Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
L1oUoR licenses cost $500 at Fergus
Falls; at st. Cloud $50.
MOoRHEAD will soon have the largest
Touring mill in the Red River Valley.
SEA ISLAND wheat is being introduced
into Dodge County for seeding pur-
poses.
WHEAT is being hauled distance of
thirty and forty miles to the mills at New
Ulm.
E. A. OanEsBY, was stricken with fit
of apoplexy in the street at Mankato,
and died almost instantly.
Mrs. ANDERSON, the Renvil]e County
victim of murderous assault by her
lunatic husband, died last week from her
injuries.
The young men at Albert Lee are
forming militia company, and as soon
as organized will be placed in the second
battalion.
A vENTUREsoME teamster had $40O
team drowned the other day by breaking
through the ice while crossing Lake
Pepin.
HOWARD LAKE is engaged in raising
s., 900 to secure the removal of the
Rockford Woolen Mill to that place, and
the amount will be secured.
A 7-YEAR old child of Kuser, of Sank
Center, while loading wood with another
brother, was fatally injured by a stick
of wood falling on his head, fracturing
his skull.
The Winona Republican states that
the other day a fve-year-old son of ex-
Lieut.. Gov. Yale, broke both bones of
one of his arms below the elbow, by fall
ing down stairs.
DURING late storm the barn of Fred
Olaenburg, of East Henderson, was
struck by lightning, and one horse killed
and his two boys badly injured by the
horse falling upon them.
BILLY MCBRIDE, brakeman on the
Northern Pacific, was thrown from fat
car at Fargo, and run over. He sus-
tanned very serious injuries, but FORUM
ately none are considered fatal.
| LAST week two sons of Mrs. Sarah
Kuser, of Sauk Center, respectively
some and 13 years Of age, were load
ing wood, when log fell on the head of
the younger, fracturing his skull. The
injury, it is feared, is fatal.
The governor of Minnesota has par
doned Dakota County farmer who was
fined $1O0, and in default sent to the
county Jail, for giving drink of whisky
to man who turned out to be an hab-
itual drunkard, on which charge the ar
rest was made.
MISS CARRIE HENLEM, eldest daugh-
ter of A, Henlein, of Mankato, died sud
denly the other day from stroke of
paralysis. She had been about all day,
was eating heartily at the supper table,
when she became unconscious and died
in two hours.
THERE is continual call for potatoes
to ship south. The common potato will
not grow there, and the demand is as
certain to be permanent as the eastern
demand for wheat. We hear of farmers
who sold the potato crop of single acre
for from $175 to $2O0.-J0nesvile Ar-
gus.
The st. Paul & Duluth Road has beer
distributing steel rails on the line be-
tween Rush City and Hinckley, the lay
ing of which in the track was postponed
by the late snow iall. About one thous'
and tons received via Chicago, have been
placed ready for laying when the weathe,
shall be favorable.
A SAD accident occurred at Anoka on
Thursday evening, which resulted in
the death of George Woods, son of Mr..
J. NJ. Woods' A neighbours colt es-
capped from his stall, and was playing in
the street. The boy succeeded in catch
ing him, when the colt suddenly wheeled
and kicked him with such violence as to
break his neck.
! PATRICK MoHAN, of Dryden, is a
farmer whose example is worthy of being
followed. He gives his attention to fine
stock in connection with raising grain.
Last season he sold stallion of his own
raising for 1926, and he has another
which he brought to town last Friday,
which he is about to sell for $3.50. This
kind of farming pays.-Glencoe Enter
prise.
A SHOOTING afray occurred in the
vicinity of GAINESVILLE on Sunday, in
which one Con Mulcahay was shot in two
places. One ball struck the pubic bone
and glanced downwards, lodging in the
thigh, and the other struck the thigh
making slight wound. Three parties
have been arrested, and their examina-
ton is set for next Thursday before Es-
quire Hallack, on GAINESVILLE. Mulcahay
is not very seriously injured Waseca
Herald.
| JOHN SMALL, while attempting to
board moving freight train the other
day at Glendale, Scott County, on the
Chicago & North Western Railroad, re-
Gently fell beneath the cars and both
legs were almost severed from the body
near the thigh. In the jar received in
passing over the body the train was
thrown from the track and.si cars went
over the trestle works and now lie in the
ditch. Small died from the injuries re-