Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-12-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Mrs. CHARLES SARGENT, IN estimable
lady of Plsinview, died last week.
Nh. HALsTEAD, of Janesville, lost =
daughter by diphtberia last week.
FILLMORE county will be twenty.six
years old; - county next March.
An elevator with q capacity of mil.
lion bushels will be built at Duluth next
spring.
Henry HALLEcK, formerly of Plain
view, has been arrested at Troy, N. Y,
for forgery.
A NUMBER of deaths from typhoid
fever have recently occurred in Rapidau,
Blue Earth county.
De. l. L. MABAN, of Duluth, has sent
to the department at Washington his
resignation as Indian agent.
TIE Fairmont martin county, Sen.
hnel cries aloud for a steam Touring
mill, AZ the one thing needed at that
point.
The Mazeppa Tribune understands
that there will be quite an emigration
from Mazeppa to Fergus Falls in the
spring.
ONE fire insurance agent has paid AZ
losses in Waseca county during the past
three years, and he is only one of many
agents.
WM. A. PEAsE, near Chatfeld, is said
to have one of the best arranged stock
barns in the country. Mr.. Pease has
hundred head of cattle.
The Sentinel publishes q rumor that
the Sauk Rapids water power is about to
change hands, and that Improvements
on an extensive scale are contemplated.
TIE Anoka county agricultural 20.
ciety, have decided to purchase of Hath
away e. Reynolds, ten acres of ground in
Cross addition to AnOka for the sum of
1926.
The postmaster of Blooming Grove,
Waseca county, has been deprived of
the Office in consequence of his carrying
the mail, as sub contractor, contrary to
the rules of the department.
j. B. SPENCER, of Faribault, sold the
other day eighty-seyen hogs aggregating
&c, 900 pounds, live weight, for which he
received 81 per hundred weight. They
"7.~ -----'- of the Berkshire breed.
AT the recent charity 1alr e7.-
York prizes were awarded for the best
dairy butter in Minnesota as follows;
First prize, Mrs. J. II. Wadsworth,
Waseca; second, Mrs. G. 81. Mcdonald;
third, 81. A. Spen, Wadena.
A MAN giving his name as Charles
Foster was arrested at variety theater
in Minneapolis on Saturday night for
raising a Saltwater mans check from
$40 to $118. At first Foster claimed to
be innocent, but soon after pleaded
guilty.
RED WING Advanc,: Messrs. Hook
& Hastings, of Boston, have taken the
contract to put q pipe organ into the
Episcopal church of this city. The
organ will cost 81, 800, and the contract
provides that it will be ready on or
before Easter, 1880.
The Bre.kiuridge Free Pres. says that
Mr.. s. E. Davis, of Horizon, Wisconsin,
manufacturer of the famous Van Brunt
seeders, has purchased the whole OF
section % on the Otter Tail river, and
| ia rronarinQ tn COmHenCe farming Oper'
| ations on a large scale.
SIX years ago Albert sadeska, who
| now lives in Swan River, left Poland for
America, his wife remaining in Poland.
On Tuesday last Mrs. Sadeska arrived in
this country, and the husband and wife
met for the first time in six years. Al
most a. good as a wedding.-Little Falls
Transcript.
A $1,000 money package sent from the
Brown County bank of New Ulm, des-
tined for Brookings, D. T., on the
Tracy branch, was stolen from the
express Office st Sleepy Eye, and =
Chicago detective is working up the
case with good prospects of ferreting out
the guilty party.
Mr.. AND MRS. SAMUEL W1aHTMAh,
of Otisco, Waseca county, preferred
charges against each other for ill-treat~
ment, beating, bruising, etc. The hus-
band was fined and the wife gave bonds.
| In the meantime, the parents, cousins
and aunts got together and settled the
matter BY dividing & the ptSRtsirss4zb ptSgti saSa
ways.
A FEW days ago a young man by toe
name Of Mcfarland, in Glasgow, Waba~
shaw county, was operated upon oy Drs;
Lincoln and: Van Dyke for intert~isted
or knotted intestines. The delicate had
! hazardous operation of cutting open the
bowels. taking out the intestines and un'
tving the knot was skillfully and success:
fully performed, and the patient, Will
live. Nothing but the surgeons Rnl1e
can save life in such cases.
ON the 18th inst. the State Board OF
immigration met in St. Paul. From the
secretary's report it apears that 81, 1867
copies Of the immigration pamphlet have
been circulated, of which 2O,9S7 have 3,
cone to Europe. The expenses for the
Year has been So, 3,484.53, aud there Is
bslance on hand of $3,775 "A. 1t waa
! determined to issue new pamphlet, and
the secretary was instructed to make t9e
necessary arrangements for such work
receivine bids and soliciting advertising
How a Fish Lost it, Horn.
In the Baltic, = few weeks ago, ship
was attacked by large fish, It's horI
DieIcinq the aide, and, breaking short on
Is piece of it remaining in the wood
The vessel was obliged to put into Pa
penburg for repairs, and the correspond
lent of 4 reliable paper, the Ostfr|''sc"
Ze;tuno. reports the following facts rela
tive to this event: 1.-The fragment Q
| horn, which is much fractured, ls w
, bv one and half inches in dimensions