Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-25


Todd county, planted less than half
bushel of snow fake potatoes, and this
fall dug from: that planting thirty'one
bushels of fine potatoes.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, of Brainerd, who
fell from window of the Leland House
recently, died of his injuries. He was
blacksmith and had been long in tho
employ of the Northern Pacific.
Mr.. ROBERT HARL1N, of Beauford,
Blue Earth county, had six stacks of
wheat and about sixty or seventy tons
of hay, stable, and sheds destroyed by
fire, which caught from the steam
thresher.
MRs. AMY DAVIDSON, of London,
England, arrived in Caledonia, Houston
county, recently, to make it her home
with her sister, Mrs. John Eaglo. These
sisters have not met before in twenty
five years.
CoURTLAND, Nicollet county, is, and
has been for some, badly afflicted with
diphtheria. Every child at the station
has had il, while among the farmers it
has been quite extensive, many deaths
having occurred.
A FINE span o: horses, belonging to
DR.. E. p. Cases, of Waterville, LIE Sueur
county, were poisoned Monday night,
about 10 O'Clock. It is to be hoped that
the guilty party may be apprehended
and severely punished.
The Brainerd Tribune says that Will
liam Brooks, who was killed in the saw
mill at that place last week, was insured
in the Continental Life Insurance com.
pany for $4,000. His wife is procuring
the necessary evidence of his death to
enable her to draw the amount.
The st. Peter Tribune says: Judge
Cox has overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of Isaac Brown vs.. the
Winona & st. Peter railroad company,
for the recovery of $1,000 damages re-
ceived while working for the company.
The case will now go to the supreme
court.
A DROVE of thirty.five ponies arrived
at Redwood Falls the other day. They
belonged to the Williams Bros, of Lew
iston, Idaho, and were what was left of
q drove of 700 ponies which started from
Washington Territory on the 9th of last
April, and have been on the road ever
since. The prices asked for the animals
varied from SIS to $40.
WOOD is $4,75 per cord at Benson, and
the Times says that according to a print
ed order from the general Office of the
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
railroad, no wood can be cold at stations
along this line in less quantities than q
carload, which renders necessary the
establishing of wood yards, for poor
people who cannot buy carload at q
time.
MR. J. N. FARRAR and family bade
final adieu to Martin county on the
9Th. He sold his two farms-one on
Buffalo Lake and one six miles south
of Fairmont-to A. Il. Ward. Mr.. F.
will 70 to England soon, his wife and
child remaining in st. Paul until next
spring, when he expects to return and
engage in literary pursuits.-Fd'rmont
Sentinel.
A YOUNG man named John Wickla,
of Montgomery, LIE Sueur county, fell
dead while working with a threshing
machine on his fathers farm. About
one year ago Thomas Wickla, q brother
of the deceased, died very suddenly At
Rosemount, in Dakota county, and there
was suspicious Of foul play, which will
be removed, in q measure, by the equally
sudden death of his brother.
On the 5th inst, as Mrs. Krueger wae
out riding, the team she was driving
took fright and ran away, throwing
Mrs. Kruger out and breaking her arm.
Also on the same day Mrs. Prentice
and Mr.. Philip Rounsville were thrown
out Of the vehicle in which they were
riding, dislocating Mrs. Prentice's arm
at the shoulder but not injuring Mrs.
Rounsville. Both injured ladies are do
ing a. we'll as could be expected under
tho circumstances.-&. Peter Times.
OHE evening recently, Leon Houde
attempted to come home from the St
Paul and Minneapolis fairs, but va.
sound asleep when. the train reached
Little Falls, and went on as far a
Brainerd. The"next" morning he tool
the freight train for home, but was again
sound asleep when the: train reached
Little Falls, and he went ~ far ~ Royal
ton before waking. He then got of thu
train, thoroughly disgusted, and came
homo. by private :conveyance.-Z61k
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Mas. ,ELDA SMITH,. of Sauk Rapids
in company with her son and = neighbor,
was riding in = wagon, when the clevil
broke and the pole fell to the ground
stopping the wagon instantly. Tht
hofses were travelling quite rapidly Al
the time and the result was that thu
three occupants Of the wagon was pitch
ed forward several feet over the dash
board. All were Knocked senseless, bu
young Smith and Casey were only yer!
slightly bruised. Mn. Smith, however
wss quite seriously injured .--Sauk Rapid
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