Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.


The ,OwatOnna we'll is down three
hundred end thirty feet, and no water
yet.
SCARLET fever is raging in the Ger
man settlement of Monticello, Wright
county.
Mr.. EDWARD VERNON, LIE Sueur
county, will this season set out 10000
celery plants.
Col. DoS0HUE, in digging a we'll on
his farm in Renville county, found logs
at the depth of thirty feet.
A$5,0OO isoue of Mobiles county bonds
was taken at per cent interest, and q
premium of II per cent. paid.
The public schools at Howard Lake,
wright county, are very much dem0ral-
lied by the presence of measles.
CARLETON COLLEGE, at Mortified,
has recently received $4,000 from the
estate of Mrs. L. M. Jewett, of Boston,
Mass.
The Breckenridge Free Press says set.
tiers are rapidly taking up claims on the
Fort Abercombie reservation, though it
is not yet formally opened for settle
ment.
A FARMER in Mobiles county made q
hot. bed, and the locusts Matched out in
it numerously enough to eat up all his
plants.
FARMERS are thus early beginning to
worry about chinch bugs. John Ward,
near Rushford, found million, more or
less, in a little patch in his his field one
day last week.
PETE ANTON, of Peterson, Fillmore
county, poured down his esophagus
sixty one raw eggs within seven minutes.
Offers to bet he can get away with 125
in Is minutes.
The Southern Minnesota has made a
proposition to Flandreau, Dakota, to
pht the cars in there by October LIST, in
consideration of $1,000 bonus, which
will be secured.
A FARMER who lives only few miles
from this village, found skeleton of a
human being, within about half mile
of his house, one day last week.-Lac
gus Porle ledependent.
l.. G. SfooNER was appointed county
attorney pro tenn. st the late term of
court in Kandiyohi county, Arctander,
the incumbent, being temporarily sus-
pended from practice.
A LITTLE child of Erick Peterson, in
Taylors Falls, recently fell into a hog
pen, rendering itself insensible by the
fall. The hog bit and chewed the child's
limbs in dreadful manner.
Some $4,000 have been paid to the
farmers of this country for cattle since
the fret of last January. Of this sum
between $24, 900 and $25, 900 has passed
through the Bank of Glencoe.
TBE towns of Garden City, Vernon
and Shelby, Blue Earth county, voted
in favor of aid in the construction of the
Blue Earth branch of the st, Paul and
Sioux City railroad on the 22nd inst.
MRS. AUGUST RABE committed sui
eide at New Ulm, recently, by hanging
herself to the cellar stairs in her house.
The woman was deranged, and had made
three previous attempts upon her life.
THE Lake City Sentinel says that O.
Gibbs, Jr., has eight acres of strawberry
plants now in bearing condition, and is
planting an additional five acres this
season, which will take about 10000
plants, He is one of the most success
full fruit culturists in the northwest.
The Taylor's Falls Journal, speaking
Of the reported elopement of the wife Of
Frank J. Dawson, of Stacy, in Chisago
county, with school teacher, says she
has not eloped with the school teacher,
but has left her husband, and tells him
she does not desire to live with him any
longer.
JUICE MCDONALD holds a special
term this week in LIE Sueur county for
the trial of George Saylor, for the MUIR
der of Joseph Sonter, October 13, 1878.
County Attorney George D. Emery,
and encouragement for the state. and
M. J. Severance and Fl. J. Peck for the
defense.
DR.. S. A. BEECHER, of St. Paul, on
the 2lst ult., married the widow of n.
II. Farnham, formerly of Minneapolis.
1t will be remembered, says the Tribune,
that Or. Beecher was the innocent cause
of Mr.. Farnham's death through the &C.
cidental discharge Of gun in Warmers
block some time since.
FRED. HARTMAN, of St. Cloud, got
into quarrel with Jewish peddler and
knocked him out of wagon. The ped
dler drew his knife and attacked Hart
man, stabbing him in the left side, in
region of the bowels. Fortunately the
wound was not deep one, and is not
considered dangerous. The peddler left
for parts unknown.
The indebtedness Of Hastings amounts
to considerably over 800, 600, and the
consideration of ways and means to
adjust the same is also ready subject
of interest to the heavier tax payers.
The valuation of real and personal prop
erty is $l,192,709.00, upon which it's
owners paid last year at the rate of twen-
ty-one and one-tenth mills.
WILLIS BAKER, proprietor of the
Lake Pepin Driving Park at Lake City,
has concluded to personally take charge
of the track this season. There are se7-
eral good horses now in the stables, in
Guiding Sir Frederick and Prince of the
Isle, two of the best stock horses in the
state; also some promising colts, two or
more of them being sired by Draco
Prince.
WoRKMEN engaged the other day in
excavating for the Davidson block, st.
Paul, threw up from about two feet
from the surface a silver goblet or
chalice, which is believed to be a valua-
bic relic of the past. The chalice is OF
solid silver: the palm being richly EN-.
bossed and carved with the monogram
II. 81. S." 1t is evidently of Belgian
make, and is of design not in use in
the church for some 200 years past. The
theory reached by Bishop Grace and his
advisors is that it was brought here by
Father Hennepin, who one hundred and
ninety.eight years ago was attacked by
near the point where it empties into the
Mississippi, within the present city
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