Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-08
MINNESOTA Statements.

J. A. FooTE, of Anoka, has Just re-
ceived 1854 back pension. III.
The Clay county fair will take place
at Hawley, October and 8.
The sale of state lands in Lyon county
will take place at Marshall, October 9TH.
CHARLES NELSON, living near Atwater,
was last week awarded a pension of some
$3.50.
A MAN in Westport, Pope county, has
had twenty-five young hogs carried off by
wolves.
A GENTLEMAN riding into ST. Cloud, a
distance Of twenty miles, counted 897
stacks OF grain.
HE Herman Herald says Rev. Y. NJ.
Gossard was fortunate enough to kill IN
eighteen pound goose.
Mrs. JENNIE NJ. JACKSON, one of the
first settlers of Big Stone county. died
on Monday at Ortonville.
ONER $50 bushels of fax was DESTROYED
on G. W. Kniss' farm near Luverne, by
the hail storms last week.
A son of August Legastrom, of New
Sweden, Nicollet county, was accident
ally and fatally shot Oh Monday.
A. BJEDKENGREN, Of Willmar, in a
quarrel, hit his brother on the head with
bar OF iron, inflicting serious and it
may prove fatal wound.
Mr.. GEORGE A. FREuDENR1cH. of
Minnesota, is selling self-binders and
mowers in Russia and Roumania, and
will return home next winter.
GEORGE BOYLE, aged - years was run
over the other day by a loaded wagon,
near Mankato, and received serious in
juries, which will affect him for life.
ANEW town called ''Jericho,' six miles
west OF Glencoe, in Mcleod county, has
been staked out and opened up to the
world, as rival of Glencoe OF any other
city.
GEORGE PHALsGRAPH, who recently
died in the town of Utica, Wenona
county, vas insured in the Druids for
81 900, which amount will be paid to the
widow.
Mr.. PAUL RosENDAH1, register of
deeds of Houston county, died at Spring
Grove Monday morning, aged forty-one
years. He was born in Grams Prestige
Jed Hadeland, Norway.
The railroad boys in Austin and up
and down the line, friends of the late
Henry W. Hull, accidently killed last
week have made up purse of $3.50 and
presented it to the widow.
The Eastwood trees in our forests are
being perfectly denuded Of their leaves
by some kind of q worm. In some
places the trees present the appearance
of having been killed by fire. -Glencoe
Register.
AN old log cabin at Mantorville, built
by Capt. Pete Mantor in 1856 was
wrecked by the late storm. It was an
old landmark of the early days, and when
new one of the most imposing structures
in the village.
Two years ago, A. w. Swenson, of
Alexandria, set out $50 apple trees and
SO grape vines, and all are doing we'll
and are in {; fine condition. Not one
was killed last winter, and it is con-
sidered that the last was the hardest
winter on trees since the winter of
1928.
IT appears, after all, that tax titles in
Little Falls are just as goodas warrantee
deeds. This is very fortunate, rs the
lots abandoned by owners after the In
dian outbreak of 1862 left large por-
ton of the real estate in the village in a
shape to be bid in for the taxes by any
persons who saw proper to invest their
money in that way. Consequently
much more than half of the village real
estate, some of which is now very valua-
BILE, is held under tax titles. .-Little
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