Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01
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ing home from Brownsdale. When at
the point in the wagon road where the
same crosses the Minnesota & North
western railroad track, on account of
there being no planks on the sides of the
track. the jolt Of crossing the same threw
Mr.. Feldt upon the ground, breaking his
leg. The little daughter kept her seat
and held bravely on the lines, bringing
the span Of colts to q standstill MI. Feldt
lives near Thos. Gibson's in Lansing
township. DR.. Gibson of this city at
tended Mr.. Feldi.
June 21st was the longest day in the
year-fourteen hours and fifty-seven
minutes Of direct sunlight. The sun had
risen within minute of the same time for
fifteen days, and had set within six min
utes of q certain time. Now for two
weeks from the 21st the sun will set with
in the minute Of 7:SO y. m, while the ris-
ing Will gradually grow seven minutes
later Thus. for four weeks, the sun will
have practically kept in one place in the
stars. there having been but maximum
difference of about seven minutes in the
length Of any two days in that period.
This Is the summer solstice, or standing
still.
Too day, July LIST, important changes
in the postal laws take effect. Your let
ter can weigh one full ounce instead of
half an ounce as heretofore), all for two
cents, and the same for each additional
ounce; then the publishers of newspapers
and all periodicals have to pay but one
cent Gnstead Of two) per pound for papers
sent from publication offices. Then there
is another convenient arrangement. An
additional l0-cent stamp affixed to your
letter. addressed to any postotfice contain
ing over 1900 inhabitants. will insure the
letters immediate delivery to the party
addressed if his place Of business be with
in one mile Of the post-ottice.
TO THE TEACHERS AND Scholars
l was agreeably surprised on Friday
last, to find in my study an elegant easy
chair. The following note was attached:
please accept this token of esteem and
good will from the teachers and scholars
of Austin Schools"
Permit me, through the columns Of the
paper. to thank you all for your present.
1t shall be token of remembrance Of
my residence in Austin. May your future
be happy and prosperous. Let your pro
grcss be onward and upward. Study for
in the words Of DR.. Holmes, Let your
IhouSAto al tI0fCA W youl ny
the way of the heart" With best wishes
for your future. | remain, yours very
truly, HORACE GIBSON.
We clip from the Globe of June 23d,
the following notice, as the deceased was
cousin Of J. F. Cook of this city Last
Friday afternoon, Clarence Cook Of Can
by. manager of Written & Judd's eleva-
tor ut that place. shot himself dead while
H., 20 r1nc
ter, being treated for some difficulty or
other, and having poor appetite, Mr..
Cook went out to shoot some plover to
send to her on the evening train. Toward
night boy, who was herding cattle,
came into town and reported that he saw
a man dead on the ground. less than a
mile from the village. Several citizens
hurried to the spot and found Mr.. Cook,
his gun beside him and an ugly hole in
his breast. made by the contents of one
barrel. The shooting is believed by all
to have been purely accidental. The re-
mains were taken to Rochester Saturday
evening"
Cur HER THROAT.-The people of
Brownsville were greatly shocked. Wed
nesdav, by the intelligence Of the death.
by suicide, of Mrs. Jane Eager. wife of
Mr.. Charles Eager who lived two miles
east Of this village. She had been unwell
for some time, but appeared unusually
cheerful that morning, and assisted her
housekeeper. Mrs. Peck, in preparing
breakfast for the family. She concealed
her husbands razor in her pocket, and
stepping into her bedroom, locked the
door behind her. Mr.. Eager, who was
working near her open window, heard
her groan, and going into the house,
found her door locked and ran to the
open window She was kneeling on the
floor with the razor beside her, and the
blood streaming from three CHASTITY crashes
in her neck. He jumped through the
window and found she had severed the
jugular vein and windpipe, and was dy
ing. She lived about an hour after the
occurrence. Mrs. Eager was daughter
of Brownsdales we'll known citizen, T. p
Bull. 1t Is said she had not been in her
right mind for some time .-Gto6e.
Monday morning a telegram was re-
ceived by DR.. E. c. Dorr of this city, in
forming himself and relatives. of the
death Of their sister. Mrs. Ellison. She
came up from Fredricks, Iowa, few
weeks ago, desiring, as she said, to see
her people once more. A sister. Mrs
Mitchell, residing in Minneapolis she
persuaded her husband to take her there
also. and at this sisters home last Sunday
she died. Her remains were brought tc
| Austin Monday, her husband and sister
accompanying them. arriving on the half
| past one train. The funeral service was
at the homestead, the present residence
of Fl. >. Smith, at2 p. m. 1t was from
this home that her father and mother
were carried away to lakewood, and il
| sn<4 noI1 n,1> II
be carried from the old home also. Mrs
Four sisters, Mrs Mitchell of Minnea
polls, Mrs Bennett, Mrs Day and Mrs
DOrr of this city. and two brothers, Hiram
and Luther Smith, were present at the
funeral. Rev. Bclden conducted tn,
funeral services and large number O
the immediate friends Of the family were
present to pay the last tribute of rcspec
to this beloved sister.
The post-oftice fight in Austin is still
in progress. The open candida ties ar
Christian johnson, John Walsh, Eugen
Wood and B. Yates, with D. B. Smitl
as the dark horse candidate, Yates wa
first in the field, and obtained good en-
dorsement from local Democrats but will
the leading office brokers outside he was
not successful. From an outside of-thc
ring point of view Christian johnson
seems to be in the lead. He has goot
petition of leading business men ant
Democrats. and has the advantage of be
ing strongly backed by Biermann ane
Doran. Eugene Wood has larger sup
port of Republicans than any of the can
didates, besides good Democratic back
ing, including the endorsement Of Hon
Henry r. Wells of Preston; he is alst
said to have some very strong supper
among leading Democrats in New York
bis former home. John Walsh is proba
bly the hardest working candidate in thu
lot, and his prospects are by no mean
light. File has the support of the County
Central Committee, aud It's said that tn
grand sachem Kelley favors Walsh. Al
in all, the situation has very compli
Gated look, which must be is highly graf
flying to the present encumbent.
The following very kind letter from
Judge Berry, now and for many year
one of the Judges of the Supreme Cour
of this state was last week omitted from