Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The ice crop at Duluth will be very
short this year.
A ROBIN is reported to have been seen
in Caledonia last week.
SEVEN saloons in. Sleepy Eye have
taken out licenses at S100 each.
Mrs. HORACE Cook, of Rochester,
has fallen heir to fortune of 100000.
TIE fire engine at Hastings the other
day drained the artesian we'll in about
minute.
. CH1sAGo County is in excellent finan-
cial condition, having surplus wealth to
the amount of $40, 1000.
The, Ma1field stone quarry at Man.
kato has been purchased by Messrs. Nc
Cormick & Craig, for 5000.
RECENTLY the house of John Brett, OF
Rush City was burned, with all its con-
tents: Loss, 81 900; insurance, $500.
= WADENA banking business the past
year amounted to $93O, 900; other busi-
ness $450,000, and building improve
ments $35, 900.
IT is proposed to build reservoir on
the hill back of Duluth, and thus supply
the city with good system of water
works.
A WHOLESALE marriage took place at
New Prague last week, eight couples be-
ing joined together at one time and by
one minister.
CITIZENS of Mankato talk of forming
a stock company and building new
opera house on the site of the one re-
Gently burned.
Four thousand six hundred dollars
have been raised in Rochester to build
an academy, and the s., 400 required will,
doubtless, be raised.
A WOMAN named Ernestine Patzowski
took the scalp of wolf which she had
killed, to Rochester, and received $40 for
state and county bounty.
COTTON growing is one Of the latest
departures in Minnesota farming. G. G.
Edwards, of this city, has fourishing
cotton plant from which he is now gath
ering his first harvest.-Rushfoyd Star.
Coon CREEK is torn up over the
| elopement of Emanuel Pfatf with Mrs.
John Morsching and her two infant
children, with $50 Of the victimized Nor
sching's funds.
LAST week some unknown person at
tempted to burn the Fairmont public
school building, but the blaze was dis
covered and extinguished before much
damage was done.
A. C. MORTON, was caught in the
gearing in the Fergus Falls Flour Mill
last week, a1d the flesh torn from his
limbs, thighs and back, and so terribly
injured that his recovery is hardly ex-
pected. ''
The other day the incoming Black
Hills train, when about three miles east
of Fergus Falls, struck "splice laid
across the rail, throwing the forward
truck of the first loaded car off the track
and badly smashing things.
EXAMINATION of the books of Mr.. G.
NJ. Anderson, treasurer of Lac qui Parle
County, shows that every cent of the
county funds has been accounted for.
The rumors that Mr.. Anderson was
delinquent had no foundation in fact.
F. II. PETERSON, of Brown County,
who was selected out of fifteen competi-
tors for q cadetship at West Point, failed
! to pass examination at the military
academy there, and a new trial of aspir-
ants will be had.
WHEAT is coming into Fergus Fall in
large quantities, more than half of it
grading No. L.. The condition of wheat
Is much better than it was in the fall.
It is estimated that fully one-third of
last seasons crop is yet to be marketed
in this county.
The boiler of ON engine attached to a
clever huller exploded while at work re-
Gently on the premises of Mr.. Jesse
Fleming, east Of Troy. Mr.: Francis
Slaven had his arm broken near the
wrist by fragment of iron. The boiler
and engine we're totally demolished.
THE Minnesota Grange has adopted
resolutions that the new~rules for buy
ing and selling wheat, put in force by
the millers, cut prices from 10 to 30
cents per bushel, and struck blow at
every interest in the state, and that the
remedy lies in encouraging local buyers
and in shipping wheat outside the state.