Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-01
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

m'nNEoUIA SIAlE NEWS.
W. II. RICHARDSON, of Winona. COM
m'tted suicide at the Nicollct house. in
st: Peter OH the Dist inst, by taking
morphine.
MIR. WETsTE1N, of st. Charles. fell
from load of grain the other day and
broke both bones of his left arm lust
above the wrist.
GEORGE FREEMAN, of HAMPTON. Da-
kota county, fell from load Of wheat a
few days ago, and had his left leg broken
i'll three places.
X. N. LEIrE of the town of Sacred
Heart, Renville county, lost twenty-six
shocks OF wheat by fire from railroad
engine one day last week.
Two miles west of Herman. in Grant
county, Gabriel Johnson, over 60 years
old, was instantly killed by being run
over by frightened mule team.
JOHN BAUER, OF Scotland, Dakota
county, plasterer, fell from high scat
fold the other day and crushed his skull,
death ensuingin about all hour.
A COWARDLY sneak, for revenge the
other night entered the enclosure of
Joseph Van Enron, of Dclano, Wright
county, and shaved the hair from the tail
OF bis horse.
PRESTON has done more building this
summer than any other town i'll southern
Minnesota. The cost of improvements
will exceed $50, 900. The railroad has
been great help to the village.-Irc*-
ton Rcpublic0,1.
MIR. CHARLEsC. BROWN of the Fishers
Landing Bulletin intends making the
trip to st. Paul, a distance of about $50
miles, by wagon roads, on u bicycle,
shortly, so saws the Bulletin. Rather
II rough road to travel in muddy time.
NICHOLAS CROWLEY, ESQ, an old and
much respected resident Of our town.
el1ed OF quinsy on Saturday :nornidg: last,
MI. Crowley came to Cllatfelu in 1856.
prc-emptc1 Il piece Of land about three
miles south OF our village, where he has
lived up to the time of his death. -(N0f-
fcid Democrat.
Mr.. JOHN A. AMuNDsoN, Of this CITY.
winner of the De Forest prize medal at
Yale college, received the medal on Tues
day direct from the United States mint
at Philadelphia. It's weight is seven and
half ounces, and being of gold is val
ued at 500. 1t is a neat medal and
worthily Observation-Disclosures Record
and Union.
LAST Wednesday night lightning
struck the house on Mr.. Welsh Ashley'S
place, two miles north of town, and killed
two horses belonging to Dan Cameron.
who were engaged with Il thrcshine ma
chime and had reached there the evening
previous. The horses were piled one
above the other and were evidently in
stantly killed, as both had hay in their
mouths Standardization Rcpub/ic.
a STACK containing $50 lnthreslled
bushels of wheat was burned to the
ground on the farm of E. r. Kinney, in
the town Of Lake, recently. The fire
was started from some sparks blown
from the steam threshing engine of Lee
Sutton, which was being used on the
place. The separator was also burned.
1T was with much difficulty that the
barns and outbuildings could be saved
Lake city Lc0dcr.
DURING a thunder storm Wednesday
morning, lightning struck stack Of
wheat on the farm of Mr.. DEWITT, on
Greenwood Prairie, burning that stack
and another outstanding near by. Sew
cral stacks of wheat on the farm Of Mr..
Metcalf, near Elgin, were also burned by
during the same storm. On
Wednesday night lightning struck three
wheat stacks on the farm Of II. M. Rich
ardson, in Haverhill, and they we're
burnedto hcground. - Uabo*hou Her,
aid, august 25.
AUGUST DELGER Of Sibley county, afew
miles from LIE Sueur, sold his farm last
spring and started for the Pacific coast
with his family, seeking for a better To-
cation. He visited California, Oregon
and Washington Territory, and returned
with his family on Thursday of last week,
ANXIOUS to buy q farm near the one he
sold. He is satisfied after all his wander
ings, that Minnesota offers better induce
ments to the Industrious farmer than any
other section of country he has secn.-
Lc ,Suc1n Sentinel.
THERE is considerable loud and rather
strong language used in this vicinity in
regard to the lack Of provision made for
the support of the Connemara emigrants.
These people are III a destitute condition.
no food and no work, and no prospects Of
either. "A long and severe winter is be-
fore them, and they arc but lily provided
with clothes or shelter. Many of them
are leaving and quito number are COM
ing to this place, but there is very little
that they can find to do in town of this
size.-Movis (Stcucns County, Tribune.
WHILE going home from Glencoe last
Thursday night, Mr.. George Hill, when
within eighty rods of his house, was
shot at by some one concealed in the
grass by the side of the road. The ball
passed through the frontispiece of his
cap, and but for sudden movement of
lis horse, which brought his head out of
its lire, would have passed through his
head. The would-bc assassin. seeing
that his first shot had failed, fred again,
but fortunately with no better effect.
the horse took fright and ran with his
rider to the stable. It was close call,
and the party who fired the shots meant
to kill. MIR. Hill thinks he knows the
party.-Gtcncoc Register
LAST Sunday morning Mr.. James
and young Leisses went out
southwest Of the town to shoot prairie
chicken, and when out of town some six
Or seven miles the former met with
severe accident. AS he was placing his
shotgun into the wagon the team started
suddenly and caused it's discharge. The
whole charge Of shot entered the feshy
part of his left arm, below the elbow
joint, passing upward and onward
through the arm, breaking one Of the
bones, and lodging in his shirt sleeve.
Doctors Bigelow and Blood dressed the
injured limb, and hope to save it, al
though it may be rendered useless
Oeo0to'na Review, A1H. 81.
The Long Prairie, Todd Co.. Aryus
notes the disappearance of wa. Bailey,
who was town treasurer and member Of
the school board. It appears that
Bailey is owing number Of our people
at Long Prairie, amounting in all to
about ssss215, and he had in his possession
and carried away with him Fs75 of school
money, and an unknown amount of town