The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-09-23
MINNEsOTA NEWS.

week.
Nillie, 4 son Of Dr.. Mayo, of
Rochester, says the Post, was thrown
from : horse and lad his arm broken.
The editor Of the Maukato Record
was presented with / little tomato weigh
ing 2 pounds and 5 ounces. ~
-2,190 bars Of English iron for the
St. Paul aud Pacific road reached Mil
waukee on Saturday. ..,.,..... ....,..
"A statement Of tho finances Of
Douglas county gives it, liabilities At
sl,b5s.16, and assets at $4,54e.1s.
s.-Eastern trains now cross the new
bridge and run directly into St. Paul.
A very gratifying change, ri
-Soule Bros, extensive dry goods
merchants At Owatonna, have failed for
100000 without any assets. NV ~.
Judge Austin has sent in his resig:
nation as Judge Of the District court,
to take effect on the 30th. His sue
oessor has not yet been appointed.
-. Judge Flandrau of Minneapolis,
and Girart Hewett Of St. Paul, have
been appointed as delegates to the
Louisville Commercial Convention.
The Anoka Union says that NJ.
Noggle broke his ankle in two places
------Keen's Hall at Osseo, was burn
ed on Tuesday morning.
Waiter R. Ross, aged eight years,
son Of tho ferryman at Mankato, was
drowned on Wednesday night. says the
U,eion. 49, .'-
"A subscription taken up at Manka-
to, after morning service, for. the build
ing of a new Catholic church, footed up
$4,000. '.n
-Itis proposed now that trains shall
run from St. Paul to Hastings on the
river railroad by the LIST Of next Janu-
ary.
E. G. Holmes, Of Holmes city
has been rcnominated for county Com
missioner for the Sd District, Douglas
county. A coed selection.
"A man in Washington county
has made this fall some cider from the
Minnesota transcendent crab apple.
On Monday the steamer Jasper
left St. Paul for Milwaukee with As, 900
bushels Of wheat in bulk, 400 sacks Of
wheat, and 24o sacks Of barley.
st. Anthony had prize fight on
| Monday. The bruisers and the stake
holder were arrested by Marshal Hay,
at the fourth round. They were let of
with the ridiculous fine of $40 each.
"A man was killed on Thursday out
on the line of the Pacific road in
Wright county, by falling from thu
cars No one seems to know who hi
was.
Mrs. Augusta Keller Dorotht
Otto and Peter Zelick, Of Rose town
ship, Ramsey county, have been arrest
ed charged with having murdered .
man named Detloff Paulseu.
The editor of the Austin Trans
c,pt has cabbage head which weighs
rs pounds. N. B.. To avoid any mis-
understanding, VIC will add that there
is no hair on it.
George Robinson Esq, Of Lansing
the present season has threshed 8S7
bushels of wheat from rs acres, making
a yield of 35} bushels per acre: He il
selling the wheat for 95 cents per bush
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The Owatonna Journal il Informed
by j. N. Travis that from one peck o.
the Early Rose potatoes, planted last
spring, he has just gathered twenty-fou1
bushels as the product.
~ The Winona Repudlican says thai
the body of a man named Thomas Han
son was found floating in the river neal
Homer. He had but recently been re-
leased from the insane asylum.
The hotel of Charles Basler, al
Carver, caught fire on Saturday night
at IL o'clock, and burned to the ground
All its contents were also consumed
Loss on building, furniture, &C., 49,
600; insured for $4,000.
Z" The ireshet has done great dea]
OF damage along the st. Croix river
A number Of hor.es were drowned,
thousands Of dollars worth of cord wood
were swept away, aud a large quantity
Of hay is afoat.' p !. r. i. : ..>s -....' :.
"A storage building attached to
Hissing's brewery, at Red Wing, was
burned last week. The contents, inc1u-
ding ! 900 bushels Of barley, were des-
troyed. The Rspu51:can estimates, the
loss at $4,000; no insurance: :. - d. II:
The Owatonna Journal says grain
in that region is in terrible condition,
not half oft being yet in the stack,
Farmers are somewhat discouraged, and
business is slack. Patience has almost
ceased to be a virtue. -
On = farm two miles east OF Aus.
tin, says the Register, belonging to Mr..
Sylvester Smith, Of, that place, was
Threshold few days since tvo thousand
seuen hundred and thirty bushels Of
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