Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-24
The News Briefly Chronlcled.

Ray B. McInoths, twelve years old, was
knocked down and killed by runaway
horse at Minneapolis the other day.
Fred French for the past two years chief
clerk in the traffic department of the $500
road at Minneapolis, ran away the other day
in order to escape an army of creditors
Charles Kinder and Moses Lamproux were
arrested the other day at Red Lake Falls on
charge of stealing fifty bushels of wheat
from the grainary of a farmer living four
miles from town Evidence was sufficient
to cause their lodg1nent in Jail
Colonel S. c. Jewett, United States Com
missioner for Alaska, started from Litch-
field few days ago for Sitka, where he will
dispense Federal Justice.
While c. Walkleys family were at supper
recently in the town of St. Augusta thief
entered the bed room and stole 500 in gold.
The Iron Bay Manufacturing Company,
now located at Marquette, Mich, will re-
move to Duluth
The house of Adolph Wallin, of the town
of Elizabeth, was totally destroyed by fire
recently. Loss $500, including $500 in
cash belonging to the school district
George Bradford, of St. Paul, has been
appointed chief clerk of the tenth division
railway mail service to succeed Norman
Perkins, who has been promoted to super
intendent
The new village council at verndale has
fixed the liquor license at 81 500, the same
as last year. There was no one to take out
license this year, as the one who did last
year claimed to have lost money.
The story comes from reliable source
that Mrs. Andrew Bubera, Finnish woman
living near New York Mills, gave birth re-
Gently to six children, three of whom are
alive. The others were born dead.
Grant Bates while stabling stock recently
for A. E. Bickford, of the town of Maine,
stopped to tie a young heifer, when she
raised her head suddenly, striking him in
the left eye with her horn. He would prob
ably lose the eye.
During heavy wind recently prairie
fire burned the house, barn. machinery and
household effects of James Kahn, five miles
southwest of Worthington. The loss was
placed at 81, 600. Nothing was saved The
wind carried a burning hay stack twenty
rods
At st. Paul recently Judge Vanderburg
decided that granted lands now owned by
the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis Omaha
road, through purchase, are subject to taxa
ton. Several hundred thousand dollars are
involved
Workmen excavating recently at Duluth
for the foundation of the Temple Theater,
struck at a depth of ten feet what was said
to be rich vein of copper, the ore being
fully as pure as that in the Calumet &
Hecla The vein was ten feet wide. 4
At the Merchants Hotel the other even
ing the city of &C. Paul gave a big banquet
to the members Of the Legislature.
sin, Minnesota & Pacific railway, committed
suicide recently at Minneapolis No cause
was assigned for the act.
At St Paul the other night Richard Yea
man fell out of second story window
where he was sitting smoking and was in
stantly killed -
The eastern part of Otter Tail County has
suffered good deal recently from prairie
fires set by careless farmers. The principal
damage done has been to fences, groves
and bridges, although in some instances
buildings have only been saved by ha1d
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