Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

THOMAS Rowe, one of the old and re-
spected citizens of Mound Prairie, Hous-
ton county, died at his home in that
town on the 4th inst.
The ninth annual fair of Becker Coun-
ty Agricultural society will be held at
Detroit, Wednesday and Thursday,
September 9Th and 7th.
Mrs. FRANK ROBE, of Brownton,
Mcleod county, surprised her husband
last week by presenting him with three
fine hearty girls, all of an age.
PROF. A. w. WILLIAMSON, of st. Pc
ter, has been rendered and has accepted
position as instructor in Augustine COL
lege, a Swede Lutheran institution at
Rock Island, Ill
AT meeting of the LIE Sueur County
Agricultural society, held on the 24th
ult., it was decided to hold the fair this
year on Friday and Saturday, the 18th
and 18th of September at LIE Sueur.
THE Spring Valley Vidette has an ac-
count of the arrest Of NJ. S. Horton, of
Redwood Falls for bigamy. Last fall
he married Miss Jemima Garrett, lady
Of respectabiGty, industrious and we'll
to-do.
A YOUNG Bohemian and his sister who
arrived in st. Paul recently, bound for
Scott county, got on the wrong track and
followed it on foot to Melrose, Stearns
county, 108 miles out Of their way, and
had to return the same way.
W. E. WHEATON, of Wheaton island,
Big Stone lake, offers to wager his is
land, valued at $4,000, against 81, 500 in
cash, with any checker player in the
United States, to play tournament Of
five sittings, each sitting to comprise
twelve games.
QUITE large number of distressing,
and some fatal accidents, from farm ma
chinery, during harvest time, are being
chronicled by the by the local papers Of
the state. A large per cent. of these
accidents are due to sheer, and often
stupid carelessness.
A SAD accident occurred at Norway,
Rice county, on Monday last. While
playing in the harvest field the little
daughter of Ole o. Kivle was run over
by harvester, one leg being about half
cut off just below the knee and the other
receiving two flesh wounds.
The saloon-keepers, brewers, drug
gists and liquor dealers generally Of
Jordan, Scott county, have formed a
mutual protection association, the object
of which is to offer consolidated opposi-
tion to the proposed enforcement Of the
Sunday law by the temperance people.
THERE seems to be scarcity of wire
for the wire binders now used by farm
ers. A gentleman who has travelled con-
siderable in the county says there are
thousands of acres of grain in some of
the adjoining counties where the ma
chimes are standing idle for want of wire.
Sleepy Eye Herald.
A DISTRESSING accident occurred at the
funeral of James Whalen, in St. Thomas,
lie Sueur county, recently. A team ran
away near the house where the funeral
services were being held, and ran direct
" into the crowd. Nine or ten persons
we're more or less injured, and Mrs.
Spence, Of Tyrone, seriously.
Mr.. D. O. SroRRs, living near Win
sted, Mcleod county, has over 500 apple
trees in an excellent healthy condition
about 800 of them being in bearing. He
raises large quantity of fruit every
year, and his trees are thrifty and free
from blight. He has all the well-known
varieties of fruit, but considers the
Wealthy apple the very best and most
hardy of all.
TODD county Argus: Sounding on
Osakis lake proves that it is rather shal.
low, the deepest place found being only
sixty feet, while the large body Of the
lake is but from twelve to thirty feet
Charlotte lake near this village was
sounded in one place by Lieut.. Latimel
twenty years ago, and 300 feet Of line
failed to reach the bottom. The waters
of this lake rival the ocean for deep,
dark blue.
Mr.. JOHN STR1ETz, of St. Cloud town,
is sick and consequently unable to har'
vest his grain. Therefore, on Sunday
afternoon last, after his neighbors hac
been at church, they turned out with 81,
or eight harvesters and large force O.
men, and proceeded to cut his entire
crop. Such acts of charity are calculated
to make even the heart of q philanthro
pist warm towards his fellow w-men.-N
Cloud Times.
On Wednesday morning, August 4th,
as Mrs. CLARK Stiles and child, Of Orlan.
do, Sherburne county, was driving
across the bridge over the mill pond al
Maple town, in Elk River, the horse
backed off the bridge (there being nc
railing into the mill pond. John Jane
son and Ned Bennett, seeing the acci
dent, boldly plunged into the water and
rescued the woman and child. The horse
was drowned.
As Patrick Hickey, son Of Michae
Hickey, of Spring Lake, Scott county,
was recently driving reaper IN his
fathers field, he ran over a scythe
which had been carelessly left at the
edge of the grain. The scythe was VIC
lently thrown upward, and struck the
driver across the left leg midway be-
tween the hip and the knee. A terrible
cash was cut, extending downward anc
almost encircling the limb. The outer
muscles and cords were severed, but
most fortunately the artery was MOI
reached.
THERE is rock on the hill just south o.
town called "Sacred Rock" by the In
dams and old settlers of this place, that
is historical. Figures of different kinds
can be traced on it's face, which seem te
have been cut into the stone, represent
ing a man, turtle, eagle, stars, crosses
and numerous other hieroglyphics which
cannot be made out. Mr.. L. Bailey
who has lived in this county for goot
many years, says the Indians claim tha
the figures were there when the presen'
race Of Indians first came here, and they
were not made by them. The question
which agitates the mind Of the present
inhabitants of this county is, what race
of people were the authors of these mys
terious characters ?-Br0Vn's Valtea
Reporter.
AMarine Cemetery.
The British Channel between Dover
a.,d D,.uaoz,oss is II, danuerous stat