Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-07-20
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

ON the I'd inst. Welch's wind feed mill
in Marshall was~burned. Loss, So, 500;
insured for $4,000.
A YOUNG son of P. Could of Medford,
Steele county, was drowned the other
day while bathing. in the riyer.@-..
PHILIP II. CLAaUE has been appointed
postmaster at Herman, Grant county, in
place of W. G. Whiteman, resigned.
The bodies of the three walters of the
St. Louis hotel, who were drowned in
Lake Minnetonka, have been recovered.
The Hungarian machinery in the Grown
roller mill, Minneapolis, has been con-
demned, aud will soon be replaced by
better and improved machinery.
GEORGE MOVES, of LIE Sueur, not only
returned all his property required to be
assessed, but opened his pocketbook,
and, counting the money therein, re-
turned that to be assessed also.
JACOB RuPP eloped recently with
daughter Of John Ryder of Pine City.
Miss Ryder has been frequent visitor
at Rush City, guest at the residence of
the priest, where Rupp worked.
ON recent night burglar effected
an entrance into the house Of Mrs. Jen-
kins in Alexandria, but she scared him
as he came into her room, and he fled
before securing any plunder.
The barn of A. Bringgold, Of Roscoe,
Goodhue county, was recently destroyed
by an incendiary fire, with all it's valu-
able contents Of hay, grain, farm ma
chinery, etc. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
81, 400.
FREDERICK LOCKWOOD was at work at
turning lathe in Faribault. the other
day, when his chisel broke and a piece
struck him in the neck, severing small
artery. He had narrow escape from a
much more serious injury.
DPHTHER1Ai is busily at work at Kasota
-Four of John E. Miles children died
with the disease, and other cases are re-
ported. All the schools in the vicinity
have been closed and every effort taken
to prevent the disease from spreading.
The machine shops of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad i'll Min
neapolis are to be torn down and built
elsewhere, to make room for the proposed
mammoth 100000 bushel capacity ele-
vatOr.
The Montevideo Leader says recently
a Norwegian boy about ten years old
near Fuller's mill was thrown from
wagon loaded with wheat, and wheel
passed over his neck, breaking it and
causing instant death.
The Madelia Times of July says as
freight train was coming from the west,
when at the Lincoln switch, Frank
Markle, q brakeman, made misstep and
fell between the cars and received in-
juries from which he soon lied.
Mrs. CHARLES GUTzKoN, of Rush
City, was badly poisoned last week by
scalding large quantity of potato bugs
which she had picked. She inhaled the
steam of the boiling water and her blood
was poisoned, and her face, hands and
arms were terribly swollen.
D1PHTHERA is raging with very fatal
effect in Cottonwood county. In Noun
tain Lake fifteen deaths were reported in
twelve days. The scourge is also quite
prevalent and fatal in Carson and Selma
in the same county, and some of the
schools have been closed on account OF
its ravages.
The Franklin Steele estate has beer
fully settled by Gen. r. W. johnson
within about eight months after it Wa:
placed in his hands, and about million
dollars worth of property disbursed
The charge of Gen. johnson for his ser.
vices, which required 5000, 900 bond,
was $15, 1000, which the probate court re.
duced to 81, 500.
On the 9TH inst, between the hours o1
| irrhf Aln Of
81. Carr, at Adrian, was blown open by
burglars and about $500 in money taken.
The burglars entered through the front
door of the store, drilled into the outer
plate of the safe door, blew this plate en-
tirely off and thus opened the safe. The
small iron safe on the inside was carried
off and has not been found.
The Lyon County News says: "The
county seat trouble in Marshall county
is assuming serious shape. The county
auditor has removed his Office to Mill
River, while the county treasurer re-
mains at Warren, the old county seat;
and as each declines to have any official
relations with the other, complete en-
barge exists as to the collection of taxes
and the making of the June settlement
with the auditor Of state
The Kasson. Dodge county, Republi-
can notices the finding of the fossil re-
mains of an enormous snake in a lime
stone slab which was being worked by
Adams & Remington into bases for tomb
stones. The section Of the reptile that
the editor examined was seven feet long
and five and one-half inches in diameter.
Although petrifed, the form was per-
feet, and the marks of scales were very
distinct. Large reptiles must have -four
jshed in this region at some period.
CALEDONIA, Humboldt Co., journal:
James Murphy, an eight-year old con of
Timothy Murphy, while out hunting the
COWS, came upon deer lying in the
bushes. He crept up, and, grasping the
deer by the horns, threw himself upon
the deer's back. Thus surprised the an
imal sprang up and dashed away over
bluff and ravine with the boy still cling
ing to him. He ran some eight miles,
until he was completely tagged out, when
the boy slid of, skipped home and re-
lated this remarkable adventure.
A SERIOUS accident befell Miss Ella
Phelps on last Saturday morning. She
| WAS I0CllIu1uS llUlu tuC CCIuCCC1J y WILL q
span of horses and light wagon, and
when coming down the hill south of n.
S. Leavitt's residence, the tongue fell
from the neckyoke, and striking the
ground, caused the wagon to be over,
turned on Miss Phelps, resulting in very
badly bruising and seriously injurine
her. The horses ran short distance
and became so entangled in the harness
that they fell to the ground, where they
lay until help came shortly afterward.-
WosecG Herald.
In Manoah, on the 5th inst, three
brothers named QuinIvan meeting al
the store of Haines Bros, one O'Brien
against whom there was an old feud
pitched into him in the most cowardl.
manner. John Haines, interfering te
quell the row or at least to get the be
ligerents out of the store, was terribl.
beaten. His brother George, coming t.
his assistance, was knocked down, though
not before getting in some telling blows
O'Brien, covered with blood and bruises