The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-09-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The Audubon Journal has sus-
nended nuhlicntion.

The Audubon Journal has sus-
pended publication.
Otter Tail county reports a
wheat average Of 20 bushels; oats,
As bushels.
The bodies of the two sons of Mr.. |
Richards, drowned at Minnesota on
Monday, were found on Thursday.
The dwelling house Of F. R.
Morton, of Rochester,, was burned
last Friday. Furniture saved. Loss
$4,000.
The dwelling house of G. j.
johnson, of High Forest, was burned
last Thursday. Loss $4,000; i'll
sured for $500.
About fifteen bushels to the acre
is what the Plainview correspondent
of the Wabasha Herald says of the
yield of wheat on Greenwood Prairie.
The Minneapolis Soap Factory
was burned last Saturday. Loss
$4,000; insured for $4,000. Isaac
w. Fletcher was the owner of the
property.
Hon. Thos. H Armstrong is
mentioned by the Albert Lea Standard
as about to start a bank at that place,
to be opened on the 10Th of this
month.
-Thisyear'syield fMinnesotawheat
is unusually rich in gluten, and is SUI
perior to any ever grown by us be-
fore, the millers say.-Mira''eopolis
Mail.
"A young son of R. s. Case, of
Westford, Martin county, was shot by
the accidental discharge of a gun he
was taking out of a wagon, and dan
gerously injured.
R. H. Cove, ESQ.,, got back on
Thursday from q trip of a couple Of
weeks through Missouri and Kansas.
He reports the latter State as cleaned
out by the grasshoppers.-Rochester
Post.
"A little two-years' old daughter
of Peter Sissen, Of St. Paul, was run
over last Friday by carriage and
killed, the occupants Of the vehicle
never 50 much as looking back to see
how great injury had been done by
their criminal carelessness.
The store Of Lyman Turner, Jr.,
at Winnebago City was entirely de-
stroyed by fire Monday night at 10
o'clock, with the entire stock and
household goods. Loss $4,000; in
sured for $4,000. The post Office was
also burned.
The Minnehaha Falls Hotel, the
property of Col. Shaw, was seized
Monday on a chattel mortgage of
$4,000 given to the Bank of Mime
apolis. The officer placed a man in
charge Of the concern until such time
as the property can be sold.
"A test case will soon be brought
before Judge Mitchell to see whether
the money now collected by the city
Of Winona for liquor Licenses,
amounting to $1,000 annually, must
go. to the county instead of the city
treasury, under the general law re-
quiring all dealers in the county to
obtain licenses.
j. Fairchild Smith, one of the
founders of Dover and a large wheat
buyer, died at Rochester on Tuesday
from the effects Of a fall from a
freight car. He was on freight
car, a sudden start Of which caused
him to fall over, striking his head on
a tie and breaking his skull. he was
one of the best known and most infu-
entail men Of Olmsted county.
Hon. P. H. Rahilly Of Wabasha
county says he has had enough of
Odessa wheat. Out of 100 acres his
yield will not average him over a
bushel to the acre, on account, we
suppose, of the rust, as this variety is
liable to it. Mr.. Rahilly thinks the
wheat crop of this year will not be
even two-thirds that of last, and ad-
vises the farmers to hold it for better
prices, as he thinks when grain buy
ers come to realize the shortness of
the crop they will advance the price.
Farmers Union.