Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.


A PLANNING mill is soon to be estab-
lished in verndale. Chisago County.
A BIG telescope has been ordered from
New York for the public school in Wa
SEGA.
The big wheel on the wind grist mill
in Claremont, Steele County, was blown
down last week.
JAMES FAY, brakeman, was crushed
to death at Red Wing, Sept. 12, by his
being run over by railroad train.
THOMAS HUGHES, of Lake Prairie had
q shoulder fractured the other day by
the kick of horse.
PETER PERSON was accidentally
drowned in the river at Moorhead the
other day.
The Pine Island News says: The
other day Mrs. E. Merriam, aged 65
years, was assaulted by vicious COW
and received fatal injuries.
The New Ulm Review confirms the
report that Nicholas Gales, formerly OF
that place, was killed by Indians in
Hi]lsboro, New Mexico.
The Cambridge Press, Of September
8, says: On Thursday of last week, P.
o. Peterson's four-year-old boy fell from
the second story of barn and had one
of his thighs broken.
The Sauk Rapids Sentinel says that
by the sudden rising of the water, Wei
lington & Co. 8 boom at the island broke
and some 100000 railroad ties went
down the river.
Sr. PETER Tribune, Sept. 14.-A lad
named Henry St. Martin, II years old,
son of Frank St. Martin, who lives near
the junction, was drowned in Straight
river, below the dam Of the Kendall
mills, on Thursday afternoon last.
ONE night last week some miscreants
placed q keg of powder on the floor of
the new jail being built at Elk River,
and touched it off with g slow match.
: The roof of the building was blown of,
and the sides badly damaged.
LAST August horse was stolen from
Anton Stutz, Of Cleveland, LIE Sueur
county. Last week the thief, James
Evans, alias Lew Bentley, WAS arrested
near Sank Center, and the horse re-
tnrned. The thief is in Jail.
Mrs. BERaERMAGER, of Courtland,
Nicollet County, during recent thun-
der storm, was seriously injured by fall
) ing hail-stones, some of which are al
legged to have been fifteen inches in cir
cumference.
The Hastings Union of September 10,
says the body of John Rock, who was
drowned on the 9th of July last was
discovered about four miles below Pres
colt on Monday. Word was sent there,
and Sheriff Newton and F. M. Richards
went down and buried the remains.
LAST Friday afternoon, Harriet
daughter of Joseph Gains, OF Hudson
who passed her fourth birthday on the
5th ult., fell backward into tub of boil
. ing hot suds that was standing on the
floor. She was taken out instantly, but
not until fatally burned.-Long Prairit
< argus, Sept. 6.
WILLIAM WHEELER, of Walcott, will
{ bis little boy, had narrow escape from
drowning the other day, in attemptin!
: to cross the Straight River, at Hoyt''
Ford, two miles below Mariposa, Steel
County. The father caught the ittl
boy as he came up, and fortunately al
4 we're saved.
FAR1BAU1r REPUBLICAN, Septembe
Il: On Wednesday night last dog
killed twenty-five sheep 4of a foe
x owned by Mr. z. A. Orne, IN the far1
x recently purchased by him of Mr.. Shel
4 wood. Five more are missing, and ar
supposed to have been killed. The shee
were valued at $100.
= HASTINGS Union, September 10:
barn upon Mrs. Charlotte Dances farr
in Douglas was struck by lightning O.
the night of the I'd inst, and the tenant
John DINNER, lost four horses, a reap
= er. harness, and quantity of grain ant
~ hay. Loss estimated at $500; no insur
. ance.
+ + ATTORNEY MATHEWS met surpris
K the other morning in finding that som
x enemy had taken possession Of his Office
and after stealing and destroying som
papers, had ended by baptizing his LAY
y library in rain water barrel after inju1
< ing some of the books otherwise. Som
of the papers were afterward found, all
parties are engaged in a still hunt fc
); the worse than thief. It is to be hope
- - that he will be caught, and that iur
81 will give him full dose of law.-Ma1
~ .. shall Messenger.
10 REPORTS are constant of damage
~ y animals from the barbed iron fence.
" u. late number of the Independent says
;ue ie fine mare belonging to Mr.. Land, Of Fee
IL gus Falls Town, ran into barbed vii
~ fence the other night and was cut in
~ !: terrible manner. The animals brea
~ ~ was cut right across, the cash extendin
~ ~ twenty-eight inches and very dep, an
L. the cords in one of the hind legs GU
10 - besides several other ugly wounds. M
-, Land had the wounds dressed and tt
10 10 probabilities are that the mare will be
u, service yet.