Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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EGGS are selling in Rushford at five
cents dozen.
PRINCETON, Mile Laos county, pro-
poses to vote a tax to purchase ire
engine.
The noted trotting horse, Jim Raven,
the property of Hi. Adams, of Owatonna,
has lately been sold at auction for $3.50
Mrs: scHAUEn, whom Goltz attempt
ed to kill in Sibley county; is still alive
and may possibly recover. III the mean
time, Goltz las not been found.
AUGUST AvIDsoN, of Grove City,
Meeker county, was killed by being
thrown from his wagon, his team run
ming away. He was 43 years old.
Mr.. DAVID REID, of Bristol township,
Fillmore county, 8 wealthy farmer and
stock owner, died very suddenly On Sun
day last. He was struck down with a
sharp and terrible pain in the forehead,
while at church, similar to that of hav-
ing been shot, as he described it.
The Breckenridge Free Press says that
Hon. B. Magofiin, of St. Paul, owns g.
600 acres of good farming lands in Rich
land county, Dakota, just opposite;
Breckenridge, and has five hundred acres
under cultivation. He has been looking
after his intere SITS in this section the past
month.
The Rochester Masons have purchased
nearly one-eighth Of an acre of ground
in beautiful and eligible location in
lakewood cemetery for the burial Of
transient or stranger Masons who die:
there, and also for destitute resident
Masons, dying and unable to purchase
desirable burial lots.
REUBEN RICE, of Sank Center, was
killed recently by the accidental dis
charge of shotgun. He was working
on Mayo's farm with George Callahan:
| While George was in the house ne heard
the report of a gun, and shout from
Reuben, and when he ran out found him
lying on the ground beside a WAGON,
bleeding and insensible.
A 5 YEAR-oLD son of Henry Bo];5ao,
Mankato, while playing in an unoccu-
pied house with other children, jumped
through window, and scarf which he
wore about his neck caught on hook
and hung him. The children ran to the
house and gave the alarm. but SO much
time elapsed that wien released he was
apparently dead. By extraordinary eff
forts on the part Of the mother life was
finally restored.
A CITIZEN of Little Fails, while fsh-
| irg at lake, got a ducking, hung his
clothes over fire on the shore to dry;
the clothes were totally consumed, and
| ho nirn n,i1co fro,,o with ,,nfb1ro
to wear but shirt. He was in fix,
but man came, from whom he Dor
rowed a pair of drawers, and then sent
him to a house to borrow such other
articles as were necessary to give him
presentable appearance.
A RUNAWAY of disastrous results &C.
Cured in Waseca the other day. John
McWade and family, Of Iosco, had BEEN
in Waseca on the day mentioned, at
tending church, and we're starting for
home, when their team became fright
ened and started off down Second street
at a rapid gait. The occupants of the
vehicle were thrown out and severely in.
jured. Mrs. McWade's left arm was
badly broken in two places, while N1r.
McWade sustained several bad bruises.
The other day while out hunting q.
young man wounded wild goose at a,
very long range. The goose only being
wounded he was caught and tied with a
silk handkerchief and necktie, they be-
ing the only things handy, and left for a
decoy. On returning few minutes
later his gooseship was discovered soar
ing heavenward, and waving a So
handkerchief at them AS he passed out.
of sight.-Alerandrio, Douglas county,
Nems.
The barn OF G. Gloucke, of Syria
township, Blue Earth county, was burn
ed on May 4th, together with four horses,
threshipg machine and about one
thousand bushels of grain, four hundred:
balance barley, etc. 1t was thought
that the fire was communicated TO the
barn, during the high wind, from burn
ing brush pile some distance of, but
which at the time was supposed to be
extinguished. The house narrowly es-
capped destruction, and neighbor at
work on the roof had the hair partly
burned from his head.
| CHRISTIAN SrREMpF, of Hay Greek,
Goodhue county, was at Myers mill in
Red Wing recently, with a team and his
two children. He left the little ones in
the wagon while he stepped into the
mill. At the same moment hog run
ming across the road frightened the
borsee, and they wheeled around sud
denly, throwing the little girl out,
breaking her arm. The horses then
dashed down the hill, and half way down
the boy was dashed to the ground. He
struck upon his head and face, breaking
his neck ard killing him instantly. He
was about six years Of age.
QUITE an excitement was created in
the lower part of the city recently, by
gentleman uDearthing a small coffin
shaped box, while at work in his garden.
The news spread like wildfire, and soon
an eager crowd had congregated, all in
tent upon seeing the contents of the box
Numerous were the conjectures, and
some limited that it contained the clue
to dark mystery, but when the lid was
removed, nothing more nor less than the
! skeleton of poodle dog was disclosed,
to the great disgust of all present, and
our hopes for material upon which to
base two-column article vanished into
the air. The poodle, no doubt, had been
the pet of some young lady, and when 1t
passed in its checks, had received
decent burial.-New Tim Review.
Exercising q Lazy Husband.
A gentleman of the new Twenty-sixth
district, Of this county, informs us
that on last Saturday, as he was riding