Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-27

MINNESOTA ranks all the other state,
IN the matter of Touring mills. There
are now in the state ITO miles, with 66e
run of stone.
TIE other day little child of Amund
Larson, of Bergen, fell into tub of hot
water and was 20 severely scalded as tc
cause its death.
AN Indian was run over and killed al
Kimberly, Crow Wing county, last week
by the night train. He was drunk, and
lying on the track.
MORRISON county proposes to vote
about the middle Of December on the
question of issuing $35, 1000 bonds to aid
the Little Falls and Dakota railroad.
The largest portion of the -four made
at the LIE Sueur mill the past few months
has been shipped to Liverpool, England
and an order was recently received fol
5000 barrels.
MARGAKET SHADR1cK, whose resi-
dence is in Worthipgton, Mobiles c. unity,
is very anxious to know the whereabouts
of her daughter, Della Hosford, who
was married to VIM. Knott some twenty
years ago.
ME-. BeNsoN, of Wabasha, shot with q
rifle at three hundred yards range, from
the deck of the propeller Pepin, huge
swan which weighed twenty one pounds.
and measured from tip to tip of wings,
just six feet.
This ls the season when hunters mis-
take their comrades for deer and plug
them with bullets. Near Fort Ripley,
the other day, Mr.. Wilson Frnney was
shot through the arm by Mr.. D Crosby,
who mistook him for deer.
The two youngest children of Mr.. and
Mrs: NJ. Jorgenson, of Wilmar,-Oscar,
aged four, and Martin, aged six years.
died with diphtheris, after a very brief
illness. At supper time the evening be-
fore they appeared as we'll az usual.
AT the late term of the. district court
at Sauk Rapids, Charles Primer was SEN
fenced to one year and eleven months at
hard labor in the state prison for obtain.
ing goods under false preteDses, and
three months in the county Jail for
stealing q 9un..-
800 for the conviction of some dog
poisoners in Fairibault. Four valuable
pets of his grand children have been
poisoned, and many other blooded dogs
have been destroyed in the same way
during the past two yesrs.
The county board of Murray county
accepted an offer to take the l6O acre
of an aged couple which farm is to be
decided to the county, and the county is
to support the pair hereafter. The Cur
rie Pioneer thinks that Murray county
can soon own all the land around there
on the same term.
WILLIAM YEAS, of Brown county,
loaded his Springfield rife with goose
shot, and then with hammer commenc-
ed battering the muzzle, he says to pre-
vent its shooting; the gun was dis.
charged, the contents lodged in his face
and head, lacerating him terribly. Hopes
are en- p:ertained of his recovery.
TIE LIE Sueur Ntans says: "Some of
the friends of Mrs. Stahl, a widow,
inausurated "bee' at her, house enc
evening last week and sawed nice pile
of wood for her." 1t il pleasure to
record such acts, and they are not
unfrequently mentioned in the state
pAbO1bs 0VCAy OOuy SAAAAo "OAA VI AoSe~A
tiles where they occur.
CAPT. w. w. MURPHY, of Madelia,
has entered upon his years imprison-
ment at Mankato for the shooting of
young Ash, for which he was tried and
sentenced to q fine of $500 or q years
imprisonment. Being unable to pay the
fine without great injustice to bis family,
the captain, after mature deliberation,
has accepted the alternative.
TIE Window Reporter gives an &C.
count of the accidental and fatal shoot
ing of Ed. Muxon. He was standing
behind q wagon in which was a loaded
shot gun, throwing ears of corD into the
box, when the gun was DISCHARGED, the
contents passing through the end.board,
entered the bowels of the unfortunate
young man, killing him almost instantly.
HENRY SE1BERT, q German living
near Lake Jefferson, in LIE Sueur county,
died at his residence last week, from the
kick of his horse. He had, by honest
industry, paid for eighty acres Jf Iand,
besides paying friend for his passage
over. He had built a new house and
was just beginning to enjoy the fruits
of his labor, when he was suddenly call
ed from his family and friends.
IT has become public that the St.
Louisian who recently gave such q
valuable library to Carleton college, a
Mortified, is E. w. Bryant, E-q.: well
known in life insurance circles, and now
residing at Delavan, Wiz. He has just
forwarded to the college large and ex
pensive book casee, and proposes t.
increase his donation of books Hi
father has been for several years citizer
of Nortbfeld.
PETER ULMANN died in Mankato re
cently in his 84th year. He served il
the French army under the first Napo
leon. Residing in Mankato at the tim'
of the Sioux outbreak, though sixty
seven years old, he was one Of the first II
volunteer in Capt. Cox's company Q
mounted rangers. He served year il
that command. and when mustered out
re.enlisted in Brackets battalion, wher
he served three years, :.--... -. '..,,