Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-10-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.
PRAIRIE fires begin to be reported.

LOUIS CoNDAUx, II pioneer of Otte
Tail County, died suddenly on Sunday
last at Elizabeth.
The proposition to issue railroad bond
in Redwood county, submitted to vot.
Of the people, has been badly defeated
On Friday afternoon, three-year oil
child Of p. Johnson of Wrightstown
strayed into swamp near here, and wa
drowned.
Jos. MHLERME1sTER, of Sleepy Eye
has lost four members of his famil,
within Il period Of one week, from tn,
terrible effects of diphtheria.
The new elevator in Big Stone City, il
looming up in ample proportions, and il
rapidly nearing completion, and will soo1
be read y to take in wheat.
The estimates coll for $279, 978 for cit,
expenditure in St. Paul next year, to bf
raised by taxation, in addition to incomes
from other sources.
ROBERT P. BRIGGS, an attorney al
Sank Center, has been arrested and held
for trial on charge of embezzling $435
from the Excelsior Manufacturing Com.
pany Of St. Louis.
HE other day son of Mr.. Childs, OF
Blue Earth City, aged Is years, snapped
gun, aud piece of the percussion cap
struck the centre of his right eye, en-
tirely running the sight.
Rev. G. G. FORsBERG, who has sup
piled the Swedish Methodist pulpit, in
Red Wing, for number of years, has
been transferred to st. Paul. and has en-
tered upon his new field of labor.
MIS-. BELASGER, wife of Joseph Bel
anger, of the firm of Bclanger & Co., of
Red Wing, died suddenly last week of
apoplexy. The announcement of the
sudden death of the lady startled the
community.
IT was the intention to keep the pedes-
tails of the memorial arch at st. Paul
supplied and ornamented with flowers
for the space of thirty days, but the van
dals effectually defeated this purpose
after a few days.
n CoLpLA1NT has been filed by the
Mcdonald Manufacturing Company of
Fond du Lac, Wis, against Albert
Silow and F. Eustcrman of Lewiston,
III Winona County, charging them with
forgery.
TIE people Of Big Stone City and Or
tonvllle have had some controversy about
the location Of their depot on the Hast
lngs and Dakota Railroad. The matter
has been settled by locating the depot
between the two towns.
GEORGE HAMPTON and wife and Mrs,
William Cain, of Hampton, Dakota
county, were thrown from buggy the
other day and all severely injured. Mrs.
Gains injuries were at first thought to-
be fatal, but she will recover.
kErESrrN Ole Nelson, of CRANKY, Nj
crllet county, went to New Ulm, and on
his way home he was seen hanging out
OF the wagon box, and in some way his
head got into the wheel and he was
found dead. He was drunk when the
accident occurred.
IN Lismore, Mobiles County, q party
OF men went to the house of VIM. WEIGH,
took his wife from her bed, carried her
to haystack, where they stripped her
and applied a coat of tar and feathers.
No cause is known for the brutality, as
Mrs. WEIGH is woman of unblemished
reputation.
IH3 boom III real estate in St. Paul
has apparently only commenced. Dur
ing the past week there has been seventy
transfers by warranty deed, an average
Of twelve per Gay. The aggregate con-
a,Ieration named in the instruments
amounts to sl19,5l3. With few excep-
tons all the property bought was for the
purpose Of immediate Improvement.
EDWIN O. PARTRIDGE, a well-known
citizen of St. Paul, died very suddenly
last Sunday night. Hewent to the Bap-
fist Church i'll the evening feeling in his
usual health, and assisted in singing one
Of the hymns. At the conclusion Of the
singing he complained of feeling slight
paiu i'll his stomach, and left the church
i'll company with his daughter, and
dropped dead on the street.
The Republican of September "a says
Jackson has the appearance of bustling
lumber camp. Immense pine logs for
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
road bridge at Baskerville are being
hauled through the streets and being
made into RATS. A large fleet of RATS
are now anchored in the bayou, and
form an interesting picture Of logging
scenery.
Mrs. CArHAR1NE Doxy, better known
as Grandmother Doxy, Of this place, has
in Anderson, Madison County, Ind,
which cost $4,000. The present was
from her son, Charles Doxy, a member
of the Chicago board of trade. The
building rents for $50 per month, and is
Il very desirable piece of property
I"WhrOt0 Independent.
HE Pennington Press says 13-year.
old boy Of Mrs. G. B. johnson, of Farm.
ington, was fooling with shotgun the
other day, when it was discharged, be.
ing loaded with shot. Mrs. johnson
came near losing her life. The pigeon
shot were scattered about, a portion oil
them striking her face. One went into
her left eye, probably destroying the
sight. 4 fatal result is not anticipated.
l., Sioux Rapids, Mrs. Cottong was al
the house OF DR.. Miller, sewing, and had
her baby tied in high chair standing
near the stove. The fire being too hot
one of the griddles of the stove had beer
removed. The child slipped from unde,
the strap that held it in the chair and fell
with its head in the stove hole, and hung
there with it's face on the burning Goals
Mrs. Cottong ran to the child and rescu
ing it from it's terrible situation, thrus
its head into cold water. For time th,
life OF the infant was despaired of, but a
last report it was improving.
A VERY serious distemper has broke,
out among the horses in Penbina. til
called epizootic aphtha, and is closet,
allied to CHAMBERS, being moreover boil
contagious and Infectious. The diseas
appears to be spreading northward from
Iowa and along the Red River valley
but it is also said to be quite prevalen
in the Canadas. It attacks the eyes a
first, which become much inflamed an,
exude freely, afterwards the limbs be
come much swollen, and the disease the1
becomes almost incura ble.-M. Vince,a