Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-23


tribtion Of seeds, etc., providing that equally pro-
portioned three-fourths Of all seeds shall at their
request be supplied to senator's and representatives
for distribution among their agricultural consttu-
ents The committee then rose without concluding
the bin and the conference report on the army ap
preparation bill was agreed to. Adjourned.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
D1PHTHERA has made it's appearance
in Ada.
ALBERT LEA has organized board of
trade.
DULUTH has /, ,586, 900 bushels of wheat
in store.
MANKAro has organized building as
sociation.
THERE are 249 convicts in the Still
water penitentiary.
CENTER CRY is building new Lu-
theran Church to cost $4,000.
TIE public libary at Sank Center is
sustained by a one-mill tax.
MAJ. G.. A. J. OvERToN, of Morrison,
broke his leg on the 10Th inst.
DRHTHER1A has subsided in Rushford,
and the public 'schoolis' again open.
JOHN CURR1E, of Winona county, was
kicked to death by mule last week.
A HOME company will build new
Touring mill in St. Peter next season.
A LARGE number of cases of diphtheria
are. reported in Albans, Stearns county.
IT is estimated that not half of the
last years crop in Swift county has yet
found it's way to market: :5
THOMAS McMERrR1E, living near Lit
tie Falls, has killed nine wild cats this
winter, one FIVE feet in length.
.;zARTHUR Brown, Of Litchfeld, has re-
ceived back pension to the amount of
$500, and 81 month in the future.
IT is said the Southern Minnesota rail-
road is paying 81, 500 per day for men to
shovel out the blockade.
The farm house of Phillip Lipsett,
near Taylor's Falls, was burned, with it's
! contents, on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
The railroad company has concluded
it is useless to try to keep the Winona
and St. Peter open at present.
The legislature has passed an, act in
creasing the salaries of judges of the
District Court from So, 600 to So, 500 per
annum.
FRANCIS Con, residing near Waseca.
was kicked in his head last week by
horse, receiving injuries that caused his
death.
Mr.. REDF1E1D has purchased 120 acres
of land near Rochester. and will devote it
to raising broom corn, putting IL rs acres
next season.
A FARMER of Forest Prairie, Meeker
county, recently had three steers buried
in a straw stack. They were found alive
on the eighth day.
A N1NE-YEAR-o1D son of A. Fields, Of
Winona, arrived in that city recently,
having travelled from Albany, N. Y,
alone, in care of the conductors along
the route.
SHERIFF HUNTER, of Marshall, carried
loaded revolver in his pants pocket.
By some accident one of the barrels was
discharged, sending bullet through his
leg. It will lay him up for some time.
The Morris and Browns Valley rail-
road has been blocked for some time.
An engine and plow were terribly wrecked
on the 10Th in the heroic efforts of the
company to open it.
The Little Falls Transcript says D.
S. Moore has 5000 railroad ties under
three feet of snow, and finds it impossi-
bic to get them out at present.. He has
broken up bis tie camps on account of
the great depth of show.
The contract for building the Taylor's
Falls and Lake Superior road has been
ratified, and W. D. Washburn received
his 900 shares Of stock for performing
the work of construction. Directors Of
the road we're also elected.
J.J. HILL, of the st. Paul, Minneap-
oils and Manitoba Railroad company,
has made arrangements to erect MAN.
moth hotel at Lake Minnetonka as soon
as the weather permits. The structure
is to have front of $50 feet by depth
of 900 feet.
Ex-CoUNTY TREASURES RING, of Scott
county, was sentenced Saturday to two
years and a half in state prison and a
fine of $22, 900. Herman Baumhager,
his successor, also convicted of ma1feas-
ance, was sentenced to six months in
Jail and fine of $3.50.
Some families living in the vicinity of
Pine Island last season raised fax, and
this winter the women and children are
making it, at home, into twine with
which to bind the grain crop next season
thus saving very Important item in the
cost of harvesting.
MAYOR DAVIS, of Crookston, lost sew
eral valuable cattle lastweek through the
carelessness of parties cutting ice on the
river. His hired man drove the cattle to
water, and not seeing an opening covered
by the late storm, drove them into it, and
number were drowned. = >'..f
Mrs. ADAM STRADER died on the I'd
of diphtheria, after short illness; fol-
lowing the death of her two children
from the same disease. This case is
peculiarly sad one. All that is left of
a once happy family, isthe grief-stricken
father and one poor little orphan
N0rthfeld Neaus. =.
SURVEYORS have been at work running
| a line from the East Henderson depot in
LIE Sueur- county, westward along Rush
river, in .Sihley county, with a present
view, it is said, of obtaining the most
feasible route to Beaver Falls, Renville
county, on which to locate q branch rail-
road Of the Chicago, St. Pauland Omaha.
81 Mr.. w. E. Poe has shown us the
heart Of a maple tree upon which, the
marks Of an axe are plainly visible.
Around the cut there was . growth of
forty-ive years, and it is five years since
Mr.. Poe felled .he tree. Who made the
cut fifty years ago? Perhaps some little
Indian did it with his little hatchet.-
Ctzn,adaa Fails Beacon,