Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
THERE are eighteen organized town.
ships in Lac qui Parle county.
DE GRAFT, Swift county, has raised
about $40 for sufferers in Ireland,
HENRY L. WHITE, and estimable
citizen of Little Falls, died last week.
II. L. DoTY, of Sault Centre, has been
appointed. deputy sheriff of Stearns
county.
ONE of the students lost over 500
worth of books by the fire that destroyed
Carleton college edifice.
LILLE JONES, of Mortified, had one
of her ankles broken the other day, by
jumping out of window into snow
bank.
A COW fell into an open well in Anoka,
Ii feet deep, and remained there %
hours. When discovered she was hoisted
out with q derrick. No bones were
broken.
JOHN STEPHENSON, who has been
running barber shop at Pipestone
City, has been arrested and taken to
Story county, Iowa, on charge of high,
way robbery.
JAMES HOLsAPPLE, of Swan River,
says that yoke of oxen owned by him
had their noses frozen while at work one
day during the recent cold weather, .
very unusual occurrence.
A SAD accident occurred near Sleepy
Eye on the 10th inst, by which Peter
Byrns, a switchman in the yard of the
Winona and st. Peter Railroad company
at that place was instantly killed.
F. B. SNYDER, formerly of Crookstou,
who had been badly hurt in row at
Grand Forks and was not expected to
live, died on Sunday last. Gillen was
arrested and taken to Crookston jail.
RECENTLY Mrs. Catharine Myer, q
Winnebago half-breed, mother of Mrs.
J. L. Alexander, of LIE Roy, Blue Earth
county, died in that township. Her
friends claim that her age was 123 years.
The mother of II. NJ. Richardson, of
Haverhill, Olmsted county, fell upon
the floor the other day and fractured the
bone of one of her thighs. She is 81
years old, and will not be able to recover
from the injury.
THE Hastings Union says "There
were eight pair of twins born in Dakota
county last year, and five illegitimate
children. Two of the children were
colored, three Indians, ak mixed, and
one in Rosemount "sort o white"
PATRICK TUNNEY, of Morris, the
other day, in the process of cleaning q
gun barrel that he knew was not loaded,
put the breach in the fire. An explosion
followed, and the charge gave the care
less fellow some ugly but not fatal
wounds.
WILLIAM WILKINSON, who commit
ted suicide at Red Wing recently, was
formerly member of company G, Sixth
regiment of infantry, and was discharged
at Fort Buford in 1876, and was lately
in the employ of MI. Humbird, at North
Hudson, Wis.
The body of John McDuf1ey, of Chip
pewa county, who was lost on New Years
day, has been found frozen about twelve
miles from Willmar. 1t is believed
that he travelled until exhausted, and
fell when he could 20 no further, and
being cold and numb, made no attempt
to regain his feet, if, indeed, he had his
senses at all. ..-.-..-,~. ..--.,-..~--
A NAN named Milt. Roby, of Free
dom, Waseca county, attacked and beat
almost to death his wife's sister, Miss
Mary Deloy. The cause for the fendish
attack was that Roby, while shaving,
had cut his neck, and asked Miss Deloy
to wash the blood from the wound,
which she refused to do.
On the 18th, the sleigh Liman Cole
man of Ellsworth, Meeker county, con-
tanning himself, wife and three children,
broke through the ice of lake, but all
got out safely save a little girl three
years old, who before she could be res
cued was drowned, or 30 numbed with
the cold that her frail life took it's fight.
Mr.. J. O. ROBINSON, of this place, in
forms us that last season he planted
half an acre of ground to the Minnesota
white amber cane, realizing therefrom
over seventy gallons of fine syrup and
three hundred pounds of pure seed. At
the low price of twenty-five cents per
pound the seed crop alone will bring
him in the nice little sum of $75, to say
nothing of the profit on the syrup
Ohatfeld Democrat.
MANKATo Review: The diphtheria
made it's first appearance in Mankato in
July, 1878, and from that date until
January first, q period of six months,
there were fifty deaths. The deaths
from that disease for 1879 cover period
of twelve months, showing an average
of one and third per week. A large
proportion of these deaths occurred in
the first half of the year, numbering in
July, we think, forty odd. It will be
seen that since that date the disease has
been gradually abating, until its prevar
lence as an epidemic may be considered
practically at an end.