Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-03-04
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

= MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
MISS ELLA RUSSELL has been appoint
ed postmistress at Mantorville.
Mr.. I. THOMPSON has a farm of 400
acres in Newberg, Fillmore county.
TIE First National bank of Anoka has
doubled its capital and paid about $4O,-
600 in dividends the first year.
Mr.. LEONARD A. TAYLOR, promising
young man of %, died at his fathers
residencein Princeton, on recently.
CHAs. RoDE11, ESQ.,, prominent cit
izen of Jordan, Scott county, died sud-
denly recently from heart disease.
Mr.. DAVID o. Gou1Er, highly es-
teemed citizen of Little Falls, Morrison
county, died on the 23d inst.
The measles are prevailing extensively
in the eastern part of Meeker county
some entire families being down with it.
Mrs. JOHN F. NoRR1sH, of Hastings,
slipped on an icy sidewalk the other day
and broke one of her arms.
Mr.. j. F. NoRR1sH, of Hastings,
slipped and fell on the ice few days
since and broke his right arm near the
wrist.
GEORGE STEVENSON, of the town Of
haywood, Benton county, fell from his
sleigh the other night and fractured his
collar-bone.
Mrs. SETH HARRIS, of Hastings, was
found dead in her bed the other morn
ing. Heart disease was the probable
cause.
JOHN Roth, of Lamberton, Redwood
county, recently lost three children and
a sister-in-law by dphtheria. There are
twenty-one cases reported in town.
Mrs. JOHN RE1aER, of Hastings, slip
ped and fell on nicy sidewalk, and strik-
ing on her head fractured her skull. The
injury is very serious.
C. s. BOYD, of Monticello, Wright
county, was killed the other day by
falling tree. He had lived on the farm
where he was killed since 1856.
L. E. HANNAMAN, long resident Of
Reeds Landing, and widely known
throughout the county, died recently Of
pneumonia.
WOLVES howl about Mantorville night
~. The other night the wolves entered
a stable and attacked COW, larcerating
her ears and neck in their hungry fe-
rocity.
The Mankato Brick company sold last
week 600, 900 to Duluth, for the Iron
Smelling company, to Winona 5000
tor the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road company, and 300, 900 more to dif-
ferent Individuals, making in all ,20O,-
700.
The Morris Tribune says that during
the extreme cold weather Of last month.
the railroad company, through General
Manager Hill, gave to. the new settlers
in the Graceville colony donation Of
seventy-fve cords of wood.
HENRY MASS, of Pickerel Lake town.
ship, Freeborn county, while feeding his
horses the other evening, in some way
got under their feet and received injuries
which caused his death in few hours.
He was "a years old.
The Glyndon Ne,Us says that tho
Glyndon mill enterprise is making good
headway. Subscriptions to the stock Of
the concern have reached nearly 81, 900
in amount, and come from all classes Of
citizens. There will be mill we verify
believe.
MICHAEL HASTINGS, aged twenty three
years, son of Thomas Hastings, of Hyde
Park, was brought before Judge Of
Probate Court, F. j. Collier, at Lake
City, and upon an examination by Drs.
Miligan and Low, of Wabasha, was ad-
Judged insane, and will be sent to the
asylum at st. Peter.
We learn that Neil Gavin, of Mayville
township, experienced the misfortune Of
having his leg broken below the knee on
Monday last. He was riding horseback,
and his horse, being smooth shod,
slipped and fell, throwing his rider
against stump, with the lamentable re-
suit above noted.-Caledo1aia (Housto,e
Co.. Argus.
Mr.. JOSEPH E. CHAPMAN, of Cannon
Falls, died recently. He was one of the
charter members Of Oriental Lodge, No.
"a, F. & A. NJ, organized in 1860, Of
which lodge he was master. He served
through the war, enlisting August Is,
1862, and receiving at once ieutenant's
commission in the Eighth regiment.
A LITTLE son of Louis Peterson, of
Stockholm, Wright county, died recently
from the effects of grain of coffee
lodged in his windpipe. Three physi-
clans were summoned, and were about
to administer chloroform and open the
windpipe to extract the kernel, but the
little sufferer expired before the opera
ton could be performed
The old mission farm on the shore of
Lake Pokegama has been selected as
the site for new hotel for summer
boarders. The first printing press in
Minnesota was established there in ter
ritorial times, and what is known as the
Emission Farm was cleared and cult
waited at that time. Pokegama cuts an
important figure in the history of Min
nesota.-Piae City Record.
LEVI s. THOMPSON, "justice of the
peace an a stock-raiser " Of Evansville,
Douglas county, Minn., arrived in New
York on Tuesday of last week, and the
World recounts O misfortune which be-
fel him in that wicked city: He made
the acquaintance of q respectable looking
man who accompanied him on his way to
the Pennsylvania railroad depot, where
Mr.. Thompson intended to buy ticket
for Washington. As they were walking
slong the street man approached Mr..
Thompson's new acquaintance and noti-
flying him that certain goods had been
shipped asked for money to pay the
freightage. Mr.. Thompson's friend said
he had only 500 bond and he asked
Mr.. Thompson to lend him $50 on It.
Mr. Thompson took the $50 out Of his
pocket, and a. he did 90 his companion
snatched the money from his hand and
ran away, followed by the other man
The thief was arrested.
Turning An Honest Penny.
cold Billy Gray used to do big