Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-07-20

Last Wednesday the sad intelligence
passed from friend to,friend that Mrs. W
w. Engle was very i'll. That about mid.
night she was taken with severe chill
followed by spaslns, and that she was
already lying in an unconscious condition,
with but little encouragement from ply.
siclans that she could even live through
the night. She fingered however with
no change for the better until Friday
morning, when without look of recogni-
ton, or word of parting to husband or
friends she passed out alone into the great
mystery OF death. A husband AID two
little ones will mourn her tender love and
care, and many friends to whom she had
endeared herself by her pure and earnest
Christian life, sorrow til at they can know
her no more forever. Loving and beloved
she will still live in the memory of those
who knew her. Al her residence at 2 p.
m, Saturday the funeral services were
cond ucted by Rev. Cressey, and long
line of carriages accompanied the remains
to their final resting place, the grave.
NEW RA1LRoAD--Preslden J. G.
Easton, OF the Chippewa Valley & Lake
Superior railroad, accompanied by a
competent engineer, has visited the Eau
Claire region Of Wisconsin to map out a
new line of road. The Chippewa Valley &
Lake Superior road will become the
Lake Superior & Omaha road. 1t is to
be direct from the Lake to Omaha by
way of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Crossing
the Mississippi at Wabasha it will run to
Rochester, Austin, Mason City, and
thence to Omaha. An examination OF
the map will show the line 10 be perfectly
straight from Eau Clare to Omaha,
through Austin. 1t will bring the great
lumber region of the northwest one
hundred miles nearer Omaha and bring
it into close competition with Chicago
lumber markets. It will connect with all
the divisions Of the c., NJ. & st. P. r. R.,
and that this company will build 1t, is
promise of Its early completion. The
route is practicable, and one that can do
Austin no harm, as il will give us anothe,
lumber market. An abundant means OF
communication never injured town OF
degraded The character of its trade
Furthermore this new line may furnish
another argument for the location of the
cOmpany's repair and Car shops at Aus
lin. AT all events, we wish J. G. Easton
and the new enterprise complete success
-D1ED.-At the home Of his daughter,
Mrs. Evan Morgan, of Moscow, on Friday
morning, 18th inst, Mr.. Francis Thomas
aged SO years.
Mr.. Thomas was born in Wales, in the
year 1885, during the revolution. He
came to America with his wife and five
children in 1885, and settled in Utica,
New York. Two years after he moved
to Palmyra, Portage Co., O., then to
Young America, Ill.,, where he was
afflicted by the death Of his wife. In 184s
he moved with his five children to Cam
brla, Wis, and in 1865 came to the town
of London, Freedom Co., MINI, where
he has since resided with his sons, Ed.
ward, Thomas, and alternately, when
desiring, with his daughter, Mrs. Evan
Morgan, of Moscow, where he had been
tarrying tor some two weeks. He had
been un we'll, though not seriously, for
some days, and during the former part OF
Thursday night he felt some uneasiness
and pain, and could not sleep. At 4
o'clock a. IN. Friday he fell asleep, and
at O'Clock was found dead.
Mr.. Thomas became Christian at
twenty five years of age and Joined the
calvinistic Methodist church, and during
his long and eventful life has maintained
his hope. His religious views were noble
and high, and his faith glorious and tri
umphant to the end. He breathed out
his life from his sleep sweetly and pain.
lessly to his everlasting rest. He leaves
three Sous and three daughters to mourn
his loss
The funeral was attended at 2 O'Clock
p. m., Saturday, at Moscow, a sermon
being preached by Rev. j. D. Todd of
Austin, from Ps. 92:12-13.
''The righteous shall flourish like the
palm tree; he shall grow like cedar in
Lebanon" "Those that be planted IN
the house of the Lord shall flourish in the
courts OF our GOd.''