Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.


county, has been discontinued. ,
BENZ. WARRANT, of Kasota, gets
1854 arrears of pension.
BERTHA RoNK, of Chatfeld, was
;hrown from horse the other day and
lad her collar-bone broken. l.
A FEW days since John Winter, living .
1ear Plainview, committed suicide by =
,hooting himself with rifle.
A PROJECT is on foot for building a
steam Touring mill at Little Falls, Nor
rison county.
A STEAM saw mill is being erected on
Serpent lake, at Wilmington, in Grow
Wing county. |!
THREE new towns were located In
Otter Tail county last week, namely:
Leaf Lake, Evarts and Dora.
MRS. WILSON of Fillmore, had her
right leg broke above the ankle the other
by the kick Of a COW.
HoKAH, Houston county, boasts the
veteran journalist of the state. he is
" years of age, and has stood at the
cease" sixty years.
RECENTLY John Becker, of Plainview,
sustained a fracture of one of his legs,
between the ankle and knee, by being
thrown from sulky.
AN additional school building is to be |
erected in Chatfeld at cost of $3.50,
making three school buildings in the
place.
WHILE bathing, the other night in
the Mississippi river, near Itasca, Anoka
county, Lamont Hobbs, aged % years,
was drowned.
MEssRs, UPMAN & BAYARD purchased
500 pounds of ginseng of Genoa and Pine
Island parties. That amount of roots,
at present prices, is worth something
over $500.
A PETR1FACT1ON called trilobite,
discovered at Ponds Quarry, near Fari.
bault. has been forwarded by Mr.. Pond
to enrich the collection of Amherst Col
lege, Massachusetts.
The Northwestern Telegraph COM
pany are about putting up second wire
from Owatonna to Sleepy Eye, which
will give double wire between the last
named place and Winona.
| A BEAR seized calf in the west part
of the village of Long Prairie, Todd
county, the other night. The bellows of
the calf aroused parties who went in pur-
suit, but the beast escaped.
The Little Falls TrGnscript says that
Henry Oleson, postmaster at Elm Dale,
Morrison county, was recently so badly
goared by a bull as to make his recovery
doubtful for time.
The county commissioners of jackson
county have revoked the license of the
only party licensed in the county to sell
intoxicating liquor and have refused all
other applications.
JOHN MCDoUGALL, of Bellevue, Nor
rison county, shot himself in the righ
. leg while practicing with arevolver thu
ball lodged in the back part of the knee
, and could not be extracted.
= The editor of the Hastings Neao Er
Q was attacked in his Office the other day
4 by three masked men, but he escape
0 and new gives notice that he will b
D prepared to receive company at a
t 1lUu1s.
0 DIPHTHERIA prevails to considers
3 BILE extent in the southwestern part 9
J, Lincoln county. Several railroad me-
J. have it. Mr.. Halpin has had five case
0 in his family, and two of his childre
i have died.
l. The house of Mrs. Mayott, at Marsl
s field was struck by lightning few day
J. ago. The dog and cat, lying under th
/ stove were killed. No other damag
Is done. There were two persons in tn
q house at the time.
RECENTLY two young men took
boat ride across Swan lake, about thre
miles west of Waconia, Carver count.
y When in the middle of the lake the
ID Jumped out of the boat for bathing, an
IL one of them was drowned.
/" LAST week five-yearold daughter
= Hoogen Hoogenson, of Emmit, Chipp
~ y. va county, while playing was run int
u u by moving machine, and had her LEI
~ i, left leg cut of above the ankle. 81
:" eight-year. old brother was driving Il
team. Stupid carelessness in the use
40 ~ machines cause most of these accident
q q The child's leg was amputated below Il
q knee, and she is expected to recover.
az ~ A Miss CHAPMAN, visiting at N
~ a. Robert Atkinson's near Oronoco, Olmst
20 county, had a bad scare few nigh
IN ago. After blowing out the light a
tn got into bed. Her hand came in conta
re- with something that moved and caus
he her to Jump with scream that proml
70 " brought the household. Onexamil
he ton snake four and one.half feet 10
ast was found coiled up in the sheets.
IN had crawled in through an open windo
ed AT Godfrey's crossing, about fe
en-. miles up the river, on the Z7th, \
Elisha Godfrey attempted to ford
river with his team. When about
the middle of the stream one OF
700 horses went down, and being caught
a~t a the harness, was drowned. During
& o;r struggle the wagon went to pieces,
I ost hind wheels sticking to the bottom 1
no ,o the box floating of down the river "
I Icaj q man on board. It finally landed n
ot' 'ot the old lime kiln. Both horses
~ been drawn under the water, but ont
10 them succeeded in swimming to sh
~ with its dead mate and the front VIII
~ of the wagon.-Dundds Neaos.
i'm WHILE examining the state salt Ia
and in Wilkin county, near Breckenridge,
nee commissioners came upon large t.
e a of quaking bog land. Running
lin northwest and southeast direction W
and line of mounds from six to three I
are dred feet in diameter at the base,
,ret- from fifteen to thirty feet high, of CO
just al form, the slope being about forty:
lille degrees. These mounds were shal
feed bog to their SUBMITS, where was TO
dur- circular opening six to eight fee
diameter, filled viii clear cold "
and of unknown depth, a pole eight
long being the only means OF testing
he latter. Most singular of all, few
1ori- from these wells, upon digging from
gen. teen to twenty-four inches, solid
and of ice was found.
ask
Us OF Old Coins Unsarthed.
H1 'a75 A Colonial copper dated 1887
.o', inscribed in Latin on one side" lnde
y a y. dence and Liberty" and upon tn
% h.d verse, "By authority Of Connec," (
~ ~. ~ necticut,) was unearthed upon the
ss ;ss1s ~ of the Merrimack river, above
10 '5 bs Lawrence corporation, few days
y" no 1t was in q good state of preservs