Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-11-22
MINNESOTA NEWS,

MINNESOTA NEWS.
JOHN HARLAND, one of the most prom
inent citizens and oldest inhabitant Of
the town Of Oakwood, died recently.
BIZ a collision between two parts Of a
broken train on the Northern Pacific
near Glyndon, recently, seventeen cars
were wrecked.
A GRAY eagle, measuring six feet in
length was captured, after being slightly
wounded, in Yellow Medicine County.
q few days ago.
JOSEPH LAUF1Y, q German ffty-two
years OF age, was drowned in Warmers
mill pond, Austin, walking into the wa
ter in the darkness.
SEVERAL hundred cords of wood piled
near the depot at Detroit were burned
this week, being fred by the sparks from
an engine.
MIR. J. j. KENDALL, of Cottonwood
County, raised %, 900 bushels of timothy
seed, the largest crop raised by one man
in the northwest.
JENs PETERSON, living at Golden
Stake, Brown County, has lost all his
children, five in number, by diphtheria,
within few weeks.
The postof6ce at Heron Lake was
entered by burglars, who cracked the
safe and secured 800 in stamps, two
registered letters and small amount of
money:
The st. Peter business men, to make
the dealers give the market price for
wheat, have subscribed $1,000 and
placed an Independent buyer on the
streets.
MRS. FANNIE PHILLIPS, living near
Glencoe, was robbed of over 81, 900 the
other day by masked burglars. The money
was sewed in the waist of her dress, and
by some means it became known.
OLE QuARNuM, proprietor of the Pa
cifc House, Willmar, was found dead in
his bed recently. He was apparently
in good health the previous day, and had
not been ailiug recently.
THOMAS FRENCH was killed by a. rail-
road train near Montgomery on Tuesday
night of last week, by being accidentally
thrown under the wheels. He was sew
enty years of age and a highly esteemed
citizen.
In 1873, James Brennan stole $3.50
from H. B. Vincent, of Colby, Wilkin
County, and last week he was captured
in Chicago, and has acknowledged the
theft. He will probably be brought to
Breckenridge for trial.
HE surveyors who have been running
The line of the proposed railway from
Lake Superior to the Vermillion Lake
iron mines-the Duluth and Iron Range
road-have completed their field work
and are now IN st. Paul at work on their
notes.
CAPT. WILLIAM Mason died in Win
dom on the 9Th, aged go years. He
came to Minnesota in 1857. His family
consisted of eleven own children and ten
by marriage, making twenty-one chill
dren; forty-six grandchildren living and
forty.two great grandchildren, making
in all 100.
JOHN CoBE1N was picked up drunk on
the night of the 18th at Fergus Falls and
placed in the cooler, and was covered
with few dirty blankets. Next morn
ing the officer went to his cell and found
him nearly dead. his feet were frozen
stiff to above the ankle joints, and the
whole body more or less affected. The
man will probably die.
A PASSENGER leaving ST. Paul for
Hastings, Sunday evening, fell asleep
on the way and on learning that the
train had left Hastings he grasped his
satchel and jumped of: The conductor
stopped the train and, found him with
both legs and collar bone broken. The
injured man was taken to Red Wing and
placed in the care of physician.
On the 4th inst, twelve-year- old
daughter of Mr.. Ole r. Anderson, of
Amanda, Carver County, who was rather
weak in her mind, wandered about the
brickyard near her fathers home and
came too near the fire in the kiln. Her
dress caught fire and in a second the girl
was enveloped in flames, burning her 80
she died on the following day.
ABOUT 6 o'clock on the evening of the
9th west-bound freight train. when
about three miles this side of Benson,
run into hand-car which three men
bridge repairers-were endeavoring to
take off the track. Two of the men es-
capped; the third, named Henry Sven.
son, was caught by the engine and go
horribly mangled that he died in few
hours.
Mr.. MATTHEW CLAYTON disappeared
from his boarding place, William
Herbst's, in Waseca, on. the 9Th, and it
was thought he bad gone to some of the
neighbors and no immediate steps were
taken to find him. Search was finally
instituted, however, and resulted in the
discovery of the dead body of the miss
ing man in an out house, near the opera
house, having undoubtedly been there
several days. He was seventy. seven
years old, and died from apoplexy.
JAMES Connolly and wife, of Burns
vile met with quite severe accident
last Saturday while on their way home
from St. Paul. The night was very
dark, which, taken with the rain then
falling, made it impossible for them to
see the road. When near Mendoza, the
horse wandered too near the bluff, and
fell over, carrying the buggy and in
mates to the river below. How Mr..
Connolly and his wife reached the shore
neither can say. The horse and buggy
were losk-H0sti,ags Union.
Arabi's Family.
Lady Gregory sends to the London
Times an account of Arab Pasha and
bis family. She saws: s. 1t was not I'M