, and kept
finding it in greater quantities until
they reached: the depth of thirty-twc
feet, when they struck vein of waite,
and stopped digging. They say that in
digging they took out considerable guam
titles of similar coal to the specimens
brought us.-Litchfeld, (lleeker county(
News-Ledger.
Mr.. JOHN SrRINGEg, of Dursnd. is