Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The potato crop CT Minnesota prom
ises to be good one.
The Minnesota state treasury holds
1872, ,O36 on depositi five st. Paul banks.
THERE is a great demand for men to
work on the various railroads now CEN
tering in Duluth and Superior.
A MINNEAPOLIS girl OF 12 years is
proud of string Of 1925 buttons, no
two alike. The string is 33 feet long and
weighs pounds.
The Waseca Herald saysit is reported
that r. Gibbons, working for Isaac Bull
lard of st. Mary, Waseca county, has
fallen heir to $100, 900 in England.
Contracts for lumber to be used on
the new Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul elevator at Minneapolis have just
been made. The amount of lumber
needed will sum up to three million feet.
THERE are s, S,00O,O 900 feet Of logs in the
Saltwater boom, and with those yet to
come it is estimated that the total amount
run out at the end of the season will be
at least 225 10000 feet.
DURING the past season 48,050 pounds
of wool were marketed in Fairmont, Mar
tin County. The total amount paid for
the same, at an average of about 20 cents
pound, aggregated S13, ,934.4
WRIGHT COUNTY has SIC, 900 breach
of promise suit to come up at the next
term of court, the parties being Mary J..
Wilson and F. w. Gorman, formerly
register of deeds for the county.
The new salt-house Of G. H. Graves
& Co., at Duluth, now nearly finished,
covers nearly two acres Of ground, and
will have a storage capacity OF 55, 900
barrels.
Two little daughters Of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Ashmaker, living in Altoona town
ship, Pipestone county, were instantly
killed by lightning few days since.
They were lying on the floor when the
electric current ran down the stove-pipe.
| The returns from the Minneapolis
physicians as to the number of typhoid
fever cases each one has under his care
are being gathered by the police. It is
estimated there are about $50 cases of
the fever now in the city.
DURING the fearful thunder storm last
Friday morning Mr.. Frank Waldron, of
Cascade, had four wheat stacks struck
and burned by lightning. Charles Kett-
ner, of the town of Pine Island, had two
grain stacks struck by lightning last
week and burned--Rochester Post.
WHILE Charles Wagner, prosperous
and well-known Hennepin county farm
er, in company with his wife, and Mr..
Pascal Daniels, a neighbor, and two
French boys, was driving home, on the
night of the 9th inst, the party was
fred upon by some persons unknown,
and Mrs. Wagner and Mr.. Daniels re-
ceived wounds which, it is feared, will
prove fatal.
SAM GUDMuND, boy about 10 years
of age, was drowned in the lake at Du-
luth on the 9Th inst. He went down to
gather wood along the shore, and re-
naming away from home longer than
was usual, his alarmed parents made a
search for him, when his body was found
in the lake near the railroad track. It is
supposed that while walking along the
railroad track he stumbled and fell into
the water, and, being unable to swim,
was drowned.
. The most extraordinary haul of fish
ever taken from the lakes Of Ramsey
county was made the other day by {
couple Of guests of the Leip House al
White Bear. These gentlemen went
over to Lake Gervals, near New Canada
and their days sport was rewarded will
: forty-nine as beautiful black bass at
were ever seen. Six Of these beauties
weighed over five pounds each, an6
,, eighteen weighed between three and
five pounds. The net weight of these
fish was about 120 pounds, and not q
fish in the lot weighed less than q
pound.
AN application was made to the
} supreme court of Minnesota for an in-
junction to prevent the sitting of the
tribunal formed last winter for the ad'
justment of the disputed debt. The
court decides that the expunging amend.
! ment of 1860 is unconstitutional, as it
impairs contract; that the act for the
adjustment Of the debt is void, because
it delegates Legislative power to q
tribunal, and that a writ of prohibition
restraining the tribunal from acting
shall issue. While this kills the legisla'
ton of last winter for the settlement Of
the old railway debt at SO cents, the
legislature is distinctly empowered to
arrange for paying the debt without sub
mission to popular vote.