Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-24
:. MINNESOTA NEWS.

p, MlNNESOTA NEWS.
ToRaEN PETERSON, of Brighton, MIC
ollet county, was killed recently by a
runaway team.
THE Byron Cheese Factory was sold
at auction on the 4th instant for $20o.
1t cost over $4,000 five years ago.
OVER one hundred trout were taken
from Chatfield creek the first of last
week-the finest catch in several years.
MRS. ALVIN DEWoLF, of Brunswick,
Chisago county, fell from a granary and
broke her arm, and dislocated her wrist.
CANNON FALLS had its annual fight
over the license question. This was de-
clded by vote of 1913 in favor to 90
against it.
ROBERT W. LATHAM, miller. was
killed in one of the mills at Minneapolis
on the 9th, by being drawn into the
machinery.
JOHN BELTBERG was at work at the
bottom of we'll, at St. Peter. when a
bucket fell from the top, inAictins a
dangerous wound on his head.
DURING the last five exercises in prac-
ticing for the Lake City glass-ball tour
nament, Mr.. NJ. E. 1aber, of Plainview,
shot at seventy-six balls without missing
single oneI
Mr.. RAPPLEYEA, of East Rochester,
Olmsted county, fell from his wagon,
striking on the back of his head and
neck, sustaining injuries thereby thatin
ali probability will prove fatal.
A COUPLE of tramps travelling through
Salem (Olmsted county,, one day last
week, out of pure lack Of righteousness
set fire to the grass and bushes along the
roadside, and by the means destroyed
5000 worth of property.
A. D1GHTMAN, resident of town 1T,
range 46, in this county, while returning
from hunt few days ago, accidental
ly shot himself when within few miles
Of his house, and died in less than hse
minutes.-Lac gu; Parle Press.
The wife of Charles Newcomb, Of
Lakeville, has presented to her house
hold pair of twin girl babes-one
weighing eight pounds aud the other
seven pounds, and a fraction over for
each. This sort of business is lively in
that burgh.-Farnsington Press.
In the Probate Court at St. Paul, Mrs.
Eva Lamprey, wife of the late Morris
Lamprey, was appointed special admin
istratrix of the estate, giving bonds to
the amount of $4,000. The real prop
erty of the estate was valued at $l20, 600
and the personal property at $4,000.
The Hastings Gazette says that Henry
Van 1nwegen has been having hand
some tombstone made at the Hastings
marble works in memory Of Corpora!
Marcus Odell, accidentally shot at
Leavenworth, Mimi, on the first of Sep
TENDER, 1874, and will take it up there
next month.
FATHER GEN1N, of Duluth, ratified %
two ponies that were presented to him by
Sitting Bull. They we're drawn By Pc
ter McKeon, of Kettle river, who made
a present of them to Father Genin. The
Duluth Tribune says perhaps Father
Genin will rattle them off again and pay
some more of the church debt with them
JosLIN, conductor on the Northern
Pacific for the past year, has resigned
that position, and moved with his family
to Island Lake, forty-six miles from
Duluth, on the Northern Pacific, where
he will have charge Of the railroad pump
and the eating house, and his daughter,
Mrs. Nichols, will be the telegraph
operator.
MORRIS LAMPREY, we'll known law
yer Of St. Paul, died in that city on the
9th, of diphtheria. He came to st.
Paul in 1856 and soon took front rank
in his profession, which position he held
to his death, and from which he acquired
large property, estimated at from
$3.50, 900 TO 100000. Owing to the
malignant character OF the disease the
funeral was strictly private.
q. B. BRACKET, Of Union Groves
Meeker county, had al old strawstack
which he wished to destroy, consequent
~ he set fire to it. Unfortunately, his
barn took fire from the burning stack,
hsy-stacks. In bis granary he had about
400 bushels of oats, and in the stable he
had one steer, three hogs and three
calves. The whole property mentioned
was destroyed, amounting in all to over
$500. No insurance.
A FEW days before the expiration of
the late congress, Maj. Strait succeeded
in getting throug h the pension Office
pension for the heirs of Col. w. Mark
ham, formerly of this city, and who died
in Missouri some ten or twelve years
since. Including the back payment the
pension amounts to rising of $4,000.
The act Was a very meritorious ore ON
the part of Maj. Strait, as the heirs, now
fatherless and motherless, are not in
aMuent circumstances.-Roc Post.
The trustees of the hospital for insane
met at Rochester on the 9Th inst. The
members present were II. 8. Strait,
Freeman Talbot, VIM. Schimmell. B.
Deuel. and A. II. Kerr. On account of
sickness G. T. Brown, president of the
boa d, was not able to attend. The
board spent some time in in examination
of the building and the condition of the
patients. The general wants of the i'll
stitution and the improvements neces-
known that the sum of $4,000 was ap-
propriated by the late legislature fer
building purposes in the year 1880, and
also the sum Of 50, 500 for the construc-
ton of barn and root cellar the present
year. The board instructed the secreta-
ry to confer with the proper authority
and ascertain if a portion of this money
cannot be applied in making necessary
Improvements as per request of the
board in their annual report. The
board deem it important that sufficient
number of the more harmless patients
be removed, in compliance with the act
of the legislature, to their respective
counties to bring the expenses within
the appropriation. A. 81. Kerr was
elected Steward Of the Rochester hes
pital with a salary of $1,000 year.
"That's Where He Made His Mis-.
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