Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.
IR1sHMEN, not Icelanders, are to col
onize in Lyon county.

IR1sHMEN, not Icelanders, are to COL
onize in Lyon county.
DAKOTA county has Is, 900 inhabitants
and its jail is without tenant.
WALTER GooDALE, of Minneapolis,
was killed by falling from roof re-
Gently.
| The state tax this year, it is stated,
will be one mill less on the dollar than
it was last year.
TEN miles south of Glyndon, on the
Barnesville road, sixteen new claim
shanties can be counted, all on adjoining
sections.
The question of building new mar
ket house in St. Paul has finally been
settled, and the contract awarded to
James Burras for $5S, SIG.
The drives on both branches of Rum
river are reported as efectually "hung,"
and without copious rains, will not get
into the boom this season.
PRESTON Republican: A rattlesnake
got in among party of Lanesboro pic
nicers last week, and you just ought to
have seen the calico fly. He wore four
teen rattles.
A VIGILANCE committee has been
organized in Jordan, Scott county, for
protection against tramys. The people
there had desperate fight with the
vicious scoundrels recently.
Mr.. 81. BURKHARDT, of Reads Land
ing, started for Crookston the first of the
| week to look after improvements which
he is putting in at that place, among
which is a $1,000 brewery Wabasho
Herald.
CHAs. SwARTz, of Courtland, Nicollet
county, while riding three-year-old
colt, was thrown from its back, the horse
kicking him in the face, cutting the
lower lip in frightful manner, knock
ing out the front teeth and fracturing
the upper jaw.
PROF. ]. P. BoBB has been judged in
sane and sent to to the Second Hospital
for the insane in Rochester. Prof. Bobb
had charge of the High Forest seminary
for some time, and it is thought that
anxiety and worrying over his duties
there has brought on insanity.
JAMES D. SKINNER, U. S. E., and P.
Kelley, left here yesterday morning for
the Namakagon, where a surveying
party is completing the government
work of ascertaining the feasibility of a
system of reservoirs for holding water
for navigation purposes.-7aylor's Falls
Journal.
A BRIDGE at Rushford, with loaded
wagon upon it gave way the other day,
and precipitated wagon, horses and
,l.:vor into four foot of woAor IN tho
stream below. The driver and horses
escaped without serious injury. The
load, 5000 pounds of feed, went down
the river.
EDWARD HAYFORD, who lived
between the village and Oxford Mills,
on the west side of the Little Cannon,
about three miles from town, committed
suicide on the 10th inst, by taking
strvchnine. Deceased was about %
wears old, was married, and leaves wife
and one child.-Ca7,,ao,a Falls Beacon.
A SCANDINAVIAN by the name of
Christian Eaverson, living eig hit miles
south of Walnut Grove, Brown county,
took poison recently and on learning
that his family had sent to Lamberton
for a physician, he Immediately took a
gun and shot himself, killing him in
SANITY. 1t is supposed that causeless
jealousy of his wife melted him to
suicide.
OLUF SoLUM's grandmother, now
living in this town, is 81 years old. She
is sprightly and active as a young 6 irl.
There is not single silver thread in her
long, black, glossy hair. Her eyesight
is undimmed, and she reads and sews
without the aid OF glasses. Her achieve
ments in pedestrianism excel those of
the famous lady walkist.-Atcantlrsa
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