Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-10
MINNESOTA STATE news.

A GOOD many cases of diphtheria are
reported in Minneapolis at present.
THREE prisoners at Morris broke Jail
the other hight and made good their
escape.
JOHN kelly alleges that he was re-
Gently robbed OF $sl07 by highwaymen in
Pennington, Dakota county.
w. H. NILES, of Breckenridge. had
three ribs broken recently, by being
damned against the side of the stable by
a fractious horse.
HALvER GULEKsoN, of Morris. while
chopping the other day, by misdirected
glancing blow, completely severed four
toes from his left foot.
In Kandiyohi county the average
valuation of county lands, including i'm
provements, per acre, as equalized by
the state board, is $3.50.
A SERIOUS row occurred between two
threshing crews at Pottsdam, Olmsted
county, recently, in which one person
was shot, it is supposed fatally.
A PROMINENT lumberman gives it as
opinion that Duluth will be one of the
largest lumber markets in the country
within few years. New lumbermen
are arriving every few days.
The large granary of VIM. Torgood, in
Rochester township, caught fire recently;
and, together with 200 bushels of wheat;
wagon harness., farm tools, etc., was
burned. Loss, 81, 500; insured.
AT st. Vincent, Kittson county, recent
ly, burglar attempted to enter the
house Of A. Murphy through window.
Mr.. Murphy seized the intr,lding head,
but the fellow broke from his grasp.
AN Indian living near Buffalo Lake
was cleaning his gun the other day, and,
having removed the shot, was blowing
into the muzzle, when the powder ex-
ploded, burning and decorating his throat
in terrible manner.
A YOUNG man named Nfeagher tipped
wagon off a bridge near GAINESVILLE by
his careless driving last week. He was
instantly killed, and Mrs. Edward Hay
! den, whose team he was driving. was 40
badly injured that she has since died.
The Little Falls Daily Transcript
| OF October % gives an account of the
falling into well twenty-six feet deep
Of Ross Wackman, who, being fuddled,
clumsily fell into the well. One of his
shoulders was fractured, and if he had
! not been drunk and limp, would proba-
bly, have been killed.
SOME time since man named Brown
was drowned in Big Stone county, while
taking calf across the lake in skiff.
The Herald of this week reports the
finding Of the body. The accident oc-
CURED about three-quarters Of mile
from shore, and the body was found
washed up on the shore by the action Of
the waves and currents.
LAST week man named Ingersoll, in
Concord. Dodge county, carelessly drop
ped his gun on the floor; the con-
cussion discharged it, and the contents
struck his little daughter in ore of her
legs, below the knee, breaking her bones
and mangllng the flesh fearfully. It
was feared that amputation would be
necessary.
The Big Stone County Herald records
serious accident to Charles Green, aged
fourteen, who was blowing with two
horses and two oxen, hitched to sulky
pillow. Something hindered the working
Of the pillow, and while it was still NOV
ing he jumped from his seat, falling in
front of the coulter, which cut his leg
nearly if above the knee.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision of the District Court of Mime
apoils IN sentencing certain keepers of
houses Of ill-repute to the penitentiary.
The court in St. Paul imposed a fine of
$500, and the mesdames there and in
Minneapolis appealed their cases. The
women from Minneapolis go over to the
penitentiary for six months each.
MIR. SAMUEL BEAN, Of Rice county, re-
ports to the Faribault Republican that
a man residing in Murray county, had
500 sheep corraled in valley horllcrod
by nigh bluff: The snow drifted into
the valley over the bluff, covering the
sheep gradually, those that were able
crawling ON top Of the others as the drift
rose. When they were dug out those
nearest the top were alive, but $50 of the
flock were dead
The Lanesboro Herald says MI. Don
AVIAN and his two sons, former residents
OF Lanesboro, were both seriously in
]ured in the wreck Of the train that was
ditched near Welles one day last week.
They, with their effects, were in car
when the engine struck broken rail
and ditched the train. One of the boys
was seriously though not fatally injured
about the head, and the other was hurt
in the back. It is not known how bad
Mr.. Donavan is hurt.
Lac QU1 PAR1E Independent: Last
week party consistingof three men and
q woman called at Marshal Dodge's
livery stable in Candy, and hired a team
md buggy, with driver, to go to Mon
tevideo, When they had driven ubout
Ii miles, and in the vicinity of Hull's the
men took the driver out of the buggy
nto swamp and tied him hand and foot |
md drove off with the team, which is the l
asst that has been seen of them. The
lriyer, after some time, worked his way
Dose and made his way back to Candy. (
III efforts are being made to trace the
'obbers. r
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