Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-20
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum in Advance.
MINNESOTA NEWS.

| MINNESOTA NEWS.
The old settlers of Faribault county
will have a reunion at Blue Earth City
on the Sd of June.
The people of Wood Lake and Mime
sofa Falls will build this season bridge
| across the Yellow Medicine at Larkins'
mill.
MRS. LEELAH Bill, wife of Artemus
Bill, of Santiago, Sherburne county, was
declared insane on Tuesday, and was
taken to st. Peter
The governor has appointed Major A.
L. Sackett, Mayor of St. Peter, resi-
dent trustee of the state Insane asylum
there, in the place of the late Hon. Al
bert Knight.
WHILE at Willmar recently, Mr.. Hiram
johnson, of Marshall, was fxinga wedge,
and the knife slipped and the point of
the blade went into his eye, destroying
the sight forever.
RECENTLY German at Little Sioux.
Jackson county, had his barn set on fire
by sparks from the house chimney. burn
ing up the barn, granary, 100 bushels of
oats, 45 head Of cattle and about 100
sheep.
Some emigrants, said to be from LIE
Sueur county, helped themselves to farm
ing implements and stock on their way
through Spruce Hill, Douglas county,
but were overhauled and compelled to
give them up to their owners.
On the 18th inst. Pat Collotin shot
John Campbell, ST., of Brockway,
Stearns county, inhicting dangerous
wound. He went to st. Cloud, surren-
dering himself, and is now in Jail. He
claims that the shooting was in self-de-
fense.
Mr.. FRED HARDT, of Cannon Falls, in
company with Mr.. W. D. Marvin. were
out shooting pocket gophers, when the
revolver was accidentally discharged,
and its contents were driven through the
right arm of Hardt about two inches
above the wrist Joint
PAT DESMOND, a drunken saloon-keep-
er of Glyndon, Clay county, was found
dead in his bed, the other morning, his
skull having been crushed with beer
faucet. Two men are under arrest for
the murder. Revenge is supposed to
have been the motive for the murder.
AS Mr.. E. R. ABBOTT was plowing on
the farm of his brother, Henry Abbott,
adjoining the village of Lamberton,
lightning struck and killed a yearling
colt that was following his team. NIr.
Abbott had three horses hitched to a
sulky plow, and all three were knocked
down and his plow turned. upside down.
G. P. CooKE,. of Lake Crystal, Blue
Earth count proposes to organize the
North Empire Home association, the
object being to form a colony Of 5000
persons to emigrate to Oregon, Washing
ton or Idaho Territories and build town
composed of Christian people, with all
the elements and facilities of civilization,
education and religion.
On the afternoon of the 10th inst,
bright and dear little girl, ten years old,
daughter of Lars Ammundson, of Moe,
Douglas county, went out to take a drink
'; ofcofee 70 the he4nprwkowas rolling the
wheat fell. She took seat over the
roller Ito have a ride and the horses
started, throwing her under the roller,
injuring her SO severely that she died the
next day.
Ida, a foorteen-year- daughter Of
John Abbott, of Glencoe, fell in love
with a hired man named Ed Far1ieH
whom the father discharged upon learn
ing the situation of affairs. But Miss
Ida eloped and was married to Farrier in
Watertown, Carver county, and the
happy couple have since returned to
clave the blessing of the old folks, which
they will receive in due time if they be-
have themselves.
| A DISASTROUS runaway occurred at
Lanesboro on the 9Th inst. A farmer
! left his team tied near one of the mills
In his absence, becoming frightened at
locomotive, they broke loose and started
at full speed on the road over the bluff
toward Preston. On reaching the bluff
they plunged headlong over the steep
declvity into the mill pond. It is need
less to add that the team, fine span of
young horses, we're lost.
GLENCOE has already become one OF
the largest stock markets of the state.
+ Nearly 1900 hundred head Of horned
cattle have passed through our cattle
yards within the last ten days: Four
teen car loads we're shipped to Iowa on
Tuesday last, while seven hundred head
have been driven over the country
Glencoe Register.
The St. Cloud Times learns that the
man killed by the cars at Albany, Stearns
county, last week, was Michael Helm
rich; that he had been at work with the
track layers: that he boarded at Henne-
mann's while in st. Cloud; that he had
wife and four or five children at Rich
mond, in Stearns county; that he former
ly resided in Eden Lake or Zion, and
that he was quite poor, and probably
put himself in the way of the passenger
train.
SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA has just
been visited by MIR. Foster, who was
deputed by 500 Lincolnshire, England,
farmers, to inspect New Zealand with a
view of reporting to them spot suitable
for them to emigrate to. Returning by
way of San Francisco and the overland
route he heard Of Minnesota while in
Chicago, and took q trip thither, as above
stated After viewing the section of the
state named, he came to the conclusion
that the land there was the finest that he
A6u Sccu Ill dA LIE b4dNCAS, GtuU
recommend his clients to settle upon it
in preference to New Zealand. He was
surprised to learn that such large body
Of available lands, conveniently situated
as to railroad and other facilities, yet re-
4 manned inv the market, and there is little
i, question but he will be the means Of in
ducing large number of his constitu-
ents to emigrate to Southwestern Min
nesota. *-'',' >~
f. THlk kBlue Earth City Post, in it's an
nouncement of the death of Mrs. Elmira
Combs, wife Of Louis Combs Of Delavan,
relates the following singular incident:
Y About six hours before her death she in
! formed her daughter, q young lady of
i sixteeh, that she would like to see her
married before she died. This request
; from a mother in: her dying moments
may seem very strange to some, but he,
mother who was in, full possession of hel
faculties, wanted to see her daughter