Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MlNNESOIA NEWS.
ToRaER GRovEN was found dead in his
bed in Northfield recently.
Hon. s. S. BEMAN, of st. Charles, now
in Florida, has become partially par
alyzed.
JOHN RApP, of Danielson, Meeker
County, had his stables and span of
horses burned the other day.
A STEAMBOAT having a capacity sufi-
cient to carry $50 passengers will be put
on Lake Traverse the coming spring.
ABOUT $4,000 of the capital neces-
sary to the establishment of the fax
works in Owatonna has been subscribed.
The other day Theodore Beihoffer,
living near Glencoe, while chopping in
the woods had leg broken by falling
tree.
hounds secured the plains of Stevens
County lately, and two jack-rabbits were
captured.
VIM. ROBINSON, IN employ on farm
near St. Cloud, died, recently, aftera six
weeks illness, occssioned by slight cut
with an ak.
The movement to raise money for
seminary at Rochester, under the super
vision of the Methodist Episcopal
church, promises success.
Some farmers, it is said, are making
good thing by baaling wheat and rye
straw, and shipping it to paper manufac-
turers.
JACOB KnwEL, of Alexandria, has
boug ht the brewery of J. K. O'Brien, Of
Fergus Falls, for 3,OOO The purchase
includes eighty acres of land.
A. r. GowEN, of Waverly, Martin
County, has received arrears Of pension
to the amount of $500, and henceforth is
to receive four dollars month.
| CHARLES Fl. EdMoNs, a student in
Carleton College, Northfeld, died re-
Gently of typhoid fever. His remains
were taken to Iowa for interment.
The old settlers of Nicollet County
had reunion in st. Peter last week.
settler in the state. He came to Mime
sofa in 1926.
A FARMER living near Mankato has
been arrested by the United States
Marshal for making crooked whisky.
He had cave near his house where his
little private distillery was located.
SEVERAL teams have started from
Duluth for Vermillion Lake with
machinery to be used in explorations Of
the iron ranges Of that region the coming
season.
The annual fair of the Minnesota
State Agricultural Society will be held
August 81 and September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, and 8, 1882, the gates being closed
on the Sabbath. The location will be
fixed March 12.
| ANDREW WA11BERG, of Atwater, hung
himself in Louis Larson's barn on re-
cent night. No cause can be conjectured
for the rash act. He had been hard
drinking man, but of late had been en-
tirely sober.
A DRUNKEN man was picked up on one
of the streets in Mankato, on recent
night, on his hands and knees in pool
of water. One of his ankles was broken,
but how, could not be easily ascertained.
He was Scandinavian and could speak
but little English.
A SPARK from locomotive set fire to
the prairie grass at the foot of the New
Ulm Hill last Saturday, and the fire ran
to the stable of Mr.. Hellman, burning
the structure and it's contents. Some
hogs in the stable were consumed by the
fire and span of valuable horses were
rescued with dificulty.-Szeepy Eye
Herald.
JOHN PETERSON, q lunatic, who at
tempted to cut his throat a year ago, has
since been confined at the Fillmore
County Jail. Recently he escaped, went
to house in Fountain, between two and
three miles away, procuring piece of
clothes line, and went into the woods
and hung himself. His body was per-
mitted to hang twenty-four hours, till
the coroner came.
BRIGGS & ELDERS sold John Pashley
161 acres of land adjoining Moorhead, /,
for $40 per acre, last November. The
deed was executed, $1,000 paid and q
mortgage given for the rest. Before the
deed was delivered the land became
worth 5000 per acre, when Briggs & Ell
ders refused to deliver it, and plated
the land as an addition to Moorhead.
Pashley has sued for it.
GEO. F. WOOD, of Manannah, who was
released from state prison some time
since, died at his home in this county
last Sunday morning of lung fever. Mr..
Woods lot in this world has been hard
one. Some six or seven years ago he
was obliged to shoot man in defence of
himself and brother, the latter Of whom
got killed, and for this he was sent to
prison, where he has been incarcerated
until some time ago, when numerous
ly signed petition was presented to the
governor, asking for his pardon, and
which petition was granted.-Groue
City Tribune.