Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-30
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
One Moorhead firm will burn 12.0OO,-
600 brick this season. A kiln of $780,
600 is uow burning.
MOoRHEAD is to have new elevator,
to hold 26, 600 bushels of wheat and
5000 barrels of -four.
The plan submitted for the remodel
ing of the st. Paul postofice has been
returned from Washington approved.
LAST week Newell Martin, while
walking on the railroad track near Pine
City. was run over by train and killed.
IoHABoD WEST, of Vivian, Waseca
County, aged 83 years, committed sui
eide the other day by hanging.
A GANG of forty-one young English
men, just arrived, are being placed on
farms in Fillmore and Olmsted coun-
ties.
MISS VAIL, of Bristol, near Preston,
while out riding with a gentleman, re-
ceived probebly fatal injuries by the
overturning of the carriage.
Il. J. TAYLOR, a former workman on
the Omaha road, has filed q suit at st.
Paul against that road for $40, ,OOOfor in
1uries received through their neglect.
CHRISTOPHER Loa1Na, of Spring VAL
ley, while at work about his horses the
other morning, was kicked by one of
them, so severely in]uring him that he
died the next day.
IT has been proposed to consolidate
Hartford and Upshur postofices, Todd
County, at the new town at the mouth
of the Eagle, and it is understood that
the residents of the Harris mill neighbor-
hood want a new Office at that point.
The other day a sister of Mrs. Peter
Houser, of Roseville, Kandiyohi County,
committed suicide by taking chloroform.
Her husband had recently died in Iowa.
and being an invalid was taken to he1
sisters in Roseville. She leaves daueh.
ter six years old.
A FouR-YRAR-o1D son of Mr.. Mikkle
Mikkleson, of the town of Big Bend,
this county, while playing around the
kitchen Thursday morning slipped and
fell into a vessel containing boiling
water, which was on the floor, and waf
so severely scalded that death resulted
after a few hours M0ntevide0 Leader.
A SHORT time ago the last will and
testament of Henry Fey was sent to the
clerk of courts at Adel, and no instruc.
tions accompanying it, the clerk gave
notice in the newspapers of day being
set for it's probate. This brought Mr.;
Fey to life, and he appeared at the
court room and demanded his will, which
had been fled somewhat prematurely.
The family of James Quinby, who re
sides on the state road in the town o
Ramsey, about five miles from Anoka
have been greatly disturbed for severa
weeks past by a pack of wolves, wit
frequently appear, making night hideou|
with their unearthly yells. None of tht
family dare venture far from the house
in the evening for fear of being attacked
by the hungry beasts.-Anoka Union
TuE lastof Dakota County's $50 bond,
of $500 each, Issued under authority o
a special law of 1869 and pursuant to
resolution Of the board of county com
missioncrs Of April IA, 1869, and know,
as the court house bonds, were paid Las
Saturday. There were three of them
and were held by Cyrus Jefferson. Thi
discharges the last cent of bonded in
debtedness of Dakota County.
SMALLPOX is spreading in the vicinit,
of Stanch6eld. The doctors of Cam
bridge have written our doctors that sev
eral new cases have broken out, ant
they recommend quarantine agains
the disease somewhere in the vicinity o
the north end of Rush Lake. Rus]
City and Pine City should by all mean
use the necessary measures to proven
the disease being carried into these towns
Rush City Post, August IL.
The statement that young Dancer, re
Gently burned 70 death in Leroy town
ship, had made his escape but after
wards returned to the burning building
seems to have been a mistake. Hi
father woke him, and as he suppose
fully made him are of the danger, bu
it seems that he was not fully arouse
and before he realized his situation wa
rendered insensible by the smoke. Hi
father received his worst injuries in try
ing to save him.-Mamkato Review.