Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A MOVEMENT is being made in Winona
for building $50, 600 opera house.
RuMoR has it that another large -four
ing-min will be erected in Saltwater the
coming season.
A MOVEMENT is beng made in WI
mona for the building of $50, 900 opera
house.
FRED TH1RzEN, of Red Wing, gets
81, 200 back pension and in future $6
month.
ABOUT $4,000 emigrants have gone
through st. Paul since the first Of
March.
A MAN in st. Peter last week killed
three wild geese at one shot. The heav-
lest of them weighed 16 pounds.
HANS JOHNSON, laborer at Beally's
stone quarry, was fatally injured by a
falling derrick recently.
Tom O1EsoN, an employe of 1saac
Staples, of Saltwater, was killed in
Foran's lumber camp, on the Straight
River, by falling tree.
The proposition to spend $15, 900 for
the erection of a courthouse in Howell
County has been defeated by vote of
the people.
|. WHEN the treasurer of Dunklin County
was settling with the county court he
found he had $500 more on hand than he
could account for.
THREE children of Benjamin Coonradt,
of Motley, Morrison County, have re-
Gently died from diphtheria, and two
more are sick with the same disease. s:
| The city treasurer of Winona has fel
ceived $57, 1872. 25 paid by the Minnesota
Construction Company on account Of the
Judgment recently obtained by the city.
IT is stated that the Lutheran minis
ter at Minnetrista refused to permit the
funeral of Mrs. Dressed at his church,
because she had committed suicide.
The board of health has closed the
we'll at the Winthrop school building,
they believing that the water therein is
unhealthy and contains germs of disease.
The Rochester Board of Trade will
take measures to form stock company
to purchase fair grounds and erect
buildings for the use of the state agri-
cultural society.
OWEN NORRIS, one of the Carlton
graduates, who took second prize at
Jacksonville, ILL.,, for his oratorical abili-
ties last year, died at his home, Butter
nut Grove, Blue Earth County, last week
after protracted illness.
The store and safe of Mohrbeckcr &
Sheehan, of Carver, was burglarized to
the extent of $500 in cash and 800
check on the Glencoe bank. A stranger
has been arrested, but no proof can be
found against him.
The monster English steam-plow has
been finally set up at Minneapolis.
Thie plow will be set at work just as
soon as the frost is out of the ground.
The plow and machinery, complete, cost
about $4,000.
SECRETARY GERMAN, of the ST.. Paul
board of public works, has in his Office
sixteen sets of specifications awaiting
bids from contractors, but every one is
80 busy already Oh account of the spring
boom that it is almost impossible to get
anyone to bid on them.
F GUSTAV BUCK, a quarryman working
J at Bradley's Crossing, near Mankato,
was found lying on the railroad crossing
in Frank Henlein's meadow. When
discovered life was extinct, and within
his grasp was a half-gallon jug Of
whisky.
DURING recent snowstorm, Mrs.
Meyer, of Hancock, Carver County,
started to go to a neighbours, but goi
,, lost on the prairie, and wandered about
, we'll exhausted, when she sank upon the
ground and remained there until Wednee-
day morning, when she was found. She
was alive but her recovery is thought to
be doubtful.
: In the examination at Mankato of Han.
son, the supposed murderer Of Gustav
Anderson, it was proved beyond doubt
that at the time the killing was done he
was dead drunk in the rear of a saloon,
a mile from the scene. Upon this evi-
dence the Judge discharged him. The
case is now even more mysterious, as no
clue to the real murderer can be found.
In the current discussion at Mime
apolis upon typhoid fever being traced
to impure water, the statement that no
person who used cistern water has ever
been known to be attacked with the dis
ease has attracted the attention of Frank
Morse. He says the man who made the
most of hobby of the subject of pure
water, indulging even in the luxury of
these cisterns, was Simon Mofat. Mr..
Moffat died of typhoid fever, neverthe-
less.