The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-12-24
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HINNH9OTA NEWS.

aINNnsoTA N11vs. 9
AT Red Wing wheat il worth 80
cents and 500 per bushel. IT
Minneapolis has a organ, and a
concert on the machine last week not
ted 5000. ,~.~.
The people Of Princeton have sold
almost all their surplus produce to tho
lumbermen at good figures.
Mr.. W. W. Higbee retires from
the Owatouna Journal, and issucceeded
by G. 8. Crandall.
In the 0watonna oharavari case,
DR.. Duvall was acquitted Of the shoot
ing OF John Rosch.' '.'; '.'' i
"A correspondent Of the Press
thinks that tho. st. Paul and Pacific
road will be, completed to the Big
Woods next summer.
The Austin Transcript says that
5000 bushels Of wheat were sold at
that place on Wednesday. At Mank.-
to 10000 bushels were marketed on
Thursday. This looks encouraging.
The Hastings Gazette says that
the improvement in sleighing is bring
ing in moro wheat. AS high as sl.05
has been paid.
The Noraiske Folkel2aa, tho
Scandinavian paper recently published
at Rochester, has been removed to
Minneapolis. The Amerike, of La
Crosse, is to be taken to Rochester.
Rev: f. P. Dada has been invi.
ted to tho pastorate Of the Congrega-
tional Church: at Mazeppa, Wabashaw
County, and is expected to soon enter
upon his work at that place.
The old settlers say that this sea-
son opens identically tho same as that
Of 1886, the most delightful winter
over experienced in the West. Three
cheers for the old settlers
From the St. Peter Tribune !:
The snow on the Upper Minnesota is
very deep, the drifts in some places be-
ing IL feet high------Two porkers
were killed, weighed 1166 pounds
dressed Wheat has crept up to 81
cents.
during row at Nancy o. Tooles'
doggery, in MENDOZA, on Tuesday eve
ming, Stephen Coneroy was danger
ously if not fatally stabbed by Jesse Da.
viz. Davis vas arrested.
AT meeting Of the citizens of
Red Wing which was held on tho 18th
inst, = committee was appointed to
confer with neighboring towns as to
the means of securing the bonus Of
500, 900 asked tor the aid Of the Chi
cago and St. Paul Railroad.
The Houston County Journal
notices two insane persons who have
been taken to St. Peter. One, James
Mccain, became deranged from 4 blow
On the head j; the other, Patrick Hines,
from his bestial habits.
John Lee, the brakeman on the
passenger train Of tho Il. I'D. R. R.,
had his hand smashed last Friday
while coupling cars------On Thursday
Dec. 10, a son Of Mr.. Gullifer, who
lives near Aroher's tavern, in Hampton
fell aud broke his leg, while engaged
in playing With his broth sr.-Hastings
Union.
The Austin Register says that a
miller in Rush e. Officers mill was
caught in some Ct the gearing, and had
his right arm broken in two places, his
shoulder broken, and his right ear
torn out by the roots. He is doing
welI under the circumstances.
We learn that Sunday night the
commissary house at Fort Smelling was
totally destroyed by fire. 1t was with
the utmost difficulty that the fire was
kept from the magazine Of the Fort
All the guns, &C., IN the round house
were destroyed. The loss will reach
$4,000. The origin Of the fire was in
defective fue, and the high wind
made the task Of exlnguishing it dill
fcult nc.-Minneopolis Tribune.