Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-25
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

A FIRST class oat meal mill is being
erected at Lanesboro, Fillmore county.
The name of Hersey station on the
Sioux City road is to be changed to Brew
ster.
H. NJ. SHERw1N, of Flandreau, Fill
more county, has received $500 back
pension.
Col. NATHAN P. AMEs, who was one
of the early settlers of Clay county, re-
Gently died in Massachusetts.
The largest farm in Stevens county is
owned by Edward T. Archibald Of Dun
das, it contains 100000 acres.
OTTER Tail has 1858 sheep yielding
10000 pounds of wool, but has not a
carding machine in the county.
FREDDIE BROWN, of LeSueur, aged II
years, fell from a butternut tree the
other day, and had his wrist and one of
his ribs broken.
JOHN HOGAN, of Ottowa, LeSucur
county, has fallen heir to legacy of
$3.50, 900, left him by a deceased aunt i'll
Kilkenny county, Ireland.
THERE were 476 acres Of sugar cane
planted in Waseca county this year
against 80 acres last year. The present
crop is said to be doing nicely.
A FARMER in Rock Dell, Olmstead
county, boasts that his son, only thirteen
years old, cut with a twine- binder, in
just two days, recently, ffty-two acres Of
| wheat.
J. H. MOORE, living four miles from
Rushford, Fillmore county, was gored
by bull the other day. His neck was
dislocated, the doctor says, but he is
improving.
IT is stated that thirty EIGHT acres have
been planted to forest trees this year Ill
Waseca county. In the county, is is re-
ported, that 21,554 acres have been
planted in all to forest trees, which trees
are making due progress in growth.
AN old man named Brake, Of this vii
lage, in his seventy fourth year, is said
to be growing a new set of teeth and get
ting new crop of hair on his head. Who
will now dispute the revigorating and re-
juvenating qualities Of Lanesboro air .
Harding's Herald.
On the 10th instant Mr.. Shields, All
old resident of Houston, Houston county,
was run over by two hand cars and both
legs crushed above the ankle. The limbs
we're set, but the next day one of them
had to be amputated, and very little
hopes are had of the other.
ANDREW PETER SwENsoN, Swede, Of
Carver, was prostrated by the heat one
day last week, while engaged at work
near Swenson's school house. He lived
but two hours. He had recently a.
rived from Sweden. He leaves wife
and six children, who were dependent ON
him for support.
On Sunday morning last, Anton Iris
ko, residing in the town of Grove, about
three miles and half from this village,
shot and killed himself with a revolver,
Mr.. Trisko was murderously y beaten and
robbed i'll May, since which, it seems, j.c
has been subject to fits Of insanity. y
Melrosc Neevs, August II.
The question is asked why the flowing
springs, or wells, in the lower portion of
| the village of Mankato, are not utilized
! by intelligent enterprise. The waters
have been analyzed and are said to con-
tain valuable medicinal properties Put
in proper shape, these springs might
rival the celebrated Bethesda springs in
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
A LITTLE son of Andrew Glokscne, of
LIE Sueur county, was scalded to death
one day last week, by trying to drink
boiling apple juice, which had been pre-
pared for dinner and placed on the win
dow to cool. The little fellow tipped up
the dish, and the can and contents were
emptied upon his head and body. The
blood ran from his nose, mouth and ears
until life was extinct.
A HUMAN skeleton was found the other
day on the prairie, in Clay county, by
party Of engineers running out new
road. The bones were gathered up by
the coroner and buried in the cemetery
at Moorhead. Il is supposed that the
skeleton was that Of G. G. Berry, who
had claim near Glyndon, who was lost
in the winter of 1928, and never after
wards heard from.
| The Park region, SO called, is that
high, rolling, lake, grove and prairie re-
gion, whose waters flow west to the Red
river valley, south to the Minnesota and
east to the Mississippi. The Red river
valley proper extends from Big Stone
lake to Lake Winnepeg, near 200 miles,
embracing width of from fifty to seventy
five miles, with Lake Traverse, the Bojs
de Sioux and the Red river from Brock
inridge north for it's enter.-Ec1t/ts
Fails Journal.
CARL KERcHBAuM, of Jessenland, Sill
lev county, worked hard one forenoon IN
the harvest field. At dinner time he
drank a large quantity of cold water, and
was soon after taken with the chills and
compelled to go to the house and lie
down. He grew rapidly worse, and /;
doctor was summoned, but his treatment
| 40 ,xo.1 Tho ,,oo,, I1o1 oftar
five days Of terrible suffering, leaving
wife and several small children to mourn
his untimely end.
WHILE Patrick Kelley, of Jessenland,
was at wolk cutting his grain on Thurs
day of last week, one of the horses got
his foot over the tongue of the machine,
Mi. Kelly went in front Of the team to
remove a bolt in order to lower the
tongue. When the bolt came off he
was crusned to the earth and was so in
iured by the tongue which rested across
his stomach, that he died in about twenty
four hours. The deceased leaves wild
ow and several children.-KerdeJson
(Sadley county) independent.
A MAN by the name Of Holtzgrove,
living in the town of Kelso, attempted to
stop a frightened team attached to
harvester by catching the animals by the
bits, but being unable to hold them, let
90 and was struck by the reel of the ma
chine, thrown backwards upon the sickle
bar, and one of the guards passed
through his leg eleven inches below the
knee. Physicians were called, and ad-
vised amputation, but the sufferer would
not listen to the loss Of his foot and
ankle. The next day, however, gan
creme set in and the doctors were COM
ppelled to cut the leg off above the knee.
|-Glencoe Register.
ONE Butler was sent from Cannon
Falls one day last week to setup reap
er, and being a man Of frequent hba-
tions, he took his bottle with him, be-
came crazy drunk and in hisfenzied hilar-
ity, he took after little boy on horse
back, pursuing him in his rattle trap
buggy with the yells Of the damned, on