Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

RECENTLY Gerhardt Ellesing, of Grant
township, Stevens county, had thirty
acres of wheat destroyed bya hail storm.
The New Ulm Turnverein gives notice
in the Post that the twelfth Minnesota
turn nfest will be held in New Ulm on
Saturday and Sunday, August 21st and
22d.
JOHN HALvoRsEN, of Waseca, while
drunk the other day attempted suicide
by shooting himself with pistol. He
made a bad wound, but his recovery is
likely.
LOUIS Narcotic of Centerville, was
adjpdeed insane by Drs. Freeman and
Wakefield, and sent to st. Peter by the
Judge of probate, in charge of Sheriff
Frost.-AnokG Herald.
PATsEY MADDEN, of Fountain, Fill
more county, got drunk last week, lay
down on the railroad track, went to sleep,
and was run over by train and crushed
into an unacceptable mass of humanity.
JOHN TAPIEY and Henry Taylor, COM
mitted on a charge of arson in Aitkin
county, have had their bail reduced from
s., 1000 $4,000 each by Judge Stearns at
Brainerd, which they obtained, andwere
discharged.
A SAD accident occurred in Springfield,
Brown county, last Saturday afternoon,
resulting intthe drowning of an eight
year-old son of James Arnold, while
bathing in the Cottonwood river in COM
pany with some other boys.
A SINGULAR accident occurred at Ros-
coe, Goodhue county, Monday evening.
One of Luther Webb's little girls, seven
years old, fell out of the chamber win
dow from small bedstead, q distance of
twelve feet, fracturing the left thigh in
two places.
j. s. HAsKFs, of Mortified, last week
captured turtle on the bank Of the river
near his house. It weighed thirty-eight
pounds. He made presant of it to
Prof. Sperry to go among the curiosities,
or a good specimen for the department
of natural history.
GROVE CRY (Meeker county, Tribune,
July 2: Stark Larsen shot and killed
Squire Clark Sundae evening, while the
young man WAS after his Gown. Stark
has been partially insane for long
while, and he ought to have been an in
mate of an insane asylum years ago.
The Wells Advocate wants a law to
regulate the flow of artesian wells at that
place, and says "some one who own
wells here are 80 unmindful of others
property that they let their wells flow a
full two-inch stream when haf-inch
one would answer the same purposes and
not be detrimental to other wel1s.''
HENRY HAss1Na, of Easton, Faribault
county, who was shot last winter by a
man named Ward, died last week from
the effects of the wound. He had so far
recovered as to be able to work. but
short time since went to some physicians
to have the ball extracted. The opera
tion was not successful, and he suffered
a relapse from the effects of again open
ing the wound, and died as above stated.
The bank at Ortonville, G. K. Orton.
president, a corporation organized last
winter under the banking laws of the
state, having been found on examination
to have paid in only small fraction of
its capital stock and thus to have for
feited it's franchises, has been permitted
to retire from business as state bank,
and has reGnquished all it's rights and
privileges as such and surrendered its
charter.
A BOY seven years old, son of Martin
Friski, about seven miles from this
place, was killed last week at his home.
The boy was tying steer in the stable,
and in bis efforts to do so got the halter
twisted around his hand. By sudden
jerks and frantic caperings the steer drew
the little boy all around the stable until
life was nearly extinct. He died in about
half an hour.-APfoletore Recorder,
July l.
The Long Prairie Todd county, Argus
says: GA man named Young, keeping
q store in the town of Leslie, this coun-
ty, skipped the county the other day,
deserting his wife and nine children, and
eloped with young girl, a sister of Nels
CRANES wife, of Alexandria. He first
disposed of his goods, sold lot of rail
road ties, and got check for 81 900
cashed. He left his family almost des
titute."
ONE morning last week the watchman
at the G. NJ. & st. P. railroad, Wabas-
haw, as he was returning from his duty,
discovered the body of q man floating in
the slough near the railroad bridge:
Coroner Arnold was summoned and
viewed the body, and after due investi-
cation, came to the conclusion that it
was case of suicide by drowning. The
body was identified as that of Andrew
Headstrum.
GEORGE O. WnBER, breaking some
two miles east of Breckenridge, unhitch-
ed his team and took shelter under his
wagon during thunder storm. The
wagon was struck by lightning and he
was stunned. He finally recovered con-
sciousness to find he was blind and in
great agony. He groped his way to one
Of the horses, mounted him and the horse
took him to town, where medical aid was
summoned. The next morning he was
unable to open his eyes, and his condi-
tion was regarded very critical.
A STORY is told of q woman on the
Sibley county prairie, illustrative Of the
female will. It seems that Chris. Kim
kert had foreclosed mortgage on farm
owned by this particular woman, and, as
the time for redemption had nearly
expired, Klinkert thought he would gain
time by putting in large wheat crop
the past spring. A few weeks ago, when
the WOIQ6AQ 1OIuu OunV 0AO SOuANA A1Ou 10
deem the farm, she concluded upon re-
venge, and she got it by plowing furrows
throughout the entire eighty y-acre field,
about three feet apart, thus saving labor
and at the same time destroying the crop.
lie Sste,tr Sentinel.
A SHOCKING death occurred near town
on Saturday evening. WhenJohn Hahn,
living q couple of miles from LIE Sueur,
on the opposite side Of the river, wasgo'
ing home from the celebration in com
.pany with his wife, his brother Martin
and his wife, he ran his team to pass an
other, and, while on the full run, as hi
was turning short off the main road OF
the top of the hill, near the red schoo
house. the whole four were thrown VIC
lently out of the wagon. John strucl
upon his head and shoulders, and it i
supposed that either his skull was frac
tured by the fall or that blood vesse
was bursted, for he died in an hour at
terward, before surgical aid could reac]
him,-Le Seuer Sentinel.