Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-01-11
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

To the close Of 1881 the city of St
Paul had constructed &c, GA miles O
sewers.
JOSEPH WE1sEL and George Hayes
OF LIE Seuer, on q wager, chopped thir
teen cords Of wood in one day.
THERE is war of races in the new
county Of Warren, and the Norwegian:
and Americans are each erecting a court
house.
HE Howard Lake Herald says there il
no doubt that j. E. Warren has de-
camped, leaving several creditors in.
volved to the amount OF about $4,000.
JOHN DILLON, al old settler in the
Red River Valley, was crushed by q
log few days since, and shortly after
expired.
ELIAS A. SWANSON, Of Apple River, a
boy Il years old, committed suicide re-
Gently by hanging himself. There is no
cause for the act.
WILLIAM II. ARMsBY, of Lake City,
died Of neuralgia Of the heart last week,
aged GA. He was one of the early set
tiers of Wabashaw County.
Miss CARRIE BERroN, of Hastings,
while out buying Christmas presents,
slipped and fell, receiving injuries caus-
ing her death in short time.
A CASE OF smallpox in Monticello
caused panic and ruined the holiday
trade. Mrs. Khan, the wife of prOmi-
nent merchant, was the victim.
The other day, Charles Linton, a
stead County, in tit of mental de-
rangement. committed suicide by hang
ing himself.
CHARLES BROWN, Of Dover, fell from
his horse, recently. The horse stepped
on him, making cut in the groin from
which the entrails produced. His condi-
ton is critical.
PNK-EYE has broken out among the
horses in Cottonwood and Milford to an
alarming extent, over one hundred
horses being affected and several having
died.
DURING the past year the Winona mills
manufactured 81 1864, 1856 feet of lumber.
The shipments were 76,625, 900, and the
stock on hand is 62,OOO,OOO. Ten mil
lion of lath and 49, 900, 900 shingles were
made.
NEXT spring new line of steamers
will be put on the Lake Superior trade,
to ply between Montreal and Duluth.
A large and well-equipped steam ferry
boat has been secured to run between
Duluth and Superior City.
THE Wright County Times says:
Evolves are thinning out the sheep to
such an extent up in the west neighbour
hood, a few miles from here, that the
farmers say they are going to sell off
their hocks, and several have done so al
ready"
ST.. PAU1's building record for the
year 1881 shows a total of 1,16l struc-
lures, costing s4,571, 700. These in
cluded 1914 business blocks, with
street frontage Of more than mile and
quarter. The wholesale trade of the
city during the year amounted to $685.
735, 800.
The Foss Methodist Episcopal Church
at Minneapolis was dedicated Sunday,
with al appropriate sermon by Bishop
Foss. The building was erected at a
cost of s., 1860, and of $1,S22.56 re-
naming to be provided for. the whole
amount was secured at the morning and
evening services.
A SON of Henry Lader, OF Mountain
Lake, aged five years, was playing with
a loaded gun, recently, and discharged
the contents into the face of a Younger
brother, tearing the flesh entirely off of
one jaw and wounding him in the arm
and breast. Badly wounded as he is,
the physicians think bis recovery is pos
sible.
A NEGRO and white man were gamb-
ling IN q saloon in Rosemount, Dakota
County. The white man won the negro's
money, which so enraged him that he
pursued his antagonist with a razor, and
in the scufle that ensued, the negro was
disembowelled by the the razor being
forced down on him while in the negro's
hand. The wound was fatal.
A STONE bridge to be built at Mime
apolis bids fair 20 become one of the
notable structures of the world. It will
consist Of sixteen eighty-feet spans and
four 1OO-feet spans, and, including the
shore pieces, will have total length of
1900 feet. It will support two railway
tracks at height OF over sixty feet above
the water, and will run diagonally
across the river below St. Anthony's
Falls. The cost is estimated at nearly
100000.