Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-22
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MlNNEsoIA.

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MINNESOTA.
FERGUS FALLS is contemplating q
firemen's tournament.
The yield of sorghum in Fillmore
County is remarkably large.
D1pHrHER1A in it's worst stage has
made its appearance at Rice's Point,
Duluth.
JOHN E1rrs of Red Lake Falls, in
delirium caused by il]1ess, wandered to
Orookston, and died of exposure.
JAMES GOLDEN, OF LIE Sueur, died
from injuries received by being thrown
from his buggy recently. He leaves
eight children. 4
CAPT. SAMUEL ApGAR, one of the
pioneers of Scott County, died at
Shakopee, OF old age, at the age of
eighty three years.
The citizens of Plainview have COM
PEELED the liquor sellers to close the
doors of their saloons and private demi-
johns are in vogue.
ABOUT $4,000 worth of logs have
foated ont into Duluth Bay and Lake
Superior from the log regions. None
OF them have been recovered.
A YOUNG man named Larson was
drowned in Eagle Lake, near Hutchin-
son, the body remaining in the water
four hours before being recovered.
ERIC HANSON, of Pelican Rapids, is
in durance vile on the charge of knock
ing out several Of Mrs. Hansons teeth
with bed slat, to avoid being kid
mapped by a dentist.
FRED ALM1CH, in Tyrone township,
has made fully thirteen hundred gal
Ions of amber cane syrup, of the finest
quality, nearly two hundred gallons of
which was of his own raising.
WHILE hauling manure on the Frank
Stratton farm, in Sterling, little boy
years old, Eddie, son of James Nor
row, tenant on the place, fell from the
wagon and was run over, the wheels
passing over his breast, the sufferer dy-
ing in few hours.
A SPARK from q steamer set fire to
and destroyed sixteen stacks of wheat,
four of hay, the granary, stables and
outbuilding belonging to Mr.. Kohn, on
the John Hartman farm, Acoma. The
separator was badly scorched but not
ruined. The threshing outfit belonged
to H. Bromley.
A CAVE has been discovered about
twenty miles from Stanton, Mercer
County, in which was found hideous
looking idol carved out of cedar, four
skeletons, copper spear heads, small
cutlass, implements of copper, and a
stone mill for grinding, such as we're
used in ancient Egypt and parts of
Asia.
AT Kirkhaven Peter Gandrew wanted
to sell Hans X. Brotten a revolver. To
test it they repaired to Mastool's hard
ware store and purchased box of cart
ridges, No. 80, and proceeded to load it,
during which operation if was acciden-
tally discharged, the bullet entering the
abdomen OF the boy Brotten, who died
next morning.
KATIE SPENCER, a young miss of Is
years, from Waterloo, Ia, who had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Brott, in Albert
Lea, slightly cut one of her thumbs
about two weeks since. and to heal the
wound she wrapped it in cloth wet
with carbolic acid. The acid became
absorbed by the blood, and the girl soon
became i'll and finally died in about a
week on account of it.
The difference in inspection grades
between Minneapolis and Duluth has
caused large amount of wheat tribu-
tary to Minneapolis to be shipped to
Duluth. 1t is an open secret that wheat
which the inspectors have rejected or
condemned has been sold by sample Oh
the floor of the Minneapolis exchange
at the same price as the regular. It
| seems to lie the general opinion that
the rules of inspection are altogether
too severe, espe cially in the No. and
hard grades, and it is probable that the
standard will be changed.
DAKOTA.
The Ransom County gold fever seems
about to be revived.
WHITE LAKE. has given birth to a
newspaper of the German persuasion.
WILLIAM D. HULL, of Sanborn, was
fatally injured by runaway team, dy-
ing soon after.
AN incendiary attempt to burn the
! Western House, at Bismarck, damaged
| the building to the extent of 81 900.
Mr.. SHULrz, Crystal Lake township,
lost his residence, barn, grain, hay, and,
in fact, everything he had, by prairie
fire. He barely saved his family.
PARKER grain buyers have bought
10000 bushels of fax already this sea-
son, and have paid out over $4,000 to
the farmers for that seed alone.
Mns. SARAH PATTEE of Kimball has
secured judgment for $1,000 against
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company for injuries received
| in sn accident one year ago last winter.
The company has appealed the case.
A GENTLEMAN who visited St. Stevens
mission, near LIE Beau, few days since,
was informed by the Rev. Henry Swift,
the pastor in charge, that many of the
Indians were absent, ostensibly on a
hun%inu ovpo1ition Int cold %hot IN