The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-08-10
s.1IINNEsO7A NEWS.

==s.a,a... .ssss MINNESOTA NEWS.
Minnesota has ten railways 10
process of construction. =
The Duluth postofioe is now a
money order vfice.
-Wabashaw has a new hot~l, So by
l8, with wing, rs BY l6, fronting the
Ievee.
"A boy named John Miller, says
the Waha.ha Herald, tell ind gashed
tbs leg Very severely 90 scy'he.
-R,v.lE. B Wright has accepted a
call to the pas.or,te Of tho Presby teri
an church of Saltwater.
A little child Of M. W. Pratt, of
Anoko, was poisoned by eating potato
bugs. An emetic saved it.
"A little daughter Of A. B. Plow-
man, OF Medalia, says the Times, fell
and broke her arm while at play:
John H. Lounsberry, Of Austin,
says the Register, had his right arm
cut off BY reaper.
Vicious boys in Saint Peter have
broken half the glass 10 the windows
io the basement of the new school
building.
The grading on the Saint Paul &
Chicago Railroad is completed to Wi
mona, and cars will be run through by
September LIST.
Special rates are now made for
freight from New York to St. Paul, for
thi1ty.eight cents per hundred over
three or four different lines.
Mr.. r. G. Mitchell is now sole pro-
prietor Of the Duluth Tribune and
DR.. Foster, of the Mtnnc.ot;an, has
been elected City Printer.
The American House, Hastings,
destroyed by fire last winter, has been
replaced by five story brick edi6oe,
which is about ready for occupancy.
The vote at Saltwater on Tuesday,
on the is.ue of $4,000 in bonds for
building a railway and wagon bridge
across the st. Croix, was 215 yes; 7
no.
Mr.. Horace Brown, for many years
engaged in the hardware trade in Roch.
ester, has disposed of his business, aoo
is soon to remove to Gainesville, Geor.
gia.
Potatoes are drug at Rocbeste,
1t 30 cents per bushel. ------The
Post estimates the average wheat yield
in Olmsted county at IL to Is bushel,
per acre Of No. l wheat. ...:
The house OF Conrad Scbsffer, a
New Ulm, was struck by lightning o,
Sabbath night. Mrs. s. vas Instant,
killed, and Mr.. s. badly burned. Thi
house has been struck three times =
thus contradicting the old adsge.
The boat house at Trempealca,
was entered on Sabbath night and tn
mail robbed, N thing of any valu
VAS obtained. The proprietor Of TIT
Rand fl"use bad bis pocket book ,akr'
the same ri sht.
"A son Of Ole Larson, near Pres
ton, says the Republican, had his ak III
badly fractured by kic4 from horse
Hopes are entertained for his recovery
------A son of r uben Welch, g
Lenora, was 90 badly injured on REAP
or chat he died.
"A pleasant party, consisting Q
!: some one hundred ladies AMI gentle
men of Winona, took steamboat rid
by moonlight, on Tuesday evening, O
the steamboat Turtle, at the luvitat.o
of Sup:. Stewart, of the W. & St.
r. R.
The Southern Minnesota Raj
road depot at Wells caught fire from
flash of Lightning upon the telegraph
wires on Wednesday night aud Wal
burned. Loss aboot $4,000; no in
surance. The Wells House narrowl
escaped destruction at the same tim,
On Tuesday last, Mr.. George W
Van Dusen took possession of the d.
pot, elevator, warehouse, and all tn
property belonging to the Winona
st. Peter Railroad, at Rochester, Ut
der an arrangement with the road I
. continue for one year. The arrans,
, ment seems to give general satisfa,
ton.
, The Jackson Republic is assure
; that President Bsrkman will commeot
! the survey Of the Spirit Lake and Sou
Valley Railroad next week. Common
ing at Jackson, the survey will iu med
stely extended to Storm Lake, Bue1
Vista county, Iowa, there to conne
. With the Dubuque and Sioux City raj
u road.
On Monday Red Farrall aud Bi
Hicks, two notorious criminals, az
. supposed murderers, were arrested
Wiuona. Pat Stacks, another meub'
!, of the gang, has been arrested at Plai
view.
While being taken from Winona
Wabasha, Hicks and Stack jutnpt
from the steamboat, and although tn,
we're shackled together, reached Il
shore and made their escape. A +
= ward of $500 has been offered for the
capture.
They have since been re arrested.