The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-12-02
NINNDOOTA NEWS.

has been organised Il Rochester. |
4. The Council Il Rochester has pur.
! half:do.en patent fire extin-
gaishen, at $45 each. .,
2 john MoLarcn has been appointed |
Deputy Collector Of Customs for tho |
post Of Duluth.
@'-Anoka is to have q Democratic |
paper. With a population Of about
1900, ithas two papers already, but both
are Republican. -.
: The dogs are killing sheep At
Monticello The best preventative is
70 kill tho dogs before they get their |
eyes open. "a,;1
'-Kingston is to be run hereafter, by |
P. v. Do Costar and Dana e. King, |
those gentlemen having purchased the
mill site. '.../ ":.>% J.. f.! i
Over thirteen hundred acres of |
school land were sold in Mecker county
last week. Amount realized about ST.. |
900.
Col: W. s. King, Postmaster of
the House of Representatives, left
Minneapolis, on Wednesday, for Wash
ington.
Rev. Kn,ckerbacker, Of tho Epis-
copal church at Minneapolis, has made
arrangements for establishing missions
at Litch6eld aud Willmar.
The Red Wing Republican says
that George Wilkinson had his shout
der broken in three places by thresh-
ing machine accident.
BY the throwing of a train from
the track of the s. NJ. R. r., on Sun
day, says the Lanesboro Herald, a man
named Michael Hackett was instantly
killed.
The remains OF Elk. Governor Swift
and his three deceased children were
removed last week from the place where
they were inferred at St. Peter and tax
On to Ohio.
The State Christian Convention
held at Rochester last week was we'll
attended, some two hundred delegates
being present. Tho next convention
will be held at Winona.
Governor Marshall has issued bis
proclamation directing the removal of
the county seats Of Meeker land Isanti
counties, in accordance with the vote
of the people at the last election.
The steam saw and .grist mill own
ed byWm. Pless, Of West Newton,
Nicollet county, was burned to the
ground, on the 14th, with: all its con-
tents and = large quantity Of lumber.
Says the Rochester Pos. of the
9th ult zone would think that
wheat had reached the bottom had
fallen out-50 cents bushel for No. l
and 46 for No. 2, being the price Of the
article this week."
The Monticello Statesman says
that Swede, (name unknown) left
Buffalo on Tuesday drunk, and was
found the next morning about three
miles from town, dead. What drunkard
will read his own fate. in this?
The Lake City Leader reports
some big crops in Wabashaw county,
VIM. Pell, Of Elgin, had an average
yield Of forty bushels Of wheat per acre,
from 100 acres. Also Geo Wedge, in
the same town, had a yield of forty.
three aud half bushels per acre from
a field Of forty acres. The wheat is Of
the Fife variety.
wv. W. Eastman has notified the
St. Anthony Falls Water Power Com.
pany that the Tunnel Company have
abandoned the tunnel "a a manufacture.
ing enterprise, and demand that the
Water Power Company deed back to
them the water rights and shore priv.
legcs transferred in consideration of the
orr ginal contracts.
The Faribault Republican tells Of
the heroic conduct Of a little girl, eleven
years old, Sarah Goodman, who was
| playing with her younger brother on
o small lake near Cannon City. The
ice gave way aud the boy went under,
when bis sister plunged in, and, the
/
water being shallow enough for he,
to keep her head out, held him by the
collar until assistance arrived.
Mr.. Charles Zimmerman, a photo
graphic artist in tho employ Of j. E.
Whitney, St. Paul, while passing I'm.
der Minnehaha Falls, on Friday, was
knocked down by a huge icicle, weigh.
ing two or three hundred pounds
which fell upon him., He lay uncon-
scious for half an hour, when. h.
was found by aIother visitor who waa
about to pass under tho Falls. 80.
Col. W. S. King, Of Minneapolis,
has lately added to:his stock ten SUI
peib Cotswold ewes, and one ram, i'm
ported from England this past season
four magnificent Lincoln ewes, from
the recent importationa of Walcot {
Cambell, of Oneida county, N. T.,
several head Of imported Berkshires,
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