Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MORMON missionaries have been at
work in Hutchinson looking for converts.
JOHN KING of Brainerd has been ar
rested for highway robbery.
RALPH WALTERS, injured by falling
smokc-stack one year ago at Shakopee,
died last week.
WOLVES are continuing depredations
among sheep i'll the vicinity of Albert
Lea.
THE county superintendent of Lac qui
Parle County reports great scarcity of
teachers for the schools.
HEzEK1AH P. Dow, az old citizen of
Minneapolis, having stake of $50, 1000,
hanged himself in an clubhouse.
FRED RAYMOND, an old resident of St.
Cloud, was killed by q heavy boom log
rolling down the river bank on him.
ANNA BEcKE1AND of st. Peter, began
suit against VIM. Webster for breach of
promise and the jury awarded verdict
Of $500 aud costs for plaintiff.
JOSEPH WovRA, of Osveta, Polk Coun-
ty, II years of age, accidently discharged
both barrels of his gun while leaning on
the muzzle and was instantly killed.
The reunion Of the First Minnesota
volunteers will be held at st. James on
Wednesday and Thursday, June 81 and
%.
A JEW doctor at Little Falls, named
c. Cert, was egged in that village last
Friday evening for being dead beat
and fraud.
The town of Fergus Falls has
authorized the mayor aud city attorney
to contract with MIR. Newman for the
construction of water works.
Mrs. L. L. HERR1cK and daughter,
who live near Oronoco, came near dying
from eating popcorn that had been
soaked in arsenic water to kill mice.
UNKNOWN parties blockaded the rail-
road track near Hector recently with the
evident intention of wrecking the night
train. It was discovered by a party of
young people in hand car.
Mr. O. MossNEss, of Moorhead, is re-
tanned by lady in Fargo in her efforts
to be divorced from her husband, and
her share of his snug little fortune,
which is claimed to be 100000.
Hon. J. NJ. SLOAN, who represented |
the south district of Steele County in the
legislature of 1874, died, after pro-
'onged illness of two years, on Sunday |
last, at his residence in the town of |
Berlin.
The Owatonna Oil and Irvine company
have suspended operations for this year,
not having been able to contract with |
farmers for sufficient supply of fax
seed and fiber to keep the works in oper-
alton.
JOHN SHEEHAN, of Lake Prairie, re-
ceived dangerous wound in the eye by
a horse kicking at him and striking q
pitchfork he was carrying, driving one
prong into his forehead just above the
left eye.
Hon. JOHN G. RUDOLPH, of New Ulm,
was made the recipient OF beautiful
gold.healed cane by the citizens of that
tra.ion of city affairs while he was
mayor.
ANDREW BRANT, of Castle Rock, lost
by fire on Sunday afternoon his barn,
stable and several smaller buildings,
several head of stock and all his farm
ing implements. Loss, $500; no in
suralice.
JOHN ARMSTRONG, foreman in the
lumber mill of Calf Little & Co.. Of
Duluth, was instantly killed at that
place last Friday. ae fell forward from
a box CHI and the wheels passed over his
for, head.
The total loss by the late great fire at
Lake City is about s3So,000. The
clu?us against the insurance companies,
with the exception Of two or three
Or three losses, have been adjusted, and
amount to Sl44,9O6.
Mr.. c. n. NAV, Of Ortonville, has
lately perfected a sheaf gatherer which
can be attached to any ordinary make of
harves' ers. hy means Of which the bum
dies Of grain can easily be thrown in
winrows By the driver.
LOUIS CHASE, OF Concord, Dodge
County, is feet and 81 inches high, and
is only II Years old. He weighs 1873
pounds. Chaska's big man, Henry
Ehrmantraut, is feet and 81 inches
high, weighs 20S pounds, is only 10
years of age, and still growing
A LARGE farmer of Cottonwood Coun-
ty. Oh the Sioux City line, has arranged
to plant about $50 acres to corn this
year, and will go into the raising of
Berkshire and Poland China hogs, and
will feed all the corn he raises on bis
farm to his stock.
FRANK S. REED, employed as collect
or III the publishing house of P. F.
Collier & Co., of New York, was arrested
at their instance in. Winona, on the 9th
inst, charged with embezzling the funds
OF the house. He acknowledged his guilt
and claims to have squandered $500 or
$500 in q gambling house while in st.
Paul. His delinquencies will amount to
over 81, 1000.