Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-03-30
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

ALL Uuc uSu LII + EOuuCdlN lake, T. Iec'
born county, have perished this winter.
SAMUEL LUCAS, of Montevideo, has
recently lost six children by diphtheria.
The Lanesboro brewery is to be con-
verted into creamery.
A COW ran over Mrs. Logan, of Anoka,
the other day, and broke her arm
Mrs. WALKER, of Plainview, died in
that village on Wednesday last, aged 85
years.
The estate left by DR.. G. G.. Good
rich, of Minneapolis, amounts to $780,
1870.
The cash premiums to be offered for
the next Minneapolis fair will exceed
100000.
IT is said 500 head of stock have died
from exposure to cold within ten miles
| of FairmOnt
Mrs. BAXTER, wife of the Hon. L. L.
Baxter, died at her home in Chaska,
March 10, aged % years.
Mrs. j. E. HAYWARD, Of st. Cloud,
picked pansies from her dooryard that
grew within few feet of snow bank.
LIE SUEUR and Hennepin counties pro-
duced the most maple sugar Of any coun-
| ties in the state, in the order named.
The other day 10000 youny ssalmon
were planted in Prior Lake, Scott
county.
The salary of the treasurer Of Mile
Lacs county is $3.50 year, as fixed by
the last legislature.
Ice in Lake Pepin, seventy-fve rods
from the shore is 34I inches thick; mid
| of %ho 7o1,
actual measurement.
| MANY farmers in LIE Sueur are buying
potatoes. What they have are buried
and they cannot get at them, and what
they had in their cellars had frozen.
Mr.. KooRCHER, of Lanesboro, was
carried over his dam on cake of ice and
thought to be drowned, but was resusc:-
tated.
JAMES SU111N attempted suicide at
Plainview, on the 18th ult., by taking
laudanum, but was pumped out and his
life saved.
LEWIS CHASE, son Of A. J. Chase, Of
Dodge county, is sixteen years old. SIX
feet and six inches in height, and weighs
18O pounds.
NICHOLAS GREMs, an old resident Of
Kasson, died suddenly while riding on
load Of straw, one day last week. He
was II years Of age.
AT Grass Lake, near Wilmar, fish are
being taken through holes in the ice by
the wagon load. They are taken with
shovels and pitchforks.
MINNESOTA contains at present 6, 157
Indians, of whom 1912 wear citizens
dress, 765 are agriculturists and 1856 are
engaged in other civil pursuits.
AT Hanover, on the 18th inst, John
Freiderichs, an old resident of that town,
suicided by shooting himself with a re-
volver Domestic trouble caused the act.
J. ScHoTTMU1LER's barn. at Taylor's
Falls, burned recently, catching from
sparks from locomotive. Two horses
and number of sheep were burned.
Loss s., ,050.
A FEW days since Frank Schier was
crushed in the gearing of Dickinsons,
Easton & Co.'S Touring mill, near Chat
field, and survived his injuries but few
hours.
MARTIN SwENsoN died at Blue Mounds
from the effects of cutting his foot with
an Ak. He was postmaster, supervisor,
and justice of peace, and was to have
been married soon.
n. BRosHER, residing near Pine City,
Pine county, committed suicide few
days ago by shooting himself through
the head with shotgun. Mental aber-
ration the cause.
OLE SMEsTAD was driving on Lake
Amelia, Pope county, when the ice gave
way and himself, team and load of wheat
went down in six feet of water. He got
out. rescued his horses, and next day
neighbors raised the sled and wheat.
OLE JACOBSON, Norwegian, was
robbed the other night by three high
waymen on his way home from Spring
Valley. He was thrown out of his sleigh
and roughly handled. He had one RIB
broken and was otherwise seriously in
jured.
Mrs. SHIELDS, Of Fergus Falls, re-
Gently received from England a gold
fnger-ring that for seventy years en-
circled the skeleton hand of her dead
grandmother. The casket was opened
not long since, aud the ring taken out
and forwarded to Mrs. Shields.
Mrs. II. A. WH1PPLE, of LIE Sueur,
has been lame in one hip for twelve
years. On Friday last she discovered
Something pointed under the skin and
succeeded in taking it out. It was a
sewing machine needle of the largest
size. Now her .lameness is leaving her.
JOHN w. CHENEY, Of st. Charles,
Winona. county, committed suicide the
other day by hanging. He was rs years
old. His home was with his son-in-law,
Geo. n. johnson. His wife died in
1866. About year ago he had slight
attack of paralysis, since which time he
has been very despondent, often express
ing a desire to die and threatening
suicids.
LETTERS that have been received from
the firm of Messrs. Morrison, Anderson
& Butchart, of Dundee, Scotland, an
nounce that they contemplate establish
ing in Minneapolis at once large manu-
factory for the purpose Of supplying the
American market with burlaps and ex-
port bags. The firm have ample capital
and are now engaged in the same busi-
ness in Scotland. "-,
Mr.. E.. RHENEo lost $500 span OF
horses by drowning in the lake at Still
water. the other day. The driver had
been down below the bridge after the
lumber which had been used for the
skating rink during the winter, and just
as he was passing under the bridge, at
the end where the spring water from the
sewer ::empties into the lake, the horses
went down and were drowned before they
could be rescued. The affair attracted a
large crowd.
Ar Aitkin, Aitkin county, recently
Samson Magraw fatally stabbed man
named Smith. They were quarreling
about an account, when Smith struck
Magraw, and the latter stabbed the
former with pocket knife with which
he was whiting. Smith died soon after.
Smith was stabbed in the left breast.
The blade of the knife entered the lungs,
and was broken off III the wound. Ma
graw was arrested and committed to jail
in Brainerd. The deceased leaves wife
and two children in destitude circum-
stances.
- Mr.. CARLYLE, coming home one
| e.o~,, q a%ro1 with f1-ion1