Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-11-09
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES,

fhUm UUk STATE EXCHANGES
DANDELroNs are blooming in til
pastures for the second time this year.
PoTAToEs are being shipped fron
Rice County to Kansas. -.3S.@ =, s
GEORGE BLACK, aged 16, was recentl,
crushed to death in Mazeppa, Will,
coupling cars. 49, -.'.A'
JOHN LNDBERG, of Rush City, Chi
sago County, has received back pensio,
to the amount of 5000. ,-.. sG,.a,7 =.
THOMAS HAAS, late auditor of Scot
County, died in Shakopee on the go
ult. :. 49, : ~
JAMES CARROLL, q prominent either
OF Eyota, died of apoplexy on the 23c
ANDREW JOHNSON, of Aurora, ha6
his arm terribly mangled in threshine
machine. e-s..~. ,r>,e.e ess:--. :
Or the judges Of Minnesota, seven are
natives of Vermont. and six natives OF
New York.
JOHN Smith, of Athens, Traverse
County, had his stable and his hay
burned up by prairie fire.
PROF. JEROME ALLEN, of Genesee.
N. T., has been chosen principal of the
normal school at St. Cloud.
The immense job of paving thetwen-
ty-hve miles OF street railway track in
Minneapolis is fairly started.
Ex-Gov. MARSHALL is reported to
have sold one section, $40 acres, of his
farm, near Bird Island, for Sc, 400.
DPHTHER1A is repor ell to prevail in q
very malignant form the Indians on the
White Earth reservation.
The Mankato Review says those who
have changed from wood to coal for fuel
are IN luck, owing to the great advance
ment In the price of wood.
A FARMER living north of Pipestone
City offers to board hunters while they
exterminate the wild geese that prey on
his wheat fields.
The net profits of the Red Wing
Hour mills, with a capacity of 800
bushels day, for the past year, were
100000.
AN old man named Philip Ant, who
lived in Austin, was struck by an engine
near Winona on Thursday, and died the
following day.
AT special meeting Of the city coun-
Gil Of Duluth, it was decided to frame a
bill to the legislature asking for char
ter for street railway.
The Red Wing Republican says j.
A. Porter has manufactured 10000
pounds of sugar cane syrup this season
at the Trout Brook sugar works.
CHRISTIAN HENNG has been convicted
Of manslaughter in the second degree, at
Waseca, for killing Christian Scheefner,
at New Richmond, in June, 1880.
The other day O. S. Geer, of Bur-
bank, Kandiyohi County, had one of
his arms badly crushed and mangled in
the gearing of threshing machine.
The store of J. G.. N. Cottrel, of Fari-
bault, was recently entered by burglars,
and shelf hardware taken to the amount
of S75.
The GAINESVILLE Argus of November
says: Last week Philip Want, while
crossing trestle near South Mill, was
struck by the pilot of IN engine and
crushed, causing death in short time.
In grinding $50 bushels of wheat at
the City Roller Mill in Waupaca, the
magnet separators gathered one and
quarter pounds of bits of wire that had
been used in binding the grain.
The boiler of threshing machine ex.
ploded few days siuce, in the township
of Lake Andrew, Kandiyohi county, kill
ing one man and serious injuring three
others.
LAST week F. Young, of Oshawa,
Nicollet County, when feeding thresh-
ing machine with wheat bound with wire,
had a piece Of wire fly into bis eye,
which so irritated it as to destroy the
sight.
AN apple tree, of the crab variety, in
the orchard of Jacob Harmon, of Grove
Lake, has produced a second crop of
about two dozen apples, which reached
three inches in circumference. -Gle7.-
zvood Press.
THERE IS new project at Minneapo-
lis to utilize the sawdust thrown ont
from saw-mills by mixing it with peat,
grinding both, and then molding the
product into bricks or blocks of a con-
venient size to use for fuel.
The city of St. Paul year ago voted
$50, 1000 for a new high school building,
and citizens are impatient at the delay
in the work, which has not yet begun.
Inquiry develops that there's nobody
responsible and no one to blame.
IRv1Ns PUGH, who was seriously in
jured at Winona by falling from freight
car last February, has been removed to
his home in Rochester and is in most
helpless condition. He is practically
without the use of his lower limbs.
PETER McCAU1EY, of Benson, Swift
County, had his graniery burned recent
~. It contained $50 bushels of barley.
about 600 bushels of oats and some
wheat. McCauley thinks he is indebted
to tramp who was hanging around
there for job.
A YOUNG man named Field, while
hunting ducks on Elk Lake, recently.
was badly injured by the breech Of his
gun blowing out, receiving an ugly
wound in the face, near one OF his eyes.
The physicians pronounce the wound
dangerous, but not necessarily fatal.
d. B. KENYON last week was run over
by his loaded wagon, near st. Cloud. and
survived his injuries only abont two
hours. Exactly how the accident hap
Pened is not known, as he was alone.
He was an upright citizen and much re-
spected. His age was about 60 years.
THREE HUNDRED AND THREE acres of
school land in section 36, town 1875.
range 80, at the foot of Lake Whipple.
a large part of which was considered
worthless, and SO marked, sold to L. B.
Hodges, at the land sale last Monday.
for 3,741. 40. That will probably be !
the future town site at the foot of the I
lake on Hills Railroad. -.
Mr. VIM. You've, of Decoria, Blue
Earth County, last spring planted thirty
nine acres Of yellow dent corn, weigh
ing, including the cobs, twenty four
pounds: This fall he gathered fourteen
Wagon,loads, averaging Is bushels each, j;
or a total of 21O bushels. This is q
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