Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
The liquor license in Jackson is placed

The liquor license in Jackson is placed
at 1925.
New U1M's only ice house has been
washed away by the high water.
The mother of Judge Farmer was
buried at Spring Valley last week.
The damage by high water at Monte
video is claimed to be over $4,000.
The village of Sleepy Eye has bought
a fire engine-one operated by hand.
ABOUT forty buildings at Sioux Falls
and two bridges we're carried away by
the high water.
The small pox scare in Glencoe has
subsidized. There has been but one pa
tent, and he is recovering.
The Worthington Advancei is informed
that every acre of railroad land in No.
bles county has either been sold or re-
served for English colonists.
The unthreshed wheat in Renville
county, says the Times, of which there
is large quantity, bids fair to turn out
better than has been predicted.
On the last Sunday in April, at the
south bridge in Austin, Rev. G. D.
Belden administered the ordinance of
baptism to six persons, two men and
four women.
Mr.. GEBsER, of New Ulm, WIS upset
while hunting on the river in boat. He
saved himself by swimming ashore. A
fine double -barreled gun was lost in the
water.
LAST week Christopher Mertens, of
Jordon, Scott county, committed suicide
by cutting his throat. Ill health was
the cause. He was "a years old, and in
good circumstances.
SEVERAL families along the bottoms in
the vicinity of Beaver Falls, Renville
county, were obliged to move out of
their houses on account of the sudden
overflow of the Minnesota river.
The Minnesota Free Press says the
"farmers say they thought the crop of
gophers had been diminished by the
floods, but the terrible mischievous little
creatures are as numerous as ever.
Mr.. V. B. GATscHE11, of Minneapolis.
lost leg the other day by being run
over by a railroad train at Ramsey,
Anoka county. Amputation was per
formed, and he was taken to his home in
Minneapolis.
JOE Bowers says that he has received
news informing him that by the death of
his grandmother, in Germany, he has
fallen heir to $1,000. The old lady left
$3.50, 900 in all to her heirs.-,Sleepy
Eye Herald.
Mr.. E. B. LrTTE11, of Clear Mills,
Meeker county, was narrowing the 9th
er day, when his team became frighten-
ed and ran away, the dash resulting in
both horses being terribly lacerated by
| the harrow teeth.
A LITTLE son of Mrs. Caroline Keller,
of New Ulm, was badly injured the 9TH
or day by having lumber pile fall on
him. But for the plastic condition of
the ground his legs would have been
badly crushed.
AN emigrant for the west lost valua-
BILE horse one night recently. The ami
NAL was kept at Fohl's barn, and in
some manner got his hitching-rope
around his neck and choked himself to
th.-Slcepy Eye Herold..
The sudden departure of the ice was
the cause of quite r. loss to Mr.. A. NJ.
Miller, as it was the means of releasing
quite large number of his logs. It is
estimated that about two million feet of
logs escaped through the canal, the
swift current of the river carrying them
far out into the lake, and, although
efforts are being made to secure them,
which, it is hoped, will be successful,
yet the loss to Mr.. NJ. is quite severe
one.-Dufuth Weekly.