Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

mas come into possession of $1,000 ar
rears of pension.
MANKATO has commenced work on
her new water-works, for which the city
has issued $4,000 in bonds drawing Is
per cent.
FRED. CRoNEsCRAFT, living near New
Rome, in Sibley county, lost two horses
and had a third badly crippled by
stroke of lightning.
Mr.. G. S. BARBOUR, of Austin, being
q member of the Iowa Masonic relief as
ISOLATION at the time of his death, his
heirs get about 400.
BISHOP WH1PPLE, of the Episcopal
church of Minnesota, receives bequest
of SIS, 900 in the will of Robt. NJ. Mason,
late of Boston, deceased.
MRS. FARMHOUSE, of Round Prairie,
found silver ten cent piece IN the g'z~
zard of chicken which she was dressing
the other day.
TIE other day some careless or vicious
person set fire to Clark Marshalls OLD
house on his farm in jackson, and not
only was the house burned, but FIRE run
through and injured the grove near BY
DULUTH has certainly started on the
up grade. More property has changed
hands by bona fde sales this spring than
in the same time for three years.--Du-
luth Neaos.
A FRENCH beggar about 50 years of
age, short in stature, showing paper
printed in several languages, gathered
in $6S in WinOna. He is fraud-be-
ware of him.
I1Iv~ &c yooncaf
Heighot, was found in Vermillion
slough, Dakota county, the other night.
No marks of violence we're found upon
the body.
Mr.. G. W. MooREHoUsE, of Barnes
Vile, acquaints the Glyndon News with
the circumstances of finding an unknown
mans skeleton the day previous, on the
west bank of the South Buffalo.
The residence and ontbuildings of
Capt. A. Brandrup, the old farmer OF
the Bots de Sioux, and treasurer OF Will
kin county, were burned recently. The
residence was built in the old baronial
style and cost $4,000.
Mr.. CHAs. MERR1MAN, Of Howard
Lake, Wright couaty. had his horses
stopped by two highway robbers, but he
knocked one down and starting his team,
the other was knocked over and Merri~
man escaped.
HORACE BLOOD, of Stanton, recently
had his barn destroyed by its being
blown to pieces. There were about $50
sheep in the underground part of the
barn at the time, but strange to say only
three were killed.
CHAs. BAssICKE, well-to-do German,
on the opposite side of the river, in
Sibley county, was in town on Tuesday
and purchased his own coffin, in antici-
patton of death, which he thinks will
overtake him in the near future.-Le
Sue,tr Sentinel.
The postoffice department has cstab~
lished a postofice at Belle Chester, near
the Belyidere Catholic church. Antho~
ny Casper has been appointed postmaster.
Belle Chester is located in a thickly
populated section. The main street of
the place in the dividing line between
Goodhue and Wabasha counties.
A DEER walked leisurely up to Hay
wards Union mill the other day and
began eating oats out of measure which
one of the workmen held out to it. 1t
was caught and put in shed, but MIR
Hayward, upon learning this, ordered it
released, and it scampered Oft to its ma
tive glen.-St. Cloud Times.
ONE Arthur Robinson made brutal
, assault on a Mrs. Morgan and her
daughter, of Scotland, Fillmore county,
but fortunately the women proved game
and gave him a red-hot reception, al
thoug h they received more or less bruises
= during the struggle. The mother finally
p got an ak, after which the iend made a
8 hasty exit.
e ABOUT two weeks since, Mrs. Pine
/, an Irish lady living in Cedar Lake town
e ship, gave birth to a male infant that
4 kicked the beam at twenty pounds.
D And strange as it may appear, it is
r nevertheless true, that the mother OF
+. this gigantic babe was about her house
l work as usual the next day after hel
, confinement.-Jorddn Advocate.
, ONE day last week a man in Wine
I bago City, Faribault county, in attempt,
ing to descend we'll fifty feet deep
, swung off on an old rope too weak tc
hold his weight. The rope broke and he
went down, striking feet foremost in
about three feet Of mud and water
3 Strangely to say, he was uninjured. He
D was drawn up wetter, a muddier, and
4 perhaps wiser man--too wise to venture
t out again on an old rotten rope.
ONE day last week, while, mir. and
:. Mrs. John Miller, living three miles from
White Bear, were temporarily absent
from the house, their eldest child, boy
q of nine, took loaded shotgun and, sup
, posing it unloaded, pointed it at at 6
t little brother CT four years and diScharg
; ed it, the contents entering the stomach
and cutting the alimentary canal and
, injuring the intestines, producing death
in two hours.
. MIENEAPoLls has formed circuit
with Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas City
and St. Louis, the Minneapolis fail
occurring the first week in September
! Rarus, Hopeful and the new California
- horse, Col. Lewis, with other famous
! speeders, will be present. The purse a
4 each place will be 10000, excepting Chi
cago, which increases her purse to So.
= 600.
3 The stable of Ole Skein, some nine
}, miles south of town, was struck by light
' ming, on the 2Sth ult, and burned, con-
: Stunning also a span Of horses, seedtr
thresher, and number OF farming uten
sils, valued in all at 81 600. Sometime
since Mr.. Skein, through financial
;. troubles and religious enthusiasts, be
n came insane and was taken to the asylum
K at St. Peter about two weeks previous t.
Y this recent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 'o'
9 Commercial.
< TIE house of John Yoak, who lives il
r Scott county, just outside the town line
J, of Wheatland, was burned on the 27:h
IS ult, together with his granary, whict
o contained most of his wheat cap fol
,, three years past, amounting to over
!, 1000 bushels. AL his hogs were alst
: burned. His store was burned two year
s ago, at which time he saved his book
s and notes, which were all destroyed ii
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