Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-06
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

IHE DOrng 1Or coal IN EreeD 0rn county
is still continued. A forlr-inch vein Of
coal was struck at the depth of 1876 feet.
THERE is now probability of having
a new bridge over the Pomme de Terre,
on the Glenwood road.
PH1NEAs GAGE, of Seward, Mobiles
county, was so badly burned a short
time since, by a prairie fire, as to cause
his death.
GILBERT PETERSON of Granly, Nicollet
county, has stallion colt that weighs
1,348 pounds, but his age is not men
toned.
f. C.. Coa1L, living four or five miles
from Morris, Stevens county, recently
sold 100 acres of improved land for
$4,000. This marks the value of land in
that vicinity.
The other day Peter Anet, aged II,
fell between his horses and loaded
wagon. The horses ran, and wheel of
the wagon passed over his head, causing
instant death.
The city council of Owatonna are
considering the building of an addition
to the city hall forty feet long and two
stories high-the lower part to be used
as &c lookup"
A MAN named George Wiltee of Glas-
gov, Wabasha county, made deadly
assault on his wife at Wabasha the other
|sday, because she refused to sign deed
disposing Of his farm.
| Mrs. EMMA Cook, of Caledonia, widow
of the late Judge Cook, received recently
$4,000 from the order of United Work
men, the judge, at the time of his death,
being member of that organization.
The Chisago and Pine counties agri>
cultural fair will be held at Long
Branch, on Tuesday, August 81, and
Wednesday and Thursday, September l
and q.
The Taylor's Falls Journal says: Thin
films of native silver are frequently met
with in the seams in the vein matrix of
the Milwaukee and st. Croix mine, on
the Anderson place.
Mrs. BROWN, wife of 81. w. Brown,
one of the first settlers of Faribault,
committed suicide at Blue Earth City,
on the 22d, by drowning. Her insanity
was produced by long illness.
The three normal schools of this state
will this year graduate eighty-two stu
dents and award them diplomas as fol-
lows: The school at Wimona, 81; Man
kato, %; St. Cloud, %. Total 50.
ALBERT DR1NKLE, near Spring Valley,
was cleaning an old shotgun. He
shut one eye and looked down the barrel
with the other, just in time to have the
charge Of powder sent booming into his
right eye and cheek.
The remains Of man were recently
found in Dora, Otter Tail county, sup
posed to be those of q German, missing
since last Christmas. The skull was
broken, which leads to the belief that he
may have been foully dealt with.
Mrs. L. NJ. MURPHY presented the
Pine City Record editor with hens
egg measuring 81 inches one way and
11f inches the other. This beats the
largest egg story Of the season and is the
largest thing out-of hen.
We noticed well built dwelling, clap
boarded and shingled, with a stove burn
ing inside, built on top of a wagon box,
filed with happy looking family, pass
ing through town last week, among the
emigrant teams heading westward.-
M0ntevideo Leader.
JOHN J. MCDONALD for some twelve
years foreman in the carriage shop of 81.
G.. Parrott & Co., st. Charles, died quite
suddenly last week, Of chronic inhamma-
ton Of the liver, aged thirty-fve years.
He was an estimable man and his death
is deplored by many friends.
AT recent school meeting in Crooks
ton in relation to educational matters, it
was decided to build one school house
on the Davis addition and one in South
Crookston, to cost 81, 900 each. A pro-
position to build large school house in
the city was voted down.
JOHN REYNOLDS, employed on the
Southern Minnesota railroad, met with a
fatal accident at Houston, last week. He
was coupling cars, missed his footing and
fell under the cars. His thigh was so
badly crushed that it could not be set,
both legs were broken, and he received
other injuries. He died in few hours
after receiving his injuries.
A TRIAL of the soft coal which is being
mined on the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad was made recently at the Office
of the land department of the road with
most satisfactory result. The coal is
Ignite, and when placed in the CRATE on
foundation fire of wood it ignites read
ily and gave out a heat of much greater
intensity than is generated by anthra-
cite.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred about
two. miles south of Princetown on the
oath. Hon. G. H. Chadbourne was in
his barn attending stock, and upon en-
tering the stall of his bull saw that the
animal had loosened himself in some
way, and on going to tie him up was hor-
ribly mangled in his right side by the
infuriated bull, one of the horns enter
ing at the lower rib and passing up to
the shoulder blade. The doctors say
there is little hope Of his recovery. q 70
The bodies of two men-W. A. Weeks
and J. n. Pagenkopf- found nine
miles north of Lake Benton on the 23d.
At the inquest several witnesses were
examined, but no satisfaction gained as
to how the men came to their death.
Weeks and Pagenkopfl lay within ten feet
of each other. There was no marks to
show that they had met with q violent
death. It is the general opinion that
tucy -udO UoCA EOASo1AoNs No Az "PPonAo
that they left their teams and went to q
hay-stack to lie down.. Weeks leaves q
wife and two children. s@.a :, ss:.s .9sf :.
LONG PRA1R1E Todd county, Argus:
One day last week Mrs. Len Eddy, of
Reynolds, went. out to gather some
maple sap and left her 6-months old
baby sitting IN chair at q safe distance,
! aa % af{na Thought from < fliah nan fnll of
boiling water, which she left standing on
the floor. When she returned, IN q short
time, she, found that in some way the
child had tipped the chair and fallen in
to the pan Of hot water, and was wallow-
ing in it almost dead when she entered
the house. The child was almost cooked
and suffered, but, one hour after being
taken from the water, death coming to
it's relief. =ss .,, ss4s ,.sEsi .s;s,ssss' Il