The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-06-11
MINNESOTA NEWS.

-Litoh6eld has bsuk:.
Dogs killed % sheep for Henry
Shaubert, near Mankato, one night
last week.
Norman Gill, . lad twelve years
Of sge, was drowned in the Cannon
River, at Cannon Falls, On the 9th
ult.
The wife and babe of M. Schultz,
of Rochester, were thrown from a bug
gy Oh Saturday, aud tho infant had:
both thighs broken.
According to the lager reeord,
there were only 1929 barrels of beer
manufactured in Minnesota last year
to 95,524 the year before.
Henry b. Kent, charged with
embezzling money from Christ's
Church, St. Paul, of which he was col.
leotor, has been found guilty.
"A fire at Saltwater on Saturday
destroyed tie wagon shop of Hathaway
& Miller. Loss $4,000. A barn be-
longing to Isaac Staples was also burn.
cd. Loss, 81, 500.
Huntington people read the Scrip.
lures to some purpose. They have
built neat cottage upon the site of
the burned building of a lone widow.
and presented it to her fully iosured.
An unknown man, on Thursday
evening, deliberately took off his vest
and hat and then laid his head on the
rail Of the St. P, s. & T. F. R. r.,
near White Bear Lake, just in front of
the approaching train. His head was
cut off and crushed beyond all posi-.
bility of recognition.
-Fra6z Herzog, who started for
White Bear Lake with a Universal
list excursion party from Minneapolis on
Saturday, attempted to jump on the
train while it was in motion, but fell
through on to the track, three cars
passing over his body and iDjuring him
so that he died soon afterward.
The St. Paul Dispatch concludes
its account of tho suicide of Lizzie
Williams, as follows: "She had on
black serge No. S CATERS, and had
nothing whatever on her person but .
81 BILL" If Halls statement as to the
extent of her wardrobe is true, it is not
to be wondered at that che wanted to
get out of the world.
The cut look for the growing
wheat is not very encouraging, the late
sowsd having come up thin, and soarci.
ty of rain retardiug the growth some.
what. From present prospects the
| growth Of straw will be much less than
last year, but this will not displesss the
husbaudmsn if the berry is al right
Rochester Record and Union.
Capt. Ladley, Q. M. Of the Bound
ary Survey Commission, arrived here
last night, by special train, with his
outfit, consisting of ,l20 animals, 80
wagons, commissary stores, etc. They
go up the Missouri to Fort Peck, on
the FontanelIe, which will probably
leave Saturday. Major Reno will ar
rive this evening.-Bismarck Tribune
| The Deputy Auditor Of Henuepiu
county informs the Auditor of State
that the assessed valuation of that
oounty-under the new law Of last win.
ter and the operation of the plan Of
levying the State tax by sum total in.
stead Of 6ye per cent.-will be about
$50, 100000 for this year. Last yea1
it was only $9,os9.9s.-Di:pateh.
AT a term of tho District Court
held At St. Peter last week Frederick
Swenson indicted for the killing o.
Lewis Johnson, aud convicted of man
slaughter in the second degree, va
sentenced to Eve years imprisonment II
the psniteutiary. Peter Richard va.
tried for the killing Of bis son.. justin
Richard, and it appearing from the ev'
ldenoe that it was done in sslf-defence
the jury returned = verdict Of not guilty
and tho prisoner was discharged.
-On Friday evening a woman got
aboard tho train from st. Paul to Min
neapolis, apparently slightly intoxios'
ted. But soon after the train started
she gave = piercing shrek, when il
was found that she had taken stryoh.
nine, and in few minutes was dead
The following note, dropped BY her.
vss found:
~ don't know what to do, ~ I cannot
get homo and have No place to 60 in st
Paul. 50 farewell to the world.
4 I,IZZIE WILLIANS