The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-07-01
MINNESOTA NEWS,

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Mr.. Dounelly was in St. Paul on
Friday.
Wheat sold in Mankato last week
at As high as $l.08.
The Patrons Of Husbandry Of
Minnesota will have.a grand celebration
at St. Paul on tho Sd.
The Albert Lea Lodge Of Good
Templars has denounced the action Of
the Grand Lodge on = prohibitory law.
The anniversary Of St. John the
Baptist was celebrated by the French
at St. Paul on Friday.
Geo. G. Mott, we'll known oiti-
zen Of st. Paul, died on Monday night
Of small pox.
Everybody is engaged in planting
soft maple trees. So it would seem
from our exchanges.
Hon. J. A. Leonard, of the Roch-
ester Post, crates at Pine Island on the
5th.
Tho Gazette says work has COM
menced opposite Hastings on the Chi
oago and St. Paul Railroad.
The Alexandra Post speaks Of
number Of new buildings going up in
that town.
There is a lodge Of colored Masons
in St. Paul. It is represented as be-
ing in = aourishing condition.
"A little girl named Annie Mathies,
Was poisoned in St. Paul on Friday,
by eating some poisonous weed.
The Wabasha Herald says that a
son Of Rev. Moore, Of Chester, fell
from fence and broke his left arm.
The Mantorville Expres. says the
house Of James Rawley, in Milton
township, burned on Wednesday.
Insurance 500.
Preparations are being made 70,
putting up a new four4story hotel on
tho site of the old International at St
Paul. 49,, :;
There are 2s5 Chippewa indians
at the White Earth Reservation
Many Of them live In comfortable
houses. They have put in crops.
"A farmer in Haleua, Scott county,
dropped dead in Jordan, last week
It is supposed chat his death was o.us.
ed by excitement. =
"A Norwegian at work on the rail.
road near Austin, says the >Register
tainted a day OK two ago, and: only
lived few minutes afterwards. .
Mrs.: Elisabeth Burgess has: been
appointed postmistress Of the Butter.
nut Valley Office, in Blue Earth Co
She is 4 soldiers widow. -. g.: -.
+ frank 'Dagget is to deliver 4 5th o.
July Grafton at Eyota, in Olmsted Coun'
ty. Frank u;a ''642" bird, and ought
to be good on the spread eagle.
The Chatfeld De'n;socrat s.ys the
barn of. Bateman, at Bloomfield, VA.
struck BY Lightning. Two horses and
;. mule were killed ; loss 5000: ..
Tho Republican State Central
Committee is to meet At St. Paul on
the 18th Of July TO- fix the time for
holding the State Convention.
The Mankato Reu;ev says that
Mrs. W. P. McKenny was 50 badly in
jured by fractions horse that her life
is despaired Of:
On Monday young Norwegian,
Tom Thompson, attempted to commit
suicide at Owatonaa by shooting him.
self: Cause-she wouldn't marry him:
The Mankato Union notices the
arrival home Of Gov. j. E. Tourtelotte.
he leaves at once for Utah, where he
been assigned as Superintendent Of
Indian Affairs. ..
The Tribune says q Frenohran
from Crow Wing named Anthony
Woo, has been arrested is Minneapolis
for attempting to break into the house
Of W. w. Norton and W. w. Wales.
Tho County School superinten-d
ents Of the State will convene 1T Roch-
ester August, "a and %. Tho call Is
made BY NJ. Il. Duunell, Superintend-
ent Of Public instruction.
Six hundred half-barrels of fish
were shipped from Superior to Chicago,
last week. This fish trade on Lake
Superior is growing into mammoth pro.
portions. :"
: Oliver Holmes, Of Canton. Fill
more county, lost $1,000, aud Robt.
Bateman, Of Spring Valley, $4,000,
BY their barns being struck by light
aing and the contents consumed.
"A gentleman from Leicester,
England, Who arrived in Minneapolis,
recently, only sixteen days from Liver.
pool, via Boston, has bought 5000
acres Of land in Kandiyohi, where no
will locate: He passed through Canada
West, but was not favorably impressed
with it's appearance:
"A man At Rushford sent shirt to
1 washerwoman. In pocket were SIS
in Canada bills. The goddess of the