Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-04-27
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

The Flanders House, McGregor, was
burned the 2oh.
West Mitchell, Iowa, charges only
$4,000 for a saloon license.
-McGregor has bonded Indebtedness
of 5000, which is killing her.
The Rochester Harvester Works are
turning out two machines per day.
-Owatonna has Board of Health.
Every incorporated town should have one.
Olive Logan lectures in Rochester
tonight Olive would draw full house
in Austin.
In New Ulm the license fee has been
raised from $25 to $50, and the saloon
keepers are mad
The oldest settler is being trotted out
again, to tell about the high water in the
Minnesota river.
The aged mother of Judge Farmer
lies hopelessly i'll of paralysis. Her ply.
stefan is Of the opinion that she cannot
recover.-Spring Valley Vidette.
The tlourishing city of Faribault has
u bonded indebtedness of only $4,000.
The city debt has been reduced $1,000 in
two years.
Rochester has decided that there
shall be no more than three saloons to a
block within its corporate limits. What
shame to thus abrldge a mans rights.
The American Fire Insurance CO. of
Chicago has retired from Minnesota and
re.insured all its installment policies in
the old and reliable Continental of New
York.
M. V. B. Scribner will issue the first
number of the Peoples ADVOCATE, at Fair.
mont, May 10th. The Wells Advocate
will be continued by Messrs. Foss &
Greene.
The snow blockade was raised at
Tracy, on the w. & St. p II. r., April
Goth, just three months to a day after the
arrival Of the last train previous to the
blockade.
-Scrib says Col. Van Leuven of the
Spring Valley VSdette, "simp!y sits in his
sanctum with his sideboards up and tries
to initiate Henry Clay in his wisdomo.
NOUS expression" which is too good to
he lost.
-"Tommy, my son, what are you 60
ing to do with that club?'' "Send 1t to
the editor, Of course" "But what are
you gong to send it to the editor for ?"
'"Cause he says if any one will send him
a club he will send them copy OF his
paper"
The mother tainted, but that boy might
make an editor.
A peculiar disease has broken out
among Chicago horses. 1t begins with a
swelling just below the fetlock which
after a time testers and becomes a dis
charging sore. The disease was caused,
it is thought, by the cold weather of the
past winter, and the snow and slush.
Persons who are awaiting job work
will please have patience with the delay.
Our job printer can't swim stroke. AS
soon as the water is shallow enough for
him TO wade, work will be resumed as
usual.-Elgin (IW) Leader.
All on account of the food in Fox
river, Kane county, Illinois. Who would
live in such country?
bird Island Buzzard" read friend
whose eye rested upon the head lines of a
neat new exchange, published at Bird
Island, Renville county. The correct
name of this child of the west is Blizzard,
and may it Give long and prosper" IT
has healthy, wide.awake look, with
every sign of prosperity.
-Mankato Repie1c: Among the tim
bers taken out Of Mr.. Meagher's old ware
house, torn down to give place to a new
building, was one of the beams forming a
part of the gal.ows on which the 80 Indl.
ans were hung in 1862. The notches cut
in the timber where the ropes were placed
are to be observed. This timber has been
presented to the State University museum
and will soon be forwarded to Minneapo
lis, to be placed among the cherished rel
les Of the past.