Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-13
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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! MINNESOTA NEWS.
! ANDREW SMEDBURG, of Hancock
Carver county, suddenly died last week
JOHANNES JACOBSON, of Arctander
Kandiyohi county, lost his house by fire
last week.
| MRS. JOHN KEITH, of Greenville, fell
to the floor dead while performing he1
household duties, few days since.
BIG STONE lake was entirely frozen
over on the Sd inst, and persons were
crossing on the ice.
The Rev. Father Vein has secured 2
site and is purchasing material for q
$l5,O 900 church at Blue Earth City.
GEN. G. w. ToUsLEY and SAINT Baker
killed twelve geese and four white brant
from pit in wheat field a few miles
west of Redwoods.
LAST week in Kilkenny, LIE Sueur
county, daughter of Michael DAILY,
IL years old, was kicked in the head and
instantly killed by horse.
AN incendiary fire at Eden, Brown
county, the other day, destroyed the
barn, stable, span of mules, and farming
tools and machines of T. L. Gilbert.
JAMES RANDOLPH, of Sharon, is one
of the pioneers of LIE Sueur county.
He came to the town of Sharon in 1856,
and has been resident there ever since
-twenty.four years.
THERE was shooting affray at Her
man, on Thursday, the 9Th, between T.
W. Dickson and q Mr.. Hanel:n, in
KthwSEa!;s r. was tah4 a1atteE 5fceigad AAsh Wound
RtE,EE the very recent fe fso.t ..atesee1 gsee11
psas OF the second growth were gathereo
in Dundas, Rice county, and the cur.
rant bushes were budding out for the
second time.
JOHN EDBURY, of Weaver, Wabashaw
county, was instantly killed, by the &C.
cidental discharge of his own gun the
other day, while out duck hunting. He
leaves wife.
A Mr.. HERTZELL, son of the Mr..
Hertzell who once traded at Point Doug
lass and who WAS unaccountably missing
some twenty-three years since, has put in
an appearance.
| MAJOR BINGHAM has gone up on the
Northern Pacific railroad to buy 80, ,00O
acres of land for several of the leading
men in Faribault, on which they propose
to tart stock farm.-FdribouN Demo-
crat.
| J, F. MCINTosH, of Sacred Heart
accidentally shot himself Saturday, and
was found dead in the evening. Hewa'
out hunting, and it is supposed that IL
climbing over fence the gun was dis
charged, as it was found on tho opposite
side Of the fence, discharged and broken
Two horse thieves stole from Mari
Tracy, of Cokato, Wright county, spar
of horses, few nights since. Mr.. Trac!
pursued and overlook The thieves nea
: Fair Haven, Stearns county. He fire.
, eight shots at the thieves, who abandonet
, the horses and made their escape.
VIM. MCCARTY, living in the vicinit,,
4 of Island Lake, Lyon county, during
: heavy wind, recently, lost his house an,
e barn, with ali their contents, by fire. Al
g that was saved were the clothes that h
e and his wife had on, and q yoke of oxen
t This is the second time this family bav
( been burned out.
The following is statement OF tn
q first snowfall in Minnesota for nine SUI
e cessive years, commencing in 1871: 187
9 Otober 18th; 1872, November 4th; 1877;
n October 22d; 1874, October 30th; 1877
- October 10th; 1876, November 18th
1877, November 10th; 1878, Octob'
=. 9th; 1879, November lst.
- SAMUEL GREENsHADE, of Hasting
n little over twenty years OF age, kllle
=. himself by gun shot on Sunday NOR
:. ing, Oct. Is. A man walking throug
40 the woods near where the deed W
perpetrated was attracted to the spot
- the barking of the faithful dog of tt
~ :, suicide, who was keeping watch over Il
* dead body of his master.
The condition of the grounds gu
u rounding the State Normal school bull
'g ing in Winona has long been source
10 chagriD and modification, not only
the residents of Winons, but to all Il
II citizens of the state, and the Wino1
r. people are trying to have the matter p
N in shape for improvement at the e.
le liest practicable moment.
in The Mankato Rev;ew regrets to lea
20 that dipbtheria is prevailing qui
badly, at the present time, in the tov
ID of Sterling. There had been sew
ne deaths, two in the family of Mr.. Blu
at two in I1r. Marrison's, one in N
to Wards, and two in Mr.. Keith's famil
re There are still number of cases, and t
be type is very severe.
II. Four wheat stacks, on the Beet
ke farm, Garden City, Blue Earth count
er were burned recently, the fire origin
ID, ING from steam tbresher, which b
cd lust started. 1t is estimated that t
On loss is equal to 800 bushels of wheat
en- fire, starting in the same way and trt
en- the same machine, occurred in Rapid
a few weeks crevious.
ONE Jay last week the body of Leo
das Bennett was found on a farm
jamestown, bordering on Lake Madist
IT, Blue Earth county, and q gun lyi
near by indicated that the deceased h
committed suicide. The deceased wa
- single man, aged thirty"seven years, q
all his mother resides at Brownsville, Nov
les county, Minnesota. He had no NOR
- + and no property, and his relatives tc
~. ~ charge of the remains, .4 ::
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CANN1BALs especially dote oQ tend
NO hearted people:-M r. Ne'o'.