Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-29
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

About $l5, 900 have already been paid
out in Fairmont for wool this season.
GILBERT, son of Tunis s. Slingerland,
of Mantorville, was drowned while bath
ing last week.
MISS E. v. PRICE, formerly of Will
mar, died at Silver City, New Mexico,
on Sunday morning last:
A MISS LENox, of New York, has Civ
en- $500 for Presbyterian parsonage at
Madelia, Watonwan county.
A VERY large elevator has just been
completed, and is now ready for use in
Pennington, Dakota county.
DANIEL CARLSON, of Harvey town,
Meeker county, had a leg broken recent
ly by being thrown from horse.
A. s. CORNING, of Ortonville, died last
week under the effects of chloroform
administered to operate on cancer.
The wind mill attached to the Alliance
Touring mill at Plainview, Wabashaw
county, was blown down and totally de-
molished, recently.
MABEL, daughter of NJ. L. Webb, of
Roscoe, Goodhue county, fell backward
from window in the upper story of the
house and had the thigh bone of her left
leg proken in two places.
IT is rumored that A. E. Grissell, who
left here some five or six months back,
has met with foul play. He left here for
Montana, and has not been heard from
since Worthi'e9ton Journal.
Mr.. A. L. CoMEY, one of Minnesota's
earliest settlers died at Ortonville on
Saturday last, while under the influence
of chloroform administered to assist in an
operation on one of his eyes, which had
become entirely useless.
THE farm residence of Dennis Gala
han, in Tyrone township, LIE Sueur
county was burned on the Goth. while
the family were in q field at work. All
the household goods, clothing, and $500
in money were destroyed.
JOHN CHAPMAN, cook on the steamer
Minnesota, was missed the other morn
ing as the steamer was coming up stream
between Morris and st. Jean Baptiste.
It is supposed he fell overheard and was
drowned.-&. Vincent Herald.
WHILE at Chippewa Falls, some of
the circus men, i'll confidence game,
manged to get $1O5 from Clause Pc
terson, one of the farmers of Pope coun-
ty. In order to keep from having fuss
with him, they paid him back $55.
A AFHTEEN-YEAR-oID son of Theodore
Halverson living six miles from Monte
video, was thrown from the horse he was
riding, she being attacked by bull, and
received kick from the horse, produc-
ing bad fracture of one of his legs.
DURING q thunder storm one NIGHT
last week, Ludwick Mason, of Amiret,
Lyon county, was killed by stroke
of lightning in the cellar of his
house, where he had gone with his
family for safety. His wife and chill
dren we're uninjured.
A MAN living near Springfield WAS at
work with mower last Saturday. He
got off to arrange some part of the har~
ness without throwing the mower out of
gear. The horses became restless on
account of the flies, and pulled the now
er against him, cutting off one of his
legs. His name, as near as we could as
certain it, is Wins.-L0mberto,e Conn.,
,aercia1, yuly Is. ~
SohE dozen or more gentlemen of
Alexandria are engaged in the antigua
rian research of opening the Indian
mounds between lakes Carlos and
L'Hommedieu. On the top of the
larger mound trees are growing that are
fully 100 years old. On one of the elms
that was cut down, A. r. Junken count
ed 100 rings of annular growth.-Aler-
aaa0lria Post.
LAST week Mr.. E. n. Shenton,
brakeman employed in the yards at
Sleepy Eye, was run over and almost
instantly killed. It seems that he was
making coupling, and stepping back
ward caught the heel of his shoe in
frog, and the brake catching his leg at
the same time he was knocked down and
run over by the wheels, which terribly
mutilated him.
JOHN GEORGE OBERLY died in Manka-
to on Monday, July IL, aged ninety-one
years, two months and twelve days. He
was born in Rhine, Bavaria and served
under Napoleon the First in his great
wars. He was present at the great bat
ties of Leipsic and Hanau, being with
the Bavarian forces. He came to this
state from Germany, in 1856, and settled
in that city. He had fourteen children,
eight of whom came to this country.
NV. CHRISTIAN, aged about 70 years,
residing in the town Of Ridgely, Nicollet
county, was struck by lightning on the
10th inst, and instantly killed. Mr..
Christman was in the cornfeld driving q
span of horses attached to a sulky plow
at the time of the fatal stroke. The bolt
struck his head, passing down on both
sides of the body and out from the toes
of the boots. One of the horses was also
struck down and lay stunned for some
time, but afterwards recovered.
The other day in the town of Warren,
Winona county, a little son of Edward
Albert, aged about six, was playing in
the yard before the house, when he
picked up a scythe, which was lying
near, and swung it around, striking his
little three year old sister in the abdo-
men, and cutting her SO badly as to al
low the bowels to protrude. A physi-
clan was procured from Winona, who
reached the little sufferer that night and
gave such aid as was in his power. At
last report she was doing vel, and hopes
are entained that she will recover.
On late dark night, about two miles
from Albany, Stearns county, n. Weber
was driving team across bridge, hav-
ing third horse in the rear of the wagon.
The rear horse broke through the planks,
fell, rolled off and dragged in the wagon,
team and Weber with him, and piled up
the whole in an almost inextricable con-
fusion. Mr.. Weber, though buried un-
der wagon and horses, escaped without
injury. Taking in the situation by the
flashes of lightning, he went for assis-
tance, and brought several men to the
scene of the disaster. The horses and
wagon were got out, and neither wagon
nor animals were seriously injured:
Cattle in la Plata.
Much is said about the expectation of
meat from La Plata, and Of the vast
herds of cattle that roam in half wild