Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-06-03
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
HAY is a scarce article, and can't be
ad for love or money, in Browns val


had for love Or money, in Browns val
ley.
HUTCHINSON proposes to get up the
biggest fair for the fall of 1880 that has
ever been seen in the county.
In Big Stone county the other day, q
claim jumper had coat of tar and feath-
ers put on him and he gave up the claim.
In Currie, Murray county the Scrivens
family have buried four children within
month, their deaths being caused by
that fatal disease, diphtheria.
A MANS skull was found in Duluth the
other day underneath house which was
being removed, and caused considerable
comment as to how it came there,
WORK on the court house in Shakopee
is progressing rapidly. The additions,
improvement Of the court room, etc.,
will be completed by the next term Of
court. -:
The Worthington Advance quotes a;
suggestion in tree planting if cot
tonwood seed is thrown in the middle of
lake, the shores will soon be lined with
trees.
DIR. Dunn, professor of natural sciences
in the normal school at Mankato, has
rendered his resignation, intending to
engage in the practice Of his profession
at Shakopee.
The annual meeting of the State Med
ical society of Minnesota wiH~be held at
ways. will carry physicians and their
round trip.
AN inhuman brute in Caledonia is in
jail for whipping his mother, woman
aged 60 years. He knocked her out-of-
doors, and then seized a club and pounded
her till she was insensible.
LAST week a little child of Charles
Porter, of Charlestown, Redwood county,
while playing in boat with three other
children, fell into the water and was
drowned.
1HE other day Stiles NJ. West Of War
saw, Goodhue county, aged Il years,
had nail which he was attempting to
drive into post, fly and strike one OF
his eyes. The sight is entirely de-
stroyed.
SHERIFF BRAY, on Monday, conveyed
little 11-year-old girl, by the name Of
Nellie Oleson, of the town of Severance,
to the asylum at St. Peter, she having
been declared to be insane.-Hedderso
Independent, May 81.
DURING late storm Lightning struck
the house of w. H. Hammond, three OF
four miles south of Fergus Falls, Otter
Tail county, instantly killing his daugh-
ter Mary aged 10 years, and seriously in
juring boy year or two younger.
Two SONS of P. J. Tuttle, of Alinton,
Steele county, were struck by lightning
one morning last week, while at work III
the field planting corn. The Oldest,
aged Is, was killed instantly; the young
est, aged seven, was badly burned, but
will recover.
A P1oUGHMAN in Anoka, with the reins
around his neck, had an unpleasant ex-
perience the other day, when the horse
became frightened. He was dragged
some distance before he was released,
and doesn't want any more neck-stretch-
ing of that sort.
A. K. ANDERSON, D. NJ. Hill and
James Mclean, of Lake Crystal, have
gone to Colorado to try their luck. Mr..
Anderson's brother started last spring,
and this spring sold out mining property
for the handsome sum of $48, 900. He
left four years ago with only 81 in his
pocket.
. Four citizens of Benton county we're
last week arrested on complaint Of Mr..
Edwin Brenchley for willfuly cutting and
hauling away timber from his lands.
They we're tried by jury and verdict OF
"not guilty" rendered. The cost of the
suits. amounting to 5000, had to be paid
by Brenchley.
The tree from which the Big Cotton
. wood in Redwood county derives its
name is said to be "a feet in circllmfer-
ence. Its lowest branch is so feet from,
{ the ground. It is located some five miles
northwest of Lamberton, and is described
as towering above the bluffs in thai
, vicinity.
DR.. G.. J. SHELDON, Of Mound Prai
, rie. Houston county, died on Tuesday,
after short illness. Deceased was Is
years old. He was all old settler and
pioneer in Houston county, widely and
, fayorably known as a finished scholar
and gentleman. He once or twice repre-.
, sented his district in the state legisla-
ture.
, ANGEL1NE SHARETTE, young hall
breed Girl. committed suicide at Brain
erd. Her father had given her shaking
, bv wav Of punishment for her supposed
liberation Of the attentions of some young
: men who we're intoxicated. The gir]
, went no stairs, called her mother, and
) told her she had taken strychnine. She
: died in about twenty minutes.
r FREDER1oKA RA1HLE, a young Ger
| man girl of Mankato, aged seventeen
: Years. affected with ill-health which uh'
, seated her mind, wandered away into the
: woods last week and was gone two nights
9 and a day, when found. She was sitting
3 on log and was very weak from ex
| nosure and lack of nourishment, having
? had nothing to eat during her absence.
HARLOW F. CURTIS, aged IS years,
residingn this place, ended his earthly
: troubles last Fridayafternoon, by hang
ing himself in his stable while bis wife
and children were temporarily absent
from home. He left letter to his wife.
bidding her and the children a last fare
we'll. closing with the statement that he
conld no longer struggle under the bur
dens of life which oppressed h1m.-Be0
ger Falls (Renville co., Times.
ON Monday morning Edgar A. Black
man. an employe at the Jordan City
mills. was caught in the bolt gearing ano
,, 80 terribly mangled that death 'ensued IL
a few hours. A spout had become
clogged. and while reaching into it with
his RIGHT arm. his clothing was caught II
! the meshes of the cog wheels, and ere he
could free himself they were fastened
mon his BODY. With maddened effort
!, Blackman braced himself and tore away
from the engine Of death: Though ter
ribly torn and mangled, he walked some
', distance to stairway, down this tight
! and partly down another, when E!e3 his bis
: strength left him and he fell. The de-
= = ceased was "a years of age and leaves
. wife and child.-Scot County Aduoc0tc
TIE other evening as A. B. Davis, O
t winnebago City, Faribault county, wa:
! returning from Iowa, where he had sol(
e a drove Of cattle for s., 800, he was stop
j ped near the state line by three men WIZ
q commanded him to throw up his hand
..l ,,,-,o,,1or Mr. Davis who Is al