Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.


THE wife of Andrew Anderson, of
Pine Island, died recently from the effects
of kick of her drunken husband.
The other day Charles Warnack, a
farmer living near Shakopee, stumbled
over dog, fell and broke his neck.
ST.. PAUL has $317, 729 invested in
school houses, and Minneapolis $780,
500.
THERE are in Minnesota 1908
scholars entitled to apportionment out of
the school fond.
DURING the month of January there
were five fires in Minneapolis, wich de-
stroyed 4,725 worth of property.
The citizens of Owatonna intend to
bonus mill for the manufacture of
Irvine to be used by twine- binding har-
vesters.
MARTIN W1NGAN died at Minneapolis
on the LIST inst, of leprosy. He has
been afflicted with the disease about six
months.
JOHN THOMAS, of Cambria, Blue Earth
County, suicided, recently, by hanging
himself to tree near the house. No
cause assigned.
JACOB METZ, a farmer living in Eagle
Greek, while in the act of handing stick
Of candy to his little boy fell to the floor
dead.
The annual meeting to organize a
state dairy and creamery association in
Minnesota is postponed to meet at Ro-
chester, MIMI, March 7, 8 and 9.
The Rushford Star last week mention
ed the death of Henry Plieman, of that
place. He died in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Subsequent information reveals the fact
that he committed suicide.
A YOUNG sou of NJ. Connor, of st.
Martin, Stearns county, fell on the ice
the other day, and broke one of his
thighs. The same lad fell from fence
last summer, and broke an arm.
GEORGE ROBBINS. Of Watab, near Sank
Rapids, was accidentally killed by the
charge of a gun, load of shot entering
under his chin and going through the
top Of his head.
A LABoRER named John Fitzpatrick
was run over by the cars and instantly
kelled at Moorhead recently. He was
drunk and had probably laid down on
the track in his drunken stupor.
The eastern owners of the St. Paul
street railway stock have sold the same
to Herman Grove and Ansel Oppenheim,
of St. Paul, with whom. it is probable,
others of that city will be associated.
A FREIGHT train on the Winona and
St. Peter Railroad run into several
freight cars and a caboose Wednesday
morning, knocking them down an en-
bankment, but fortunately no one was
killed or hurt.
The appearance of vivid rainbow in
the western sky, between the zenith and
the horizon, yesterday afternoon, at
tracted the attention Of thousands of the
residents of st. Paul. The phenomena
is regarded as something peculiar, es-
pecially when the weather is as clear as
it was on yesterday.-S. Paul Globe.
The Congregationalists of Minnesota
are soon to have a new paper. The
committee Of seven appointed by the
last State Association for that purpose
have matured plans for the starting of
the enterprise. The paper is to be called
the Pilgrim, and will be devoted to the
interests of the Congregation churches
of Minnesota and the northwest.
THERE were engaged in manufactures
in the city of Red Wing, during the year
1881, S95 persons, OF more than Is per
cent. Of the whole population. The
product of manufactures amounted to
s., O1O, 1903, of which $2,OOO,OO0 was
the product of the three Touring mills,
leaving 81, 010, 1903 as the total value
of about forty-eight smaller industries.
Mrs. WE1sHAR, who killed her hus-
band at Kascta in November, 1880, has
recently stated that while going from her
house to Koonz', where she told that
robbers were in the house and she feared
they would kill her husband, she hid the
revolver with which she committed the
murder by burying it in the mud at a
spring between the two houses, and there
washed the blood from her hands.
The State Dairymen's Association
held meeting at st. Paul on the I'd
inst. T. T. Fowler was elected presi-
dent for the ensuing year. The follow
ing list of subjects was prepared for dis
cussion at The next meeting: Which is
the Best Breed of Cows for Dairy Pur-
poses % "The Best Mode of Feeding
Dairy Cows, and What is the Best
Field?" (Which is the Best System
for Butter Making, and Which is the
Best Package?" (Which Pays the Best
-Dairyins or Raising Beef?"