Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-10
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

| MINNESOTA.
New oats are selling for II cents per
bushel at Sleepy Eye.
IT takes five days labor on the streets
to pay for getting drunk in Moorhead.
The Washburn planning mill ct
Anoka is being rapidly rebuilt. It will
be ready for business in a few weeks.
MISS EFFIE GRAM1NG of Monticello,
Iowa, will take charge of the musical
department. in the Rochester seminary.
The Mankato Dairy Produce Ex-
change proposes to make large display
of dairy products at the New Orleans
International Exposition.
The heirs of Engineer Musser, who
was killed two years ago on the O., NJ.
& st. p. road, have commenced q suit
for damages against the corporation fol
$4,000. .,<.. ~-..
| A FULL-BLooDED Sioux Indian from
the Sisseton agency has been spending
the summer at Chester, where he has
worked to the satisfaction of his en-
ployers, doing better than most white
laborers.' ...... .
FRANK FROST, young mechanic, has
invented q machine for pulverizing the
clay used by the Anoka Pressed Brick
Co. Many machines for the purpose
have. been invented, but this is the
only one which has been successful.
DocroRs have investigated the
alleged victims of leprosy in Yellow
Medicine County, and have found them
suffering from the disease. One man
has had it so long that his fingers have
fallen off, and he has become a mere
skeleton. ~ ~
THERE is cause for rejoicing this year.
Every farmer is blessed with plenty
The weather has been magnificent and
grain has gone into. the stack in prime
condition, dry, clean, plump and un'
bleached. Brown Countys cup is full
says the Sleepy Eye Herald. ..
The fall term of the Minnesota School
for the Blind, located at Faribault
opens on the second Wednesday in
September, and is free to all blind per-
sons in the state between the ages of 1O
and 25 who are capable Of receiving in
structiOn. Six years is the regular
course. including the branches usually
taught in the common schools.
July 81 George M. Crane, leading
business man of Albert Lea, disap
peared. The last heard of him was ir
Minneapolis, where he made inquiries
regarding ticket to Washington ter
ritory. Mr.. Crane is 81 years of age
about 5 feet or 9 inches in height
weighs about 130 pounds, and has full
beard. He carries gold watch with {
small gold chain. For some time be
fore he left he had been laboring under
alteration of mind. caused by over
work. s.......
| - - F.. DAKOTA. '. H..
A LARGE force of men are rapidly
completing the capitol at Bismarck.
The land offices in Dakota yield /,
revenue to the government of som'
$4O0, 900 a year. s..s@.=sEs<s..-,
4 MANY of the ,tramps in Dakota ar,
said TO be parties returning from th'
Cpur d. Alene mines.
GRAND FORKS recently turned 1O'
tramps out on the bosom of the cold
unsympathetic world. .-. ,-
A COUNTRY girl of II, four miles ou
of Sioux Falls, has prepared alone 1
twenty-three acre lot of wheat.
The Dalrymple farm has cut $4,000
acres of wheat, and they claim yielt
of nineteen bushels to the acre.
A COUPLE of wealthy Russians, JUS
from the old country, were looking ovel
Union County, recently, with view o
purchasing. They want twenty-five
thousand acres to colonize with friendl
of theirs.
Mr.. MERR1cK has petitioned for tn,
appointment of receiver to take charg,
OF the business of the Deadwood Pho
neer and for an order restraining hie
partners in the institution from trans
acting business for the firm. ..-..
GEORGE 81. FA1RcH1LD, for a lonl
time president of the First Nationa
Bank, of Bismarck, has resigned ON &C
count of ill health. Mr.. Asa Fisher
one of the heaviest stockholders of tn
institution, will fill his place.
Two $4,000 subscriptions have re
Gently been given to Mitchell Univer
sity, making the total so far almos
100000. The force of workmen or
the foundation has been doubled, ant
it is hoped to have part of the building
ready for use before winter sets in.
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