Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-14

Per Annum, in Advance.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A LARGE number of deer are reported
to be Douglas county.
MRS. WILSON, wife of Judge Wilson,
died very suddenly of cholera-morbus at
Shakopee recently.
Mr.. LEANDER WATSON, near Tum-
brota, WAS severely cut by 4 harvester
attached to runaway team.
AS the harvest is nearly through, the
towns and villages are being overrun
with lazy, thieving, begging, vagabond
tramps.
EDDY REED, son of David Reed, of
Faribault, was badly burned the other
day by pouring powder from flask on
LUMBER has been sold in Marshall
lately for less than $12 per thousand,
which is cheaper than it was sold before
that far west.
MBs. f. D. SOUTH, of Blue Earth
o1' Voc PoPPoAoA "A0.. 01Ao' viz "'.~i
day by sportsman who was shooting
prairie chickens.
Preston, Fillmore county, has called
special election to vote on the question
of granting $25, 900 to the projected mar
row gauge railroad.
REPORTS of burglaries are coming up
daily from numerous cities and villages
of the state. Tramps are the pcrpetra-
tors in many of the cases.
THE other day Theodore Berg, of the
firm of Berg & Neils, of Sauk Rapids,
was thrown from load of hardware,
and had his collar bone broken.
The maple tree seeds planted in Mar
shall last spring have mostly come up
and incalculable numbers of young
naples are coming up among the woods.
ANTHONY QUIsT, of Briar Greek, fell
before a reaper the other day, his horses
being unmanageable, and had one foot
cut entirely off, and the other one nearly
MRS. WAMsLEY, of Reno, Pope coun-
ty, was near killed by vicious COW the
other day. The COW kicked her in the
face and trampled upon her, ;njuring her
seriously.
TAXES in Freeborn county will be
lighter this year than last, the board
having levied a county tax of twelve
thousand dollars, against twenty thou
sand last year.
NATHANIEL Is. HALL, who removed
from jackson to Lake county, Dakota,
but few months since, has buried three
children-two boys and q girl-all OF
whom died Of diphtheria.
IDA Stafford, daughter of John SAT-
ford, farmer near Recdsburg, while
riding horseback the other day, was
thrown from the horse, sustaining injur-
les from which she cannot recover.
The twin girls of Mr.. and Mrs. Freder-
ick Ellis, Of Eureka, aged about eight
months, died, one on Thursday and the
other on Saturday of last week, from
dysentery, occasioned probably by travel
and change of diet.
ANOTHER town is being laid out in
the southeastern part Of Fillmore
county by the directors of the narrow
gauge road, from Sumner. The company
have purchased town site, and surveyors
are busy at work thereon.
THE towns of Canton and Harmony
have voted bonds in aid of the Caledonia
and Mississippi railroad, which insures
the narrow gauge to Preston by the first
Of November if Preston votes in favor of
Il A. : s. S. TAYLOR lett satuk Kap1dS~ the
other day for business trip through
Wisconsin and Illinois, but returned in
two or three days with broken leg, hay-
ing been thrown from his wagon by a
sudden lurch Of the vehicle, caused by
the giving away Of part of the harness
on the horses.
The United States District Attorney
Billson and Surveyor General J. II.
Stewart have served notices on the
parties who in years past have cut
timber on the government land, to come
forward prior to Sept. 10 with proofs
which will entitle them to the comprom-
Use proposed by the government.
CHRISTOPHER KUTz, poor and old, of
Belvidere, Goodnue county, hung him
self the other day. Cause, trouble in
the family, where he was not wanted.
He had married widow, and the old
folks lived with her son by a former
husband. The old man was considered
an incumbrance,' and he took himscl:
out of the way with rope.
A MAN named Simpson, living near
Lake Traverse, twenty-eight miles from
Herman, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed few days since. See
ing a storm approaching Simpson and
another man who we're cutting grain
started for the house. Simpson was lead
ing span Of horses behind a wagon when
he was struck. The other man was stun
ned.
CHARLES SToDDARD, who was report
ed to be quite sick in the hotel in Lac
qui Parle last week, was removed to
Appleton in carriage, a distance of
sixteen miles. The jaunt was too much
for his enfeebled frame and he died a
day or two after his arrival in Appleton.
He leaves a wife and child, who were
with him when he died. His remains
were taken to Rosemount for interment
WHILE examining the state salt lands
in Wilken county, near Breck kenrldge,
the commissioners came upon large
tract of quaking bog land. Running in
. northwest and southwest direction was
line of mounds from 600 to 300 feet in
diameter at the base, and from 10 to ~
feet high, of conical form. the slope
being about As degrees. These mound!
were a shaking bog to their SUBMITS
where were found a circular opening + t.
, s feet in diameter, filled with clear COLI
water of an unknown depth, pole
, feet long being their only means of test
ing the latter. Most singular Of all, ;
few feet from these walls upon digging
from Is to 25 inches solid body Of ic
WAS found.
Il Twill be remembered that some tim
, since Henry Waterman, of St. Augusta
e died from the effects of strangulate'
4 hernia. He left a wife and number
t children, and about forty acres of grain
, The widow being poor, was At a loss t
4 know how to harvest the grain. Tn
+ priest in. that parish, knowing the Gil
4 cumstances, requested the men OF tn
/ congregation to attend early divine sci