Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
~ MINNESOTA NEWS.

~ d MINNESOTA MEMS.
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TanE are ee patients in tie insane
Iow1 coal Il delivered at Jackson in.
cax lots for 1920 per ton.
FARMERS about Willmar are orRaniz-
ing to build = large farmers elevator.
THE new depot at Montevideo is
24x9O feet, and is well built, substan-
tial structure ..,,.
DR. A. O. DoRNBERa, one of Manka-
to's Oldest physicians, died on the last
Sabbath in 1873. s4ac~. 7.
MICHAEL LEVY and Eva FRANKIE, two
retail clothing merchants of st. Paul,
have made ASST gnnents. =.
On Christmas day K. Bertrome, of
Mantorville, had some of his ribs broken
by The upsetting of sleigh. b T.,
- The total amount of taxes assessed in
the state for the year 1873, is 1885,
1889. Rate of taxation, 26.6 mills.
TwENTY.rHREE indictments were
found by the grand jury at the Decem-
Der term of court in Blue Earth county.
WOLVES are very numerous in the
town of Birch C0olie, Renville county,
and few days ago killed forty head of
sheep. ." ~ d. ,-~,.ss,
DIPHTHER1A has acquired strong
hold in Cannon City and vicinity, there
NOW being % cases, while five deaths
have occurred.
The horse Of DR.. Craft, Of Worthing-
ton, stumbled and fell, throwing the
doctor, and rolling over on to one of his
feet, crushing it badly. .~,'
The second annual meeting of the
Dairymen's association will be held in
St. Paul on Thursday, the 9Th Of Feb
ruary next, at 10 o'clock A. M.
P. SoUCIE, a Frenchman, lost his foot
ing on q slippery platform in Faribault,
and fell into an excavation, breaking
some of his ribs and receiving other
severe injuries.
The benevolence of the farmers of
Wells was made manifest last week.
They made "bee" and moved widow
Davis house on to her farm, some eight
miles east of Wells.
A FEW nights since some miscreant
went into the stable of John NJ. Thomp-
son, of Orlando, Sherburne county, and
cut the throat of beautiful and very
valuable Arabian colt. :r
| A WOMAN undertook to walk from St.
Cloud to St. Joseph, a distance of eight
miles, but took the wrong road and
turned up at Little Falls, thirty-fve
miles from where she started.
JOHN HUDSON, of Big Spring, Fill
more county, while skating on Carp
creek fell on the ice, and number OF
other boys falling on him, broke his leg
in two places below the knee.
A BOY named Frank Werth is wanted
at Manchester, Freeborn county, to an
swer the charge of incendiarism. It is
alleged that he set fire to a barn which
was consumed, with two horses and
other property.
The Peter brothers, of Ellsworth,
Meeker county, have been on a three
weeks hunting trip, during which time
they killed forty.five deer and one bear
ten of the deer in one day, and not much
of day for hunting game, either.
RoNzo De LEO, who committed
suicide at Waseca, was large, powerful
mulatto, about As years of age, and had
no family He had neither money OF
property. After taking the poison, he
willed a bosom pin, said to be worth a
large sum, to a girl in Mankato. :.
A. NAN in Delavan, Faribault' county,
has q cancer in his throat. 1t has 10
nearly closed up his throat that he can
swallow only. fluids. The Albert Lea
Standard says DR.. Wedge. has decided
against a surgical operation, and the
mancan probably live but . few days..
A MAN named Jack Tenney, working
at Hay Greek brewery, :. was overcome
with intoxication} on Tuesday evening Of
last week, and on Wednesday morning
his. Hfeless body was found on 8 cross
road between. the ;Hader and Wana.
1mingo roads, frozen stiff. Wang
1KAlbion, Wright county, several men
were attempting to hang up large,
heavy hog, which they had Just butch
cred, when the chain by which the hog
was suspended broke, letting heavy
lever fall on the. shoulder. Of August
Holmberg, bruising' him badly, and
striking q Boys leg, broke both bones
below the knee. q. 1855: ... 4 e:,,.
Hon. LOUIS A. EVANS, probate Judge
of 6tearns county, went into his vault
Christmas day, and while there his little
girl turned the knob so as to disturb the
combination, and it could not be opened.
The judge went to bed thinking that he
would have to send to St. Paul for
Paddy Miles to open it, but during the
night he dreamed it all out, and the
next morning opened the vault without
any difficulty. This is tough story,
but the judge and the St. Cloud Times
never toll lies. .. 49,. .'' + . ''';'
! The railroad company have named
the stations between Crookston and, thu
Canadian. boundary line as follows:
Fanny. : Euclide,. Angus, Callahan,
Louise, Warren, Stephen, Kennedy,
Sherman, Alice and Northeote. Under
this arrangement ! the III time-honored
names of Snake and Tamarac rivers pass
into oblivion, and the unclassical and
foreign names of Callahan and Warren
take their places, while St. Vincent,
known through the northwest, and Cana.
da, gives way for a monument to the
English lord, Northcote:-C rookston
Press. '''77
Steam .Ploughing in England.
Whatever mayS be the Objections to
the use Of thessteam. ploughs-Sandsthey
are fast being overcome-they impress
the unaceustomed visitor :. with great
force. l had read of them and had seen
pictpres of ,theq.. and tnews Of the
but to see them standing here, more
than dozen of them in shed after shed,
showed how inadequate had been my
preconceived idea, CONCERNING them.