Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-25
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

J. D. HIKE, an old citizen Of sauk
Rapids, is dead.
OVER 400 tickets have been sold for
four days excursion from st. Cloud to
Bismarck, D. T., next month.
The subject of making the Minnesota
river navigable by a system of locks is
agitating the Mankato board of trade.
MISS MINNIE JUDD, of Northfeld,
from whose side large tumor was re-
moved on the 18th inst, diedon the 18th.
MICHAEL, four year old son of Rev.
NJ. 0. Bockman of Holden, Minn., was
accidentally scalded to death on the 18th.
MELVIN JOHNSON, of Spring Valley,
had one Of his knees badly dislocated
last week while dragging wheat.
Mrs. SUBRA, of Ripley township, has
secured back pension of 81 ,632, and
future security of So permonth.
SAMUEL DEMERY, one of the Oldest set
tiers Of Wabasha county, died in Mil
vile, recently.
HORSE thieves are operating in Monte
video, G. A. Strong and Charles NJ.
Davis having suffered by their depreda-
hons.
JOSEPH PAIL, German living in
Mary township, was drowned while at
tempting to swim the Wild Rice river,
recently.
A RECENT wind and hail storm at Blue
Earth City, broke 818 panes Of glass in
eighty one buildings on one street. No
other serious damage was DONE
1>oo~5 oe 4,~o5 IL 81 A1lo~k r loo
organized itself into stock company and
has commenced buying wheat, the result
of Which is rise Of 8 cents per bushel,
The shores of the lake at Worthing-
ton are covered with thousands of dead
fish, and the stencil is almost unbear-
able.
LAST week Mr.. Fielder, of st. Cloud,
had an arm amputated on account of a
deep-seated cancer in the hand, causing
dangerous hemorrhage.
A MAN named Stafford, who attempted
shall to Redwood, was drowned when
about seven miles from his destination.
JOHN Dorm of Minneola has: Just re-
ceived letter from Germany stating
that by the death of a sister he had be-
come the lawful heir to property worth
Sis, 900.
Mrs. J. N. BRANBERe, living near
Cannon Falls, took quantity of matches,
boiled them and drank the decoction,
but a physicians energetic efforts saved
her life.
IT is discovered that the old original
plat of Otter Tail City, on record, is de-
scribed as being in range 20, when it
should be 80, mistake of only sixty
miles. By this plat, Otter Tail City
would be in Cass county, near Brain
erd. This may make difference with
| titles.
| A CORRESPONDENT informs usthat Carl
Carlson, Scandinavian blacksmith,
young and unmarried, grieved that his
lady-love would not come to him from
the old country, committed suicide by
drowning in the Pomme de Terre river,
in Grant county, last week.-Aleranclria
Douglas County, Post.
The body of Mr.. Stafford, the Irish
gentlemen who was drowned near Red
wood Falls during the food, was found
in the Redwood river, about eighty rods
below the spot where the accident oc-
CURED, and was buried at Redwood
Falls.
Mrs. L. LEWIS drowned herself in the
south branch of the Wild Rice river,
near Borup, Mimi, on the 18th. Mrs.
Lewis had trouble with her eyes, and
frequently made the remark that she
"would rather be dead than blind" She
was, no doubt. partially insane at the
time the rash act was committed.
On the 10th quite serious accident
occurred on the river division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul, near
La Noble, which damaged. ed:.property and
badly injured Wallace Williams, a brake
man, breaking the bones below the knee,
so that they not only protruded from the
flesh, but even pierced his boot and
trousers leg.
A DISPUTE concerning the ownership
of claim in Twin Valley, last Friday,
came near being serious. P. S. Olson,
the Twin Valley miller, was riddled with
shot by MI. Severson. Fortunately
nothing serious resulted, however. Mr..
Olson had the hasty shootist arrested on
a charge of "attempt to KILL" but
somehow the whole thing fell through
and the suit was dismissed.-Ad0 Alert.
THREE wheat stacks on the farm of
John McGittrick- enough for single
"setting of thresher-foated out into
the Redwood when it overaowed recent
ly. One of them landed on another
farm across the Redwood, and o consid-
erable distance below, and the other
lodged about thirty rods from where
they were launched. Strange to say,
the stacks landed right side up, and were
not badly shattered. .-Redevood Falls
u Gazette.
Mr.. ABNER DUNHAM, who lives in this
county, opposite Ottawa, went out on
the 9Th in boat to gather drift wood.
His boat was turned over, and he was
not seen afterward. His body has not
been recovered, although diligent search
was made by his friends. Mr.. Dunham
was farmer and an old settler. He was
strict church-member, and an honest,
upright man in all his dealings. He
leaves large family to mourn his un-
timely death.-N. Peter Tribune.
A SON of Charles Voss, who lives in
section 36, town of Deerfeld, was left IN
charge of the house in the absence of his
parents. Soon a man entered and de-
manded the keys of the bureau of the
boy, who said he did not have them.
The thief started into the bedroom to
ransack, when the boy took down the
double barrel shot gun and ammunition
and went out behind the wood pile to
load. Only one barrel was fit for use,
as the lock of the gun was broken. Soon
the thief came out, and seeing the boy
lying on the ground with adouble barrel