Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-28
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Mason City stock yard contained
100 ID. hog last week, s@ . ...s
"A Yucatan farmer recently sold TO
ID. porker in Houston. %
C. A. r. State Encampment meets at
Mankato 28th and Goth.
-Olmsted county reports AT births
and 221 deaths during 1884
-For the present sleeping cars will run
only between Lacrosse and Wells
Spring Valley has raised $50 to pur.
chase instruments for neurological! sta
tion.there.
Wells has shipped over 70, COO bushels
of t:,e IA crop of wheat. Average price
paid 60 cents.
The wife of a Minneapolis railroad
man recently presented her husband with
a son seighing II pounds.
Judge Start decides that Bliss Broth
ers of Rochester have right to free access
Of the Register of Deeds books for the
purpose of running an abstract Office
Prof Clarence NJ Boutelle of Roch-
ester, Mimi, is, according to the Post,
meeting with deserved success as a writer
of fiction for some of the best periodicals
in this country.
The e. NJ. &. St. Paul it is said con-
templates abolishing the custom of grant
ing passes to its employees AID will here
y ffnr n ffn,r
plOyces' permit, emitting them to travel
at one cent per mile.-Er
The City Council of Faribault have
recommended the Legislature to pass a
bill amending their city charter so that
the general liquor license shall be $500,
and druggists not less than $50.
The first newspaper venture of Z. B.
Shaver, OF The Kasson Republican, was at
point IS miles west of St. Paul, and
dated Aug. 3, 1858, long before the day
or patents or the ingress Of railroads"
1t is said that winter severely cold
and with sCperabundancc of snow is al
ways followed by Il most prolific crop
season. II this is so, the crop returns for
1885 in the Northwest may be expected
to be very large. -Nuxou Gtty Repudlfcun.
Albert Lea has s55, 900 Of per cent.
railroad bonds outstanding-$ 900 to
the Southern Minnesota, and $4,000 to
the Minneapolis & St. Louis-the S. NJ.
bonds due in 1900 and the NJ. 6 St. l.. in
1907
Albert Lea must have a new court
house, and as the people won't vote
bonds, the commissioners propose to
raise fund by levying a one mill tax on
the valuation of the county each year for
five years.
-DecOrab, Iowa, has a Mayor who
doesn't believe 'mashc;s" are necessary
to successful administration OF the
| municipality. He dressed himself in
girls clothes on a recent occasion, and
when accos;ed by loafer, picked him
up and carried him to the city prison.
Jacobs, the ci;cus-s slayer of police
man Blair at Owatonna last fall, has had
his trial. The jury found him guilty of
man slaughter in the fourth degree, and
has been sentenced to four years in States
prison. Great Indignation is expressed
at the verdict.
The Revie,o gives cut of the hcauti-
| full monument of Mankato stone on ex
hibition at the New Orleans Exposition
I The merit Of the monument is in the fact
known as the "Mankato Ledge" Just az
found and placed by nature.
! -FOUR LIVES SAVED. DR. Bull.
Cough Syrup relieved four Of my children
Of Il most alarming attack Of whoooin.
cough, from which their throals auC
nccks became so swollen as to prcvcn
them from swallowing. Nothing would
give even temporary relief, until thi.
Syrup was tried. One bottle, in on,
night, saved their lives, verify believe
Geo. W. Earhari, Captain Of Police
Baltimore, Md.
An immense snow pillow has been con
structed for the Chicago, Milwaukee
ST. Paul road. 1t is designed not only t,
clear the track, but to throw the snoy
clear out of any ordinary cut Tn
mould boards rise to height of twenty
six feet above the road bed ut the rca
ends, The machine weighs sixty-fv
tons and the motive power will be 81
mogul engincs.-LnCroSse Chronicze,
The increasing age Of Minnesota as ;
state is shown in the character of he
legislatures. Up to the legislature O
1888 there had never been u member 0
the body whose birthplace was in Mime
sofa. The statistical tables disclosed
thoroughly cosmopolitan body so far a
the nativity Of it's members was indie
alive. In the twenty third legislator
there were two native born members
Mr.. Dcmeules of Sank Rapids and MI
Thompson of Fillmore -both young me
then, aged respectively twenty-eight an
twenty five. In the present legislator
Mr.. Thompson, who is returned, has fv
companion Minncsotians, namely-M,
Becker, aged %; Mr.. D. Downs, aged 9:
Mr.. Hendrickson, aged 81; Mr.. Simpson
aged 81, and Mr.. Warner, aged 30
pioneer Press.
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