Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-06-07
MINNESOTA:NEWS.

MINNESOTANEWS.
ST.. PETER, with a population of over
$500, is without livery stable. 49,
BECKER COUNTY is considering the ad-
visibility of building new courthouse.
The st. Paul and Duluth Railroad
will build summer station at Bald
Eagle Lake.
The estate of the late DR.. McCutch-
con, Of Faribault, is estimated at $780,
600. He left will in London.
CONSIDERABLE sickness is reported
among the horses of Minneapolis, the dis
ease being catarrhal fever.
WHITE BEAR LAKE furnished q pick
erel weighing fourteen pounds, caught
the other day by an amateur fisherman.
In Jackson County. % wounded pen
sion soldiers receive annually, an aggre-
gate amount of $4,000.
MARTIN COUNTY has So government
pensioners, who draw an aggreg cate
amount, annually, of $11, 900.
A DRUNKEN tramp at Evansville,
Douglass County, in trying to board q
moving railroad train, fell between the
cars and was cut to pieces.
The log-drivers are beginning to reach
Minneapolis in considerable numbers.
having completed their work for the sea-
son.
NEAR Fort Ridgely, the farmers have
been having big gopher-hunt, result
ing in the destruction of 2,464 of these
pests.
. The Benson Times says that the scar
let fever excitement at that place is sub.
siding. No new cases are reported, and
the old ones are all getting well.
ALTHOUGH Minneapolis is not by it's
population in 1880, classed as one of the
chief cities, it ranks as fourteenth in the
list of manufacturing cities of the cour-
try.
The consolidation of the Lake Mime
tonka Navigation Company and the City
Of St. Louis, has been offered and Com
modore G.. A. Zimmerman, will have
charge of the feet.
OFFICERS of the Minneapolis Fire De-
partment are not fully satisfied with the
situation of affairs at the city water-works
and contend that several new steamers
and $50 cisterns are needed as prevent
ives Of disastrous confagrations.
THREE congressional district conven-
tons have now been called in Minnesota
the second district at Mankato, June
81; the third district at Glencoe, July
Is, and the filth district at Detroit, July
II.
A MAN suspected of burglary at Ben
ton, a few days ago, was taken by the
citizens, a rope placed around his neck,
AMI marched to a tree. The fellow
weakened and gave himself away, and
was duly arrested.
GEORGE GLEASON, who was sent to the
Jail in St. Peter, from Lyon County,
charged with stealing horse, has been
taken to the asylum. Heis raving crazy,
and report says he was crazy when he
took the horse and the fellows run him
in for the 5000 state bounty.
GEORGE ST.. MARTIN and Phil Brady,
the former hotel porter, the latter an
express driver, got into dispute over an
umbrella, at Mankato, which ended by
Brady severely cutting his opponent
with razor. Both were sent up for a
term of days.
JOHN NJ. Po1sTER, of Jersey, Mobiles
County, the other day was found dead in
his house with bullet-hole in his right
temple and revolver lying by his side.
The coroner did not deem it necessary to
hold an inquest as it was a clear case of
suicide.
ELEVEN men were arrested at Cokato,
Wright County, Wednesday, charged
with an attempt to render the dam use
less by putting trench through nat
ural embankment about one-half mile
from the dam. They claim their farms
have been injured by the overflow.
AN order has been issued by the Unit
ed States Government to prepare plans
at once for charging Fort Smelling to a
ten-company post. It is the announced
intention to concentrate larger forces at
Omaha and Smelling, so that in case of
ueed they can be sent to the desired spot
more readily.
The elopement of Mr.. Cheney and a
grass widow by the name of South, is the
last sensation in Rush County and vicin-
ity. attended with the usual accompani-
ments of jealousy on the part of rival
suitors for the fair widows smiles. Mr..
South met his wife and endeavored to
persuade her to return home with him,
but she refused and he allowed her to
have her own way in the matter.
A FARMER named Albert Mills, living
in the town Of Prior, Big Stone County,
suicided recently, by taking dose Of
strychnine. He arose and took the fatal
dose and went back to bed, telling his
wife what he had done and in a very few
minutes was corpse. The deceased
was only about thirty years of age and
leaves yoang wife and three children.
Depression of spirits caused by the re-.
Gently acquired habit of drinking, led to
the rash deed.
W. B. MERRIAM, of St. Paul, has
been awarded contract to supply the
government 8,500,0OO pounds of beef,
and 10000 pounds of bacon. This stu
pendous lot of beef is to be delivered at
Rosebud Agency, Brule Agency and San
tee Agency, all by the 18th day of No.
vember next. In addition to the above
he will furnish 600, 900 pounds of bacon
at Sioux City. Well -posted stock men
say that there is 81, 900, 600 of clear
money in the contract, Maxfield & Co.,
of st. Paul, have been awarded con-
tract to supply the government with
1000, 900 pounds of -four.
Speed Of American Yachts.
Says an old yachtsman: have sailed