Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.

in the immediate neighborhood of Moor
head.
| TIE journal says nearly a thousand
live rorkers were shipped from Lanesborc
last week.
| MRS. ALEX. IRVINE, daughter oil
Rev. Horace Hills, of Wabasha, died
last week.
| p, w. OPPL1GER, formerly of Winons
dropped suddenly dead at Owatonna one
day last week.
| The Anoka Union says a girl was mar.
ried in Anoka last week who was only
twelve years old.
A FUEL famine In Morris, Stevens
county, is producing a good deal of in
convenience and excitement.
| VIM. WEST, of Caledonia, Houston
county, lost $4,000 by the burning Of
his blacksmith shop on Thursday.
having disbandeS eas esnv "aoasas. T.: ss:.
possession has been reclaimed by the
state.
| 5ALATH1EL ELLIS, an artist, formerly
residing in Mantorville, died at San
Jose, CAL, on the 28th iiult., at the age
O1 10 years.
A SON Of Paul Nelson, of Danielsop,
Meeker county, shot himself through
the heart with rifle which had been
carelessly left loaded in his way.
WALLACE CLARK, of Oak Ridge, Nor.
rison county fell out of wagon recent.
ly, and one Of the wheels passed over his
head, inAicting dangerous injuries.
MIR. ANTHONY SMITH, living in Biz
Stone county, had his stable and five
horses burned the other morning. The
fire was communicated from q lantern.
RECENTLY one. .hundred and forty
dollars were stolen from the money
drawer in Youmans Bros & Hodgin',
lumber Office in Marshal, Lyon county
LAST week Douglas E. Drew, aged 2l
son of Oliver Drew, of Mason, Murray
county, was drowned in Lake Shetek
by breaking through the ice while out te
spear muskrats.
Mr.. CARL G. TRoTz, the Oldest resi-
dent of Waseca county, died at his home
in Wilton, Oct. 31st, aged 107 years
He was born in Germany on the 18th
day Of June, l772.
THE other day, Henry Dow, of Little
Falls, Morrison county, while choppipe
wood, found the bowl of large table
spoon in a stick Of wood, nearly four
inches from the outside bark.
The proposition to divide Lac qui
Parle county, for the purpose of aiding
in the formation of a new county, with
Candy as the county seat, was voted
down in that county by nearly 500 ma
jority.
Two horses attached to wagon, one
night recently, backed of from the bridge
over Ashley Greek, in the town of Ash.
ley, Stearns county, and fell distance
fifteen feet into the creek. Both horses
were drowned.
The commissioners of Blue Earth
county have issued $4,000 of bonds
voted by the people of the county in aid
of the Minnesota iron bridge, the bonds
to be $500 each, running five years at
per cent, payable semi-annually.
The Lamberton Commercial says J. A
Simmons, q Mennonite farmer, aged 6s
years, living south of that town, has 10J
living descendants, including large
family of sons and daughters, grand
children and great grand children.
DR.. HILL, of Pine Island, received
word recently that about fifty acres oi
wheat in the stack upon his western farm
had been destroyed by prairie fire. The
man in whose charge it was left neglected
to plow around the stacks, and a prairie
FIRE cleaned it all of for him.
The New Ulm R<v;cw understands
that two men, Max Schiele and Peter
Chopper, who formerly claimed citizen
ship in New Ulm, haYe recently beer
detected in An endeavor to rob bank
somewhere in Iowa, and that they both
have been sent up for ten or fifteen years
! AT Fairfield, Swift county, last week
the stable belonging to Jim Havener
together with nine head of horses, three
head of cattle and new wagon wer'
consumed. Four of the horses, the cattl'
and wagon belonged to Havener, three t.
Thomas Boyle, and two to man nance
Kestner.
I STEPHEN WILLIAMSON, of Liverpool
England, hss purchased 1000 acres o.
land in Polk county, near Euclid station
for colony of Scotch and Englisl
settlers who are to come next spring
About 5000 acres more near Louise
Marshall county, are held for the SAM
people.
The Advance says Mrs. g. Chandler, o.
Red Wing, had diseased leg amputate'
the other day. The amputation va
necessary to save life. The operation
was successfully performed, and thougl
very weak from her long illness an
great suffering, her condition is regarde'
as hopeful.
, The Preston Republican says that MI
, T. G. Hall, of Lenora, Fillmore county
, few months ago went to Colorado a
!, most entirely without resources, bu
with his we'll known pluck went to wor
. to accumulate something. The resul
. was that about two weeks ago he sol
half interest in silver mine for 500
600.
In Adrian, Watonwan county, q Dan
. named Christian Anderson, on the At
:. . of last October lost child by diphtheri,
: ! The british father put the corpse in a
= old box, which he took into the yard an
!. covered it over with old boards and lei
9 it, and it remained there till Novemb bt
3 8, when the town authorities caused
to be buried. When asked why he di
): not bury the child, the inhuman bru>
I replied that he had no time.
y CHARLES BooTHRoYD, eldest son
William Boothroyd, young man abo'
20 years of age, was instantly E!lt
! ! Monday near Eggleston station. Goodh'
u county. He was going to the static
% with 4 load of wheat, and it is not know
|: certaiply Just how the accident occu1re
8 whether the team ran away or he VI
!: thrown frem the load while going dow
. a steep hill, where the body was four
with the neck broken.
- TIE Sauk Centre Herald chronicles
- y remarkable exploit by a woman. 81
!. was in the house alone, and hearing
:. noise in the barn, abe took . pistol Al
went out to investigate. She found
man leading = horse from the stab
!. She marched up to him, and mildly !
y, 70 timated that if Re did not return t
~ animal to the barn she would forthwi