Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS. Z.
ABOUT $4,000 are being expended on
the Okabena mills, Worthington.
BY recent census the population of
Fergus Falls, Otter Tail county, is found
to be 1918.
Rev. GEO. WILLIAMS and family,
formerly of Lanesboro, have gone to
Niobrara, Neb.
ONE of Worthington's school teachers
recently took six revolvers from the lit
tie boys In his department.
FRANK RowLEY killed a wild cat in
Forest Prairie, Meeker county, last
week, which weighed some forty pounds.
AN owl was shot west of Glencoe the
other day which measured four feet
eight inches from tip to tip of its wings.
| ROBERT HAMILTON and wife, who
left Shakopee for the Pacific coast last
fall, have located at Centreville, Una
tilla county, Oregon.
| ANOTHER child of p. Fissette, of Elk
River, died of diphtheria the other day,
! WdAAuk tuo tuA1u CuA1u Iu8b uo Has 10.
Gently lost by that disease.
STEPS are being taken to organize a
manufacturing company in Shakopee,
with a capital of $4,000, to manufac-
ture agricultural implements.
Hon. B. F. MONTGOMERY, who at one
time resided and owned property in
Rushford, lately sold Colorado mining
property to the tune of $100, 900.
JOHN @. SPENCER, of Rutland, Martin
county, has sued the Southern Mime
sofa railroad for $500 damages for a
prairie fire set by the sparks of an en-
gine.
| SCARLET fever is said to be very
prevalent in Carver, there being some
twenty.six cases under the care of the
doctors. Several cases have proved
fatal.
In Litchfeld, Meeker county, the
other day, Nels Levonson was thrown
from his vehicle by his frightened team
and so injured that fatal results are
feared.
WILLIE, son of w. w. Hall, of Pres
ton, was seriously and dangerously scald.
ed recently, by having a quantity of
boiling water precipitated from stove
upon him.
The extension of the railway mail
service to Flandreau, on the Southern
Minnesota extension, has been author
lied by the postofice department, and
went into effect January l, 1880.
ZENUs P. WISE, of LIE Sueur, died at the
residence or his SOD, James A. Wise, last
week, at the ripe age of ninety years,
having been born at Austerlitz, Colum.
bia county, New York, September 80,
1890.
LAKE BENTON Times: Not in the
memory of the white man had Lake
Benton witnessed such q severe winter.
The old settler declares that he has seen
worse storms, but ia free to confess that
he never saw the thermometer range at
such a low temperature.
Pope COUNTY contains about $4,000
acres of unoccupied land, of which about
20 600 acres are state school lands, and
10000 acres of internal Improvement
lands. These lands can be purchased at
from S. to 81. so per acre, on thirty years
time, at seven per cent. interest.
4 On Monday last, John Dench, of Rich
Prairie, an old man over seventy years
of age, killed wild cat near his stable,
and then started to his sons house, about
forty rods, to tell him about it. he
only went about half the distance when
he gave out for some unknown cause
and was found several hours afterwards
dead and frozen.-Littk Falls Transcript
s/anuary2.
JOHN McDUFFEY, who has bern miss
ing for some two weeks, it is feared go1
lost, or frozen to death on the prairie
His home is in Chippewa county, about
seventeen miles southwest from Willmar
He left the latter place for home, driv'
ing q lot of cattle which he had been tc
Cokato to procure, since which nothing
has been heard from him-parties are
out with teams securing the prairie ir
search for him.
EMANUEL STAPF, of Castle Rock,
Dakota county, was induced, the othel
day, by a couple of smooth.tongued
seductive chaps, who pretended to b<
agents for light draft plows, to sigr
) notes to the amount of $3.50. He will
probably be soon called upon to pay the
notes in the hands of an innocent holder
and will find that he has been swindled
to that amount Intelligent farmers
who take and read the papers ough to
escape all such swindlers.