Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-14
The News Briefly Chronicled.

Farmers in the vicinity of Faribault are
complaining about lightning rod men who
come to their farms and secure contracts
for rodding their houses. They estimate
the cost to be about fifteen to twenty dol
lars, and when finished the bill amounts to
four or five times as much as estimated
AS the contract forces payment if not paid
the property is seized to meet the bill
-Four horses hitched to binder and be-
ing driven by ex-Policeman Barney Sheri-
dan near Faribault, ran away the other
morning, throwing him from the machine,
which passed over him A portion OF his
hip was cut off, several teeth knocked out
and he was severely bruised
Dr. s. B. Sheardown, one of the pioneers
of Winona County, surgeon in the Seventh
Minnesota Regiment during the war and
treasurer of the State Medical Society, died
recently.
Bob Younger recently requested Dr. ".
H. Game to visit him, which he did. After
thoroughly examining him he states that
he can not live over sixty days, as he is
in the last stages of consumption, that his
temperature ranges from 100 up to los de-
grees.
The dangerous Lake Amelia feline whose
poisonous bite caused the death Of Nils
Strand and will compel Jacob Hanson to
make journey to Paris to be treated for
hydrophobia by Pasteur, has been killed at
last G. E. Snyder, ex-health-inspector
shot the cat It was of immense size and
was frothing at the mouth
A business college is to be established at
St. Cloud by H. L. Wharton, of Saltwater
Mr.. Wharton is a graduate Of the Eastman
College, of Poughkeepsie, n Y, and is at
present at the head of college at Still
water. He will be assisted by c. E. Hill, a
teacher in the Burlington (Ia.) Business
college.
Armour is preparing to ship dressed meat
to Duluth again.
Andrew P Roen was caught in the knives
of his binder near Fergus Falls while ad-
justing it, and before the horses could be
stopped his leg had been lacerated in a
fearful manner and both bones broken
James Wilson, crook, was shot by one of
the guards at the workhouse several months
ago in trying to escape, and was SO badly
I'M ured that it afterwards became neces-
sary to amputate his arm. Since his release
from the hospital he has been loafing
about the streets in st. Paul threatening to
kill off a few of the city's noble policemen
and to murder the whole gang of work.
house guards. He was arrested as va
grant and sent out to begin operations on
the guards
A novel weed-exterminator, invented by
Superintendent Kellie and Master Mechanic
F. A. Fraser, of the 800 Line" is in use on
the Minnesota division. Super-heated
steam dried in the fire-box is forced through
perforated pipes under the locomotive,
whitening all vegetable growth within it's
range.
st pQn1 doctors h uo n a6 tho oh Arpo liz
mad cat No. 2, the one killed by ex-Health
Inspector G. E. Snyder, resurrected for ex-
detrimental purposes The doctors removed
the cats spinal cord and inoculated two
rabbits with the virus taken from the cord
They are trying the experiment simply to
satisfy themselves of the cats condition
prior to it's death, as they have little faith
In the belief that the cat died of hydro
phobia
& The Pioneer Press says that, wi one ex-
ception, more business is done at the st.
Paul union depot than at any other depot
lin the United States.
Writings creamery, north of Rochester,
caught fire from sparks from an engine
and burned to the ground Loss, s., OoO
No insurance. -.
Farmers finished harvesting as good a
crop as ROCK County has had for years at
least one, smonth earlier than last year
Many Of them are blowing.
Bertha ssSslh1th, a servant girl of T. H.
Bliss, of Rochester, was badly burned by
the igniting of a. pitcher of gasoline which
she held tunkeE1Aand The house caught
{ fire, but sakas#sxting uished before much
damage vas done.
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