Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09

8 Per Annum, in Advance.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A NEW postoffice has been established
at Grow Wing.
THE Brainerd postoffice has been made
a Canadian international money order
office.
Mr.. JEREMIAH PURsELL is laying out
a town on the west side of the Mississip.
pi, opposite Sauk Rapids.
DIR. l.. Fl. HURLBURD, of Ortonville,
died quite suddenly in convulsions last
week. He was 20 years old.
Mr.. MRS. BUEDY, of Alexandria, have
in their possession well-thumbed bible
over three hundred years old.
| AN immense amount of amber cane
seems to have been grown in the vicinity
of Chat6eld the present season.
FRED. H1CKLER, JR., formerly of Chas-
ka, now of Stearns county, lost a year
and half old boy by drowning.
The eldest daughter of Mrs. Noah
Lincoln, o. Wilton, Waseca county, is
insane, and has been taken to the St.
Peter hospital.
| The nine-year.old son of Thomas
Stearns, Millville, was killed few days
since by being caught in the machinery
of grist mill.
AT Wells amber cane steam mills are
running and making 25O gallons per day.
At Dooleyville quarter of an acre of
cane made 104 gallons of syrup.
A LARGE freight business is being
transacted by the Hastings and Dakota
road this fall each train being COM
posed of from twenty to thirty cars.
FRANK BLAKE got serious injuries
while running thresher at Ravenna,
Dakota county. He was badly bruised
and cut and his left thigh was broken.
In Weaver, Wabashaw county, recent
ly, John Starr and wife were thrown
from a wagon by runaway team.
Each had a leg broken, besides being
otherwise badly bruised.
CAPT. CHARLES E. LEONARD, one of
the old timers, has just disposed of all
his property in Point Douglas, exchang-
blue grass region OF KentGSckSy:' kS'o' III 'n1
The body of John Kennedy was found
floating in the bayou south of jackson,
Jackson county, and had apparently been
in the water two weeks or more. Whether
the drowning was accidental or other
wise has not been ascertained.
A NEW town has been laid out on the
farm of George Quiggle, in Shelbyville,
Blue Earth county, where the depot of
the Blue Earth City branch railroad will
be located. Several lots have already
been sold and new buildings are being
put up.
MRS. WILLIAM F. WHEELER, of
Winona, formerly a resident of Empo-
ria, Kansas has had an elegant pair of
vases awarded to her for being the neat
est dressed and finest appearing lady on
the fair grounds.
LAST week Abbot Edelbrock laid the
corner stone of the college church at St..
Johns college, Stearns county. Twenty
two Benedictine fathers, twelve clerics
and about thirty brothers assisted. The
ceremony was private.
BENEATH where the Congregational
church of Loreno, or Sleepy Eye, now
stands are buried the remains of beau
tiful girl, a victim of the Indian massa-
ere Of 1862, whose name and history
could never be learned.
A LARGE wolf was caught in trap
near Minnow lake, Wabashaw county,
one night last week. There are others
of his gang making night hideous in that
locality. Their favorite diet is turkeys
and chickens, and not few are missing
from that neighborhood.
SAMUEL HACKETT, treasurer of Martin
county, is found to be "a 1000 short in
his accounts. He has turned over his
property to his bondsmen, and has gone
to Vermont in the hope of raising funds
to make the deficit good. His fellow
citizens regard him as an honest man.
The other night the axle of freight
car broke between Nicolett and Court.
land, by which several cars laden with
iron were smashed and the track torn
up for some distance. The track was re-
paired during the night 80 that trains
were able to run on time the next morn
ing.
A GREAT many young cattle are being
shipped from Minnesota to Iowa, where
corn is cheap, to be fattened. Many
buyers are looking out among the farm
ers, and good prices are being offered.
If this trade continues it will tend to
make cattle cheap in the state and en-
hance the price of beef.
On a recent night Michael Monthly,
stopping at Rs,der's hotel, Waseca, got
up out Of he'd and started on Sleep
walk, which was terminated by going
through a window, in which sash and
nearly every glass was demolished.
Monthly sustained a severe injury by be-
ing cut with broken glass, SO much that
he nearly become exhausted by the loss
OF blood before DR.. Crary arrived to at
tend him.
RECENTLY, at Kenyon, Goodhue
county, Henry Nelson, in aquarrel with
L. D. Peck, knocked the latter down
with neckyoke, laying open his scalp
telling him to the ground and intlicting
a very dangerous wound. A constable
arrested Nelson, but he broke and ran.
He was called to halt and pistol was
fred in the air two or three times to
give emphasis to the command, but Mel
son kept on running, when bullet fired
into his leg by the constable brought him
to a halt. The prisoner was held in
$4,000, and failing to give bonds was
lodged in Jail.
LEVI HAWKINS, a brakeman employed
in the yard of the Chicago, milwaukee,
and st. Paul railroad at Minneapolis,
was killed on the 9th ult. He was
ordered down from the top of freight
car in motion on side track near the
Linseed Oil works to uncouple cars: In
descending he was struck by one OF the
blown outward, and swept from his hold
on the side of the cal, and an ugly cash
cut in his forehead. In falling he was
swept under the trucks, his left foot
nearly severed from the leg, and the
other leg was cut and mangled in a hor-
rible manner from the ankle to the
knee.
Rnroanfic and RloodV.