Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-02
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Two hundred dogs have been killed
in st. Paul that have failed to have a
brass medal attached to their collar.
AN enormous black henr WAS seen last
week in the vicinity of Fergus Falls
something unusual in that section.
ANEW town has been surveyed eighteen
miles west Of WATERFOWL, Carver county.
on the Clark extension. It has been
named Henry.
SCARLET fever in malignant form is
prevailing in the German settlement in
Blue Earth City. Five deaths were re-
ported IN very short space of time.
W. H. LONG, of Bancroft, Freeborn
County, has picked over 1000 quarts of
strawberries from half an acre of ground,
netting him some 5000.
The Sleepy Eye Herald says new
town has been surveyed eighteen miles
west of WATERFOWL, Carver County, on
the Clark extension. 1t has been named
Henry.
1T WAS estimated byssome of the off.
calls that the encampment at White
Bear cost each Of the companies over
800, while it cost the officers command
ing about $3.50 each.
A WOMAN was burned to death in her
own house near Dell Rapids, Pipestoue
county, last week. She was sick in bed
and unable to help herself. The fire
started IN the kitchen by some means.
PROF. j. NJ. Hohz1SeER, of the nor
NAL school at Winona, and Prof. VIII
chell,, state geologist, are making q
horseback tour of Winona County. ex-
amining into the geological formation of
the country.
MAN in Albert Lea raises chickens
by the Wholesale. He now has about
5OO on hand, nearly large enough for tho
market. He gets twenty-five cents 4
piece for them. He saws he finds the
business profitable.
A YOUNG man named Andrews, hailing
from Michigan, attempted to commit
suicide last Monday, by jumping from
the Moorhead brid ge into the Red River.
He had just recovered from an attack of
tremens and was laboring under slight
mental arrangement.
The Minneapolis and St. Paul Street
hallway Company, 81, 100000 capital,
has filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. The object of
the corporation is to run a motor line
between the two cities, to connect with
Lake Como, and to operate telegraph
and telephone system.
MISS FLORA CUTLER, formerly Of Red
Wing, who went to Sweet Grass. Mon.
to teach, was annoyed by the attentions
OF Joseph J. Harrison and repealed him.
He thereupon emptied three bullets
from q revolver into her lungs and
shoulders, killing her, and then at
tempted suicide, but failed.
HE other day thirteen year old son
Of L. Leonard, of Hastings. was fooline
with an old revolver loaded with powder
and shot, and the thing went off and
the contents lodged in his face, It is
thought he will lose the sight of one
eye, and his face will be permanently
SCARED.
The St. Paul authorities have pro-
vlded tents for the Russian Jewish refu-
gees sent there, and they are now get
ting taste of American camp life. They
number thirty men, thirty women and
about forty children. Some of them
have already secured work and efforts
are being made to secure EMPLOYMENT
for the others.
MEssRs. J. R, Carey and W. W.
SPauldlrg, tue new register and receiver
OF the Duluth land Office, received their
blank bonds on Saturday evening. The
register is required to sign bond of
$40, 900, and the receiver of $35, 900, the
suretles IN each case being REQUIRED to
qualify that they are worth double the
amount for which they severally become
responsible.
DAT or two ago several bows. 12 to
IA years of age, were bathing at White
Bear, leaving their clothes IN a bath
house. While enjoying their bath. a
party Of smaller boys, ranging from 6
to years: appeared on the scene, and
instead of pursuing the usual boyish
prank of hiding the clothes, they set fire
to them, and when the bathers returned
they found ashes for garments.
ANDREAs ANDERSON, the wife MUIR
derer, escaped from the Jail at Renville
at about II o'clock last Saturday night.
His method Of procedure was as follows:
Wrenchlng an iron bar from the ceiling.
he tore loose the wood work of the east
window aud then pried out enough Of
the rock comprising the Jail wall proper
to admit of bis passing through into the
board enclosure erected last fall. This
much effected, it was an easy matter to
knock off board and step boldly out
into freedom, as there was no one pres
ent to restrain him. On Tuesday morn
ing last, accompanied by his son, he
voluntarily returned to Beaver Falls aud
gave himself up, and was placed under
the Immediate charge and control of
Sheriff Jansen.
The Bank Of England.