Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-30

MINNESOTA NEWS.

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TIE county Jail at Breckinridge is ir
ashes. ....-
]. B. PIERCE has been appointed post
master at Vernon Center.
FORT SMELLING, twenty miles away
is visible from the new st. Mark,
Church at Shakopee.
SOME twenty families in Lyon county
are reported to have been burned ou,
by late prairie fires.
PAUL NELSON, of Belle Greek, Good
hue county, had his left arm crushed il
a threaher, rendering amputation neces
sary. ,,a -.-..r,.-.,v. ..,..->,.
THE citizens of Blue Earth City ar,
rejoicing over the advent of a railroad-
branch of the st. Paul and Sioux City
read.
RECENT prairie fires in the vicinity O
Breckinridge have burned up larg,
quantity Of claim shanties, agricultura
machinery, etc.
JOHN RICHARDS, of Transit, the othe
day, set a fire on his premises, which
spread to q neighboring farm and des
troyed four or five stacks of wheat.
MRS. KATIE HART fell from scafolt
at Cleveland, LIE Sueur county, receiv
ing injuries causing her death in half Al
hour. She was II years old and married
last August. 80
The Herman, Grant county, Herald
says: Mr.. Baldwin, of St. Paul bagged
200 pounds of game last Friday, consist
ing of geesemaiDly, of which there were
fifteen fine ones. -,
An infanN daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
J. T. Cook, of Jordan, was smothe red in
the cradle recently while the mother
was engaged. Children threw Quantity
of clothes into the cradle with the above
result. ,.3.
THE Monticello Times says steel rails
have been laid w fur w Big Lake. The
track-layers are putting down about
two miles a day. With the completion
of the Sauk Valley branch this will be-
come the main line between st. Paul and
Manitoba.
TIE Glencoe Enterrrise understands
that Col. Borgersrode has had rather
bad luck q short time since, namely, his
horse broke its leg, and two days after
the colonel received $50, 900 from the old
country. The colonel was once in COM
mand Of the old Fifth regiment.
A LITTLE son of Smith Mclaughlin,
of French Lake, Meeker county, aged
eight years, went out with his father to
hunt some cattle, and started to drive
them home. The boy got lost, and died
probably from fear and exhaustion, and
his body was not found for several days.
Mr.. s. B. MINER, one of the pioneer
and most successful farmers of Nicollet
county, has just threshed and safely
stored 1900 bushels of wheat, this
amount being the yield Of 65 acres of
ground, or Al average yield of 20 bushels
to the acre.
The editor of the st. Peter Tribune has
been up to Fargo, and he says that in
the five days from Monday to Friday,
inclusive, of last week over 81. 100 in
fees alone were taken in, which means
that over twenty thousand acres of land
and were taken up in that time.
HoN. JAMES M. CAvANAUaH, form.
erly member of congress from Minnesota,
then a lawyer and politician In Colo
rado, after voxdo doloeaeo an oooerose
from Montanna, and then lawyer and
politician in New York city, has gone to
Lea!ville to grow up with the country.
The Red Wing Argus publishes the
death notice of Miss Mary Daniels, OF
Belvidere, lady who had attained the
good old age of 1Ol years, without a
helpmate, and says: This should &c
away with the mistaken idea that Ion
gevity and single bleesedness are incom'
patible.
A FIRE broke out in a feed mil
attached to the barn of F. NJ. Pitcher
in Chester, Wabasha county, supposed t.
have been caused by the friction of th'
machinery. The barn and all the out
buildings, 100 tons of hay, 1000 bushel
of oats, 600 bushels of wheat and othe
property were destroyed.
JOHN Kos1MsKY, a boy IA years
age, was yesterday thrown from hors
which he was riding, near hie home il
the vicinity of Silver Lake, Martil
county, and killed. In falling the boy
foot was caught in the stirrup, held b.
which he was dragged over the groun'
until dead.-GIcncoe Register.
OLE EvERsoN, who works for Jos
Goodwin, informs us that his brother
over on the Jim river, during the burn
ing spell, lost his house, stable, seventy
five tons of hay and ten head Of cattle
The fire jumped the river at q plac
where it was ten feet wide.-Marsha
News.
IT is reported that some fifteen farmer
residing in Yellow Medicine, Yello'
Medicine county, have lost nearly a
their possessions by late prairie fires:
number of persons at Hank Greek, Rel
vile county, also, have lost heavily.
the two counties above named man
thousands worth of property has bee
destroyed by late prairie fires.
The sidewalks of Mantorville We
covered with angle worms, the 9th
day, and the Erpress discusses the que
ton whether they came down from Il
clouds or up from the ground. "lt it
.. asserted that they crawled up from Il
, ground" the E9press says, "we weu
like to know how the aforesaid worI
got into pals and washtubs that We
p left standing out away from any bull
, ings?"
8 FRANK SEWARD, of Yucatan, Ho,
9 ton county, committed suicide recent
by shooting bullet into bis head. 4
q fore the shooting took place he was in
o room with a Mrs. Kate Comstock, a
!, told her to look; that when he count
\ " three" he was going to shoot. s
+ laughlngly told him tn 60 away and st
q his fooling. She covered her face wi
z her apron, and at the word" three"
}, fatal shot was fred. seward's fam
II live in Broome county, N. Y. "
o. NICHOLAS GALES, of New Uhn, /
!, that city almost penniless few ye
"a ago for New Mexico, but the New u
u kevie,o says that by dint of hard wo
3, perseverance, and economical habits
'e has made bis little stake, and now is
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