Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-18
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
The state library now contains eleven
thousand volumes.
DURING the past year 416 persons took
out their first naturalization papers in
Duluth.
The contract has been let to build
new Jail at Shakopee, next spring, at
cost of 81 900.
The harvesting of ice has been COM
menced on the east channel of the river
at Minneapolis.
THERE has been several cases of diph-
liberia in Rock County lately. A few
have proven fatal.
j. d. BLAKE, of Rochester, Minn., has
recently purchased $75, 900 worth of real
estate in Minneapolis.
The estimates of the architects and
builders put the cost of the syndicate
block in Minneapolis at $50O,0OO.
The brewery at Big Stone City was
destroyed by fire recently. No insur-
ance.
A PIECE of quartz found in River
dale has been found to contain gold de-
posts.
A NARRow-aAuaE motor line is in con-
temptation between Monticello and Buf-
falo, Wright County.
LAST year the county of Dodge paid
1866 bounty on 1868 gophers captured
and killed.
The normal school at River Falls
opened after the HOLIDAYS with an attend
ance of 236.
The stable of Jerry Ehmann, of
Chaska, was destroyed by fire recently.
The horses were all burned. Loss,
81 800; half of the amount insured.
The Chaska Herald says: J. E. War
rem, of Howard Lake, Wright County,
has jumped the country, having swim
died number of parties out Of 1000.
The doctors report that there is less
sickness in st. Paul than there was
month ago, and that diphtheria is on the
wane.
The ice on Lake Minnetonka is eigh-
teen inches thick, and wood is being
drawn across it in large quantities to
Excelsior.
The farmers in Rock County have
pledged nearly six hundred COWS for the
use of creamery to be located at Lu
Verne. Work will be begun on it i'm
mediately.
I. E. CAMPBEL1's stable at Ada, Nor
man County, was destroyed by fire the
other night, and ten valuable horses per-
ished, and much other property. Loss
over So, 900; no insurance.
MEssRs. II. w. LAMBERroN and J. A.
Matthews, of Winona, have invested
$50, 900 and $37, 900, respectively, in the
new bonds. Other. Winonians have
taken smaller amounts, among them Gen.
Berry and Mr.. ). J. Randall.
JOSEPH PosEY and two children were
burned to death in his house near Knife
Falls, on a recent night. Posey
wife and other children were absent and
escaped. The children we're girls aged
seven and thirteen.
LAST week Ernst Gaumnitz, mill
wright, got caught in the gearing of
Newton's mill, at Sauk Rapids, and was
so severely crushed that he survived his
injuries but few hours. He leaves a
wife and three children, in comfortable
circumstances.
In the case of George s. Barnes, VS..
the Hartford insurance company, to re-
cover on blanket policy of $3.50, 900 on
number of elevators for loss Of S12,-
968. Is, resulting from the destruction of
one of them and contents, Judge Nelson,
of the United States circuit court, at St.
Paul, has rendered decision sustaining
the plaintiffs right to 81 ,207.7 rs, the pro
rata share of the loss to the whole in
surance.
On Saturday, Judge Brill, of the Ram
sey district court, delivered an important
opinion upon the taxation of personal
; property. The case was that of Henry
NJ. Rice, county treasurer of Ramsey
County, vs.: Mary J. Ashton, a non resi-
dent, her home being in the state of New
York. The plaintiff applied to the
court for the amount of taxes upon q
note held by defendant, as personal
property, the note being given by resi-
dent of Ramsey County. The court de-
cided that the property being held by
the owner who is a nonresident, was not
within the state, and therefore is not
taxable in this state.
A WRITER to the LIE Sueur News from
Cordova says: Mrs. S. d. Pelter and
husband came to Minnesota in 1856, and
settled in the big woods. Their wealth
consisted of yoke of oxen, few house.
hold articles and 25 cents in cash.
Times were hard and they considerably
worried about how to get living, but
Mrs. Pelter had read in paper that the
lint from nettles made a durable cloth.
She resolved to try it. She went four or
five miles and borrowed spinning
wheel and built her own loom, gathered
her lint and proceeded to business. Out
of this lint she wove twenty six yards Of
carpet and six yards of cloth. She sold
the carpet for 60 cents per yard. This
solved the financial question, and from
this on she continued to weave what
cloth the family needed, and some for
sale. The cloth was soft and so much
like linen that it could have been sold as
such. Mrs. Pelter has been q widow for
eleven years. She has six children, and
owns farm near the village of Cleve-
land, and one in the town of Cordova.
The writer says he believes she is the
only woman in Minnesota who ever made
! cloth from the lint of nettles.