Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-07-06
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

The Minneapolis directory this year
lays claim to 10000 inhabitants.
DPHrHER1A is raging in the country
north and west of Mountain Lake.
IT is reported that $50 horses in Min
neapoiis are afflicted with glanders.
The sixth annual session of the Min
nesota Education Association will be held
at Lake City August "a, 25, 26.
THERE remains to be raised but Sc, 900
for the completion of the Westminster
Church, Minneapolis, free Of debt.
DURING the storm on Friday afternoon
some remarkably heavy hail fell near
Minnesota City.
The House of Hope Presbyterian
church in St. Paul is to be remodeled at
the cost Of $4,000
The Lanesboro Journal of June 25th
says the water is so low in the river at
that point that the mills are unable to
run to their full capacity.
The barn Oh A. NJ. Seeds farm, at
Taylor's Falls, was burned by lightning
on Saturday. Loss $1,000; insurance
$500.
A MANKATo dealer recently shipped
to New York four carloads of butter,
the combined weight of which was about
100000 pounds.
NINE thousand two hundred and fifteen
pounds of fresh fish we're recently ship
ped in one day from Duluth to points in
Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Mrs. ToRRENcE, wife of the engineer
killed in the Minnehaha collision, re-
ceived $2,0 900 and life pass over all the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul lines
in her adjustment with the company.
Ir is said on responsible authority that
six hundred cottages will be built for
mechanics to be employed at the Sioux
City and Omaha railroad shops at st.
Paul. They will go up near the shops.
The Hastings Gazette Of June 25th
says: "Scarlet fever is still raging i'll
this city, but the authorities are taking
every precaution to prevent it from
spreading"
ADJUTANT GENERAL VAN CLEvE, Of
Minnesota, received notice last week Of
the allowance Of an invalid's pension
claim at SIT per month, arrearage
amounting to $3,313.30.
The Browns Valley Reporter Of June
23d says: "Mr. Curran, section boss
at Morris, was struck by the engine of
gravel train, the 22d, and:: was SO badlyin~
jured that he died in few hours
The work of driving piles for elevator
G. at Duluth is now about one-quarter
finished. Contracts have been made for
the stone for the foundation, and the
work will be pushed to completion,
which will be reached some time during
the winter.
The heirs of Charles H. Richmond, of
Minneapolis, who shot himself and his
wife about year ago, have brought
suit against the managers Of the widow
and orphans fund of the Order of Druids
to recover the insurance of 81, 600 which
deceased had upon his life.
DURING a squabble for the possession
of gun by two young sons of Ole
Knudson, in the town of Lake Shore on
Tuesday, the gun was discharged, kill
ing tie youngest boy instantly. In the
same town, the same day, the four-year-
old child of Jonas Livingston was
drowned in we'll.
The county seat trouble i'll Marshall
County is assuming serious shape.
The county auditor has removed his Office
to Mill River, while the county treasurer
remains at Warren, the old county seat,
and as each declines to have any official
relations with the other, a complete en-
barge exists as to the collection of taxes
and the making of the June settlement
with the auditor Of state.
A SAD case of drowning occurred in
this place on the evening of the Goth.
Harry, the two-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Minthorn, was found drowned
in shallow well close by his fathers
door. The child was missed by bis pa
rents about Z o'clock in the evening,
and search at once commenced, but it
was not until near 8 o'clock thatth body
was discovered in the we'll, and life was
extinct. -Granite Falls Journal.
Ex-Gov. DAVIS has entered suit in
the United States circuit court at st.
Paul in behalf of Martin Welker against
the St. Paul and Manitoba Railroad
Company. This action is for $25, ZOO
damages, alleged to have been sustained
from Injuries resulting from the collision
at Rothsay on the 31st Of last March.
Plaintiff was passenger on the train,
and was "severely, permanently and in
curably injured" by the alleged negli-
gence of the company. His right leg
was broken and he received injuries i'll
the thigh, chest, arms and hands.
On Monday morning while Mrs. John
Faussett, of Greenbush, was returning
from the COW yard where she had been
milking, a bullet from q Winchester
rifle, in the hands of her SOD, who was
attempted to kill duck for breakfast,
on a pond close by the house, passed
through the aeshy part OF her right
thigh. For time it was thought Mrs.
Faussett was fatally wounded and con-
sternation prevailed the household; but
on closer examination it was found that
the wound was not as bad as was sup
posed, no bones being touched by the
bullet. It was narrow escape. pe.-PTancc-
ton Union, June "a.