Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-22
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
ONE day last week forty lone cars loaded
with freight arrived in Crookston.
The receipts from liquor licenses thus
far amount to $23, ,531.
JOHN COULTER, living five miles north
of ST. Peter, lost his house by fire last
week.
THERE is an immense pigeon roost on
Belongi island, near Spring lake, Scott
county.
The citizens of Austin last week cast
28S votes in favor of railroad bonds, and
not one against.
The house of Peter NJ. Nelson, of st.
Peter, was struck by lightning one day
last week, and his wife instantly killed.
HENRY PGH1ER came near being kill
ed by a bull, recently, on his farm in
Nicollet county. After being rescued
from danger, the bull was shot.
LARGE numbers Of emigrants are daily
arriving in Breckenridge, Wilkin county,
by wagons, most of them bringing extra
horses and cattle for sale.
The $4,000 six per cent. bonds issued
by Nicollet county, have been awarded
to H. Wilson, of Faribault, he giving a
premium Of $3.50 for the lot.
The Wabashaw Herald says June 9th
over 100000 feet Of logs were taken
out Of the Beef Slough booms, the big
gest days work in it's history.
CR1sT1AN GEmER, Of Watopa, Waba-
shaw county, who was recently injured
by his mule team running away, died
last week, leaving a wife and three chill
dren. He was highly respected.
LAST week death occurred in the
family of George Durbohn, in Lafayette,
Nicollet county, making the fourth
death from diphtheria that has occurred
in that family during the last five weeks.
Mr.. L. O. LARSON, of Cumberland,
estimates his loss by the fire as follows:
Mill, $1,000; machinery and material,
$4,000; all a total loss, as there was no
insurance.
GEORGE r. STUNTZ claims to have dis
covered a very fine bed Of fire clay in the
vicinity of Vermillion lake, and capital
lists are having it carefully prospected
with view to having it actively worked.
OVER two hundred and twenty-five
houses have bee built at Brainerd since
spring. and now that the railroad shops
are settled there, finer and more substan-
tial buildings will be erected.
The sanguine secretary of the board
of immigration estimates that the num-
Der of emigrants who will settle in Min
nesota this year will not be far from co.
600.
GEORGE TALBOT, Of St. Charles, near
Winona, lost valuable horse last week
by venomous snake, which subsequent
ly chased Mr.. T. and his wife out Of the
barn, and followed them up until killed
by a shotgun.
ANDREW WESTON, sent to the peniten-
tiary for life for murder, who attempted
to commit suicide by stabbing himself
with knife, is now trying to starve him
self to death, and positively refuses to
eat anything.
SATURDAY evening, June 18th, the
dead body Of Martha K. Anderson, a
patient in the insane asylum at St. Peter,
was found in the river at that place.
She had escaped from the asylum and
drowned herself.
The Pope county Press gives the par
ticulars Of late elopement of woman
living in Gilchrist, aged 48 years, with
her husbands hired man. She is the
mother of nine children, seven of whom
we're left at home, the youngest being 4
years old.
STATE AUDITOR WHITCoMB during his
recent trip, sold over twenty thousand
acres of school, internal, improvement
and university lands, at an average price
of about $6 per acre. A notable fact is
that at least three-fourths Of the land
sold is situated in the Red river valley.
AT late term of court in Ortonville
man and woman were put on trial for
cohabiting. It appears that they got
divorce some three years ago, in order
that each might enjoy the benefit Of the
preemption and timber culture acts, and
have lived in the same house ever since.
They are now married again.
MASTER ALFRED, the fourteen year old
son of DR.. BENJAMIN, of Hutchinson, was
drowned in the river near that point last
Wednesday, while in bathing. He got
beyond his depth, lost his presence of
mind and was strangled before his COM
rades could rescue him, though Freddy
Cook made heroic attempt as he saw
him come to the surface for the third and
last time in life.
HERMAN Opel, of Duluth, reports to
the Tribune of that city that a short
time ago well was bored through the
rock in the little village at Vermillion
lake, and that from it soon flowed min
eral water Of most excellent quality.
The water is strongly impregnated with
sulphur thing that is not at all sur
prissing when we remember the vast iron
deposits in that locality. 1t is said to
be delightful beverage, and it is be-
lieved to possess great medical proper
ties.