The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-06-26

MINNEBOTA NEWS.
Wheat is SO cents at Mankato.
Gen. Phil Sheridan is in St.
Paul.
The Fourth Minnesota hold their
annual Reunion at st. Paul on the 10th
Of July.
Mr.. Swan, Of Nininger, has wheat
fully headed and expects 1t will be
ready for harvesting July 10th.
"A little daughter Of Morris No.
Eligott, Of Hsvsrhiu, Olmste.d county,
fractured her elbow by . fall on Fri.
day.
On Sabbath afternoon and night
violent rain storm flooded st. Paul.
The fall q water Is said 70 have been
immense.
Samuel K. Wharton, son Of r. L.
Wharton, Of 81. Paul, was crushed 70
death while coupling cars on tho st. p.
h P. R. R. IN Tuesdsy.
Herman Miner was riding q horse
into the river at New Ulm when his
saddle slipped and he fell under the
horse and was drowned.
The Dakota County Agricultural
Fair Is to be held on the 10th and 18th
Of September. Mr.. Donnelly has been
invited to deliver the address.
-Chas. G. Baihly, lad Of nine
years, was drowned in Zumbro river at
Rochester last Friday afternoon while
in swimming With other small boys.
The grasahoppefs have cleaned
out the crops between Lake Shstsk and
Walnut GROVE, 20 the New Ulm Herald
Gays, and are moving nolthwestward.
"A young man named John Mo.
Nail, employed in the st. Croix Lum.
Der Co.'s mill in South Saltwater, had
his hand out off on Thursday by the
''edger."
The Brainerd Tribune says tina,
| since the settlement Of that place.
very brief space Of time-it has been
| visited BY small pox on four different
OCCASIONS.
Alice Young, . four year old
daughter of Henry Young, of Chaska,
died after an illness Of only six hours
it is supposed from eating some poison
GUS substance.
The Agricultural Society Of Wa
bashaw county has located the annual
fair for the next three years At Wabs
shaw, on the understanding that suit
able grounds and buildings are pro
vided.
! Rochester has voted . bonus o.
| $25, 900 to the proposed extension o.
the. Lake Pepin & Green Bay Rail
| road from Wabashaw to that point
The majority in its favor was SO in .
total vote Of 202.
Henry Kutsr, charged with rob-
bing tho mails At Winona, plead guilty
to part Of the charges aud was son.
fenced on Friday to pay 4 fins Of $500,
and be imprisoned for six months in
the Winoas jail. 49,
The Jackson Republic STATES that
. very thorough examination Of the
grain fields Of that section since the
departure Of tho *grasshoppers, shows
but little real damage. = K '.'.*
-Mrh 4. B. Clark and Mrs.. Glea'
son, Of Frssborb, were thrown from .
buggy % Saturday, the hitter having
one leg broken above the ankle, while
the former was terribly bruised, and il
Is feared, injured internally. ,
"a. W. Knapp has been appointed
postmaster o.: Clinton Falls In this
county, in place Of W. W. Finch, re.
signed i; and Peter Bettsehen succeeds
Philander Sawyer, deceased, in the
Berlin post.ofioe.-0s0atonno Jour
nal, "'. 800:
| jacob Welhbillig, Of Mankato,
who had the contract fox building the
new hotel at St. Peter, absconded last
week owing $1,000. Likewise, he
took with him 4. WOMAN who was
not his wife, leaving the latter with
four children in Mankato. ~
DIR. Thos. Foster has received, If.
ter much delay in the eircumlocution
cfdee, hin appointment u Histograph.
sr and Archaeological, etc.; In the In
dian Department, at Washington. No
man ID che country il better adapted
for this position than the Doctor.
/ "A Window dispatch of The 18th
says: "The grasshoppen are damag.
ing the crops to I great extent in this,
|: jackson, nd Murray counties. Some
farmers have given up III hope Of say.
ing any small grain, and are turning
their attention to saving their corn
The total loss Of wheat BY tho
burning Of MI. Frlsbie's warehouse, At
mankato, will aggregate between 5000
and &. 900 huahala, naarlv al If which