Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.

| MINNESOTA NEWS.
LEAD ore has been discovered near
Dresbach, Winona county.
CAPT. w. W. MURPHY, of Madelia,
has received $4,000 back pension.
Rev. I. N. Or1s, formerly pastor Of
the Presbyterian Church at Saltwater,
died suddenly ON the 2Sth ultimo at VAL
mont, Col.
On recent night thief robbed the
trunk of A. L. Sealy, of Rushmore,
Mobiles county, OF between five and six
hundred dollars.
THE artesian well at the depot in Has
tings is still being drilled, at the rate of
100 feet day. The depth Of 500 feet
has already been reached.
DUNCAN FURGUsoN, well-known far
mer in the town of Fremont, Winona
county, committed suicide on the Sd in
stant by hanging himself.
The hardware store of Carlton & Rob
erts, of Waterville, La Sueur county, was
burglayized recently. The robbers blew
open the safe and took about $210.
WITHIN the last three weeks three yoke
of oxen have been stolen from farms in
Lanesburg township, LIE Sueur county.
Only one yoke has been recovered.
LAST week, Col. Howard, Of Litchfeld,
had bee-tree cut down on his Lake
Minnetonka farm, from which he OBJ
tanned 1913 pounds of nice comb honey.
AN illicit still run by Henry Kreitzer,
of Coon Greek, Anoka county, was
recently seized by the United States Off
GERS. It lad a capacity of ten gallons of
whisky per day.
In the northern part of the state
wolves are very numerous. One night
last week, near St. Cloud, a gentleman
was attacked by large pack Of them
and narrowly escaped.
VIM. CARVER, son of DR.. Carver, of
Concord, Dodge county, was so badly
injured in a runaway accident recently
that he has since died. He leaves a
wife and two children.
ONE day last week Edward Bills, aged
60 years, living near the village of
Northfeld, on his way home from that
town, fell dead in the road. He leaves a
wife and two children.
! Miss EMMA JEwETT, the famous horse
woman, is at home in Litchfeld after an
absence of two months. She is the
daughter of Swedish parents, and the
daughter of T. G. Jewett by adoption
only.
Ar Mantorville, Dodge county, on
Tuesday, election day, William Gorver,
of Dodge Center, was thrown from a
wagon and so severely hurt as to cause
his death. He leaves wife and two
children.
A GILT cross and ball has been put on
the steeple of the Catholic church in Blue
Earth City, Faribault county. It is l6
feet in length and weighs 400 pounds. Its
extreme point is $50 feet above the base
of the building.
EDWIN H. GILLETTE, of Litchfield, q
farmer, whose wife died Of consumption
last spring, eloped the other day with
his niece, girl about 20 years old. He
is twice her age and the father of fou1
living children.
MAJOR DOUGHTY, who was taken from
Lake City some months ago to the
asylum at st. Peters, was removed from
that institution recently to the santa
! rum Of DIR. Evarts, in Cincinnati, width
er he was accompanied by his wife.
COMPLAINT is being made of outside
spectators who are glutting the market
with sheep affected with the foot-rot
and spreading the disease among tht
healthy sheep throughout the country
These spectators should be sat upon.
Mrs. HARRIET FAR1BAU1T, who dice
at Shakopee this week, was the widow
of David Faribault, and was of Siou,
origin. They were the earliest settler,
in Shakopee, and were members of tht
well-known Fairbault family from which
the county seat of Rice takes it's name
A CHEAP clothing pack-peddler ii
charged with making criminal assault
on a lady near Lac qui Parle. Tht
farmer had given his note for $100 il
goods, but upon the tramp merchant
surrendering the note, the outraged hus
band generously allowed him to escape
The Wabashaw Herald states that s.
O. Seymour, of Plainview, was robbed
the other night, at the Commercial hote
in Wabashaw, of $500, half cash and the
balance in notes. He imprudently count
ed over his money in the sight Of seyera
persons before going to his room. Whe1
he awoke in the morning his pocket bool
and contents were gone. He alleges
that he had been drugged and became
unconscious.
The practice of excavating in India1
mounds for relics is deprecated by thu
Browns Valley Reporter because in two
or three instances lately they had dug
into graves where people had been buried
scarcely a year. One case is particu
larly noticeable, when few days since
an Indian found some white men dig
ging into the grave Of his wife, who hat
been buried only six months. Such relic'
are rather fresh to be interesting for s
cabinet.
, F. SANDBERa, proprietor of the North
western hotel at Red Wing, was awak
ened about 2 o'clock on the morning O.
the 9th inst, by a noise in the bar-roon
of his house. He got up, procured ,
light, and discovered man secreted il
closet adjoining the bar. He callet
upon him to come out, but he refused
A struggle ensued, in which Sandbere
discharged revolver three times, eacl
shot taking effect in the mans head, kill
ing him instantly. The man was founi
to be Norwegian named Pete Swanson
and his object was undoubtedly robbery
A MAN by the name of Al. Woodward
who lives in the vicinity of Concord
Dodge county, accidentally shot himsel
on Monday last. He in company will
his hired man started for the woods il
the morning, with team and lumber
wagon. The hired man carried the gu1
, as they went. Upon arriving at tn
stopping place, the hired man set tn,
gun down near the front of the wagon
Mr.. Woodward stepped in front of th'
wagon and behind the horses, and reached
for the gun, taking hold Of the barrels
:: In lifting the gun up the hammer caugh
on something, and when it came dow
the gun sent it's contents into his face
. which instantly killed him.-Z,tna6rott
Independent.
The Shakopee Argus says: A sad &C
cident happened at Strait & Co.'s mil
shortly after o'clock Monday afternoon
A man named Russell Pratt, recently
from Minneapolis. but resident of Wis