The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-05-13

MINH1sOTA NEWS.
A party Of $50 Swedish emf
grants asrivsd q 81. Paul on Tuesday.
II. Hon Adam Buck has been ap-
pointed Postmaster st Henderson,.
Gov. Marshall has sold his resi-
dsnce in St. Paul.
Tho contract for building tho Nor
NAL School at Mankato has been award
ed to Lewis J. Lewis, for $s7, 900.
August Sohulze, says the St. Peter
Tribune, was run over by = hand car
and had his leg broken. =. x..:d
% Tho Taylors Falls Reporter com.
plains bitterly Of tho obstruction Of
navigation At that place by tho logs,
aud dencunces the "boom company"
The Steamer Minneapolis has
madsa second trip to the city whose
name sho bears-''the head Of naviga-
ton"
Tho Mankato Uaion says that
Hon. NJ. s. Wilkinson being ON the
Census Committee will return to WASH
inetou in few weeks. ~> ~~
Tho Pioneer says that large wheat
buyers have their agents ill through
Minnesota buying up all the wheat
they can get hold of:
1t ia said that Gen. James b.
Baker will soon return from Missouri
to this State and make it his future
homo.
On Monday night the residence
of J. G. Burbank, St. Paul, was en-.
tered and a quantity Of valuable silver
ware stolen.
Mr.. Shindler, Of Wabasha, while
in fit of insanity, made an unsuccess-
full attempt to commit suicide by hang
ing. This was his third attempt.
A Temperance ticket" composed
from both parties, was after an exciting
canvass, elected at Austin by a large
majority. '-
The Austin Register says that on
the Marshall Donaldson farm in Move,
county eight hundred acres have been
sown with wheat this spring.
The steam saw mill belonging. t.
T.ylor& Harvey At Buffalo, Wrigh,
county, was burned on Saturday. Loss
1900 ; no insurance.
! Col. Cases house, At Minnsapo.
lis, was set on fire on Saturday by the
explosion by a ben1ino can. Hrs. G.
was badly burned. Loss $4,000; No
insurance.
Hon. Bovine Yates, of Madelia,
E. P. Evans, Of Garden City, and
James E. Brown, Of Ninnebago Agen.
oy, have been appointed Postmasters 4,
their respective places of residence.
The st. Charles Herald reports a
rise in wheat for 81 cents to 81 per
bushel .------A saloon opposite Halls
hotel was burned on Friday; partially
insured.
The Rochester Post says that
Michael Mahony, OF Salem, an old man,
fell on the sidewalk, breaking one Of
his knee caps.
The Lanesboro Herald says that a
man named Durken, while drunk, fell
from his wagon and was killed------
Grin Carpenter had his leg broken
while scuffling.
The area Of Minnesota is $4,000
square miles, or 54,760,000 acres
larger than the six New England States,
and nearly equal to Indiana and Illinois
combined.
The Minneapolis Independent
thinks that that the cultivation of beet
root for sugar will pay better in Mime
sofa than any other branch Of husband
~.
"A correspondent writes the North
field Enterprise that winter wheat can
be raised without any trouble. Hc hes
tried it for fvo years and never failed
but once, and then tho rust hurt it,
injunng spring wheat also.
The Martin County atlas reports
the drowning Of a trapper named John
Freeman, while crossing the outlet of
4 lake. A Mr.. Clark who was with
him swan to shore, but both horses
were drowned. A scoundrel named
Philo Stone took Freeman's turs, sold
them and decamped with the proceeds.