Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-11
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
A NEW schoolhouse to cost 500, 900 is
to be built at Minneapolis this year.
VALENTINE GoRD1Na, of Albany, was
killed by {. train at that place recently.
FIFTEEN carloads Of squashes were
shipped from Minneapolis the other
day, for Boston.
JACOB AMs1sNER, well.to-do farmer
living near Hokah, was kicked by a
horse and fatally hurt.
J. F. BAARs made sale last week to
the Duluth Lumber company of 30, 000,-
900 feet of pine on the Nemadji River.
Price, $48, 900.
THE store of John Flaherty, of Waver-
~, Martin County, was recently bur-
glarized and goods to the amount OF
$1,000 taken.
LUMBERMEN report scarcity of oxen
for work in the camps during the winter,
and they are dearer than beef at 60 cents
per pound.
The Fergus Falls Telegram says fall
blowing is further advanced at the
present time than it has been before in
years.
The Silver and Copper Island Com
pany, of Duluth, lately sold 100000
shares Of stock to Minneapolis parties.
This is the largest sale ever made in that
section Of the country.
The fastest work ever done in loading
wheat at Duluth was done at elevator
B, September Both, when AZ, 800 bushels
were put into the barge Fairbank in one
hour and forty minutes.
The Heron Lake Guardian says recent
~ T. P. Turnbull fired at flock OF
ducks from boat and Immediately fell
overheard and sunk in about three feet
Of water. His body was soon recovered,
but he was dead. The doctor thought
he came to his death from heart disease.
AN engineer named GODFREY, on one
of the Northern Pacific engines, jumped
the job the other day, leaving the fire.
man in charge, who brought the train
through to Duluth, where Goodfrey's
wife was waiting to make it interesting
for him.
A MILL will be put in next season on
the Wanda, three miles below the rail
road crossing, for saving long hemlock
building timbers. The purpose is to cut
forty-foot stills and other heavy framing
timbers Of length for which other mills
now on the line of the road are not
adapted Winono Republican.
Mr.. JOHN B. GoRMAN, of Boston, who
is visiting his uncle, John German, Of
Faribault, met with very narrow es-
cape from q terrible death, recently,
while hunting ducks, by getting into a
bog hole. His presence Of mind and
superhuman strength was all that saved
him.
CHA@ CUL1ENAN, in the employ Of the
Oneota Mill Company, had a narrow es-
cape from death on Saturday, Septem-
Der Both, by having his clothes caught
in one Of the revolving shafts. A fell
low employs saved himebut not until
he was entirely stripped of his wearing
apparel.
ONE of the saw-mills at Anoka lately
produced stick of timber sixty-eight
feet in length, twenty inches in diameter
at the base, and thirteen inches at the
top, ordered for the electric mast at St.
Paul. The timber was safely loaded
upon the cars, when, by some inadver-
ence of the workmen, it rolled from the
cars and snapped twenty feet off.
The old hen came near beating DIR.
Tanner. The Fergus Falls Telegram OF
September 80 says: "September DR..
Leonard shut setting hen up in stove
in his barn and forgot all about it until
yesterday morning. He opened the door
and the hen walked out, a little reduced
in flesh, perhaps, but still in the ring.
It had nothing to eat or drink for twenty
three days."
RECENTLY while Capt. ODER, N. Kings
ley and George Andrus were en- route to
Preston, and near the Carthlich place,
the bolt that holds the, whifletrees gave
way, letting the whifaetrees on to the
horses, and the tongue dropped from the
neck-yoke; the horses breaking into a
furious run, and in making the turn near
Delaney's the occupants we're thrown to
the ground, breaking Capt. Ober's left
leg near the knee, and bruising his head
and shoulders quite badly. George An
drus sprained his arm and left leg Mr..
Kingsley sprained his rist and sustained
a slight wound in his head Chatfeld
Democrat.
The Faribault Democrat gives q de-
tailed and amusing account of an anna
teur attempt to make plaster-of- p arts
bust from a living subject. A young
man condescendea to be busted. A fair
young creature who had graduated at all
eastern conservatory, applied the plaster,
surrounded by several young lady assist
ants. She forgot to grease the sub
ject's face. The result was the plaster
hardened and stuck-the goose quilts
through the nostrils for air, slipped and
the subject came hear being smothered
1t, however, was prevented, and the
cast broken of, peace-meal, bringing
with it eye brows, whiskers, mustache,
ear-hps, a part of the nose etc. After
eight hours of mould agony, the young
man was relieved, really busted, and
put in the hands of surgeon for re-
pair. 90 "a
Mr.. VIM. F. Ho1BRooK, an employe
Of the Polar Star Mill Co., who was
seriously injured by having bis hand
caught in the milling machinery last
winter, met his death by second &C.
cident on the railroad on Thursday
afternoon last. He was engaged in load
ing bran for the mill at the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul depot, and after
loading a Car, climbed upon the top of
it to ride down to the crossing. When
the train backed down to the car the
shock caused him to fall from the top of
the box car to the track and the train
passed over his legs, which were in a
doubled up position, crushing them ter
ribly. One leg was amputated by DIR.
Mattocks, but the shock the patient had
sustained from his injuries was so great
that he died on Friday morning. -Fari-
bauH Republican.