Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The old settlers of Faribault county
| will have reunion at Blue Earth City
on the Sd of June.
The people of Wood Lake and Mime
sofa Falls will build this season bridge
across the Yellow Medicine at Larkins'
mill.
Mrs. LEELAH Bill, wife of Artemus
Bill, of Santiago, Sherburne county, was
declared insane on Tuesday, and was
taken to st. Peter.
The governor has appointed Major A.
l.. Sackett, Mayor of St. Peter, resi-
dent trustee of the state Insane asylum
there, in the place of the late Hon. Al
bert Knight.
WHILE at Willmar recently, Mr.. Hiram
johnson, of Marshall, was fxinga wedge,
and the knife slipped and the point of
the blade went into his eye, destroying
the sight forever.
RECENTLY German at Little Sioux.
Jackson county, had his barn set on fire
| by sparks from the house chimney, burn
ing up the barn, granary, 100 bushels of
oats, 45 head Of cattle and about 100
sheep.
SOME emigrants, said to be from LIE
Sueur county, helped themselves to farm
| ing implements and stock on their way
through Spruce Hill, Douglas county,
but were ove11lauled and compelled to
give them up $ctheir owners.
ON the 18Th; inst. Pat Collotin shot
John Campbell, ST., of Brockway,
Stearns county, inflicting dangerous
wound. He went to St. Cloud, surren-
dering himself, and is now in Jail. He
claims that the shooting was in se]f-de-
Tense.
Mr.. FRED HARDT, of Cannon Falls, in
company with Mr.. w. D. Marvin, were
out shooting pocket gophers, when the
revolver was accidentally discharged,
and it's contents were driven through the
right arm of Hardt about two inches
above the wrist joint.
PAT DESMOND, a drunken saloon-keep-
er Of Glyndon, Clay county, was found
dead in his bed, the other morning, his
skull having been crushed with beer
the murder. Revenge is supposed to
have been the motive for the murder.
=: AS Mr.. E. r. ABBOTT was blowing on
the farm of his brother, Henry Abbott,
adjoining the village of Lamberton,
lightning struck and killed yearling
colt that was following his team. Mr..
Abbott had three horses hitched to
sulky pillow, and all three were knocked
down and his pillow turned. upside down.
/ G. P. Cooke, of Lake Crystal, Blue
Earth county, proposes to organize the
North Empire Home association, the
object being to form a colony Of 5000
persons to emigrate to Oregon, Washing
ton or Idaho Territories and build town
composed Of Christian people, with all
the elements and facilities of civilization,
education and religion
On the afternoon of the 10th inst, a
bright and dear little girl, ten years old,
daughter of Lars Ammrndson, Of Moe,
Douglas county, went out to take a drink
of.coffee 70 the fnar'w fo was rolling the
;. wheat fell She. took seat over the
roller to have a ride and the horses
= started, throwing her under the roller,
injuring her SO severely that she died the
next day.
IDA, foorteen-year- old daughter Of
John Abbott, of Glencoe, fell in love
with &; hired man named Ed Far1ieH
whom the father discharged upon learn
| ing the situation of affairs. But Miss
Ida eloped and was married to Farrier in
WATERFOWL, Carver county, and the
: happy couple have since returned to
cave the blessing of the old folks, which
they will receive in due time if they be-
have themselves.
A DISASTROUS runaway occurred at
} Lanesboro on the 9Th inst. A farmer
left his team tied near one of the mills.
In his absence, becoming frightened at a
: locomotive, they broke loose and started
3 at full speed on the road over the bluff
toward Preston. On reaching the bluff
: they plunged headlong over the steep
decivity into the mill pond. It is need
less to add that the team, fine span Of
= young horses, were lost.
GLENCOE has already become one OF
the largest stock markets of the state
Nearly 1900 hundred head of horned
E cattle have passed through our cattle
l yards within the last ten days. Four
teen car loads were shipped to Iowa on
, Tuesday last, while seven hundred head
t have been driven over the country
Glencoe Register.
! The st. Cloud Times learns that the
: man killed by the cars at Albany, Stearns
1 county, last week, was Michael Helm
rich; that he had been, at work with the
) track layers: that he boarded at Henne-
. mann's while in st. Cloud; that he had a
t wife and four or five children at Rich
: mond, in Stearns county; that he former
$ ly resided in Eden Lake or Zion, and
that he was quite poor, and probably
! put himself in the way Of the passenger
Il train.
= SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA has just
g been visited by a MIR. Foster, who was
!. deputed by 500 Lincolnshire, England,
farmers, to inspect New Zealand with
: view of reporting to them a spot suitable
t for them to emigrate to. Returning by
way of San Francisco and the overland
; route he heard Of Minnesota while i'll
+ Chicago, and ,tooka trip thither, as above
: stated. After viewing the section of the
8 state named, he came to the conclusion
that the land there was the finest that he
i had seen in. all his travels, and should
recommend his clients to settle upon it
in preference to New Zealand He was
g surprised to learn that. such large body
, Of available lands, conveniently situated
as to railroad and other facilities, yet re-
i manned iny the market, and there is little
= question but he will be the means of in
: ducing large number OF his constltu-
/ ents to emigrate to Southwestern Min
E nesota. '*'.@! g. ~'~
/ Il TIL Blue Earth City Post, in it's an
nouncement of the death of Mrs. Elmira
| Combs, wife Of Louis Combs of Delavan,
J relates the following singular incident:
l About six hours before her death she in
: formed her daughter, a young lady of
Il sixteen, that she would like to see her
married before she died. This request
. from mother in: her dying moments
3 may seem very strange to some, but her
mother who was in full possession of her
g |, faculties, wanted. To- see her daughter
e provided for; and knowing that she was
1 engaged, and tie event not far of, she
=. would only hasten events and see her
i married. The mothers request was i'm
p mediately carried into effect, and the
! u,,o;1o r,r,op tho 1uincr moth o,'c