The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-24
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

A CITIZEN of LIE Sueur is carrying
$4,000 life insurance.
MARTIN county will have its fair on
the 9Th and 9th Of October.
The town of Havcrhill, Olmsted
county, is to have town hall.
S1xrY-FouR shares have been sub
scribed for a Grange warehouse in Wa
SEGA.
TIE Methodist church at Sank Rap
ids has been supplied with fine new
organ.
TwENrY-rHREE farmers have organ
lied Grange Chapter in jackson
County.
THE Democrats of Sherburne county
nominated C. H. Chadbourne for Rep
'resentative yesterday.
THE towing business on the st. Croix
is so dull that owners Of tow-boats are
.discharging their crews ana banking
their boats.
II is reported that Prof. Raiser and
another party, are soon to start Ger
man paper, Democratic in politics, IN
St. Cloud.
The Changers in and about Cannon
Falls propose to unite on day for the
public sale of horses, cattle, and farm
produce generally at that point.
f. T. ST.. JOIN of Winona fell through
a trap door into the cellar of one of his
neighbour houses, on Monday evening,
and dislocated his left shoulder.
The people of Cleveland, LIE Sueur
County, at meeting the other day,
proposed to raise $4,000 to make cam
vass for the removal Of the county seat
to that village.
The survey of che Mississippi River
above the Falls of St. Anthony is pro-
pressing satisfactorily. Monday the
surveying party were at point few
miles above Monticello.
e:PArsEY" Downs, of Wells, Farlbault
county, was sentenced to thirty days
confinement in the county Jail, last
Saturday, for abusing his wife, while
drunk.
LAST Wednesday Mrs. Henry Krieser
of Iosco, Waseca county, while at work
at sorghum mill, had one Of her
hands caught in the cogs of the mill
and terribly crushed.
THE Republicans of the eleventh ju-
ecal district in convention at Brainerd,
Thursday, nominated 0. Z. Stearns of
that city by reclamation, Capt. Sleeper
of Bralnerd, withdrawing.
YOUNG girl named Mary Bache, at
Minnesota Lake. Faribault county, had
her foot badly cut by reaper while
unhitching team on W Wednesday. The
foot was amputated. Miss Bache is
doing well.
THREsHERs report the average yield
Of wheat in Benton co@nty at Is bush
els per acre. Oats are said to be much
better. while the corn cropis rs gooG as
ever before raised in that region.
MICHAEL CANNON, Jr., of Montgom
cry, LIE Sueur County, caught his hand
in the gearing of threshing machine
Tuesday, injuring it so badly as to
necessitate the amputation of the whole
hand.
WINoNA is still Fostering itself over
the project of supplying the city with
water by the Holly works. The cost
for works suitable to the present and
prospective wants of the city is 1925,
sa3-a pretty tough nut to crack thes'
hard times.
LAST Friday Litchfeld had visi
from the electric fluid. The chimney
Of Ekbom's house was struck ane
knocked to pieces the lightning tor,
the walls and ceilings, and damaged tn
building $3.50 worth.
Mr.. W. H. BENNETT and wife o
Mortified, enjoyed a silver weddin,
Saturday evening last. A large gath
ering of friends, and numerous nea
and costly testimonials, made the occa
sion one to be pleasantly remembered
NoRrHrELD has just put in operation
free reading room, and on Wednesda,
sor. ef an informal dedication meetins
was held, which was largely ATTENDED
by the friends Of tho enterprise.
The synod Of Minnesota meets in tn,
arst Presbyterian church, Saltwater
Thursday evening, the oath inst, an,
will be opened by sermon from tn
Rev. J. G. Riheldaffer, D. D., of st
Paul.
THE new gas works at Saltwater ar
so nearly completed. that it is now ex
pected to give it an experimental tria
on Monday evening next. The gas il
the same as that in use in Red Win,
and Faribault, and the works were pu
IN by the same gentleman as in thos
cities, Mr.. {. II. Nash.
Mr.. RICH, of Highland, Wabash,
county. was driving near the track o
the NJ. i St. P. railroad Tuesday. whe,
his horses took fright at passing trail,
ard became unmanageable. The WACO,
in which he was riding was completed,
demolished, and two Of Mr.. Rich's rib
were broken.
J. B. MrLLIKEN, Of Winona, Genera