Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-12-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MlNNESUIA NEWS.
some 60,000, 600 feet of lumber were
sawed in Anoka last season.
AT Albert Lea twenty-five railroad
trains arrive and depart daily.
JEROME PArrEN, of Renville, has re-
Gently lost two children by diphtheria.
FLANERAU will be the terminus for
the winter of the railroad beyond Fulda.
DR. T. 81. EvERTs, of Rushford, has
removed from Rushford to Boulder.
Col.
A GIRL in Livonia, Sherburne county,
aged fourteen years, was married last
week.
The railroad track has been laid to
Pipestone City, and regular trains have
been put on.
LAST Saturday Touring mill at New
Ulm shipped car load of -four direct
to Glasgow, Scotland.
ER1cK OLSON LIND, a farmer of Stock.
holm, Wrigh county, is under arrest,
charged with numbering his wife.
Mr.. A. P. JOHNSON, one of the old
settlers of Vasa, Goodhue county, died
at his home in that town recently.
II. G. DAY, of Lanesboro, has been
appointed local attorney of the South
ern Minnesota railroad.
The citizens of Lake Crystal, Blue
Earth county, have voted to raise by
bonds &c, 900 for the erection of school
building.
A BARN was burned in Marshall, Lyon
county, last week, in which six horses
and one COW perished in the burning
building.
NJ. LYNCH, of Ortonville, was thrown
from horse the other day, and danger
ously injured. The chances of recovery
are against him.
W1NNEBAGo CRY, Faribault county,
has established quarantine against Pres.
colt and Lura, in the some county,
where diphtherie prevails.
DEvER1cH CHoERs, of Helena, Nc
Leod county, was caught in the ma
chiaery of thresher the other day, and
so injured that he died the next day.
The demand for houses to rent, be-
yond the supply, in all the villages and
SAsAOo VI NAAAACoOka3 ID b1kA VI RlcdV
and increasing growth and prosperity.
GLENCOE Register: Trade is booming,
new buildings are going up all around
US, the population of the town is contin.
ually increasing, and prosperity sits en-
throned on the stomach of hard times.
ISAAC HARTHoRN, of Ramsey, Anoka
county, the other day fell from load
of hay between the horses. The wheels
of the wagon passed diagonally over his
legs and body. The legs were badly
broken.
JOHN LLOYD, of Cottonwood, Brown
county, has had eight cases of diphtheria
in his family, and one death. Mr.. Ed
wards, neighbor of Mr.. Lloyd, had five
children attacked by the disease, three
of whom died.
The postmaster-general has raised
the grade of the Alexandria postcffice
above all the other Offices of north.
western Minnesota exceptSt Cloud, and
fixei the salary of Postmaster Miller at
81 900 per yeal.
LAWRENCE GRoUNLAND, formally an
attorney at St. Peter, who, it will be
remembered, was convicted of forgery
and imprisoned at Mankat0, is now in
the Joliet state prison of Illinois for q
like offense.-7Tibune.
GEolGE DRENTLow, who lives about
five miles from Mortified, Rice county,
had some forty bushels of wheat stolen
from his granary the other night. The
robberies of granaries by thieves with
wagons is getting to be quite common.
The Worthington Advance says the
Okabena Touring mills in Worthington
were the first to use hay for fuel. 1t
has been successfully used for several
years, and has been saving to the mill
and q profit to the farmers amounting to
thousands of dollars.
Mr.. S. J. Moore, of Willmar, is au-
thority for the statement that five chill
dren were buried out of one family
living near the West Lake postofice,
Kandiyohi county, Dec. ?, their deaths
having been caused by diphtheria, and
another child of the same family was
not expected to live.
Mr.. A. A. OvITT has sold his farm of
100 acres, in Lakeville, near Farming
ton, to Mi. Frank M. Shipley, of Min.
neapolis, who will take possession on the
first of January. With it he disposed
of all the stock, farm implements, ETC.,
the cum paid for the whole being s., ,Ooo.
AT Vermilliop, Dakota county, one
afternoon last week, James Dunn,
farm hand in the service of Bennett
Bros, in order to frighten one of the
hired girls, who was feeding calves near
the hay loft, wrapped q quilt around
him and slid of the hay. He landed
equare on his feet, fell back insensible.
and never spoke afterwards. He wss 81
years old.
TIE st. Paul and Sioux City railroad
has been doing heavy carrying trade
this fall, not only in the transportation
of lumber to the south and west, but in
hauling wheat and other produce to
market. The branch line is contributing
a good business, all the stations attract
iog q full share of the wheat coming to
market, and also cattle and hogs, for the
accommodation of which they have
capacious stock yards.-Mankato Rev'ev'
IT is a rather sad circumstance to
record three funerals in town on Tues
day, viz; Toat of VIM. Fenkner, more
particularly mentioned in another place,
and Mrs. Teisen, wife of Peter Tiesen
and daughter Of John Kuchenmeister,
of this township, and a little son eight
months old, Of John stefes, Of this vii
iage. The combined funeral of the
three taking place at the same time from
the Catholic church, was numerously
attended, and one of the largest yet
witnessed in this town.-Delano Eagle,
Dec. II.
HENRY sCHABER, who was killed by
the cars in St. Paul, October 25th, was q
member of Harmonic lodge, Ancient
Order of United Workmen. Some time
previous to his death the pastor of the
church of which he was member de-
manded that he should abandon tht
secret societies of which he was member
on pain of dismissal from the church
After careful consideration he declined
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