The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-09-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Willie Tomey, Of Mankato, had
a leg broken while jumping.
Ida, daughter Of Frank Law
renee, of Minneapolis, was drowned in
Lake Calhoun last Monday.
-Mankato has negotiated $4,000
Of school bonds with Eastern parties
at ten per cent. interest.
The coopers at Chatfeld are on
a strike, the difference between them
and the millers being only one cent a
barrel.
w. S. Braddock, Of Mankato,
has received an appointment in the
Pension Office at Washington, and
has gone to fill it.
The committee of relief for grass
hopper sufferers has received supplies
sufficient to carry the dependents
through to midwinter.
: Allan Giltner and Harry
Toombs, of Faribault, were arrested
last Monday for horse stealing done
last May.
Mr.. S. Bradley, about one mile
northwest of the city, threshed six
acres of wheat lately which averaged
80 bushels to the acre.-Fariba,llt
Republican.
james H. Robertson, yardmaster
at the St. Paul and Pacific depot,
Minneapolis, decamped Monday af
ternoon with $617.75 of the Compa-
ny's money.
On Sunday of last week some
tramp entered the house of Mr.. w. A.
Pell, in Elgin, while the family were
gone, and stole a hundred dollars in
money and a pistol.
"A man named Smith, employed
on the night force of the Mankatc
Linseed Oil company, caught his arm
in the machinery and had it horribly
mangled. He will probably lose it
IN. M. Pond, of Faribault while
returning home Wednesday night wa
set upon and cruelty beaten by two
men, whom he recognized as Jos
Lawrence and VIM. Cromer, who wer'
arrested.
"A young chap named VIM. Jones
who stole pocketbook containing
500 at Brainerd, has just served hi
one year in the State Prison and beer
released. His parents, who live il
FEngland, are quite wealthy and sen
an uncle to take the lad back home.
"A Worthington farmer thus con
soles himself in his loss from grass
hoppers: II don't like them, il
course I don't, but I can give 'en
half my crop and then do better a
farming in Minnesota than in *Yor]
State "-Rreston Republican.
! Levi and Ed Stevens Will
threshing in the town Of Marion
! Olmstead county, had their separate
burned by fire caused by friction
Loss $40. The separator Of Wn
Cook, Of Elgin, in the same county, wa
burned by spark from the stea1
thresher. Loss 800.
AT Elgin, on Thursday night {
last week, harvester who stoppe
} over night at the hotel, hung b
pants, with hundred and sixty do
lars in the pocket, on his bed pos
and woke up in the morning to fin
that his pocket had shrunk just thu
much.-Rochester Post.
IN. Kortman, Swede man en-
ployed in Taylor & Co.'s saw-mill .
Rush City, accidentally slipped Frida,
throwing his right arm between tt
cog-wheels, manglingit fearfully. tt
arm was amputated close to theshou
der. His breast being injured, make
his recovery doubtful.
"A man named Martin, with a
> accomplish, stole two horses of Pet
> Hanson, of Moorehead. The thiev'
we're reported to have crossed I'M
t Manitoba from Pembina. The chi
ofpolice at Winnipeg was notified, an
met Martin and his assistant at
! stage station. A lively fight ensue
in which Martin was captured, aft
being roughly handled, and the otht
thief escaped With a brace Of bulle
in his hide.