Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-15
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS,

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DIR. D. S. HoRsHA, OF Owato| |lna, aged
63 years, is dead.
TRACY has voted 81 900 bonds for
new school house.
WoKE on the stone bridge at Jordan,
Scott county, is delayed by high water.
SwAMPs, marshes and small streams
are reported to be full of wa1er in all
parts OF the state.
w. Fl. KELLY has purchased the Park
house property, Owatonna, Pf John
Shea, for $40, 900.
The Chaska Herald says Ehe four
brick yards at that place will turn out
loo, 900 bricks per day this seas Pn.
TH1RTY-FIvE thousand railIt0ad ties
have been unloaded at Glenc4e to be
used in constructing branch r bad.
Mr.. HERMAN HERENDGFERl an old
resident of New Ulm, and carrlenter by
trade, was found dead in his shop ON the
9Th.
The Wells Advocate says $4,000
young cattle have been purchased and
shipped out of Faribault county the past
year.
IT is reported Mr.. Parneu secured
5000 acres of land near Gracevil1e, Big
Stone county, for colony Of Irish emi-
grants.
SEVERAL families, numbering in all
thirty persons, have recently arrived in
Montrose, Wright county, from West
Virginia.
IT is reported that a narrow gauge
railroad will be built from Montgomery,
LIE Sueur county, to LIE Sueur Centre
the present year.
A 12-YEAR-o1D daughter of G.. Russell,
of Lemond, Steele county, carelessly
handling loaded revolver the other day,
shot off one of her fingers.
The Redwood Gazette says W. H.
Hawk, clerk of the court, was recently
arrested and held in $500 bail to appear
before legal tribunal on a charge of
embeZZlement.
The LIE Sueur Sentinel says that G.
w. Nash, of Minneapolis, has served
papers on Geo. NJ. Tousley in suit for
the drowning of his son at the Tousley
ferry, over a year ago.
The Advocate says Jordan, Scott
county, is enjoying an unprecedented
UOOA IL 1ohA coU1Io, aAu GLae 1ucIo WILL
be more good buildings put up there
this season than for some years before.
The Wright county annual fair will be
held this year at Rockford, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, September %, 23
| and a. Hon. T. A. Thompson of Wa-
basha county, is to deliver the annual
address.
The body of Trule Nordlie Knudson
has been fOnnd in snow drift, OH the
banks of Lake Sigel, near Tracy. Knud-
son was lost in blizzard on the 21st of
December last while on his way home
from Tracy.
Mr.. s. FRAQURR, of Hermann, Grant
county, recently had about $50 bushels
of oats stolen from his granary, short
distance north of town. No clue to the
thieves has been found and the case is
being worked up.
A 1wo-xnAR old daughter Of James
Gebbie came near losing her life recent
~ by eating crackers on which poison
had been spread to kill rats. A timely
discovery and prompt action by physi-
clan saved the life of the child.
CHARLES WAPPE1, a wood-chopper at
Montrose, Wright county, was killed on
Monday by falling tree. Four or five
other men chopping near by ran to his
relief, but only came to him in time to
witness his last struggles in death.
The St. Cloud Journal says J. E.
Hayward has span of colts that weigh
1885 pounds-the oldest, "Boy Mag
NUS" which was three years old
April s, weighing 1,6O0, and his brother,
which will be two years old May %,
weighing 1885 pounds.
j. 3. GAsToN, discharged teacher in
the grammar school at Wilmar, assaulted
Mr.. A. N. Lewis, member of the beard
of examiners, with horsewhip, cutting
numerous gashes about the head and
face from which the blood freely flowed,
for which he was fined $50 and the costs,
from which he appealed.
LAST week, Mrs. N. B. Langdon, re-
siding on what is known as the Langdon
farm, some seven miles distant from
Marshall, Lyon county, committed sui
eide by the use of chloroform. She had
not lived happily with her husband, and
during the last week is reported to have
been in bad state of mind.
ROCHESTER Record and U,aio,: Last
Saturday DR.. w. A. Allen removed from
the arm of MI. Fl. Rathburn thorn
that he had carried therein over thirty
years. It had occasioned Mr.. Rathburn
no trouble until the last year, when it
became very painful. That arm will be
lonesome without it's old companion.
| In Wheeling, Rice county, last week,
Mr.. Boaldar had loaded bis gun and
placed it in the corner of room while
he went to get nail on which to hang
the gun. The gun fell and was discharg-
ed, the ball passing through door and
into the heart of his daughter in an ad-
joining room, producing death almost
instantly.
The Good Samaritan Episcopar
Church property at Sauk Center, was
bonded with a mortgage of $4,000 and
interest thereon amounting to $500. The
holder agreed to accept 81, 500 as pay
ment in full of the Indebtedness, if paid
| ! by April l. By vigorous effort of the
church and society, the amount was
raised and the mortgage destroyed.
TIE Hermann Herald gives an account
of the drowning of fine span of horses
the other day, belonging to E. s. Beck,
Of Browns valley, while endeavoring to
ford the Twelve Mile creek. The high
water had carried away the bridge, and
the horses sank down into deep water
and were unable to help themselves.
Another team is reported to have been
drowned in the same locality the next
day.
LAKE CITY is just now exercised with
scandal of considerable village proper
tions. The parties are leading mer-
chant, his wife and brother-al high
toned, but the two latter will propably
be less "tony" in the future than in the
past. The wife is charged with having
committed theft, and was caught in the
act by her 13-year old son, and on being