Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-22
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
Ar q low estimate the Litchfield Iadc.

Ar low estimate the Litchfeld I,edc-
pendent says: Meeker county will export
700, 900 bushels Of wheat this year.
The town OF Pleasant View, Polk
coilnty, has been organized. Its site is
town las, range 46.
CHARLES UNDEn1ARK, a patient from
Caledonia, Houston county, died at the
insane hospital, Rochester, on the 10th
inst of general paralysis.
Wolves are largely Oh the increase in
the wooded districts of the state. The
bounty law does not materially interfere
with their multiplication.
On Sunday Mr.. Vim. Sparrow shot
bear at Mayhem lake, Sherburne county
which weighed, when dressed, SOP
pounds.
ALL the school and agricultural col
lege lands that have been appraised and
are unsold in Waseca county will be
offered at public sale on Saturday, Octo-
Der 3d.
TIE Plainyiew Nc,rs states that Mr..
William Searles, Of Pennington, Ohm
stcd county, has young trotting stallion
for which he has refused the snug little
sum Of $1,000.
MIR. G. D. CHAPMAN, of the town of
Paxton, Redwood county, who served in
the First Wisconsin artillery during the
war, was made the happy recipient of
81 800 back pension last week.
A STRING of black bass was brought
into Red Wing by two fishermen on
recent morning so heavy that one man
could not carry it. The largest fish
weighed seven and Il half pounds when
dressed.
lie wife Of John Supple, Of Spring
Valley, was thrown from u wagon the
other day bya frightened runaway team,
and had three ribs broken, aud was
otherwise very badly injured. His ply
stefan reports her as very dangerously
hurt.
WHEN Peter Moran, OF Belle Greek,
near Red Wing, got home from the fair
on the 10th inst, he found that his four
tccn-year-old son, who bad been left at
home, had, i'll putting up a swing, gotten
the rope around his neck in some ltnex-
planned manner, and had fallen and
clokcd to death.
The Litchtield Lrtlycr tells of a pre-
possessing mau from New York, who was
hunting il, that vicinity with his outfit of
| dog flesh, and after a lays hunt he called
upon the man OF the house for a couple
Of towels to wipe the dogs feet, and
then wanted the dog to sleep i'll the house
because he was afraid the rats would bite
it in the barn.
ABOUT daylight yesterday morning
Mrs. A. A. Swan, of Penn, shot herself
with revolver. DR.. Thurmond of
Brownton was called. The examination
showed that the ball entered Just below
the left breast, anl had lodged some
where beyond the reach of the probe.
The wound was pronounced fatal. The
lady vas about sixty years OF age. Gl<'n-
COG register.
PAT FLYNN, living at Good Thunders
ford, was stricken with insanity few
days ago under peculiar circumstances
t[e was assisting a neighlor in making
hay, when, without a moments warning
he throw away Ills clothing, caught up %
club and started yelling toward the rail
road track. People started in p11r-
suit, and finally captured him, subsc-
Qucntly taking him to st. Peter.
On the 10th inst. three men attempted
to carry two-year-old bull across Big
Stone lake, about three miles above Fos-
ter, in skltf; but when about midway
the bull upset tho skih, drowning one of
the men, Ed. Bo]and by name. Before
starting the bull feet had been securely
tied, and he being unable to swim, was
also drowned.
LrrcHFIELD has a sensation in the
elopement Of Emma Danielson, girl of
sixteen, daughter Of laboring man,
with a travelling Snowman named Robes,
who in connection with long haired
Indian doctor Lighthall, has amused
people evenings by initiating cat-yclls,
withdrawing, aud other refined sounds,
while the doctor pulled corns and sold
medicines at intervals BY swearing be-
fore the court at Wilmar that the girl
was nineteen years old, and sister of
Mrs. Lighthall, they procured a license.
A LITTLE three-year-old son Of Mr.:
Foyle, station agent at Edgartown,
Pipestone county, by some means got
hold of a loaded revolver unnoticed, and
SAID, "Pa, I'm going to shoot" Mr..
Foyle paid no attcnti Pn to the child, and
the little fellow agai, told him he was
going to shoot. Ju st at that moment
Mr.. Foyle reached up for book that he
wanted, when a b1l] let went crushing
through his arm from the pistol in the
hands of his boy. They hope to save
the arm, though tho bones are badly
shattered.