Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Mr.. L. s. BISHOP, an old and respect
ed citizen of Sauk Centre, died recently
TEE Pipestone quarry will prove a
mine of wealth to Pipestone City in the
not remote future.
A T. THOMPSON, q saloon keeper OF
Albert Lee, has been adjudged insane
and taken to the Rochester asylum.
PETER flicker, a Hastings brewer,
suffered the penalty of breaking the
Sunday law to the extent of $23.85.
MRS. CARROLL, wife of Thomas Car
roll, of Janesville, and sister of Hon.
Peter McGovern, of Waseca, died re-
Gently.
THE widow of B. D. Galpin, of Della
van, Faribault county, has received
draft for $4,000 from the order of A. O.
u. w., of which he was a member.
AT jackson, the other night, drunken
man attempted to walk over the rail-
road bridge, but fell through and was
drowned.
Mr.. AND MRS. FRANK DAVIS, of Lac
qui Parle, within few days have buried
their twolittle children, the eldest three
years old.
MISS STEWART, a young lady living
with Mr.. Shank, in the town OF Shelby
vile, while swinging recently became
dizzy and fell out, sustaining fracture
of one of her limbs above the knee.
MOSES MCCARTY, of North Darwin,
Meeker county, has lost five cattle and
his neighbors several more. The cattle
were taken with seeming lameness in
the fore shoulder, commenced bleeding
at the nose, and died in few hours.
JOHN SCHERMAH, of Ben Wade, Pope
county, traded horses. Arriving home
in the evening, his children being accus-
toned to petting the horses, went into
the stable to see the new one. On ap-
preaching too close little two year old
son was Kicked in the forehead by the
vicious animal and instantly killed.
w. II. II. JOHNSTON, ESQ.,, of Ma
della, has Just been rendered the position
of deputy collector of the Fourth
revenue district of Minnesota. Mr..
Johnston has declined the offer, how
ever, and will soon remove to st. Paul
to accept a responsible position in the
Office of Surveyor General Stewart.
GOVERNOR PILLsBURY issued an
order on Tuesday removing from Office
Christian Didra, the auditor of Sibley
county. The specific charges against
Mr.. Didra upon which this seve re course
has been taken is neglect of duty and
systematic overdrawing of his salary,
the sum so overdrawn aggregating on
March LIST last to 81, ,121.6O.
WHILE son of Franklin Hall, of
Brush Prairie, was plowing in the field
the other day, he encountered a wolf,
which sprang upon him. Young Hall
grasped the wolf by the throat. and a
strug ggle ensued in which the young
mans clothing and flesh were torn,
making the blood run freely. The COM
batants parted and each retreated.
FRAND BAsT1EN, living ten miles
Little Falls, was sentenced to pay fine
of $50 and cost, or imprisonment in Jail
for sixty days, for cruelty beating his
son, lad of seventeen. He became
enraged at the boy for some trifing
ofense, and pounded him numerically
on the head with a piece of log-chain,
inaicting painful and dangerous wounds.
Mr.. SCR1BNER, of Lake Jefferson,
Ottawa, LIE Sueur county, hss what is
supposed to be- the largest apple tree in
state. For the past two years Mr.. Scrib-
ner has picked thirty bushels of apples
each year. This year he expects to get
forty bushels. The tree in the widest
part of the branches measures sixty-six
feet, is twenty years old and is Duchess.
lie Sueur Sentinel.
The LIE Sueur Sentinel says the Kasota
red tinted building stone company now
have contract for furnishing all the
stone for one of the finest residences in
Chicago, the owner of which, after hav-
ing visited Ohio, Vermont and other
states in search of fine building stone,
came to Kasota the past spring with an
architect and decided upon using that
stone.
MRS. w. J. MoREY, of Alden, Flee
born county, had been as we'll as usual
on the 28th ult., and at little before
tea, Mr.. Morey went down town on an
errand. He left her sewing on the
machine and when he returned Tin less
than 20 minutes) she was lying on the
floor, dead. None of the children, nor
anyone was in the house at the time she
fell, but it is thought she died in fit.
1T seems that Vandicar, an associate
burglar of the late Ganley, is q murder
er as we'll AZ burglar, and If 80 should
be tried for the higher crime. The Clay
County Advocatc says: "This villain is
supposed to be the same person who last
August shot his mistress, Fanny CLARK,
at Moorhead." He escaped from Jail
last summer and efforts to recapture him
failed. Clay county could secure him
now, but don't want to incur the ex-
pense.
AT private picnic gotten up in his
behalf at the city of Albert Lea, on
Sunday, the 25th ult., the Rev. Erick l..
Peterson, Norwegian Episcopal minister,
of Faribault, was presented with a
splendid gold-headed cane, with appro.
the 18th of May, 1877, as an act of graft
tude on the part of some of his friends
there, for the eloquent and mastery
Grafton delivered by Mr.. Peterson at the
18th of May celebration in that city
LAST week Sheriff Pratt went east on
the way to Saltwater with George w.
Seaton, tried and convicted for arson at
the last term of the district court. The
evidence upon which the conviction was
rendered was mostly circumstantial, and
it may be that George is innocent. He
was married but few weeks since to q
lady at Albert Lea, who feels deeply the
situation in which she is placed. The
wife and parents have our heartfelt sym
pathy. We trust that the year and
half confinement will make George s
wiser and better man. Winnebdg<
A Smart Money Collector.
The Hartford correspondent of th'