Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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SCARLET fever in it's most virulent form
IS laging in the vicinity of Window and
Jackson. = #
Gov. HUBBARD has received q patent
from the interior department for l,349
acres Of swamp land inuring to the state.
VIM. MYER, of Red Wing, while at
tempting to get off the train at Sanborn,
slipped and broke his leg.
CONTRACTORS for a bridge in Nebraska
have been in Mankato selecting stone
with which to built the piers.
E. WOODBURY., of Zumbrota, had q
stack of hay containing ten tons struck
by lightning the other day and entirely
consumed.
GEN. JENN1soN has completed the in
dex to the proceedings in the Cox i'm
parchment trial, and it is now in the
hands Of the printer.
The mill company at the falls, Mime
apolis, have leased the Electric Light
Company four thousand horse. power to
run their machinery.
PoCKETBoOK containing $3.50 in cur
rency, picked up in Brainerd, was found to
belong to beggar who has both legs
off.
IT is said that 100000 brick have
been made in Albert Lea, this season,
and that as many more will be burned
before cold weather.
DUNCAN TAYLOR, of Princeton, was
brutally murdered by a man named
Campbell, near Princeton, both parties
being drunk at the time Of the assault.
FIVE acres near Breezy Point, Lake
Minnetonka, have been sold to eastern
parties for 81, 500 cash, or at the rate of
5000 per acre.
HE st. Peter Tribune says the sand
prairie west of that town turned out
more wheat this year to the acre than
did the high or supposed better land.
POSTMASTER WALSH, of Crookston.
has resigned and NJ. D. Jacobus has
been appointed in his stead, the change
to take place September Is.
AN old man living in the south part
OF Aurdal, named John johnson Aune,
ST.. had his leg cut entirely off at the
knee by harvesting machine. He bled
to death in less than fifteen minutes.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Company is negotigting for the
purchase OF some twenty acres of land
around the West Side depot in Wabasha,
to be used for side-tracks, etc.
A FEW days ago at Mankato, while
swinging in hammock, daughter of
J. G. Rausch had the big toe of the left
foot torn from its position, and was COM
PEELED to have it amputated.
The will of Richard A. Winston. de-
ceased, was destroyed in the Chicago
fire of 1871. The real estate situated in
Duluth has become valuable, and some
fine legal points have arisen as to the
manner in which the will shall be es-
tablished.
AN Iowa gentleman recently arrived in
Minneapolis in search OF manufacture
er's agent who sold him milling
machine upon which he made 81, 500
deposit, but up to last accounts he was
unable to find either the machine or the
agent who sold it to him.
The peat-works in Auoka County are
situated on a bog, with an area of eighty
acres, from which it is estimated two
million tons of peat can be prepared.
The product Of the product of the works
will soon be put upon the market at a
price to compete with wood or coal.
TIE Northern Pacific land depart
ment, which sent east last year an ele-
gantly titted-up car, with fine exhibit
OF the products of the country along the
Northern Pacific line, will this season fit
up another car for the same purpose for
the exposition at Minneapolis, and after
ward to be sent to Chicago and st. Louis.
The body of man named Bengston,
OF Lake was found with his throat cut
IN tive places. About two weeks before
he alleged that his wife had run away,
and after that made will giving his
property to her relatives. There are
suspicious that he killed her and then
himself.
The railroad tickets stolen from the
depot at Preston recently, were found
under shock of wheat east of that town
tied up in an old handkerchief. The
number stolen was !, 059, and 1, O58 were
found, SO one ticket was the loss of the
robbery.
The last dollar Of the bonded indebt-
edness OF Dakota County has been paid.
Three Of the $500 bonds, held by Cyrus
Jefferson were taken up, being the last
Of the issue known as the court house
bonds, Of which $50 were issued by
special act in 1869.
The excavation of the fifty -feet-diame-
ter we'll in the vicinity of Winona for
the waterworks is completed, and the
laying of the curb wall from the present
water line to the surface of the ground is
the finishing process is now being done.
There are 15} feet of water now in the
we'll, which would give III feet at low
water mark.
A FEW days since a bull snake, three
feet five inches in length, managed to
crawl in the bird cage at the house of
Mr.. NJ. G. Clahin, five miles north of
the city, and before his snakeship was
discovered, it had made way with five of
the pretty canaries. Mrs. Clafin killed
the snake as soon as she discovered it,
Rochester Post.
JOHN KENNA, living near Benson, suf-
located in well on his farm last week.
A man went down after him, but when
near the bottom insisted on being drawn
up. he tainted when near the top, and
it was with difficulty he was revived. A
chicken was then let down nearly to the
bottom and then quickly drawn up, but
1t died as soon as it came up. The
well is only eighty feet Deep.
AT new York Mills, on the 9TH u1t.
three young men were out in beat on q
small lake or slough near the village,
got fooling and capsized the boat and
one OF their number, named Dean, wae
drowned. He succeeded in getting on
the boat after it was upset, but it is sup.
posed he was taken with fit, being sub.
ject to fits, and persisted before heir
: could reach him. ~.
HUNDREDS of wagon loads Of dead fish
were washed upon the shores of Lake Ben
ton within the past week. The cause o.
such vast amount of fish dying in thil
usually clear and pure water Of Lake
Benton is mystery unsolved. The wa
ter is said to have turned very thick ani
green from some cause or another, which
is probably the reason it has proved e
fatal. The shore near the village O
Lake Benton is strewn with thousand,
of dead fish, the sickenine smells q