Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-29
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

zen of st. Charles, died on the 10Th.
A LARGE Touring mill is to be built
this season at Cologne, Carver county.
The Congregational society at Waseca
have purchased a parsonage for 81 $50.
DIR. GEORGE McMURPHEY has received
his commission as United States pension
agent at Ortonville.
A LITTLE child of David Buck, of
Houston, had pin removed from it's
throat last week which had been lodged
there two weeks.
IT is understood that the Southern
Minnesota railway company will make
Pipestone the end of its division, and
locate machine-shops there.
w. w. HoDGKNs, between Cordova
and Cleveland, LIE Sueur county has
made about 1900 pounds of sugar and
$50 gallons of maple syrup this season.
HENRY PAuLsoN, one of the Oldest
citizens of Mcleod county, died at
Round Grove on Sunday last, and was
buried from the Catholic Church Tues
day.
The Window Reporter says Mr.. De
Wolf has distributed about 5000 bush
els of seed wheat in Cottonwood county,
for the railroad directors, and 800 at
Woodstock.
ONE day recently young man named
John DAILY was bitten by horse. The
animal seized him by the wrist, shook
him violently and broke both bones of
the forearm.
The bee-keepers of Hastings report
great fatality among the swarms last
winter, and it is believed that that there
is not half as many swarms in that local.
ity as last year.
EMMA PATTERSON is the name of the
adopted daughter of MIR. Lewett of Litch-
field, who has accepted the challenge of
Belle Cooke of San Francisco, to ride for
a wager Of 81, 500.
LAKE CRYSTAL Public Spirit: A lit
tie son of Robt, E. Williams, Butternut
Valley, IL years old, has seeded ninety
five acres Of land this spring. This is
the kind Of a boy to raise.
An eleven-year old daughter of
Jonathan Vol, of st. Augusta, Stearns
county, died on Friday last from eating
wild parsnips, Two sons of Peter Gas
sar of the same place came near losing
their lives from the same cause.
A SURVEYING party are now engaged
making preliminary survey for the
proposed railroad from Tay1ors Falls
through Isanti, Mile Lacs and Sher-
burne counties to Sauk Rapids.
THE father of Mr.. Weston Gage. of
Seward, Mobiles county, while fighting a
prairie fire on the 14th, was so badly
burned that death ensued the next day.
He was about seventy-three years old.
The Sauk Rapids water power was
bid in at the foreclosure sale recently
by Commodore Davidson, who held the
claim against the property for 1926, 1000.
G. W. Benedict bid $685. 900 for certain
Michigan parties.
ST. PETERS pays very moderate salar-
les to her city officials, the clerk receiv-
ing $500; the attorney, 500; street COM
missioner, 1925; chief of police, $3.50;
fire warden, $25; assessor, $3.50. The
license for the sale of liquor was placed
at $50 for the year.
A WRIT of injunction has been granted
by Judge Dickinson, restraining and en-
joining the board of commissioners of
Martin county from issuing bonds for
the building of a court house and jail.
The burden of the complaint is that the
vote of the town of Fox Lake was thrown
out.
Mr.. W. L. BARTEAU, of St. Paul, con-
templates putting up Touring mill at
Breckenridge. The Free Press says
that by a peculiar curve in the Otter
Tail there is an opportunity to secure
first-class water power by excavating a
race-way over a cutoff of some 1000
feet.
The Sank Rapids Sentinel says that
during the rainstorm on Sunday after
noon, it grew SO dark between the hours
of and o'clock that people were COM
PEELED to light lamps in their houses. A
phenomenon of the storm was that the
rain which fell was of dark, muddy ap-
pearance.
DURING the heavy wind storm last
week the store building and residence of
Lafayette Beadle, of Walnut Grove, Lyon
county, were destroyed by fire. The fire
came from the prairie south of the vii
lage where it overpowered the persons
fighting it, and took bee line to Bea-
dies buildings.
A CHILD with two head was born late
ly in Nicollet township, and although
efforts were made to hush it up, yet it
leaked out. The parents feel mortified,
but they ought to rejoice since the mon
ster lived only few hours. A child was
born in this city two or three years ago
that had no head at al.-St. Peter
Times.
The Glyndon NeaOs has an account of
the fatal burning of the wife Of Orris NJ.
Davis, daughter of D. D. Daniels, whose
home is on farm mile east of town.
It was on last Friday. Her parents and
married sister, Mrs. Buckless lived near
her, and with her husband are thrown
into the deepest grief at the calamity.
Mrs. D leaves one infant child.
A FARMER in thie county informs us
that he supposed the chinch-bugs had
been disposed of by the cold weather of
last winter, but one day this week he had
the curiosity to examine the land to see.
He says he dug in several places and
found the ground literally swarming
with the pest, and they were as lively as
could .-Rochester Record and Un-
ION.
LITTLE FALLS Transcript: Mrs. New
the wife of a man who recently took q
claim in the northwest part Of Little
Falls township, is said to be one of the
best wood-choppers in that neighbor-
hood. We are informed that in addition
to doing her housework and taking care
Of three small children, she makes eleven
railroad ties each day, doing all the
chopping, scoring and hewing.
A SEVERE accident happened at the
house of Theo. Keepers, of Avon, re-
Gently, which was all the result of the
parents going to church and leaving five
small children at home. A son of IL
years found a horn containing powder,
and in playing with it near the stove, fire
was communicated and an explosion fol-
lowed. The clothing of three of the
children caught fire, and although the
boy, with great presence of mind, i'm
mediately stripped them of their raiment,
they were considerably burned, one of
them dangerously.-& Cloud Times.
An actinn in treanaaa has heen c0m.