Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-03-18
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
A THREsH1Na machine company has
been organized in Red Wing.

1HE r farlDault non WORKS are report.
ed to be in active operation filing orders.
JOHN SHAL1S, Of Dassel, committed
suicide by r olson on the night Of the 9th.
J. G. EAsroN has ,75O sheep on his
farm near Chatfeld.
The county treasurer of Pine county
is collecting taxes at the rate Of 5000
day.
IT has been many years since rs much
water has stood on Minnesota prairies as
at present.
Mr.. AND MRS. II. OSWALD, of Wa
basha, lost their seventh and last surviY-
ing child last week.
A Mr.. KES1cK, near New Prague, LIE
Sueur county was killed last week by be-
ing thrown from his wagon.
Col. WILLIAM PFENDER, late state
treasurer, will remove his family from
st. Paul to New Ulm in April.
The schools of Litchfeld, Meeker
county, have beeu closed on account of
the prevalence of scarlet fever.
A YOUNG man named P. W. Cunnein
fell from the new fridge at Sank Rapids
on Sunday last, and was killed.
The other day thirty y-two pound wild
cat was killed in Milford, Brown county.
It measured thirty-two inches from tip
to tip.
PAUL K1UaER, of Lake City, lost his
team, for which he paid S21O, by break
ing through the ice in twenty-five feet of
water.
The team of Daniel Weed, of Lake
City were drowned short time since by
breaking through the ice while crossing
Lake Pepin.
THOMAS O'DoNNELL died suddenly
while sitting in his chair, in the Mer-
chants hotel, Benson, Minnesota, on the
9Th ints.
The Carver Free Press says: Andrew
Bengston sold part of his farm (fifty-
five acres) in Dahlgren for 81, 800, being
at the rate Of $$s33 per acre.
S. W. DALE, of Big Stone Center, has
a heifer which is only two years and two
months old, and on Friday she gave birth
to pair of twin calves.
ERAsTUs DERBY, Of LIE Sueur, last
week received $500 pension money for
disability occasioned during the war of
the rebellion.
Mr.. W. B. WHITNEY, formerlya of
Wabasha, and member Of company g.
Eighth Minnesota, recently died at his
home in Marshal county.
A CRAZY family is that of Jonas Ten
ney, of Wabashaw. Three members of
the family have been taken to the insane
asylum within the last three months.
Mr.. SMITH, of Mu11gan, Brown coun-
ty, buried five of his children last week,
all of whom died of dphtheria. Eigh-
teen cases arc reported at Walnut Grove.
A 1HREE-YEAR old daughter of John
Kruger, Of Hastings, fell backward into
tub of hot water recently, and was
severely burned, but her life will be
saved.
A DANISH shilling, 100 years old, was
lately found at Meyers, Chippewa
county, four feet below the snrface Of the
prairie, and people are guessing how it
came there.
Ma. SETH II. KENNY, of Morristown.
writes to the Faribault Republican that
there were twelve deaths in that town
from diphtheria in a radius of one-haf
mile.
Mr.. G. Fl. ROCHE, prominent and
wealthy gentleman OF Chicago, recently
purchased six sections of railroad land
in Mobiles county, to be improved for
stock farm.
Mr.. A. E. BucKMAN, of Waseca,
caught pickerel with hook and line in
Rice lake last Tuesday. It weighed
eighteen pounds and measured forty-two
inches in length.
Rev. J. J. WALKER, formerly of Plain
view, Wabashaw county, died recently in
Topeka, Kansas. His remains were
talked to Plainview and inferred in the
cemetery Of that place.
A LITTLE girl named Alice Smith, of
Scrambler, Otter Tail county, twelve
years of age, fell on the hardened snow,
receiving an injury between her shou!-
ders, from which she died few days af-
terwards.
A wELL-DIGaER at Minnesota, Jackson
county, found new soil fourteen feet
down, where grass had grown and solid
oak limbs as large a mans ann. The
wood turned black after being exposed
to the air.
In Richmond, Benton county, mining
company has been formed, styled the
"Richmond Mining Company" with a
capital of 1000, to dig for coal. Ithas
long been believed that coal can be
found in that locality.
LAST week David Weed, of Central
Point, Goodhue county, lost his team OF
horses by taking them on the ice weakened
by mild weather. They were attached toa
sled load of wood, and broke through
the ice and we're drowned.
RECENTLY Samuel Converse and wife,
of Bear Valley, we're thrown from a
wagon. Mr.. Converse struck on his
back and head and died of his injuries
three days afterward. His wife was bad
y injured, but not fatally.
ONE night recently, Mr.. Weik, living
near Audubon, Stearns county, after
getting very drunk, started for home and
The next morning was found dead by the
railroad track near the depot, having
been run over by train during the
night.
Ar a meeting of the new cavalry COM
pany lust organized at New Ulm, on
motion of Capt. Nix it was decided that
the company shall be known by the
name of the "Ramsey Guards, " ih honor
of Hon.. Alexander Ramsey, tho secre-
retary of war.
RECENTLY Claus Luchan, German
farmer of Chester, Wabashaw bounty,
was drowned in a slough near hisI house,
into which he had driven bis team The
water had risen much during t4e day,
and was running very rapidly, of which
condition he was not aware. Thd horses
escaped with part Of the wago4. The
deceased was fifty-fve years Old, and
leaves wife and three children.
The records of the secretary OF the
State Editorial association are vfrS I'M
perfect, and in order to bring them any
where near perfection, one copyl of pro.
oecdings of 1868, two of 1875, and two o1
1873 are needed to complete the File. Il
any one of the craft can spare these
copies, please mail them to thP secre
tary, who is the editor of the NP'therr
Eer.-Crooksto,a Northern 1fe1.
| A SAD and fatal case OF freezing oc'
Cured nenr Morris on tho the hight o
the 9th. Two men, Cochran and y
Leonard, left town for home abo!lt 6 P