Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-22
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
Ar a low estimate the Litchfield E2dt

Ar low estimate the Litchfield I1ede-
pendent says: Meeker county will export
zoo, 900 bushels of wheat this year.
The town OF Pleasant View, Polk
COUNTY, has been organized. It's site is
town l45, range 46.
CHARLES UNDEMARK, 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 n
bear at Mayhem lake, Sherburne county
which weighed, when dressed, 302
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 80.
The Plainview NcaUs states that Mr..
| William Searles, of Pennington, Ohm
sted county, has young trotting stallion
for which he has refused the snug little
sum Of $1,000.
MIR. O. 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, 500 back pension last week.
A STRING of black bass was brought
into Red Wing by two fishermen on a
recent morning so heavy that one man
could not carry it. The largest fish
| u,o1oIol o,,1 lo1f 1,
dressed.
lie wife Of John Supple, of Spring
Valley, was thrown from wagon the
other day by a frightened runaway team,
and had three ribs broken, and was
otherwise very badly injured. His ply
sician 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
teen-year-old son, who had been left at
home, had, in putting UP swing, gotten
the rope around his neck in some unex-
planned manner, and had fallen and
choked to death.
HE Litchfeld Ledger tells of pre-
possessing man from New York, who was
hunting in that vicinity with his outfit of
dog flesh, and after days hunt he called
upon the man Of the house for couple
Of towels to wipe the dogs feet, and
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 q revolver DIR. Thurmond Of
Brownton was called. The examination
showed that the bail entered just below
the left breast, and had lodged some
where beyond the reach of the probe.
The wound was pronounced fatal. The
lady was about sixty years of gc.-Glcu-
coo LEICESTER.
PAT FLYNN, living at Good Thunder's
ford, was stricken with insanity few
days ago under peculiar circumstances.
He was assisting a neighbor in making
hay, when, without a moments warming
he threw away his clothing, caught up
club and started yelling toward the rail-
road track. People started in pur-
suit, and finally captured him, subse-
qucntly taking him to st. Peter.
OK. the 10th inst. three men attempted
to carry a two-year-old bull across Big
Stone lake, about three miles above Fos-
ter, in skiff; but when about midway
the bull upset the skiff, drowning one Of
the men, Ed. Boland by name. Before
starting the bulls feet had been securely
tied, and he being unable to swim, was
also drowned.
LITCHFIELD has a sensation in the
elopement of Emma Danielson, girl of
sixteen, daughter of laboring man,
with travelling Snowman named Robes,
who, in connection with q long haired
Indian doctor Lighthall, has amused
people evenings by initiating cat-yells,
withdrawing, and other refined sounds,
while the doctor pulled corns and sold
medicines at intervals. By swearing be-
fore the court at Willmar that the girl
was nineteen years old, and a sister of
Mrs. Lighthall, they procured license.
A LITTLE three-year-old son of Mr..
Foyle, station agent at Edgartowp,
Pipestone county, by some means got
hold of loaded revolver unnoticed, and
said, ''Pa, I'm going to Shoot Mr..
Foyle paid no attention to the child, and
the little fellow again told him he was
going to shoot. Just at that moment
Mr.. Foyle reached up for book that he
wanted, when bullet went crushing
through his arm from the pistol in the
hands of his boy. They hope to save
the arm, though the bones are badly