Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.


THE roads in the country around st.
Paul are in horrible condition.
ANOTHER railroad to Red Wing via
Zumbrota is among the probabilities.
GUsTAvE GoEDDE was found dead in
his saloon in Wlnona. He committed
suicide by taking arsenic.
The Baptist parsonage at Rochester
was nearly destroyed by fire recently.
Loss 81 900; no insurance.
Mrs. SHERWOOD and her daughter, of
Brainerd, were recently robbed by q
sneak thief, of jewelry to the amount of
1925.
The brotherhood of Gethsemane has
raised S., 900 to be expended upon ex-
tending the cottage hospital at Mime
apolis.
The Baptist parsonage Of Rochester
was nearly consumed by fire the other
night, caused by the explosion Of
kerosene lamp.
JAMES RYAN and Fred Schala were
seriously injured at Minnesota City re-
Gently by collision between freight
train and a handcar.
Ar the last meeting of the commission
ers of Renville County, it is said the
sheriff appeared and drove them from
the building at the point OF a revolver.
Gov. HUBBARD has appointed Fl. D.
Baldwin, of Red Wood Falls, judge of
the Ninth District, in the place Of E.
st. Julien Cox, impeached for drunken
ness.
A MONsTROsITY was born at Glencoe,
recently, in the shape of calf with two
heads, each distinctin itself with the ex-
ception of pair of ears. 1t survived
three days.
TIE proposition to issue $4,000 in
bonds in aid of proposed improvements
by the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani
| toba line was carried almost unanimously
at the St. Cloud election recently.
AUDITOR MCDONALD, Of Minneapolis,
has procured certified copy of the law
permitting the county commissioners to
expend $40, 900 in improving Lake Min
netonka. It seems to warrant dredge
boat.
The 4-year-old son of J. J. Krons-
berg, of Austin, was strangled in pond
of water only six inches deep. His
father was milking coW near by, and
was not aware of bis child's peril until
too late.
A CREAMERY at Austin will be in full
operation by the LIST of May. The
owners expect to start 10 with 1000
COWS aud soon increase to 1900. Their
building is to be 2Gx5O, with house for
m eight or ten horse power engine at.
tached.
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ing organized company with $1,000
capital for that purpose. Cream will be
received from Lake Crystal, st. James
and other stations on the railroad by ex-
press. The farmers of that section are
rapidly turning their attention to stock
raising.
F1FTY-sEvEN relics of reputation i'll
the shape of that number OF old railroad
bonds. mostly "transits " were buried
Yesterday in presence Of Auditor Braden
and Treasurer Kittelscn. This leaves
forty eight yet to come in before ashes
to ashes can be written with full pur-
pcrt.-M. Paul Pioneer Press.
COUNTY AUDITOR McCARDY, Of St.
Paul, will shortly send to the various
out townships, notice that the election
will be held at their various polling
places contemporaneously with the city
election, for the purpose of voting on
the issue of 1925, 900 bonds as the
county's share for the new courthouse.
WHILE visiting at Albany some time
ago two daughters of John Rien, of st.
Cloud, passed the night together in q
hotel. About IL o'clock the room was
entered by two men, which SO frightened
the younger, Elizabeth, that she became
crazed and has since been raving
maniac. Her father has applied to send
} her to the asylum at St. Peter.
The Mankato Free Press says: "Mr.
J. s. Hinckley, who came to Mankato
before the first house was built, and who
has watched the city's growth from that
day, will be 66 years old the 30th of next
June-the date fixed upon for the execu-
. tion of Garfield's assasein-and in COM
memoration of that event, Mr.. HiDckley
, has resolved to quit physical labor for
the rest of his days."
MICHAEL SCHULTZ, an employe in
Nockin & Einfeldt's cigar manufactory
at Winona, was discharged last week,
and having some difficulty about money
due him he appeared at the Office with a
Smith & Wesson and demanded pay
ment. In moment proprietors, work
men, customers, ETC., vanished and lett
, the little man and the big revolver in
undisputed possession of the premises.
; A warrant is out for his arrest.