The Grange advance., 1874-10-07
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

MsNH6OU1A W6VO 2NOs
WILD geese are very plenty in the
northwestern part Of the State.
CHArp1E1.D is talking narrow gauge
railroad up the Root valley to Fun
tain.
ANDREW MYERS Of St. Cloud, in get
ting out of wagon the other day, fell
and broke his arm.
A BEET weighing eleven and a half
pounds is what Mr.. C. Z. Stacy, of
Olmsted, is Dragging about. Beet it.
TwESrY-slx sheep belonging to George
Baihly were killed by dogs on his farm
south of Rochester one day last week.
IT is claimed that valuable iron mine
has been discovered in one Of the hills
embraced in the corporate limits Of
Duluth.
Ma. H. J. PEcx Of Chaska is soon to
remove to Sha&opee, where be will form
partnership with Hon. L. NJ. Brown,
for the practice Of law.
MEssRs. WEARY & Joshs Of St.
Cloud have the contract for nanufac-
turing forty bob.sieds for l.. T.. Bent
ley Of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
TIE Fergus Falls Advocote says
':wheat is coming in in fair quantities,
Page & Scott taking all that is offered
from IS to IS cents, according to quail
.ty.
NEARr.7 a thousand head Of cattle,
belonging 70 Olmsted farmers. herded
during the summer in Mower county,
passed through Rochester one day last
week, being returned to- their owners.
THE Excelsior cheese: factory, Ohm
sted county, has stopped operations af.
ter a successful season, turning out
from $4,000 to $4,000 cheese, for which
the milk from 100 to 10 COWS was used.
REAL ESTATE in Chatfield seems to be
in healthy condition, Not long ago
piece of property sold for $500. A
little later the same property sold for
$500, and last week it was again sold,
bringing 81, 100. '..
THE Sherbune County News requests
that delinquent subscribers will not
permit their daughters to use the paper
for hustle. There being so much
due on it there is danger Of catching
cold.
Mrs. DAvY, wife Of George Davy,
of Rochester, disgusted by family trou.
bles with life, attempted suicide Sun.
day of Last week by swallowing an
ounce and half Of belladonna- The
poison we'll down, Mrs. Davy changed
her mind, and fortunately in time to
allow stomach pump to remove the
drug.
A MozEMESr is in progress for tenn
porary or permanent union of the Con-
gregational and Presbyterian churches
of Lake City.
The Northwestern: German Confer.
ence raet in Winona Thursday. and will
probably hold five days. Bishop
Ames Of Baltimore will preside.
TEE Duluth Iron Works have recent
ly changed hands. Mr.. B. S. Russell,
the new proprietor, proposes to go ex-
tensively into the manufacture Of
stoves of various kinds.
TEE new hall at Lake City: 60xS0, is
to be known as the @4!Academy Of Ma-
sic.' The hall is rapidly approaching
completion, and it is claimed will be one
OF the finest la the State.
Tns Lake City Se,,t;'ss1~ gives the
balloon frauds recently in this State
the following excellent send-off: Prof
Dcnniston and his gang should have
been ducked in the lake. They are I'M
posters aud consummate scoWndrels.' .
THE bean crop Of the English colony
in Martin county, is said to be COM
splete success, having escaped all dam,
age from frost, Mr.. .Shearman, the
head Of the colony, and other members,
will go tofEngland this fall, and expect
60 be accompanied Oh their return in
the spring, by . nu1nher Of families to
join the colony