Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-04
MINNESOTA.

AMONG those lost on the steamship
Navarro were John Scrip and John
Peterson of Litchtield.
L. LARSON, watcbman at Tracy, was
blown from the bridge near that place.
His kody being found next morning.
Mrs. BoLM, wife of Delano barber,
suicided Sunday by taking chloroform.
Family trouble was the cause.
A STOCK company is being formed at
Rich Prairie with a capital stock of $15,-
600, for the purpose Of building steam
grist mill.
On the 18th about 4:3O o'clock, the
sash and door factory belonging to Chase,
Pillsbury & Co., Gull River, was burned.
Loss, $4,000.
Mr.. S. Nj. Rose, senior editor Of the
Waseca Herald, died recently. He had
been i'll for some time, and his death was
not unexpected.
A THREE-YEAR-o1D COW belonging to
John Phalen, of Belle Plaine, gave birth
to three calves, two heifers and one
bull. They are fully developed, strong
and healthy.
A WOMAN and eight children have
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Tracy. Her husband died at Sleepy
Eye, en- route to Dakota, and the family
was blockaded by the snow.
AI1YrLE son of L: J. Gee, living near
Rush City, was crushed under a saw.log
few days since. The mother, the only
adult person at home, had to 60 to pro-
cure assistance to remove the log.
On the morning of the 18th, Jerry
Sullivan, bachelor, was found dead in
his house, situated in that part of Lanes.
boro called Brooklyn, having been dead
four or five days.
The well-known firm of Story Bros,
miilers of Graceville, have failed, and
that town loses good firm. The ex-
act amount OF their liabilities is not
known, but it is estimated to be from
$50, 900 to $25,00t. The first cost was
$4,000. The assignment was made to
j. B. Conner, their bookkeeper.
A YOUNG man named Goltz, employed
in the planning mill of Messrs. Youmans
Bros. & Hodgins, Winona, had one of
his hands cut completely off by one of
the saws at which be was working,
Tuesday. He is about eighteen years
of age and his parents reside in Vino
na. The unfortunate boy was at once
conveyed to a surgeons Office and re-
ceived prompt attention.
TIE teacher of school at Spring
Valley ordered pupil to prepare an
oration. He presented selection from
Bob Inge1soll's papers. She refused to
allow him to use the selection. He re-
fused to use anything else, and was ex-
PEELED. The attorney general decides
that the teachers prejudice against In
gersoll's ideas are not sufficient cause
for expulsion, and the boy must be re-
instated.
W1NTERER, who shot Miss Levi in
Mankato, said that it was his intention
to kill the father, daughter and himself,
but when he looked at the old man and
remembered that he had fourteen chill
dren to support, he relented, and decid-
ed to shoot only the girl and himself.
He claims that she knew of his inten-
tion, and had written to him that if he
could not succeed in marrying her that
he should kill her, for rather than be
separated she would die for him.
ON Sunday. last, at Montgomery,
Bohemian blacksmith, whose name was
not learned, fatally shot bis little ten
year-old daughter, while carelessly hand
ling a revolver. The man was partially
intoxicated, and while examing the
weapon, seH-cocker, it was discharged,
the bullet striking the child in the fore
head and entering the brain, causing
death in a few moments. An inquest
was held and the jury returned verdict
of accidental shooting. The father is
almost crazed with grief over the result
of his criminal carelessness.-Jordan