Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-04
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

A FARMERS insurance company has
been formed at Harmony.
CHAMBERS in horses is increasing in
the vicinity of Little Falls.
CHARLES Ess11NG of Bernadotte was
gored to death by bull the other day.
HASTINGS is to have a new $4,000
brewery.
ANDREW L1NDsTRoM, of Cannon Falls,
had leg broken the other day by the
upsetting Of loaded wagon.
FISHER & WELLINGTON, of Sank Rap
ids, have 100000 ties cut above Atkin,
which will be hoated down to Sauk Rap
ids.
C1AREMoNT proposes to grant but one
license, and has put that up at auction,
the highest bidder to give bonds to keep
an orderly house.
SEVENTEEN head of cattle belonging
to A. Cooler, of Lamberton, have died.
Mr.. Cooler thinks feeding them oats in
the sheet is what killed them.
A SON OF Mr.. Sauer, of St. Cloud, was
accidentally shot while hunting. He
pulled his gun towards him by the muz-
zle, but will recover with the loss of an
arm.
A CONTRACTOR has built forty houses
in Murray for expected colonists, and
las twenty more to erect. The sixty
families to occupy the houses are from
Ireland.
The house of Samuel Hawkins, in
Cannon City, was burned last Sunday
morning, the owner losing his life while
attempting to save some valuables in the
second story.
COMMODORE K1rsoN, of St. Paul, has
purchased the trotting stallion Won Ar
MIN, record 2:22, for $4,000. Won Ar
MIN is by Sentinel, and is years old.
Kitson purchased him from DR.. L. Herr,
of Lexington, Ky.
Mr.. LUTTMAN, of Riceford, recently
found the destroyer of his daughters
happiness at Fort Atkinson, Ia, and
made him come back as far as Hesper and
marry her, but since that event he has
refused to marry her.
O. L. SMITH, of Waseca, lost twenty
five hives Of bees out Of forty which he
attempted to carry through the winter.
He attributes his loss to the attempt to
keep the hives out of doors in the long,
severely cold winter.
MANToRv1n1E, Claremont and Owa-
tonna are all talking about having the
Red Wing and Iowa railroad cross the
and the newspapers of the respective
places are urging the citizens to raise
means to help construct the road if it
will only come to those points.
CAPT. C. E. SENcERBox, well known
upon the Mississippi for the past quar-
ter of century, has been engagedtor
the Helen Balch upon Big Stone lake
during the present summer, and the
Manitoba road is to put in a spur track,
one and half miles in length, at Browns
valley, connecting it with Bayview,
which is the head Of navigation.
A SUIT has been commenced by Messrs.
Brown & Chew, the attorneys Of Mr.. II.
D. Wheeler, Of Morris, against the st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba rail-
road company for $4,000 damages. It
will be remembered that young son of
Mr.. Wheeler was killed last fall in an ac-
cident on the Moorhead and Brown 8
valley branch, caused by the engine and
several cars leaving the track.
A SON and daughter of John G. Smith,
of the town of Parker, killed bear last
Thursday. The bear was in hole, and
the boy shot the animal, but the shot
did not kill it. Miss Smith then armed
herself with an ak and kept the bear in
the hole by chopping its nose whenever
it started to come out, until her brother
had time to reload his gun and fire a
shot that proved fatal.-Little Fails
Daily Transcript.
On Wednesday evening, about $50
o'clock, Belle Evanso1l, q girl Of. II
years, who has lived for year or two
past in the family Of Mr.. P. Prinzi, Of
this city, went to the river for pail Of
water in company with Emma Rhine
hart, neighboring girl. The two girls
went out on the footbridge of Wright's
dam, and as Belle was in the act of dip
ping her pail into the fearful current
pouring over the dam, the pail-handle
either broke or was drawn from her
hand, and in the effort to recover the
pail she was drawn into the terrible vor-
tex. Miss Rhinehart tried to catch her,
but saw the unfortunate girl swiftly
taken underneath the bridge and down
the apron to an instant death.-Fergats
Falls Journal, April %.