Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

LARS E. BR1NeEN, Of Norwood, has
received 81, 800 back pension.
TAE body of Belle Evenson, who was
drowned at Fergus Falls in April, has
been recovered.
A FOUR-YEAR-o1D son of John B. Car
ney, of Marshall, was drowned in we'll,
which was left uncovered.
The old settlers of Faribault county
will hold their second annual meeting at
Winnebago city on Tuesday, June 16.
FRED. WILLIAMS, of Sank Centre, has
paid $4OO for a license to sell liquor in
Glenwood, Pope county.
The G. N. Nelson Lumber company,
Duluth, has purchased 722 acres of pine
lands in St. Louis county, price $3,200.,
The council of Lake City has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the use Of
blinds or screens to doors or windows of
saloons.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD child of Rev. M. 0.
Backman, Of Holden, Goodhue county,
was recently fatally scalded by falling
into tub of hot water.
OLE JOHNSON, of Carver, gallantly
plunged into the river and rescued from
drowning seven-year-old boy named AL
fred Bergstrom.
HERMAN ASK, aged sixteen, son Of
Magnus Ask, was drowned in the St.
Croix, near what is known as the Log
House landing, about four miles north
of Marine, by falling from a raft:
SIX tons of dead fish we're found on
less than half an acre Of ground near the
railroad bridge. They we're buried by
order of the council. Se7a-
tinez.
AT the May term of the Circuit Court
held at Fergus Falls, William Baker was
convicted of stabbing Alex. Johnson,
and sentenced to two years in the peni-
tentiary.
JOHN BUSH, the oldest white settler in
Minnesota, informs the St. Peter Times
that in the year 1929 the food in the
Minnesota river was five feet higher than
in the year 1881.
SMITH SHEPHERD, Indian Interpreter
at the Sisseton Indian agency, fell from
horse when rapidly riding the other
day, causing concussion of the brain,
from which he died.
SAMUEL Lux1NER, night yardmastcr OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
company at Austin, was run over on the
23d, crushing both his legs, death re-
sulting in few hours.
The house of Hans Nelson, about
three and half miles west Of Hadley,
Murray county, caught fire from the
stove owing to an explosion caused by
burning hay. Mrs. Nelson was serious
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! flames.
A DROVE of about two hundred head
Of one, two and three-year-old steers
were driven through town on their way
to Iowa. By selling all their young
stock farmers commit great blunder,
and others make all the money there is
in stock.-Albert Lea Enterprise.
SAMUEL MuNcY, ESQ.,, of Swan River,
Morrison county, was drowned recently
while attempting to ford a river with
horse and buggy. He was thrown into
the stream where the water was OILY
about two feet deep. It is supposed he
was stunned by the fall. He was 72
years old.
MORRIS (Stevens county, Tribune,
May 10: lightning last Friday morning
fired the stable on the Griswold farm, in
Grant county, and between twenty and
thirty head of horses, together with the
barn and contents, were destroyed. The
farm is situated between Tintah and
Gorton, near the railroad.
On the 21st inst. William Tucker,
of New Auburn, Sibley county, son Of
Mrs. E. G. Tucker, shot himself with a
revolver, inficting a not very dangerous
wound. The cause Of the act is said to
be love affair, he having formed an at
tachment for the daughter of Mr.. Henry
Bailey, and his attentions to her meeting
with Opposition from her father, be tried
to kill himself, as above stated.
AN organized band of horse thieves is
said to exist in Blue Earth county. Mr..
Fl. L. Brown, farmer living west of
Willow Greek, lost valuable team of
horses, two sets of harness and lumber
wagon. The horses are described as a
"span of light dapple grey mares, three
and five years old; the three year.
will weigh about ], 200, being part Nor
man; the fve-year-old will weigh about
| 1000, has one hind foot marked with
black spot on heel and one white hoof. :"
JOHN G. NEWMAN, living in the town
of Sacred Heart, suicided by drowning
recently. He was supposed to have
been temporarily insane, the result Of i'll
| health and the death of his sister. He
first tried to kill himself by butting his
head against rock, blood being found
upon it, but as that method was proba-
bly, too painful, he took another novel
course Finding place where the wa
ter had fall Of about one foot, forming
pool the size of wash basin, he jam
med his head intoit, face downward, and
had the courage to remain in that posi-
tion until death ensued, the water barely