Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
MINNESOTA ITEMS.

A BILL passed the legislature for =
state road from Herman to Fergus Falls.
A COLONY of thrifty Germans are 60
ing to settle in Wyanett, Mile Laos
county, this spring.
ID. PETERSON, of Two Rivers, Nor
rison county, has two-year-old colt
which weighs 972 pounds.
The people of Martin county have
voted down a proposition to build q
$4,000 courthouse at Fairmont.
CHARLES Whitney, aged eighty.two
years, one of the earliest settlers of Mon
ticello, died last week. he leaves e wife
aged eighty years.
The Northwestern railway company
will erect wire fences along the lice OF
the Chatfeld branch as soon as the frost
is out of the ground.
Dr.. CHARLES JEwETT, an old-time
temperance lecturer and formerly resi-
dent of Faribault, is near death st his
residence III Massachusetts.
The family Of Christian Hub, Kasota,
LIE Sueur county, have been sadly af-
ficted with diphtheria. Four of their
children have died with the disease.
MRS. w. 81. STEVENS, a resident of
Benton county for the last twenty three
years, died at her residence in the town
of Minden, recently, Of pneumonia.
OWING to the prevalence Of scarlet fe-
yer in Fergus Fails, Otter Tail county,
the schools have been suspended and
also church service on the Sabbath till
further notice.
NEXT regular term of court in Free
born county commences April S,h. A
new law ives that county three general
terms of court hereafter-in January.
April and September.
ISAAC Brown, of Sleepy Eye, has
commenced suit against the G. & n. W.
Co., to recover $4,000 damages fer in
juries sustained over one year ago while
an employe of the company.
MoNTEv1DEo has had sensation in
the abduction of daughter of Dir. Chas.
Pierce, aged II years, by her mother,
who was divorced from Mr.. Pierce two
years ago, and came on from Ohio for
that purpose.
WIN. Dow, a farmer residing near
Rush .ity, was found dead in his bed
the other worning. Cause of death apo
plexy. His wife died suddenly by the
roadside last fall. From the shock pro-
duced by the event he never fully recov-
cred.
DAVID BLAKELY, editor of tie Mime
apolis Tribune, who commenced his edi-
torial career in Bancroft, Freedom
county, over twenty years ago, will
deliver the address before the Freedom
county Old Settlers association, in June
next.
JEREMIAH CHASE WIS arrested at the
instance of J. V. Kinney, for stealing
timber, in the town of Pleasant Grove,
Olmsted county. The charge was sus-
tanned, and Chase was fined SD and
costs, in default of which he was sent to
jail for thirty days.
HERMAN TRo1E, a tailor at Hartlandz
Freedom county, one cold night last
week went home, left his door vide open
and threw himself on his bed in a
drunken stupor, where he lay all night.
In the morning, when found, he feet and
legs half way to his knees, and his hands
were frozen as solid as stone
Mr.. GEO. w. BERTRAM, AZ old settler
at Monticello, died recently. He held
the Office of sheriff of Wrig BIT county for
several years, and was sheriff during the
memorable Wright county rebellion,
and had the murderer Jackson in his
custody at the time the mob captured
him and hung him on the victims prem
ises
Mrs. T. G. UDELL, of Viola, Olmsted
county, recently fell heir to five hundred
acres of valuable land on Cumberland
Island, of the coast of Georgia, through
the death of a wealthy planter who at
tanned the advanced age of JOG years.
The estate consisted of part of eight
thousand acres of land, the larger portion
of which is improved.
ONE afternoon last week, as freight
train on the St. Paul and Sioux City
railroad neared the depot in Msnkato, a
flock of boys just out of school, as their
manner is, ran to the train and COM
menced jumping on the cars. One Of
them, Lewis Tew, sged ii years, when
near the top of box car, slipped and
fell to the ground, breaking one of his
arms both above and below the elbow, in
such q manner as to make amputatioD
necessary at the shoulder joint. He
seemed at first to bear up we'll under the
painful operation, but the shock proved
too much for him, as he died Oh the third
day after the amputation.