Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-06-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MIN NESSUIA NEWS.
SNEAK thieves are committing quite
numerous depredations at Albert Lea.
HUNDREDS of small birds persisted In
the state during the recent cold snap.
ANDREW ANsBRo, of Red Wing, one
of the pioneers of that city, died recently
aged " years.
The Southern Minnesota Railway
road-bed is undergoing extensive inn.
provements.
The fine residence of True Morris, 10.
Gated on the old agency farm on Grow
Wing River, near Brainerd, was burned
recently. Loss $4,000.
ANTON M1KscHE, q little boy two and
half years old, was drowned in q wa.
ter-barrel at his home in Wahpeton re-
Gently.
A QUARTER interest in the Galaxy mill
site, at Minneapolis, has been sold by
r. s. Langdon to- Lorin Fletcher for
$25, ZOO.
@. N. WAKEFIELD, an old and highly
respected citizen of Winona, died sud
denly on Sunday last from stroke of
apoplexy.
The fact that muskrats have COM
menced building their houses already is
taken by prophets to indicate high water
In the near future.
PRoF. HILL, of the Swede College at
st. Peter, has been sent to Utah BY his
people to put q stop, if possible, to the
further conversion of Swedes by the
MOrmons.
On account of the measles having
broken out in the institution for the
blind at Faribault, the musical review
will be dispensed with this year at the
closing of the institution.
A COPPER arrowhead was discovered
by worknlen engaged in digging we'll
at Minnehaha Falls. one day recently.
1t was found twenty -four feet below the
surface.
Rev. Mr.. WILSON, pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church in Red Wing, has
caused some excitement by declaring his
disbelief in personal devil, and that the
writings of Moses were of the nature of
= fable.
r. F. Jones sea lion, at MINNEAPOLIS.
gave birth, the other day, to a baby.
which was smothered by the mother
rolling on it during the night. Jones
says he wouldn't have taken 5000 for Il
alive.
The foundations of the Girls Home
at Hamline university are being put in.
The upper portion OF the building will
be cream brick. When finished It will
cost about $22, 900, and is to be ready by
September next.
The growing wheat from Minneapolis
to Mankato is looking splendidly, prom
ising au abundant harvest in case the
season remains favorable. In nearly all
quarters the young blades hide the
ground like carpet of green.
The Northwestern Car and Manufac-
turing Company have recently purchased
go acres of land upon the fat at Stillwa-
ter, and are now engaged in putting in
spur tracks for an immense lumber yard.
They have considerable lumber already
piled there.
LAIRD, NORTON & Co., one of the
heaviest lumber firms of Winona, have
notified their wOrkmen-some 200 in
number-that their wages would be in
creased rs cents day on the first of
July.
HE sale of buildings on the Fort Rip
ley Reservation, near St. Cloud, has
been indefinitely postponed. It is nm
derstood that it is the intention of the
government to utilize the buildings in
the maintenance of q school for In
dams.
The Wright County Times reports the
death by drowning of Joseph II. Taylor,
OF Brooklyn, who was visiting Minnesota
for his health. He went out with a
small row boat fishing and in taking a
little swim was seized by cramps and could
not be rescued.
A NEW settler who was turning up the
virgin soil near st. Vincent plowed up
boot containing the bones of a human
foot. The remains were examined and
found to be to be those of Nathan
Hutchins, who persisted in the terrible
blizzard which occurred in December.
1879.
The large stone church belonging to
the Catholics in Marystown, six miles
south Of Shakopee, was partially wrecked
one day recently, by workmen on an ex-
cavation beside it digging too close to
the foundations. The whole north gable
fell with crash, involving in the ruin all
the paraphernalia of the altar.
The Little Falls Transcript says: DIR.
J. O. Simmons, Of this place, and DIR.
Ewing, of Long Prairie, have their
hands full attending the small pox cases in
Guldrum. Three new cases are reported
in the Mulqueeny family, and many peo-
pie have already been exposed. Strict
quarantine is now enforced, and the sec.
rotary of the state board of health has
been requested to aid in preventing fur.
Their spread Of the disease and arrestinp
its progress.
The Duluth Tribune says: James
Paine, woodsman, was drowned in the
bay ut Superior, Saturday night. He
and another man whose name is not
learned, were upset from a canoe. The
of the village Witnessed
the accident and attempted to rescue the
men. He held up the unknown man un-
til boat came from one of the dredpes
near by and took him in. Paine sunk
and was drowned before assistance could
reach him.
EVANSVILLE ARGUS: DeGraff and
Hopkins have two four-year-old steers
which bring the scales down ct 1000
pounds. At present prices they would
bring nearly $500 in Chicago. They are
fine specimens and have been raised
without extra feeding aside from the
usual allowance. When steers OF this
hnd reach such weight by feeding
from. Minnesota blue grass, farmers
should hesitate no longer to introduce
stock-raising. Everything which can lie
used and worked successfully for profit
by farmers should be utilized.
The Newer Arithmetic.
from the Detroit Free Press1