Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-29
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

lHE Darn OF JOln HARRISON, near
Doom, was demolished by recent storm.
Loss, $1,000.
The foundation walls of the new state
capitol at st. Paul are rapidly approach
ing completion.
SEVEN entries have been made for the
four-milc $4,000 running race at the
fair in September.
LAST week J. A. Royce, of Caledonia,
Houston county, shipped a carload Of
twenty horses to Worcester, Massachu-
setts.
BISHOP WHnPLE has been authorized
to procure plans for the new st. Mary's
Hall at Faribault. The structure will
be of stone, and will cost $4,000.
The rear of a joint drive of over
feet of logs reached the
Thousand Islands, just below St. Cloud,
one day last week.
GEORGE HOFFMAN, county clerk Of
Wright County, has deserted his wife
and children and left, in company with
widow named Mrs, Theresa Munding.
ALFRED B., son of DR.. j. Benjamin,
of Hutchinson, Mcleod county, aged IA
years, was drowned while bathing in the
river at that place last week.
CHRISTENSEN, ERICKSON & Co. S mill,
at Woodville, was burned the 18th inst.
The origin of the fire is mystery. It
was just completed, coating 81, 500. No
insurance.
LEVI FRANKENFIELD, Of Henderson,
was found dead in Pehler & Co.'s ware
house on the 18th, and it is supposed
his death was caused by the bursting of
q blood vessel.
RALPH WALTERS, head miller in the
mill of Strait & Co., Shakopee, was
crushed under falling smoke stack and
so badly injured that if he RECEIVERS be
will be a cripple for life.
RECENTLY, while Mr.. John Mecksler,
an old gentleman aged 80, living near
Eagle lake, was hoeing potatoes close to
the railroad track, he was struck by the
engine and instantly killed.
The Albert Lea Standard says the
search for coal at Freeborn has not been
given up. An effort is being made to
organize company with ample capital
to prosecute the enterprise.
Mrs. MCNEIL, a lauy we'll known to
the people of Marshall, Lyon county,
was taken to the insane asylum at St.
Peter last week. His insanity is Of a
religious character, she fancying that she
is in partnership with divine beings.
Mrs. W. G. DELuc and daughters ar
rived from Washington Wednesday
morning, and their residence on Vermil-
lion Street is once more occupied, after
having been closed nearly four years.
Hastings Gazette, June 18.
SOME 1900 salmon have been de-
posted at various times within the past
six years in Roberd' Lake, Rice County,
but though repeated trials have been
made no returns have come to hook or
gill net.
A STRANGER calling himself Fred.
Hogan attempted to commit suicide at
Sleepy Eye last week by drowning in the
lake, but after two attempts, and swal-
lowing nearly all the water in the lake,
he gave it up and returned to town.
B. F. STANLEY, the Alton (Washing
ton county, schoolmaster who was found
guilty of seducing Julia Bolles, one Of
his pupils, has been sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary. Stanley was
married man at the time Of the offense.
FURTHER defalcations in the accounts
of J. J. Ring, the defaulting county treas
urer, have been discovered at Shakopee,
several hundred dollars principal and in
terest received on school lands having
failed to be accounted for. 1t is covered
by special bond.
On Monday the 18th, Nicholas Wad-
den, one of the first settlers of Fillmore
county, residing about five miles north
west Of Lanesboro, died suddenly, aged
70 years. He had been to visit one of
his sons living near by, rode home on
horseback, went to his bed and died i'm
mediately.
DURING the storm on Saturday after
noon two COWS belong to w. D. Wheeler,
two and one-half miles north of here,
while standing with their heads near
wire fence, were struck by lightning.
One Of them was killed then and there,
and the other, after laying awhile, got
away with the loss of one eye.-Ma,tor-
viiie Express, June II.
G. W. VAN DUzEN & Co., of Roches-
ter, have leased all the grain elevators,
eleven in number, along the line Of the
St. Paul and Sioux City road, between
St. Paul and Washington. They take
possession as soon as the old crop is
closed out, probably about the first Of
August next.
The first of the replevin suits insti-
tuted at Minneapolis against the sheriff
by the creditors of n. r. Harwood, after
consuming three weeks, and being argued
by the ablest members of the Minnesota
bar, resulted in verdict for the full
amount claimed. This is an entering
wedge, as nearly $500, 900 worth OF goods
are tied up in replevin suits.
LAST Tuesday morning, while John
Mecksler, an old gentleman aged 80, liv-
ing near Eagle Lake, was hoeing pota-
toes close to the railroad track, he was
struck by an engine and instantly killed.
He was somewhat deaf, and although the
engine whistled he did not hear it, owing
to his deafness. Coroner Durkee was
summoned, and after his investigation
found that it was accidental, and no
blame attached to anyone.-Mo7ekoto
Free Press.
LIGHTNING struck the large barn of
Mr.. G. G. Roberts, of Belvidere, last Sat-
urday night. It passed in at the window
in the gable, the frame Of which it cleared
out into kindling wood as well as the
post below it. There was hay in that
part of the barn visited by the bolt, but
luckily nothing was set on fire. Five
sheep were killed belonging to Mr.. Rob-
erts, which, with the damage to the barn,
constitutes all the ]oss.,-Red Wing Re-
publican, June 18Th.
The fossil remains of q ponderous
snake was discovered in limestone slab
which was being worked by Adams &
Remington into tombstones. The Sec
ton of the reptile that we exam ined was
several feet long and 81 inches in diam
eter. Although petrifed, the form was
perfect, and the marks of the scales
were very distinct. Large reptiles must
have fourished in this region few hum
dreds of thousands Of years ago.-Kas-
son dodge couaty) Republican.
PATRICK LYON, reputed railway man
of Iowa, has been arrested at Anoka,
charged with the robbery of the Hayes
brothers, found dead in their rooms, a
few days ago, supposed from suffocation