Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Rev. FATHER ANN1s, Catholic priest at
Mapleton, died at that place recently.
SUPPLIES for the camps are going out
from Duluth very rapidly now.
THE mayor of Hastings has been pre-
sented with gold-headed cane for clos
ing saloons on Sunday.
The work of framing the stringers for
the new street railway at Duluth has
been commenced.
A CHURCH bell weighing 1000 pounds
has been received at Delano for the Cath
olic church.
WoRrH1NaroN has driven the last spike
connecting the Burlington Road to the
Omaha at that place, and greatly re-
joices over it.
AT Granite Falls MIR. D. FL. Knox,
while oil1ng threshing machane, was
caught, his arm being crushed Sc that
amputation was necessary.
The state treasurer on Thursday re-
ceived check for 800, 531. IS from the
Manitoba Road, the same being the 3
per cent. tax upon the gross earnings
for the six months ending June 80.
The new Congregational Church at
Winona is magnificent structure, being
built of stone, and the auditorium has a
seating capacity Of 600. The building
complete cost $38, 900.
L. J. HoFF, of Albert Lea, who lost a
leg some time ago by being run over by
the cars, has commenced suit IN the
United States court, claiming $50, 900
damages.
w. P. H1NK1E, of Montevideo, has
received back pension money to the
amount of Sl.1OO. His case has been
before the department for nearly twenty
years.
The new Milwaukee and st. Paul ma
chine shops, in South Minneapolis, are
completed to all intents and purposes,
and work has been commenced III the
blacksmith and machinery departments.
LAST week the remains of drowned
man, apparently about IS years OF age,
were found floating in the river at MINI
neiska. Wabashaw County. The body
was supposed to be that of John Sulli-
van. capsized in boat near Alma.
S. G. HAND, on 800 acres in Grand
Meadow, raised: Oats, 5,l2l bushels;
barley, 1852 bushels; wheat, 746 BUSH
els: flax, 623 bushels; timothy seed,
1Ol& bushels. Total 1O,453} bushels,
besides 100 acres of corn.
The Window Reporter says that Mr..
Kendall has raised 1000 sacks OF tlmo-
thv seed this year on his Willow Lake
farm. and has on the " K - farm, west of
Window. about 6, 900 bushels-22, 900 in
all, which he expects to sell at ~
bushel.
As shown by the new comparative
tables. the apportionment to each pupil
in the public schools, is S1.17 for this
fall. a gain of 10 cents from last fall, and
q gain of 81 cents from 1864. The
amount distributed is gaining steadily,
and soon Minnesota will have one OF the
best school funds in the Union.
Mrs. EMILY EDMoNDs, female re-
cluse, who had lived in little cabin
solitary and alone, just west OF this VII
lage. during the past sixteen years, took
her final departure on Monday last, tor
western New York, where she expects to
end her days.-Kasson Republican.
Mr., C1ouaH, a farmer living about
seven miles north of Crookston, was
looking over some ploughing, when he
discovered lying in a furrow the body OF
q man about 26 years of age, with light
hair and mustache, and when found was
in an almost nude condition.
The P1llsbury A mill at Minneapolis
did one day last week what IL has been
irving for some time to do, and what
some skeptical persons have said it could
not do. VIZ. turn out 5000 barrels of
-four. It succeeded in making the best
record ever made by any mill III the
world-5, 107 barrels.
DURING the last year 800, 900 has been
contributed to Carleton College by the
Conqreeationalists of Minnesota, and
during the last sixteen years the hand
some sum of 500, 900 has been expended
} for it's Improvement. The college, how
ever. needs gymnasium: library build
ing, society halls, and dorm1tory Tor
the young men.
WITHIN few days number OF hogs
have died in Saltwater with peculiar
disease, the nature of which is yet I'M
known. The first noticeable sy ptom
ia the refusal of the animal to eat. 1t Is
stated that some of the affected swine
have been killed and dressed on the first
appearance of the disease, but what dis.
nosition has been made of the meat is OF
course unknown.
A SURVEYOR named James Gray, in the
employ of the Duluth Iron Range rail-
road. was sent up to work on that road'
! when he got lost and roamed around for
ten days. subsisting on nothing but
whisky. of which he had good supply
. on hand, When found he was unable tc
walk or speak, and is in a precarloui
; condition.
u MONDAY last VIM. o. Thatcher, 9
brakeman on the Minnesota Central con-
struction train, while engaged coupling
the engine to train of fiat cars, neal
North6eld, was by some means thrown
from the COW catcher and fell under the
train. sustaining Injuries which necessl
tated the amputation of his left leg be-
low the knee. Mr.. Thatcher's home Ii
, in this city. Atlast report he was doing
we'll -Far;bauN Democrat.
8 FRANK GOULD died at Oronoco Tues
8 day night of typhoid fever, contractee
q at Clark. D. T., where he had been II
] business since spring. He was take'
= sick about three weeks ago, and sold GU
h his business last week and returned
Q home 10 Oronoco last Friday. He wa
: one of the Oldest and most respected CIT
izens of Oronoco, and leaves wife an
five children, the oldest II years Old
Rochester Record and Union, Octo
l. Der ID
The flowing we'll at Rolette, in Pol
,. County, is still running ditch strea1
n fonr inches deep and four feet wide, wit
,r force enough to sweep away railwa
q tie or saw log. The water is clearin
Is from the quicksand which at first cam
At no with it, and it is said to be soft an