Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19
MINNESOTA NEWS.

IT Is announced that the Fallbault
Guards will attend the presidential inau.
guration at Washington.
DURING 1880 100000 was spent in
Minneapolis and $52,7S0,944 i'll St. Paul
Oh building improvements.
WILLIAM H. ALBRIGHT, manager of
the United States express office at St.
Paul, shot himself dead on the 18th inst.
The Norwegian poet and novelist,
Bjornstlerne Bjornson, has been ell
gagged TO deliver a lecture in Red Wing
February s.
Gov. PnLsBURY has advanced $500
from his private means to heat and fur
nish the insane asylum OF Rochester for
the reception Of patients.
The superintendent of the poor in
Minneapolis reports large number of
cases Of restitution, some 23O families
being dependent Oh the city.
CHARGES of serious case of malprac-
tice against Wayzata physician are
publicly made, and it is possible that
the affair will be officially Investigated.
The Hennepin county jail is at pres
ent little less than lunatic asylum.
Three insane men are confined there,
and the hospital authorities at St. Peter
refuse to take them.
THOMAS HowEs and S. w. Maria, of
Hastings, have purchased the farm, con-
sisting of 3,O4O acres, near New Buffalo,
D. T., Of Stephen Gardner, the consid-
Grafton being $4,000.
Mr.. MARTIN S. CHANDLER retires
from the office of sheriff of Goodhue
county after twenty-five years Of continu-
GUS service by popular election, a case
without O parallel in the west
The Breckenridge Free Press is en-
thusiastic over the Russian mammoth
variety of wheat which MI. yelling, of
McCauleyville. has raised at the rate of
thirty-eight bushels per acre.
MICHAEL O'BR1EN, well-to-do farmer
of Faxon, Sibley county, was badly
frozen on the night of the 9th instant.
He will probably have to have both feet
amputated. Whisky was the cause.
JOHN RILEY, the man confined in the
Albert Lea Jail, charged with shooting
Judge Page, of Mower county, is said
to have served five terms for larceny
or burglary in the Wisconsin peniten-
tiary.
The Red Wing Swedish Lutheran
Church has an article prohibiting it's
members from belonging to any secret
society. Pursuant to this rule six MEM
bers belonging to the Masonic lodge
were ex-communicated.
The Boare of immigration for the
state of Minnesota make a splendid
showing for the last two years. Over
123, 900 pamphlets have been distributed,
and $4,000 Immigrants have settled in
the state during that time.
The insurance companies did not have
a very profitable time of it in Minnesota
in 1880. Thus far the companies report
ing to the insurance department, taking
into account their necessary expenses,
show badly losing business.
The Minnesota Foresters' association
will present to the legislature a men,
orial asking for an appropriation of $780,
900 to establish free forestry in the west
ern and southwestern part of the state,
under the auspices of the agricultural
department of the state university.
The Anchor Manufacturing company,
of st. Paul, has contracted to furnish
100 houses to Close Bros, Of LIE Mars,
Iowa, for English immigrants who are
coming next spring to take possession of
lands selected for them in Northwestern
Iowa and Southwestern Minnesota.
The sheriff of Hennepin county has
been sued for $4,000 damages by rela-
tives of James Fl. Munger, the COM
plant alleging that the sheriff caused the
death OF. Munger. Munger was pris-
euer in Jail, aud it is alleged that he was
not properly cared for by the sheriff, and
was subjected to exposure from which he
died. 49,
The water in the Mississippi river, at
Minneapolis, is now five and one-half
feet blow the top of the dam, and the
diminished quantity and short supply
has necessitated an arrangement between
the millers that allows them to run only
two-thirds of the time. The mills have
been put in classes of three, whose own
ers agree on the time each shall down.