Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
A NEW paper mill is soon to be erected
on Hennepin island, Minneapolis.
CHAMBERS among horses are reported
in Wabashaw and some other counties.
JAMES CAMPBELL has been appointed
postmaster at Westfeld Center, Dodge
county.
AT Detroit, Becker county, the other
day 5000 young salmon were put into
Long Lake.
The school at Tracy, Lyon county, has
been closed on account of the prevalence
Of diphtheria.
A LITTLE daughter of w. H. Ham
mond, near Fergus Falls, was killed by
lightning recently.
The Citizens Bank of Montevideo
bought $4,000 school district eight per
cent. bonds for $1.O1.
The safe of BRISTOL & Bensington, at
Carver, was blown open recently and
$500 in currency stolen.
A FLOCK of over one hundred pelicans
we're seen in Buffalo lake, Chippewa
cOuuty, d lew uays Slice.
DR.. J. Il. BRYANT of st. Paul, who
owns a farm near Herman, has Just
planted 13, 500 trees on it.
j. SHAW of Walnut Lake, Faribault.
had sixteen sheep killed by wolves re
Gently, in broad day light.
The Tier publishes rumor that late
Crookston man made $3.50 recently
on a Milwaukee wheat DEAL
The little daughter Of Ole Lysaid, of
Swedrun, Otter Tail county, recently fell
into well and was drowned.
A BOY Of eight years old, the other day
caught pickerel out of the mill pond in
Mantorville that weighed eleven pounds.
HARRY BARTLETT and a man named
Goodfather were drowned in Lake Ben
ton, near Washburn, Hennepin county,
HENRY Ia1DEKE has been appointed
postmaster at Meils Grove, Stea1ns
county, in place Of Michael Schmit-re-
signed.
GOVERNOR P11LsBURY has pardoned
Jefferson Droddy, sentenced in Wright
county in 1879 to the penitentiary for
larceny.
A SON Of DR.. E. J. Davis, of Mankato
was poisoned the other day by eating the
roots of the rhubarb pie-plant. By
prompt remedies his life was saved.
The Granite Falls Journal says
Messrs. Baxter & Whitman have paid
out for cattle, in that section during the
past year, in the neighborhood of $780,
900.
LAST week NJ. Hanth, living near
Eyota, while plowing had his team kill
ed by lightning during shower. The
shock rendered him insensible for some
time.
In storm last week, the gas works in
| Faribault were struck by lightning.
The damage to the works is estimated at
from three to four thousand dollars. No
insurance.
Hon. G. n. CHADBoURNE, of Sher-
bourne county, who was so badly injured
short time since by an enraged vicious
bull, is now out of danger, and rapidly
recovering.
DURING a heavy thunder storm at
Owatonna on Monday, Ernest Tuttle, Of
East Prairie, young man about 19years
of age, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
The straw stable of Gerge Walbridge,
Of Appleton, was destroyed by fire last
week, and one mule and three COWS
perished, and some farming machinery
was destroyed.
JOHN WATTS, young man in charge
of a herd of cattle from New Munich,
Wis, en- route for Fort Garry, was struck
by lightning recently, at Pomme de
Terre, and instantly killed.
In wind storm the other day at Oden,
Watonwan county, H. Hammers house
was turned round, but not seriously
damaged. A threshing machine on the
place was carried half mile.
Mr.. S. P. WooDMAN, of Cambridge,
Isanti county, had his shoulder dislocated
while engaged in wrestling. It took the
united efforts of half a dozen strong
arms to throw the shoulder into it's place.
A LARGE brown eagle, measuring seven
and half feet from tip to tip of it's
wings, killed eleven lambs belonging to
a Mr.. Skitts, of Becker, Sherburne coun-
ty. The eagle was caught in the act and
Killed.
A SAILING boat containing O party of
eight professors and students of the
Norwegian seminary at Red Wing, was
upset by squan on the Mississippi re-
Gently, and student named P. Levinsk
was drowned.
HARLOW F. CURTIS, aged sixty-fve
years, residing near Beaver Falls, ended
his earthly troubles, last Friday afternoon,
by hanging himself in his stable, while
his wife and children were temporarily
absent from home.
Mr.. HANS ERICKSON, resident of
Hendrum, suicided on the 9Th. He left
his home in the morning, crossed the
Wild Rice river in sliH, and taking
his boat rope, hung himself to sapling.
He was found on Monday afternoon,
May 10th. h.-CrO0kst07a Journal.
The Brainerd Tribune has an account
of the death of T. H. Ryan, employed
on the work train of the Northern Pacific
last week, and adduces evidence to show
th2t he was poisoned, probably by q
man named Sutherland, who has since
disappeared. A large amount of strych-
nine was found in RYan's stomach, which
has been sent to st. Paul for further ex-
animation.
ELIJAH McGRAw found on his farm,
on the Root river, seven miles from
Chathelu, nnJ arrow neaCS, eaItAeuWaie
and six Indian skeletons. None Of the
skeletons were found entire. One bone,
} the femur, from it's enormous size and
length indicated that the skeleton of
which it was part could not have been
less than seven feet in height. This,
with three other skeletons, was found in
one mound.
EDWARD O'BR1EN was engaged in dig
ging well at the Cedars, Cedar Lake,
Scott county, the other day, when he
came near losing his Life by foul air. He
was almost overcome, but knew just
enough to get into the tub and shout,