Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Sw1NDL1NG cloth peddlers are operat-
ing IN Brown county. The victims are
seeking redress by law.
SOME fifteen or more farmers living
near Yellow Medicine lost nearly all
they had by prairie fires last week.
IT is estimated that one.half of the
hay crop between Wild Rice river and
the Red river has been destroyed by
prairie fires.
THERE have been 418 car loads of
brick shipped from the different yards
in Chaska during tho summer, and there
are over 600 yet to be shipped.
Mr.. BOLSTER, one of the Oldest SET
tiers in Big Stone county, living at Arti-
choke Lake, sustained loss of 100 tons
of hay by prairie fires one day Last week.
Mr.. GLEASON, living near McCauley-
vile, in the northern part of the state,
has lost his house, barn and agricultural
implements and all his grain by q
prairie fire.
The amount of railroad bonds that
will be required of Morrison county for
the Little Falls and Dakota railroad. A
special election will be held in December
or January.
On a recent afternoon little daughter
Of Mrs. Mann, of Worthington, on re-
turning from school had 4 leg broken
while playing, being rudely thrown
down on the sidewalk.
AT late session of the county COM
missioners of Big Stone county three
towns were organized, namely, Orion
vile, Custer and Big Stone. Elections
will soon be held for town officers.
DURING the recent long spell of dry,
warm weather, numerous wells in
different parts of this state went dry.
A weeks steady rain is needed before
the setting in of winter, to fill the
fountains.
WILLIAM GALE, of Mapleton, had the
ends of his fingers bitten of by mad
SOW the other day. He was putting
rings into her snout to prevent her from
roofing, but accidentally put his hand
in her mouth.
LAST Saturday man from near Tracy
went to Walnut Grove, got full of
whisky and tried to drive home on tho
track. The consequence was that the
freight train overlook him and killed
both him and his team.
ALBERT HARRISON, aged II years, son
of VIM. II. Harrison, who lives in the
neighborhood of Gravelville, left home
to hunt for his fathers cattle on Sunday,
the 5th inst, and has not since been
seen or heard Of by his parents.
A BIG bald eagle came down on Bert
Baker, a young man of Chatfeld, last
week. He was working in field, cut
ting burdock weeds with q corn knife,
with which he defended himself. After
a desperate fight the eagle was finally
captured.
ANNA HOFFsTETTER, single woman
living alone, in Canon Falls, was found
dead the other day. She had been dead
for some time. There was no marks of
violence. The death, it is supposed,
ensued from natural causes. There wa
no inquest.
The Journal says that Maj. E. NJ. Van
Cleve, who is commissioned by the
adjutant-ge neral to look up the state
arms, was in Fergus Falls on Tuesday in
search of the arms and ammunition
sent to that place in the great Indian
war-whoop of 1875. He found one gun
out of fifty.
The Marshall (Lyon county, Messen-
qcr gives the names of the following who
have suffered from prairie fires, ana says
there are probably more: O. M. Tenn
pleton, N. Traux, w. Maxon, LIE Clair,
Nelson, w. Williams, Galbraith, George
Cummings, NJ. A. Tucker, Soper, L.
Turner, hotel and barn at Lake Benton,
railroad bridge west cf Gary, Mehan L
Quigly.
FRANK ARBoRN, of Decatur, Nebras-
ka, who had been living in the vicinity
of st. James, Watonwan county, since
last August, committed suicide on the
prairie about one mile east of the vii
(age of st. James, on the 4th inst, by
shooting himself through the heart.
Domestic trouble and ill health was the
cause. he leaves q wife and two chill.
dren in Nebraska.
ONE day last week Mike May stupidly
set fire to a stubble field in Ellington,
Dodge county, and strong wind blow
ing at the time caused tho flames to
spread in the neighboring promises of
Pat McVay, consuming four stacks OF
wheat. Andrew McVey, whose property
was also endangered, had plowed two or
three burrows around it when the fire
overlaped the plowing, but by desper-
ate effort he succeeded in heading it Oh
with more furrows, thus saving his en-
tire buildings and stacks, but At the
expense of severe scorching to himself
and team.