Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-12-08
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
GRAIN thieves are plenty in LIE Sueur
county.

GRAIN thieves are plenty in LIE Sueur
county.
AN iron bridge has been completed
over the Zumbro at Wanamingo.
LAST week Mrs. Smalley. of Pleasant
Grove, Fillmore county, by fall on the
ice had three ribs broken.
LAST week John Casey, of Spring
Lake, lost his pocket book, containing
about $85, probably at the City mills in
Jordan.
THERE were 5000 barrels of Mime
apolis -four and 500 tons of merchandise
at Duluth waiting shipment for points
down the lakes, when navigation closed.
Miss ROSE NJ. DOYLE, one Of the
teachers in the public school at st.
Peter slipped and fell on the ice the other
day and broke one of her arms in two
places.
Ar LIE Sueur, on the I'd instant,
Thomas O'Connor was convicted Of the
murder of Laurence D. Vaughn, and
sentenced to imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary for life.
ALBERT PIERCE, q cooper, formerly of
Charles City, Iowa, and a deaf mute,
WIS SCl lACh NY a Af1A CAS1uC AV 4AAA-
nenpois on the 3Oth u1t. and injured 60
badly that it is thought he will die.
The postofice at Rector, Chippewa
county, having been discontinued, mail
for that point will hereafter be directed
| to Watson, the nearest point in the
county at which an Office is in operation.
A rHREsHER engine exploded near
Moorhead on the Both lllt, A fragment
! of the boiler-head struck man named
Henry Poinz, destroying an eye, break
ing his nose, and causing other injuries,
which will probably result in his death.
In West Newton, Nicollet county, last
week, was found human skeleton. 1t
was lying face downward-no flesh On
the bones-but a hickory shirt over the
body, we'll preserved. It is believed to
be the body of Billy James, who has
been missing since last June.
i A MAN named Otto Severson, of Web
ster, was killed on the Both ult in well
in that town by the damp. The well,
being a new one and in process Of dig
ging. he omitted the necessary precau-
tions, and entered it, but before be could
give signal Of distress, he was dead.
A PERHAM correspondent states that
William Paddock, of Terre Haute, Ind,
was accidentally shot in the town OF
Maine, Otter Tail county, last Saturday.
While in astooping positionin the brush
wood, he was mistaken for a deer by a
hunter, who fired, inficting dangerous
wound in the neck, which was at first
thought to be fatal, but his physician
declares him out of danger.
The Sleepy Eye Gazette says Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Somerville, of Albion, met
with quite serious accident while re-
turning from Sleepy Eye on Monday
last. At or near Sleepy Eye creek the
team became frightened at something
and at once became unmanageable and
ran away, upsettlng the sleigh and caus.
ing Mr.. Somerville serious fracture OF
the left leg. Mrs. Somerville was also
injured quite seriously.
The Sauk Rapids Sentinelreports that
as Joseph SCHNEIDER, of ST.. Cloud, was
going out to Gilmanton for load OF
wood, one of his horses stepped into @
rut in the road near Mayhem creek, and
in attempting to free itself fell and broke
leg. Mr.. SCHNEIDER did not know the
extent of the horses injury and started
to drive home, but could get no further
than the St. Cloud bridge, when it was
found necessary to kill the horse.
On Saturday last, as Andrew Boss, 0;
Clifford, was going home from this
city, the bolt that couples the tongue te
J. the wagon came out and the tongue
dropped to the ground, frightening the
team. Mr.. Boss held on to the lines anC
ont ~
the wagon. In the fall his right shoul
der was badly bruised and his right hiI
broken.-Lake City Leader, Norene'
Der 80.
The Renville Station News publishes
, the report of the grand jury declaring
the county buildings unfit for use, ant
the books and records in danger of de
struction, as Renville county, thougl
containing 10000 population, possesse
neither vault nor safe. The late session
t of court was held in the school house
! school being dismissed for the purpose
and the grand jury, refusing also to us
: the county buildings, hired apartment
e for their meetings..
LAST Friday evening Peter Rupert
. who lives near st. Joseph's Church
Q started for home with his sleigh partl
e loaded with mill feed and witha COW tie
Q to the rear end of his sleigh. On q hi
- . just beyond the Union hall is high en-
= bankment, in dangerous proximity to th
, road, and at this place the csw becam
}, unruly and pulling the sleighto one side
& threw it over into the gully. Mr.. Rul
. . pert was buried under the sleigh and il
load, and was taken out considerab]
rs bruised. That he escaped serious inj:u
'r was fortunate, indeed, considering th
= = locality and nature of the accident.
er .1Ordnn A7y0c0te.