The Grange advance., 1874-11-04
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

6imhCouIA nIUo tlIMo'
A HEAVY hail storm visited portions
Of Nicollet county Sunday.
Rev. ScH1vE, a Catholic priest at
Faribault, died Friday afternoon.
An Owatonna cow spread herself the
other day in giving birth to three calves.
The people Of Anoka are talking of
building $l25, 600 steam cotton mill.
A DISEASE resembling epizooty has
broken out among the horses in Alex.
andria.
Hon. CLARK W. THOMPSON proposes to
build large steam Touring mill at
Wells.
THos. HEFFERNoN, who shot his wife
a year ago at Fort Ripley, has been
sentenced to State prison for life.
Mr.. S1LAs GAsK1Ll of High Forest,
Olmsted county, is going to St. Johns.
burg, Vt., to attend reunion of the
daskill family.
TIE residence of Mr.. L. S. Howe of
Rochester, together with nearly all the
furniture, was burned Thursday morn
ing. Loss 1900 with no insurance.
A YOUNG man named VIM. James of
st. Charles, who was badly mangled in
q thresbing machine a few DAYS ago,
died Friday night Of lockjaw.
The schools in two districts of Chi
sago county have been closed, one owing
to the prevalence of measles and the
other Of whocping cough.
The Congregational Church at Owa-
tonna, after having been refitted and
otherwise improved, was re-dedicated
Sunday last
TRACK laying on the Wells and Man
kato road is completed. This opens
new route between the southern part ef
the State and St. Paul.
SATURDAY of last week q young lad
named Cummings, son Of widow Cum.
mings of Medo, Blue Earth county, &C.
cidontally shot himself in the mouth
and expired within five minutes.
ABOUT thirty Changers in the vicinity
Of Glencoe turned out the other day
and plowed a 3O.acre field for Mrs.
Chase, the widow Of the late, W. D.
Chase.
The County Council P. of II. of
Wright, at its last meeting adopted a
resolution recommending the farmers
ofthat county to -four their own wheat
rs far as possible.
A CORRESPONDENT Of The St. Peter
Catechist says the bean crop of Martin
county has been an almost entire failure
and the English immigrants are greatly
disappointed.
MARTIN UPPER, fireman on the Vino
ma & St. Peter railroad, fell from the
tender as the train was approaching
Owatonna Friday, sustaining severe
and it it is feared fatal injuries.
SoxE of the Changers Of Rice county
com bined and bought 500 hundred bar
rels Of apples, which we're distributed
TO the members at wholesale cost. That
is kind Of cooperation that pays.
ANDREW McCARrY Of Belle PLANE
was thrown from his wagon Thursday
nlght, the wheel striking his head,
breaking his skull and producing hor-
Fible wo and on his head. Some hopes
are entertained Of his recovery. =,
TIE trial Of Andrew Roos at. Will
nar, for the murder of L. Wilson, re.
suited in finding Of guilty, and he,
was sentenced BY Judge Vanderburg to
iRpeisonmcntf for life. Roos asserted
his inn1cehce to the last. s.3
Ha1alasr d D., son Of, VIM. Thompson of
St. Closd, while around the machinery
of = staye min IL Santiago, Shsibhrne.
county, Mae 90 .unfortpnatel ~ to have
1sasH seaght u lfhs Hnll wheel
1ariing tke ish of tAe azntv1 thirds
of tie Wy from the elbo~-to til ah1casii1-.a.
A3E,4nd, the md of iene 3of tlalknn}k1e
ntg q ths albow bro&ea. h ids-
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