The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-05-06
l1IhA1DOTA NEWS
M. g.. Wilkinson returned from
Washington on Friday.

~. y. Wllkl0S0n returned from
Washington on Friday.
Ole Bull aud the Miustrels took
$4,000 in cash from St. Paul last week.
Minnesota is receiving eonsidera-
bic immigration from Canada.
Work is progressing steadily on
the Hastings and Dakota Railway.
"A cheese factory, three stories
high, is being put up at Owatonnu!
Good idea.
Two dredge boats will be kept by
The government At work on the Upper
Mississippi this year.
Philip Bayer, Of the rsgimental
band, WAS drowned at Fort Smelling on
On Saturday twenty thousand
dozens Of eggs from low. were received
in St. Paul. Why import eggs?
Tho Arg*. reports the mysterious
disappearance of Swede who came to |
buy land. Foul play is suspected.
"A stono building in st. Paul fell |
on Tuesday. Tho INN ties fortunately
escaped.
Over half million dollars worth
ofireight for the Hudson Bay Company,
is at St. Paul awaiting shipment by
the St. Paul and Pacific r. r.
A number of children at Winnie
tago were poisoned from eating roots
gathered in the woods. They all re-
covered.
Tho house Of r. Ennis, at Glen
dale, says the Mantorville Express, was
burned witt its contents; supposed in
cendiarism insured for $500.
The Glencoe Register says that
Thos. Amarson, of Helen, who became
insane from over excrtion, has been ia
ken 10 the asylum.
DIR. D. Pyle, member of the last
Legislature, has received the appoint
ment of physician to the Chippewa In
dams.
The Fairmont Atlas gives an ac-
count of the drowning Of Walter Deck
er and Priest Bennett, who were cross.
ing Tuttle's Lake in skiF.
"A Mrs. Jones, of Winoua, was
iued SIS for cruelty abusing her little
daughter, 4 beautiful child of four
years. It should have been impris-
onmcnt.
The body of a man was found in
the river near Minnesota last week.
In his pocket, was an express envelope
addressed to Mrs. ". f. Wayneau,
Herkimer, N. Y, from VIM. Wayneau.
Hastings, MINI.
From the Rochester Post: T. H
Converse, of Farm Hill, accidentally
shot himself in the ankle. .Mortlfca
ton and death cnsued. ole
man, named Caleb Coon, fell do VI
stairs during the night and was foune
dead next morning.
Tho Mime sofa Independent urges
the issuing of $250,900 in bonds t.
aid in building railroad from tina
place to the Minnesota river country
St. Cloud intends building branch
in that direction before long. Th'
lumber trade Of that region would o
itself be very desirable.
On Saturday while G. L. Wood
ticket agent Of the St. Paul and Mil
waukee Railroad was crossing the St
Paul bridge with $1,000 in exchang.
and $4,000 in currency in his hand, h.
struck his toe and fell, the package O
money falling into the river, where il
found a watery grave.
"A lad named Fred. Davis, of Quin
cy, says the St. Charles Herald, while
hunting drew his gun, muzzle forward
toward him. The charge exploded
entering his right arm. Modification
gangrene, erysipelas and death follow
ed.------Fred. M. Howe, while at
tempting to jump from train Of carl
in motion, had his leg broken.
E. NJ. Mix, who returned last week
from Lake Traverse, 100 miles west o.
Sank Centre, informs tho St. Paul Pr
oneer that tho restitution among thu
sisseton aud Wahpcton Indians has
been greater during the past season
than for years before. Teams are now
engaged in breaking land for their use
Mr.. NJ. has been assisting Gen. Bar.
rctt in surveying the reservation 70,
these Indians.
DR.. VIM. P. Duvall, a quack who
made quite sensation throughout the
State, last year, was arrested at James.
vile, Wis.,, On the 30th ult.. on the
charge Of poisoning his wife. He was
married to her at Owatonna, in this
State last fall, and she was his third
wife. The shooting Of Roesch at a
charavari given Duval will be remem.
bored.
We mentioned last week the find
ng of the body of child near St. Pc
ter, and tho suspicion that its father,
leasing, was the murderer. This man
has since been arrested and brough:
to the State. BY a singular coinci-
dencc his wife, who had some time ago