The Grange advance., 1874-08-19
MINNESOTA: NEWS ITEMS.

'as .sT> ses MINNESOTA n: 4 ]. EWs ITEMS, =,
TnES first new spring wheat !; VAS
brought into Mad leila, w atonwan coun-
7 ty, on the list. 80. ..- us ~
'''' A NEW wagon has been put upon the
stage route between New .Ulm and
Redwood Falls. -
"A HARVESTER was stolen from q gra-
: nary near Madelia last week. The
A. owner ID away at work, in some other
county.
Two pickpockets, caught in the act,
have been held for trial at Winona, un-
DER the names of VIM. Flanagan and
Maurice May. ..*
MAJOR WHA11oN, the Dodge County
, Republican says, can shake hands with
more acquaintance in Minnesota than
any man living.
JoHx CARTER, living near Owatonna,
is suffering from a broken arm. received
at the end Of = short excursion from q
: bulls horns.
DULUTH has scandal case, but the
parties are poor and out of society, and
nobody cares about it. Poverty and
lowly position have their advantages.
A BANKER of Winona is confident
that fresh counterfeits of the Traders
National Bank of Chicago were
"shoved' in that city the last of last
week.
A TRAMP in the town Of Austin, Now
= or county, was given breakfast last
week by James Officer, and requited
the hospitality by stealing $27 from his
host.
Two sets Of double harness were
stolen from the stable of NJ. Edison,
near Mantorville, recently. The night
before DR.. Mclaughlin, of Mantorville,
also lost harness.
1t was a smoker, who threw his
lighted match away, without noticing
where it fell, that caused the burning
of Capt. Heaney's barn on the Roches-
ter fair grounds.
The Indians of the White Earth Res
ervation, although they have not had
the best Of crops, contributed $3.50 for
relief Of the southwest people who
have lost all their crops.
The barn Of E. P. D. Kimball of
Waltham, Mower county, was burned
recently. Eight horses in the barn
were rescued. Loss $3.50; insured for
: 500 in the Farmers.
SAND RIVER brags Of a seven pound
brook trout.
JACKSON county farmers are early
plowing up the ground gone over by
the grasshoppers with a view to i'm
prove the next years crop.
F. HAcHEsE Of New Ulm, committed
suicide Monday morning BY shooting
himself four times, once in the head
near the eye and three times in the
breast.
passing over his breast. He died at l
o'clock yesterday morning.
The hail storm struck Duluth Sun.
day afternoon, the 9th, and broke a good
deal of glass in the central part of the
city.
OwArosxA has cleared away it's bond
ed debt for railroads, al but $40O, and
owes besides only for it's school house.
On DR.. Hamilton's place in Kingston
Meeker county, during the storm Of the
9Th inst, hail fell the size of mans
fist. >,':
The body Of young lady named
Dora Felch was found last Friday near
Spring Valley, Fillmore county. A
post mortem examination determined
that she had taken a large dose of
strychnine, which she had obtained the
day before. Temporary insanity WAS
the cause assigned.
The man who pretended he was rob-
bed not long ago near Austin of five or
six thousand dollars is denounced by
Iowa acQuaintances rs scalawag whose
assertion that he was robbed is un.
worthy Of belief.
The Steele county fair is to be at
Owatonna on Friday and Saturday, the
25th and 26th Of September
JOSEPH KERN has returned to his
friends at Delano, cured Of insanity by
several months treatment at the State
asylum. '5'.'s%'. 3" -
LAKE Madison, ten miles from Man.
kato, is becoming favorite place Of re-.
sort for the people Of Mankato and Wis.
itors to that place. ::1.:' ~": '~'' j
ee..Bys the St. Cloud. Rrsss.u xsssee that,
Rice and others, trustees, haye filed
notice Of the pendency Of their Z suit fol,
foreclosure against the St. Paul and
Pacific company, vhih is probably de.
signed to prevent the comranv selling