Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-16
MlNNENOTA NEWS.

VI COustEuCtlOn AZ OfCOnVllle.
MORE building improvements in Glen
wood, Pope county, this year than fol
the past ten years.
AN amber cane mill is in full operation
in Waseca, turning out considerable
quantities of syrup.
The Breckinridge Free Press says tha1
from one point in Morris, Stevens county
nearly seven hundred stacks of whea
can be seen.
The six months for which J. W
Arctander, of Willmar, was suspended
from practice by the supreme court
expired on the 28th of September.
Mr.. HoLTz, a respectable German
farmer of Otisco, Waseka county, had 8
leg broken by an unruly horse the Other
day. The fracture is a very bad one.
THERE are six grain elevators to be
built on the narrow-gauge road between
this place and Caledonia, and that in less
than eight weeks.-Preston Republican,
A s1x-YEAR old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kruse, of Decoria, Blue Earth
county, while playing in burning stub.
bic field was 50 badly burned a. to cause
her death.
FRANKTHAOsHA, of lie Sueur county,
the young man run over by threshing
machine, and whom three doctors pro
nounced beyond recovery, is up and able
to walk around.
IT being unlawful for cattle to run at
large in Fillmore county, the railroad
company is no longer responsible for
damage if stock is killed by the cars
Lancsboro Journal.
Mr.. G. ANDERSON, formerly a furni-
ture dealer of Grand Meadows, Mower
county, died at Albert Lea the other
day, of typhoid fever. He had lived at
Albert Lea for two or three years.
LAST Saturday evening Mrs. Kate
Hart, of Lake Jefferson, fell from a scaf-
fold and received such serious injuries
that she died in half an hour. She was
a daughter of John Smith, and wife of
Augustus Hart.
The Rokah Herald says that while
looking over the assessment roll of that
place the village fathers discovered that
one of the largest and finest dwelling
houses in the town had never been taxed
since its erection.
A LETTER from Hector, Renville
county, to the Bird Island Post, tells
farmers that they should not mix wheat
with their sand when they bring it to
market, as wheat brings better price,
and so does sand, when not mixed.
BENTON Times: Johnny Lynch, aged
about II years, a son of Pat. Lynch, Iiv-
ing three miles west of town: while play.
ing with revolver on a recent evening,
shot himself. The ball, %
calibre, passing out near the spine.
Mr.. LEWIS FOSTER had five stacks of
oats burned recently by fire set by one
of his neighbors. Mr.. Foster estimates
the number of bushels lost at 600. The
same fire consumed separator belonging
to Wellington DeCamp and others
Glencoe Register.
J. R. WILSON, of Fairmont, lost four
stacks of oats by fire few days ago. A
fire recently swept through Fraser and
Rutland townships, destroying s. II.
Briggs wheat stacks, large amount of
hnu 6raDle 61 Mr. PaftiBw. -
A PRAIRIE fire, last week, in Green
Lake township, Kandiyohi county, done
much damage. Several wheat stocks on
the John Lawler farm were burned. On
another farm four stacks were burned.
Peter Ellefron lost forty tons of hay,
farm machinery, buggy and other prop:
erty. Mrs. Downs lost five stacks OF
oats and two stacks of wheat.
OLE GARGINsON, of Riverdale,
Watonwan county, lost thirty tons Of
hay by prairie fire recently. James
Travis, Of West Fieldon, lost all his
grain, forty tons of hay and other val
liable articles; D. Griffin and P. Nc
Namary lost all their hay; also A. Buck
ley some of his. At night the wind
changed, sweeping the fire back into
Antrim, burning some hay there.
ANDERs ANDERSON, a farmer who
lived about four miles east of Wilmar,
Kandiyohi county, died recently after a
years severe illness. His death was
caused by a cancer in his stomach,
which il supposed by DR.. Lambrechts to
have been brought on by his inhaling
impure air from dead body placed in
a church during funeral services about
q year ago. The deceased leaves wife
and six children.
The De Graft (Swift county, Courier
says a prairie fire started last week, q
few miles distant, and came down with
force and rapidity to the outskirts of
the village. The citizens turned out
en- nasse; and, after an hours vigorous
fight and the starting of back.fre, sue.
ceeded in removing the danger of bad
fire in the village, which at one time was
very imminent. The magni6cence OF
the sight caused by prairie at night
loses all it's attractions in close quarters.
Two hand-cars came in collision near
Brownsville, on the 10th inst. One of
the cars had on board q merry party of
Young folks, whom the railroad lab0rers
were treating to ride. A thirteen-yea
old girl named Maggie Timmisch, who
sat in front of one of the cars with her
legs hanging down, and who attempted
to draw them up when she saw the other
car coming toward her, sustained the
fracture of one of her legs, being unable
to get it out of the way before the cars
collided. Another girl, named Mary
Schwartz, seventeen years of age, who
occupied 4 similar position to that of
Maggie Timmisch, on the front car, did
not notice tho car coming in the opposite
direction and hence was unable to get
out of the way. Both Der legs were
caught between the cars and were
smashed almost to jelly, and it ia
feared that one, and perhaps both Of her
legs will have to be amputated. Emma
Rippe was thrown with great force to the
ground and received painful cut on
the head. George Schwartz sustained 9
broken nose by striking upon railroad
tie. The rest Of the children were more
or less injured.
Curious Superstition.
Among the many superstitions of
which q loaf of bread has been the basis,
one Of the strangest is that which, in
more than tne European country, at
taches special ill.luck to the turning 01
the loaf upside down. In Scotland
this is accounted for by a legend that
Sir Walter Monteith, the betrayer o.
Wallace to the English, made this actior
the signal of attack, whence the revers