Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-14
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

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MINNESOTA.
KENNEDY is suffering from a scarcity
of girls.
A$5,OOO HOTEL will soon be erected
at Maplewood Park.
THE st. James Journal reports seeding
all done in that vicinity.
FLAX is up to $1.70 at Bingham Lake,
which is getting to be an important flax
market.
ELEVEN HUNDRED young cattle have
been shipped from Wright County to
Montana this season.
The rumor that S. G. Harris, Fer
gus Falls printer, was drowned in Nc
Leod County, is not confirmed.
DULUTH bootblacks have organized a
protective union under the title of 'sThe
Pedal Artists Union of Duluth"
LARS HA1voRsEN, of the town of
Highwater, Cottonwood County, has
killed fourteen wolves in the past few
days. -.
ANDREAs MATsoN, New York Mills,
has been taken, insane, to st. Peter. He
thinks he is King Oscar of Sweden and
Norway.
Hon. j. A. LEONARD, of Rochester,
left London on the 18th of April to enter
upon bis official duties in Calcutta, India.
His family remain in London for the
present, but will spend The summer on
the continent. ~sa Az7~=~~s. ~=-'z-=:--ss=--
The river and harbor committee has
refused to make an appropriation for
| Nelson's proposed connection of the
head.waters of the Minnesota and Red
Rivers. The Mississippi gets $4,000
between st. Paul and the Des Moines.
IHE gun and sporting goods store of
| NJ. e. Lewis, of Albert Lea, was broken
into few days ago. Thirty.five re-
volvers, worth 5000, were stolen. The
thief entered by means of key, as the
door was locked and the windows had
not been tampered with.
Mr.. SWEENEY, of Rochester, has been
confined to his house all winter from IN
juries received during the cyclone of last
fall. A week ago silver an inch long
and half an inch in diameter worked out
through the wound, and Mr.. Sweeney
is now in a fair way of recovery.
SAMUEL SWEET, of Alexandria, is an
amateur bone setter. He found the
other day that Mr.. George J. Curry's
hip was out of joint and had been SO for
fifteen years. He reset it with great re-
lief to the sufferer. Mrs. Thomas Cow
ing, of the same place, had for twenty
six years been lame without knowing
what the trouble was. On examination
last week Mr.. Sweet found the hip was
dislocated and replaced it successfully.
DAKOTA.
HOWARD offers 81, 900 bonus for -four
mill
EFFORT is being made to GUST Judge
Hudson.
RED RIVER boats are busy carrying
wheat to market.
The James Sweet National Bank, of
Nebraska City, has changed it's name to
the Merchants National.
BARNUM's tattooed man passed
through Bismarck the other day, going
to Washington. He had his wife and
5-year.old son with him.
THE farmers in the vicinity of Valley
Springs, Minnehaha County, sold last
year over $4,000 bushels of haxseed,
bringing them $38, 900 in cash.
! SINCE December Is, 1883, sixty-ive
post-ofices have been established in the
territory, and 7CO business houses have
been established in the same time.
It is rumored that Orrin A. Carpenter
of Lincoln, ILL.,, who was tried: for the
murder of Zora Burns, intends remov-
ing to Blunt, where he owns quarter
section.
In the case of Rev. J. 81. Clark, of
Glendale, for larceny to hay the jury
h. IN x,op1fof nf onnniko1 Tho
matter has been looked upon by citizens
as malicious prosecution.
The rather De Smet Consolidated
Gold Mining Company declared last
month dividend of 20 cents share,
aggregating $4,000. The amount al
ready paid in dividends this year is $780,
600.
4 The oldest orchard in Dakota County,
owned by John Blessing, in Brushy
Bend, has fairly been ruined by the
ravages of the Missouri. About one.
half of the orchard has tumbled into the
river.
DEPUTY SHERIFF JOHN LOWELL was
engaged to be married to Miss Ida Law
ton, of Washington Springs, on the Both
inst; but a few days ago the family was
stricken with diphtheria, and as none of
the neighbors would come near, being
afraid of taking the disease, Lowell at
tended the family and was compelled,
unaided, to place his afianced in her
coffin. .-.
| A BISMARCK nursery shipped 200, 900
trees to Orookston, in one day, at the
beginning of the season, and is shipping
1OO, 900 to various parties daily. The
concern has orders for 8. .OOO. 600 trees to
| be planted in Northern Dakota and
Minnesota. Every fall forty men are
employed in gathering young trees
! from the banks Of the Missouri river for
a distance of $50 miles north and fifty
miles south Of the city, to be trans
planted and shipped in this way. The
trees are cottonwood and box-elder.