Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-11-30
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
SEvENrY-E1aHr acres of the Lyndale
farm, near Minneapolis, were lately sold
for $73, 730.
THE old weather-evil prophet says:
When cranberries and apples commence
to decay, it is sure sign OF an open
winter.
H. P. ToRoosEN, Of Oak Lake, was,
by mistake, shot for deer the other Day,
and may lose his right hand in oonse-
quence.
A NEW bank is about to be established
in Fergus Falls, to be opened for busi-
ness shout the first of January. Capital
$4,000.
A MARRIED woman Of Minneapolis, and
her paramour, on runaway match, came
to grief at Hastings. The man was only
Is years old.
The Mankato Free Press of Novem-
Der l8 saws: "The last spike which binds
Sioux Falls and Dell Rapids was driven
last Tuesday."
WINTHROP is the name of new town
to be located on the line of the MllTau-
kee and st. Lonis Railroad, west Of Gay
lord, Sibley County.
WABBY station, in Big Stone County,
has been named Blue Lake, and post
office has been established ther, and Mr..
Rexford appointed postmaster.
The contract for printing the new
state railroad bonds calls fer sheets rep
resenting $4,000, 900, in denominations
of 81, 900 each with fifty-nine coupons on
each.
AN act of the legislature authorizes
the city of st. Paul to issue 5000, 600 of
4 per cent. bonds for the construction OF
free wagon bridge across the Missls-
sippi.
The saw-mills at the falls of st. An
thony all closed down for the season last
week. The anchor ice had become two
troublesome for the work to continue
longer.
AN agent for the St. Paul and Mani
tOba Railroad has this season planted
200, 900 trees along forty y-seven miles of
that road, and 100000 trees on land
claims Of st. Paul parties.
The public and private building i'm
provements being planned in Minneapo-
lis for another year aggregate s., ,OOO, 600,
nearly three times the amount expended
during the year drawing to close.
LAST week the barn of George Cum
mings, of Lynd, Lyon County, was de-
stroyed by fire with all it's contents, in
| cluding seven horses. The fire was
caused by the explosion Of lantern.
| "CYc1oNE CENTER" the name pro-
posed for railroad station on the Min
neapolis and st. Louis Railroad in Cairo
Township, Ranville County, is the CEN
ter of the track OF the last July cyclone.
SMALLPOX seems to be unusually
prevalent throughout the country, and
people in towns, villages and cities are
taking the alarm, and are earnestly urg-
ing or taking precautionary measures to
prevent its spread.
PAT. SEYMOUR, a young man of st.
Martin, Stearns County, recently got his
foot caught in the cylinder of thresh-
ing machine, and it was torn to shreds.
By the criminal negligence, says the
Sank Centre Tribune, of other persons,
he was allowed to bleed to death.
RECENTLY a steam threshing engine
exploded on Mrs. Murray's farm, IN
Rayenna, Dakota. County, severely
wounding and scaling the engineer and
a son of Mrs. Murray. The explosion
was caused by the engineer allowing the
boiler to get empty and red hot and then
pumping cold water into it.
JOE NEsB1r, of Red Wing, died last
week from the effects of pistol shot, re-
ceived on the last day of last October.
The immediate cause of his death was
blood poison. His life was insured for
between three and four thousand dollars.
He leaves a wife and five children, the
youngest only two months old.
i RECENTLY, William Ebert, living near
Hector, Renville County, when a thresh-
ing machine was running on his farm,
around his neck, caught by the tumblng
rod, and he was carried around the rod
two or three times. The scarf broke and
released him and thus his life was saved.
In last weeks Tribune was an article
concerning Mr.. Martin Oleson, who sent
to Sweden after his family, and few
days after the mother and two of the
children died. We are really sorry to
have to announce that another OF his
children died last Saturday. There is
now but one child left to comfort the
poor heart-stricken father.-St. Peter
Tribune
A FATAL accident, in which land e1-
plorer, known in these parts as Frank
Bartlett, lost his life, occurred last week
Wednesday at Grand Rapids, some seven
miles above Knife Falls. In company
with an Indian, Bartlett was going up
the river in canoe, and after conveying
most of the load in the canoe overland
} around the rapids, they attempted to
pole up the stream against the boiling
current. In some way Bartlett's pole
slipped and the canoe tipped over. The
Indian was a good swimmer, and had no
difficulty in reaching the shore, but
Bartlett was swept down the stream
and drowned.-Dule>th Nee0s, Noveme-
Der IL.