Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-13
MINNESOTA NEWS.
BBA1NARD has nearly double the popu.
atiOn of ono YEAR 400

BRA1NARD has nearly double the popu.
]ation of one year ago.
! STATISTICS show that the hay crop II
Minnesota is worth nearly $2O,0OO,0 600
DpHTHER1A. is raging in Mcleod
County.
THIS is tie worst season for cholera in,
fantum that resident physician has
known during 10 years OF experience al
Sank Center.
A LITTLE boy at Winonn was wound Ell
in the hand while playing with a to-,
pistol, few days ago, and has slice
died Of lockjaw.
A BELL weighing ASS pounds was re:
Gently presented to the Scandinavian
college at St. Peter by Prof. Banmar
ahd wife, of that institution.
NE1s CHRISTIAN, 80 years of age, EN-.
ployed st the stone quarries at Bluff sid.
ing, opposite WiDona, was instantly
killed on the 9Th inst, by falling over
The bluff and striking on his head.
In the town of New Poser, Mrs. Ro-
belskl, Polish woman, was caught IN
the machinery Of thresher and horribly
mutilated. She died IN less than an
hour.
A MYSTERIOUS disease is prevailing
among chickens, carrying them off in
large numbers. A farmer in lie Sueur
lost sixty-tive out Of eighty, and others
gay their chickens are dying daily.
TIE gtist mill at Moscow, t5rceborn
County, was burned on the morpiue of
the 3Oth inst. 1t had beer running a
year, and had an Insurance of $4,000
upon it, which only patty cov>rs the
loss.
Rev. ALBERT WARREN OF the class of
1882, Yale Seminars, was ordained at
Mankato on The evening CT the 31st ule. =,
Revs. L. W. Chanly, of Waseca, Ruunce
Of GAINESVILLE, Fiske of Carleton COLLEGES
aud Mason OF Faribault, participating in
the exercises.
MATT. CLARK, of Saltwater, while re-
turning from hunting expedition near
Burkhardt's Mills, Wis, Sunday night,
lost $500 gun and oil his game from
the rear of his wagon. The end board
dropped down and let them slide quietly
out.
The peat works, in Anoka County, are
situated on bog, with all area of 80
acres, from which it is estimated 2,OOO,-
600 tons Of peat can be prepared. The
product of the works will soon be put
upon the market at price to compete
with wood or coal.
The manuscript for the Duluth city
directory has been given to the printer,
and shows $500 names. Taking null
tiple of three "a lower one than general
~ used) Duluth shows a population OF
11,7OO.
ONLY seventeen and half miles OF
track remains to be laid on the gap be.
tween Clark and Redfeld, and MI. Blunt
says it will be done by the 18th of Sep.
TENDER, if the steel rail is only fur.
nished. He thinks the bridge owe,
James River will also be done by that
me.-SZeepy Eye Herald.
A FARMER named Steel, who lives at
Pickerel Lake, Freedom County. sus-
pected an attempt to rob his stable. and
kept watch. Finally the robbers came,
when he shot one, and the others car
ried off the body. The sheriff of Free
born County thinks the robbers are the
ones rho stole horse from John Ken
dali a week ago.
On the LIST inst, Mr.. Albert Wrabeck,
living on farm near New Prague, dis
covered fox near his house. Taking a
double-barreled gun he discharged one
barrel, which took effect but was insult
fcient to kill. He then dubbed his gun
and commenced to beat the fox, when
the other barrel was discharged full into
his body, killing him almost instantly.
The Duluth Railroad Company has
made a good move. Any one purchasing
80 acres Of land along tho line and cult
waiting 25 acres of the same tract within
four years will have the rate reduced to
him to $1.25 an acre, provided he lives
on the land. The company will also
purchase any timber he may cut from
the land.
JOHN PALMER, of Brownsville town
ship, left his house last week Tuesday
to look after some cattle. Not returning,
his wife went to Call him to dinner, and
found him out in the field, lying dead,
with the hammer which he had taken to
repair the fence with in his hand. 1t is
supposed that he was stricken with
apoplexy. He was seveuty-one years of
oSC3 dEu IcSAucu Ill tuo COuuty ever
twenty five years.
AUGUST 20 about fifty men from Ell
bow Lake visited Herman and removed
the county safes to that place. Herman
was last fall declared the county seat by
the governor. There is a contest now
pending before the supreme court con-
corning the location OF the county seat.
Tue county officials protest against the
removal, and, until decision is given
by the supreme court, will refuse to sct
at Elbow Lake.
The other day Murdoch Campbell,
murdered Duncan Taylor, young uan
aged Is, in Gleenbush, Mile Lacs
County. There was an old grudge be-
tween them. They had been drinking
and quarreling. The murderer is called
"Old Campbell" Tue murder WINS @
wanton and brutal one. Eight wounds
we're found on the body, inflicted with q
knife. The murderer is in Jail. Excite
ment runs high and he is threatened
with summary punishment,
We will now say that the vein Of
quartz Las been OPENED, near this city, te
dept OF some eight feet, and specimens
sent to an assayer in Minneapolis yield
ed gold at the rate Of $25 to the ton, TO,
which we have his crtificate. Since ther
richer rock has been taken out, but hal
not as yet been assayed. That gold hat
been found there is no mistake, but
whether the deposit is sufficiently large
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