Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-19
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Dr.. ID. WREN, of Anoka, died on the

Dr.. ID. WREN, of Anoka, died on the
4th inst.
Mr.. RUsHFELT, of Albert Lea, lost
10000 unburned brick by the late rains.
THREE hundred dollars worth of glass
was destroyed in GAINESVILLE by the hail
storm.
MRS. w. II. Belts, of Maine Prairie.
was dangerously gored by = COW re-
Gently.
D1PHTHER1A has reappeared in por-
tions of Blue Earth county, and is prov
ing fatal.
WM. HERRING, one of the Oldest SET
tiers of Laura, Faribault county, died
last week of black jaundice.
The fremont House at Hokah, was
burned on the night of the 9th inst.
Loss So, 900; insurance $4,000.
Miss MARGARET FORD, of Carimona,
became insane from a fright, and has
been taken to the st. Peter asylum.
TIE fair of tho Blue Earth County
Agricultural society will be held at
Garden City, commencing on September
9th.
GEORGE HOOD, of Fergus Falls, says
pies as the branches will support when
grown.
IT is estimated that there are seventy
five million feet of logs in the Missis-
sippi river between Elk river and
Brainerd.
JOHN MEYER, who stabbed Carl Otto,
at Nicollet station several months ago,
has been convicted and sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years.
N. J. Snow, of the firm of Neal, Snow
& Co., of Lake City, had his right hand
fearfully larcerated recently, by belt
which he was trying to put on te pull
ley.
PETER GILLIsPIE's house in Shields.
vile, Rice county, was recently de-
stroyed by fire in the night time with
all its contents, the family barely escap-
ing alive.
IT is said that J. G. Easton cleared
$5O0,000 in the sale of the Southern
Minnesota road, he having been the
owner of CLARK w. Thompson's interest.
ALBERT Lea Standard.
AFTER six years in Kansas and three
ly lived in Blue Earth county, has re-
turned to Minnesota, and says that he
astound no section that he likes so we'll.
THREE brothers, Swedes, had a drunk
en- alteration, near Dassei, Meeker
county. In the fight James had his
skull broken by q blow from his brother
Andrew, and lies in precarious condi-
tion.
The Crow River Baptist association
will meet at Granite Falls, on the even
ing of June 13, an1 hold over the Sab
bath. Those attending, paying full fare
over the Minneapolis & st. Paul railroad,
will be returned for one-tfth fare.
H. D1E1z, postmaster at Sibley, Sib-
ley county, had been taking part in
dance, and went out in the yard and sat
under a tree, apparently to rest, and
about half an hour afterwards he was
found by his wife dead where he had
been sitting.
A LITTLE four-year-old son of n. G.
Chapman, of Minneapolis, was horribly
mutilated by q dog, in boot and shoe
store in that city, a few days since. The
d5se;S;psr 5eS; f1lfh Ty thu ett'e '>t'''os an"
splendid working Of our new tax law.
People are paying their taxes with more
promptness than ever before, and in
many counties the delinquents are very
few in number. One county reports
every tax paid on the first "f June.
CHARLEY GOODMAN, son of John
Goodman, who lives sixteen miles west
of this place, on the Sibley county prai-
rie. a few days ago shot two pelicans
with one rife ball. One of the birds
measured eight feet six inches between
tips of wings, and the other eight 1eet
four inches.-Ls Sucur Sentinel.
W1LBER THOMPSON, of Santiago,
Stevens county, had a horse poisoned
the other night. He had soaked some
corn in 4 solution of strycbnine, to be
used in poisoning blackbirds, and get it
on a work bench near the house. Dur:
inc the night his horse ate the corn and
was found dead the next morning.
TIE other night John March started
to 20 to his fathers house, which Is
about nine miles southwest of the city,
and while attempting to ford the 1lVer
his horse, which was strong one, was
swept away, and in few moments both
horsa and master had seen the last of
earth.-Rochcster Record and Un'o".
EARLY in the spring an emigrant
wagon passed through thie place. bearing
the following inscriptions: Jim river
|, ~ NJ hnst for in God We trust" A couple
If davs AGO the same wagon again passed
tn th ronch The place on its homeward trip,
with the following added: I'm 1lvel
:: is a thing of the Past.-Ja'e'v'ue argus.
ST. PAUL is sgitated over the fact
that a ;urv has awarded 1900 damages
+. tn w. M. Stees for lands taken for a
,, highway along Lake Phalen, whereas
: the commissioners appointed to condemn
) the land could only see SO worth OF
damaees in 80 laying the road. A little
difference of $3.50 in favor OF the ]ury's
, estimate.
! TIE storm of the 10th did some dam
: .oe in Sherburne county. Its track waa
= to ar three miles wide, and within this
!: space the crops were beaten down. Sev.
l e1al hundred panes OF glass were oloAen %
by hail-stones, which are reported as
large ~ hens egg: Among the s1netel.
were Mr.. E. J. Keen, ct Twin Lake. y
william Morris, John N. Thompson, b
SAWYER and John Everett.
Q THE other day two boys were fishing
= on the banks of the river 1T Austin
9 whom, before they were aware OF it, they
\ were su. rounded BY water, by the IaP
idly rising river. Ihsy were a;ned eGno.s. Nv
J; eral hours before they were heard. Inc!
q were At last discovered, and At eigh
!. + o'clock in the evening boat went II
y their rescue.
. A nrw passenger and freight depot
r - being erected on the st. PAU, Mime IN m
- apolis l. Manitoba railroad, about thre
= miles west of st. Joseph, ste.rns county
"A and one mile north Of g. Johns colleEe %
! The new station IL called Coilegevl!l,
- Arrangements have been completed W
% m the government for . postofhce in 20
= Iee iege7ille, and = line Of Telegraph vi wi'
n connect st. Johns college and lts vii
h With the world of business.
ID WHILE the food was ct its height9
1e Root river a week ago last Wednesda!!