Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-07
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

The Meeker County fair will be held
at Litchfeld September %, % and 30.
The sugar mills at Mankato are about
commencing operations.
ZUMDRorA has voted ST, 900 for water
works.
STRAIGHT & Co., are buildinga $4,000
bushel elevator ct Shakopee.
The Becker County fair will be held
at Detroit, September 28 and %.
G. C. CARLETON, respected citizen
of Appleton, died from apoplexy last
week.
THERE are 49O lunatics crowded into
quarters at tho st. Peter Asylum intend
ed for only 200 inmates.
The twentieth annual fair of Blue
Earth County will be held September
IS, Il and Is, at Garden City.
BIDS for the erection of the new work
house at St. Paul we're opened few
days ago. The lowest bid was $23, 300.
Rev. G. T. EMERSON, a Baptist
clergyman, aged Ga years, recently died
at Moorhead, Clay County.
The ninth annual fair of Mcleod
County will be held at Hutchinson,
September Ia, Is and 16.
TIE twentieth annual fair of Blue
Earth County will be held September
13, ID and Is at, Garden City.
The second annual fair of the Wadena
County Agricultural Society will be
held in Wadena September 22d and 23d.
The ninth annual fair of the Lac qui
Parle Agricultural Society will be held
September 29. Ample preparations are
being made for good fair.
The Hastings New Era says the Off
GERS of the new railroad say they will
have cars running between Hastings and
Saltwater before the ground freezes.
A MAN in Mankato has succeeded in
raising an acre of sweet potatoes. Some
of them are large, weighing from one
pound to pound and a half
FRANK BOYLE, lad 8 years of age,
at Duluth, while picking o dynamite
cartridge with hair-pin, had his left
hand blown off by the explosion.
The fourth annual exhibition of the
Mississippi Valley Industrial Association
will be held at Red Wing, September 20,
81, % and %.
A LAD named Webb Casey last week
shot golden eagle at Swan lake, Otter
Tail County, which measured seven feet
four inches from tip to tip of wings.
LAST week Oracle, 4-year-old daugh~
ter of NJ. w. Saunders, of Appleton, was
taken suddenly sick, and before hast
lily summoned physician arrived, she
was dead.
The annual delegate convention of the
Minnesota turner's will be held in New
Ulm, commencing on Saturday, Septem-
ber oath, next, and continuing over Sun
day.
D. PH1n1Es, of Sank Center, has re-
ceived 81, 200 back pension, and is to re-
ceive $9 month in the future. He was
victim of Andersonville and other
southern prisons.
A LITTLE daughter of farmer named
Halsness, living south of Fergus Falls,
was kicked by horse and her skull
fractured, on Monday night, receiving
probably fatal injuries.
| THEODORE D. EvERsTINE, a young
and unmarried man aged about twenty
three years, who was making his home
with his cousins, Charley and Cal. Bell,
Of Western, committed suicide by hang
ing himself last week.
| A. HEsMouLT, of st. Peter, stair
builder, the other day fell from scaf-
fold, distance Of sixteen feet, breaking
his back and three ribs. His injuries
are fatal. His wife is dead andhe leaves
four children in destitute circumstances.
LAST week J. G. Carlton, of Appleton,
Swift county, a photographer, was found
in his room lying in an unconscious con-
dition, and without recovering conscious
ness he soon died. He leaves wife and
children.
| THos. G. SHAPLEIGH, register of the
| United States land Office at CrookstOn,
has sent in his resignation to take effect
from and after the appointment Of his
successor. It is understood John
Cromb, of Detroit, has been recommend
ed for the position.
A STRANGER died suddenly in Bart Mil
ler's saloon, in Hastings, one day last
week. He said he had been sunstruck,
asked for drink of pop, which was sup
piled. Soon after drinking it he ex-
pired. His name was ascertained to be
G. w. Julian, and his former home Mil
waukee
MIR. CHARLES LANE, a well-known
citizen of Champlin, was almost instant
ly killed Oh Thursday. In some man
ner he fell off his wagon behind his
horses, and before he could get out, one
of the horses kicked him, injuring him
so severely that death ensued in few
minutes.
WHILE riding a sulky plow one day
last week, Richard Hammond, of West
Albany, was thrown to the ground and
severely injured. He fell head foremost
in front of the plow. and before he could
be extracted, three of his ribs were
broken and one Of his hips dislocated.-
Lake city Review.
WHILST John Arboldt and family were
absent from their home at Battle Lake,
few days ago, bear took possession
by breaking through the window.
Having cleaned out the buttery, he en-
tered upon mission of general demor-
alization, overturning furniture, taking
up carpets and placing things bottom
side up throughout.
WHILE John Arboldt and family we're
absent from their home at Battle Lake,
few days ago, a bear took possession
by breaking through window. Having
cleaned out the buttery, he entered upon
mission of general decentralization,
overtu1ning furniture, taking up carpets,
and placing things bottom side up
throug ghout.
A WOMAN named Oleson and her
daughter, living near Maple Lake, we're
injured by a stroke of lightning last
Tuesday night. The old lady was
burned from head to feet more or less,
part of the hair being burned from her
head. The lightning passed across the
abdomen of the little girl, leaving blis-
ter along the whole distance about three
inches wide.
ABOUT 9 o'clock Sunday night the
stable of Meinrad Wall, in West New
ton, was fired by an incendiary, and the
stable, one seeder, two sleighs and other
farming implements, and number OF
hogs we're consumed. Three hours later
the hay stacks of Martzel Altman were
also fred, laying waste sixty tons OF