Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-29
ThesNews Briefly Chronicled.

ThesNews Briefly ChronicIed.
Another mineral find was recently report
ed in the vicinity of Burlington bay on the
north shore of Lake Superior. The ledge
was extensive and bore silver and copper in
great quantity.
Frank Day, Of Bethel, recently tried to
run bullet in an improvised mold of green
wood, and would lose the sight of one and
possibly both eyes. The heat generated
steam from the sap which exploded, blow
ing the lead into his eyes
There are several cases OF hydrophobia in
hogs and cattle near Plain View.
John Wilkin Lowry, poor auctioneer of
St Paul, recently received word that he
had fallen heir to an estate in England
which would, in case he could prove his
claim, bring him an income of $4,000 per
annum. Lowry would leave at once for
England.
The semi-annual encampment of the De-
partment of Minnesota of the G. A E. will
be held at Litchfield June II to 10, together
with the annual encampment of the North
ern district
At Fergus Falls recently stranger passed
forged check for $50 on Desky Bros
signed by the Edwards 4 McCullock Lum
Der Company. He got sl2 suit and $50 in
cash for it.
The Government appropriation to the
ruiitia of the State is sG,64
Two of the big engines for the Duluth 4
Iron Range road have arrived at Two Har-
bors. They are able to haul twice the load
of an ordinary engine Their weight is be-
tween seventy-nine and eighty tons, and
they cost s10,o 600 each.
Tho Tonntro1lor of fbo C,,,-apor hos ~,
thoriZed the First National Bank of Little
Falls to begin business with capital OF
$4,000
Rochester has leased the Broadway mill
building and machinery for centrifugal
milk separator.
J A. Appleby, of Minneapolis, has sued
Judge S. +. W. White, of Duluth, for dam
ages by reason of alleged SANDER, laying
his damages at $4,000.
Peter Stein, of St Paul, while pick
ing flowers recently at Vermi1lion, near
Hastings, fell down an embankment
distance OF sixty feet, striking on a rock
aud then rolling into the water, receiving
serious injuries.
Mrs. C. F. Nygeen, of Star Lake, yawned
the other day and dislocated her lower jaw.
necessitating ride OF twenty-three miles
to town to set it
c. s. Holdridge, the millionaire farmer OF
Quincy, Ohmstead County, got a wheat
beard into his eye last fall, and the irrita
ton has finally caused blindness.
A new post-office has been established
at Camp Ground six miles southeast OF ST.
Paul
Andrew and Ole Erickson (brothers)
aged eight and ten years. respectively,
were drowned in the river at Crookston the
other afternoon. They fell off some logs
on which they were playing, and their
father nearly lost his life in an attempt &c
rescue them. :
The thirty first commencement exercises
Of the State Normal School were held re-
Gently at Winona> The graduating class
numbered sixty-two members, the largest
ever graduated from the school,
Amour l. Co will test the validity OF the
new meat inspection act, passed at the last
session of the State Legislature. and will
ship meat into Duluth for that purpose
Thomas Coleman, a bridge builder en-
ployed on the reconstruction of the Waba
sha street bridge at St Paul, fell from the
top Of that structure, distance Of one hun
dred feet, into the river below the other
morning. Save severe nervous shock he
was uninjured.
The annual State convention of the Pro-
hibition party will be held in Minneapolis
July % and "a.
Proprietor Fiskey Barnett, of the Peo-
ple's Theater at Duluth, is said to be
missing along with his wife and baggage.
He is indebted, to considerable amount,
to tradespeople and sporting men
Jacob Ganst, an employe at the Howe
Lumber Company's mill at Tower, fell on
the slasher saws recently and was terribly
cut up. He died about an hour afterward.
Three '&wangans," or cook boats, and lie
log drivers Of the Mississippi 4 Rum Riv-
er Boom Company arrived in Little Falls .
few days ago. The logs were run through
the sluice OF the dam. The drive was es-
5timated at FROM 10000 0oo tn 81 ooD GOO feet,