Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-13
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

A SALE of state lands will take place at
Fergus Falls on May 18.
The Mankato brick company is fill
ing orders from the Duluth Iron com
pany for $50, 900 brick.
NE1s LARSON, Of Litchfeld, Meeker
county, the other day, sold an OK that
weighed Just an even ton.
A WILD cat was shot at GAINESVILLE,
Waseca county, last week that measured
five feet and six inches in length.
PETER j.. LARSON, of Litchfeld,
Meeker county, has Norman colt three
years old that weighs nearly ], 400 pounds.
THREE hundred cords of wood and
large quantity of railroad ties were
burned at Quinn's crossing, little be-
low Montrose, Wright county, recently.
LAST Friday Mrs. Eliza Sarsland, wife
Of Ole Sarsland, of the town of Solum,
Douglas county, committed suicide by
hanging herself in the stable, while de-
ranged.
Ex-PosrMAsTER PATRICK MCCORMICK,
of Green Isle, Sibley county, while split
ting kindling the other day, had the mis-
fortune to have silver strike one of his
eyes, in such manner as to entirely
destroy the sight,
FISH are being caught by the cart,
wagon or some other kind of load, daily,
at this place. To pick up sturgeon
scared ashore by the river drivers is Of
101''s Falls Journal.
The Tyler Nincoln Co.. Tribune in
sists that Weeks and Pagenkopf, farmers
in Ash Lake township, we're poisoned by
q third party with arsenic or strychnine.
It does not appear that anybody in par
ticular is under suspicion.
JOHN MCCARTHY, of Antrim, Waton-
wan county, has recently set out II, 900
soft maple trees, covering eight acres.
They were raised from the seed which he
gathered and sowed some two years ago.
He will soon have fine grove, and ulti
mately valuable timber.
RUsHFoRD Star: Squire Tillotson's
lemon tree is fairly astonishing every
body. -Four large and ten small lemons
are now on the tree. Yesterday he
showed us lemon just plucked, which
measures and one-half by nine and one
quarter inches around. It was beauty.
Miss Lillian WELLINGTON called Mon
day at the auditors Office and received
So as bounty for killing a wolf in Sum-
NIT Lake township. She was followed
on the prairie by the wolf, large one,
and, together with the house dog, made
fight and took the VOLTS scalp. Five
lads caught eleven young wolves and
drew $33 from the state fund.- WORTH
ingto'a ADVANCE.
The Mankato RevieaU reports that last
week Capt. j. r. Beatty sold to Mr.
Laird, of Winona, an undeveloped stone
quarry embracing lots and blocks to the
amount of seven or eight acres in the old
townsite of Mankato city, situated along
the cut on the Winona road and at a
point where the heavy curve in that road
is located, in entering the city. Capt.
Beatty reserves the right for two years to
remove limestone from the land, the
upper stEata s:tg belag Of that "a eSn quality. The
CENTER CrY, Chisago county, was
thrown into a fever OF excitement last
week by the elimination of an old fued
which has existed number of years be-
tween E. P. Faust, we'll known farmer
near there, and his neighbor John Law
renee. Last Saturday they met by ac-
cident near the village, and words ensued,
which were speedily followed by blows,
and Faust, getting the advantage, got
Lawrence down his back on rock, and
beat him terribly upon the breast and
head. Sometime after he was taken
home. but medical skill could not save
him. He died from the effects of inter
| nal injuries received,
On the 4th inst, at Orrock, Sherburne
county, the hottest day of the season, a
sweeping prairie fire came down upon
the village in gale Of wind, which car
ried the fire fifty feet at a jump. G.
Farley's stables and outhouses, together
with great deal of his fencing, were de-
stroyed. The house was no fire some
twenty times, but was saved. The fire
then destroyed the entire property of T.
latham, consisting of house, stables
granary and nearly all of his fencing.
II. E. Craig lost heavily of fencing, hav
ing about four miles of it burned OF
damaged. F. Nowack lost three OF foul
stables, corn crib and fencing.
The body of an unknown man was
found in marsh on the I'd inst, neal
the farm OF Mr. "A. RUNNER, ABOUT IOu]
miles from Jordan. The coroner's YER
dict was that he was murdered, and thai
he had lain several months in the mud
and water; that he was thirty or thirty
five years of age, five feet six inches il
height, weight from 140 to $50 pounds
light brown hair, heavy moustache, ap
parently dyed, and a well developed
head; that in his pockets were also fount
slip of paper upon which was writer
the name "Kohlleppel," st. Louis
omnibus ticket, q railroad stop-ove
ticket, iQegible, a number of cards OF st
Louis business houses, and four new
linen collars.
The Stupidity Of Servants.
have had in my household, writes ;
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