The Grange advance., 1873-11-12
STATE NEWS.

SLATE NEWS
EX-SEcRErARY Boutwell, lectures at
Mankato on the 18th inst.
JAMES MADDEN: farmer, of Haver-
hill: Olmsted county, lost his dwelling
by tire last week. Loss 81 900; insured
for $500.
Miss KATE STANTON lecturefat Roch-
ester on the 18th inst, under tie auspices
Poverty" Z {
JEREMIAH FoLE2>tarmer, of Som
erset in Steele county, lost all his grain,
his hay and his barn, BY fire caught
from steam threshing power
TRE editor of ~tAe-puluth Herald
says that he is tn rning to vivid sal
mon color. He says it is smoke other
people say it isn't. It's rum case,
anyhow.
\ UNION OF RAcEs.-Amony the off,
GERS elect Of Wright county are natives
by birth Of the following countries
New Brunswick, Scotland, Germany.
Ireland, France, Norway and Sweden.
A large bear was killed in the Wau-
mandee Valley, Wis, one day last week,
by Il Mr.. Moeckle of Fountain CITY, and
brought into Winona.
1t is estimated that the surplus
wheat crop Of Minnesota for 1873 will
ill 100000 cars or more than $500
trains Of fifteen cars each.
FARMERS in Stearns county have
sown a large quantity Of fall wheat this
year, as they had such encouragement
from the crop last year.
S. H. BISHOP, Of Maple River, Clay
county, formerly Of Hudson, Wis, was
run over by switc6 engine at Moor
head, Wednesday laSt, and injured SO
badly as to cause death in few hours
thereafter
The Glenwood Eoyle says: John II.
Wagner, Of the town of Leven, this
county, raised twenty-four acres Of the
Odessa variety Of wheat this season
which averaged forty and one-half bush
els per acre.
1t is rumored about St. Cloud that a
boy named Grible was killed recently
by other boys filling his mouth with
snow and tying handkerchief so as to
hold the snow in. A judicial inquiry
is proposed.
AT Railson's on Norway Lake, Kan
diyohi county, the other day man
named Peterson was standing in front
OF a circular saw when the saw threw a
splinter which passed through the side
Of his face and out below his ear.
| Two of the three card monte men
were arrested and fined recently at Ey-
ota. John Damars, German who has
been at work at Dover, near Eyota. is
missing since being seen with the same
gamblers, and is supposed to have been
feeced by them and to be ashamed to
60 back to Dover.
AT Central Point Monday night last,
a dwelling house closf by the G. 4 St.
P. railway caught fl nk from ~+be sparks
Of passing engine ind w6s bhrned to
the ground. The Ioccupanx, R. NJ.
Denham and familyA hdd <barely time
for escape in their night clothes, and
lost everything else they Mad. Imme.
diate relief forrh family was contribu-
ted by people of Lake City.
MRS. VIM. DECKER of Rockville
Stearns county, Saturday evening Of
last week went out to milk the COWS.
leaving in the house alive and we'll her
little girl, about FIVE years old. When
she came back from the barn, the little
one was dead-burned to death. In
trying to light candle the child had
set her clothes on fire, and so perished,
alone 4
| UPWARDS of one hundred buildings,
twelve stores of.#various kinds, three
blacksmith shops, one wagon shop, three
lumber yards, two hotels, one livery
stable, one printing Office, a grist mill
under construction, churches, schools,
and various other improvements per-
tanning to wide awake western town,
all brought into existence in less than
one year, constitute Marshall to-day
frosrie Schooner.A