Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.
GRANITE FALLS is going to build 8
Sc, 600 school house.

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Sc, 900 school house.
The treasurer of Kandiyohi county is
in default about 81, 800.
G. A. DEGRAFF has a herd of twenty
elk on his farm in Janesville.
WILLIAM BONES, of Sibley county,
raised sixty busels Of Duchess apples this
year.
The Freeborn county Jail is overflow
ing with prisoners awaiting trial in Sep
tember.
The state treasurer has purch ased for
the school fund $4,000 of Missouri six
per cent. bonds.
DIR. @. H. FULLER formerly of Has,
tings, but late of Granite Falls, died at
that place recently.
Mrs. PHILIP KoRCHER, of Litchfield,
who was severely injured last week by
falling into cellar, is dead.
1NKPA CITY and Geneva, in Dakota,
near the foot of Big Stone Lake, have
been consolidated under the name of Big
Stone City.
MRS. EMMA GEORGE, formerly Emma
Crary, daughter of DR.. B. F. Crary, first
president of Hamline university, died in
Colorado, August I'd, 1879.
A TEAM belonging to Albert Lewis,
OF Dayton, was drowned in the Missis-
sippi river, abut three miles above Itas-
ca, recently while engaged in hauling
logs on the drive.
MRS. Connolly, of Alexandria, old
the other day" HI, fh;,"Ga "oGfa'gin Of the fire is
unknown, but probably was started by
the woman herself.
The second depot west of Alexandria
il to be called Brandon. 1t is located on
section Il in the town of Chippewa,
and is thirteen miles from Alexandria
and FIVE from Evansville.
JOHN GlLLEss, of Baldwin, Sherburne
county, while hunting prairie chickens,
received ninety small bird shot in his
back from the gun of an associate, but
he is in fair way to recover.
Mr.. CHARLES BErCHER, of Red Wing
has become half owner of the site OF,
Big Stone city, Dakota, the other half
being owned by Nh. Oehler and Mr..
Diggs.
MRS. EDWARD JOHNSON, of Lanes
boro, recently visited friends in Fari-
bault, with her two children, where one
Of them was taken down with diphtheria
and died.
LYMAN MURDOCH, son of Hiram
Murdoch, hotel keeper at Clitherall,
Otter Tail county, was instantly killed
last week by the accidental discharge of
a gun in his own hands.
The railroad company are now fencing
the Plainview road. Three trains per
day each way are run as usual on the
branch road, aftording all the convent
ences to be had along the line.
II. B. GARY, of Marshall, offers all his
property for sale, and purposes to invest
the proceeds in several thousand sheep,
which he intends to herd on the coteaus
in summers and winter in town.
The seventh annual fair by the
Mcleod County Aricultural society will
be held on their grounds, at Hutchinson,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sep
tember Oath. 25th and 26th, 1879.
MRS OLE NELSON, of Brown county,
while assisting her husband in stacking
oats, fell from the load backward,
receiving serious internal injuries,
though, fortunately, no bones were
broken.
Mr.. JOHN STEVENS, we'll known
throughout the state, and one of the
earliest settlers in Olmstead county, died
at his home, five miles south of Dodge
Center, on Sunday, the 9Th inst, at the
age of sixty years.
THE Anoka Herald says a barge loaded
with 70, 900 brick, belonging to August
Lein, OF Carver, and destined for St.
Paul, sank in the Minnesota river at
Chaska, recently. A total loss, there
being no insurance.
THE Dakota County Agricultural So
ciety has postponed its animal fair until
October lst I'd and Sd, in order to secure
the attendance of horses from the west
ern trotting circuit, and the purses have
been raised to $500.
A MAN named Murphy, a harvest
hand, was killed in Belle Creek, Good
hue county, last week. He was asleep
in field where q reaper was running,
and the sickle caught him, lacerating
and tearing his flesh dreadfully.
THE Red Wing Advancc says: Mr.
J. @. Pierce has an apple tree of the
Duchess variety that was 80 loaded with
apples the present year, as to necessitate
the placing of thirteen props under the
different limbs, to keep them from break.
ing.
THE farmers of tho town of Ida
Otter tail county, complain of India1
depredati0ns on the cranberry marshes
and of the injury they do to the bes
timber trees by peeling off the bark, ane
, out of season. " w.
A SICK tramp discovered in a schoo
; house near Lewiston, Winona county
last week, was taken to the poor farm
and prompt attention given by the coun
ty physician, but he failed to rally, ant
died on the 9Th instant. He gave hi
name as Charles Williams, of st. Louis
THE Chaska Herald says that the bod
of Mrs. A. G. Zetterberg, of Carver, VIII
, was drowned nine years ago, was foun
in the bottom between Chaska and Cal
.. yer, last Sunday evening. Her gol
, finger rings and door keys were foun
, with the skeleton body, and were recoe
nized by Mr.. Zstterberg as belonging t
, his wife.
A BARN was struck by lightning nea
e Cambridge, Isanti county, last week, an
y burned to the ground. Two boys sleel
? ing on hay inside the barn were save
}, by their father, who got up to ascertai
y if the lightning struck near by, and VII
: saw his barn. on fire, barely having tin
8 to throw the boys out of the windo
Q upon pile of straw.
!, REV. MATTHEW SoR1N, D. d., wi
> was noted man in Red Wing in ii
~ early days, died at Pueblo, Col, on Il
!. !: 18th. One of his daughters, Mrs. B. ]
- Crary, was present at his bedside. D
. Sorin had been 4 clergyman for ov
Z fifty years and was well-known both
- the east and west for his ability al
y =, commanding eloquence.
3 A MOTION was made before Judge G,
few days ago for . new trial in Il
case of Mr.. Isaac Brown, of Sleepy Ely
who WAS injurad by . wrecking car
=. the Winona and st. Peter road, a
]" t awarded $1,000 damages at the last tel
!" Of court. The court has the motion U