Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

VuAy A1V0eA U1X11s
Mr.. JOHN MURRAY, of Forest City,
has been sent to the insane asylum.
MIR. TYSON, of Stanley, Lyon comfy,
lost one hundred sheep in prairie fire.
The building improvements in Chaska
for the past year cost $4l 500.
GLENCOE has voted $1,000 in bonds
for protection against fire through reser-
voir, wells and engine.
HEAlexandria Mtys complains of the
ravages of lightning rod shysters in
Douglas and Grant counties.
Rev. GILBERT SHAW, postmaster at
Wilton, died on the 25th, Of hemorrhage
Of the lungs.
GEoRGE BIxBY, son Of John Bixby,
OF Aurora, Steel county, had one of his
feet badly injured in threshing machine
the other day.
MIR. PUTNKY, of Antrim, Watonwan
county, has manufactured about one
thousand gallons of amber syrup, with
his cooks evarorator, this season.
MABLE is the name of new town in
the township of Newburg, Fillmore
county, on the narrow-gauge railroad,
about twenty-five miles from Preston.
A GENUINE salmon, weighing four
pounds, was caught IN Lake Elmo-the
first fruit of the spawn placed there sew.
eral years ago by the State Fish COM
missioners.
The church of the Guardian Angels
in Hastings is to have q new bell, to
weigh 800 pounds and to cost 5000. It
is expected to be put in use about the
first week in December.
The Alexandra Post says DR.. Vivian,
assisted by DR.. Denniston, performed q
delicate operation the other day on q
young child by the ex cision from the
forehead of an unsightly birthmark.
w. w. HARTLEY, of Brainerd, sent
his resignation to Judge Stearns as clerk
of the district court, being informed by
instructions from the postoffice depart
ment that he could hold no other Office
with that of postmaster.
JUDGE NELSON has rendered his deci-
sion in the case of the United States vs.
8. V. r. Sherwood, the Brainerd post
master, denying the. motion for new
trial and sentencing the prisoner to pay
fine of $l8l and imprisonment for six
months.
LAST week o. K. Chance was tried at
Buffalo, Wright county, for shooting
found guilty and sentenced to pay q fine
of $3.50, or be imprisoned in the county
Jail one year. He paid the fine and was
discharged.
SEVERAL nights since, while returning
home from Hector, Matthias Johnson's
team ran away, throwing Mr.. J. out into
a slough, where he remained all night.
The team ran into an open cellar, break
ing the neck of one of the hOrses.-Rtn.
viLe Times.
DR.. G. NJ. ALLsTURFF, of LIE Roy,
Mower &C unity, was thrown from a wagon
the other day, by q runaway team, and
had two ribs and collar bone broken.
He was taken up for dead and lay in an
unconscious condition for two hours.
1t is now thought he will recover.
On the 24th ult., at Hastings, Samuel
sh08tlbR d7,u,Ik,, c{Q.mpitted suicide by
breech loadins shotgun and death occur
red instantly. He was young unmar.
ried man. This makes the sixth case of
suicide at Hastings within year.
AT Weaver, John Edbury accidentally
shot himself while duck hunting. He
was in skif accompanied by mis-
brother-in-law, and in the act of load
ing one barrel, when the other was dis
charged, carrying away the entire skull
and killing him instantly. He leaves q
wife.
TIE dry goods store of A. 81. Strouse
at st, Paul, was closed recently by at.
tachments procured by New York and
Philadelphia creditors amounting to
about 5000. The heaviest creditor iy
Bernard Strouse, of Philadelphia, The
assets we're nearly sufficient to pay in
full.
NATHAN D1BBLE, of Cannon Falls,
! while cleaning loaded revolver the
other day, accidentally discharged it.
The ball struck him in the leg five inches
above the knec, and following the bone
down and came out five inches oelow the
knee; a painful but not dangerous
wound.
| TIE Chatfeld Democrat says that J.
@. Easton, finding sheep raising very
profitable, will, next season, seed down
every foot of bis land in that vicinity
and increase his flock to ten or fifteen
thousand head. He says that the sheep
for that section is the medium grade
half Cotswold and Merino.
Ar Seward, Mobiles county, the othel
day, MIR. Stiles, while working beside
his wagon loaded with lumber, wa
thrown down by his horses starting ane
the wheels passed over his body, break
ing two ribs, dislocating his right shoul
der and breaking an arm in two places
The injured man will recover.
LAST week, as Sherman Martin, o
Redwood Falls, was moving posts fron
the ground, one of them was pulled on
with such sudden force that he was IN
able to get out of the way, and it struc
hina the side of the head, knocking
!. him insensible, causing severe luju.y ~.
: not fatal.
The dead body of man was foon
= near Dover, Olmsted county, the othe
dav. No marks of violence were foun
: upon the body. A satchel filled wit
!. clothing was near him, but there Wa
. nothing to identify him. He had al
5 parently been dead about three day
He was about forty.fve years of age.
r JACOB M1NN1oK, of Cannon Fall
. While chopping the other day, caugt
his az in l. clothes line, causing it
strike his left foot, cutting q feart'
qsah in the instep. 1t cut of a part
:. the bone and severed an artery, causin
s the loss of . great deal of blood:
!. ,hysician dressed the wound and he
I doing well.
q GEORGE WEEDEN, of New Have
J. Olmsted county, was robbed last wet
= by highwaymen on his way home fro
It Rochester, where he had been to dispe
J; of q load of produce. Two strange
9 asked to ride with him. He permits
. them to get into his wagon, and VIII
y near Genoa they seized him and robb'
him of all his money, between thirty n
forty dollars, and fed.
In Pickerel Lake township, Freebo
=. y county, the other day, little boy tn, !,