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

brought into Madelia, Watonwan coun-
ty, on the 1st.
A NEW wagon has been put upon the
stage route between New Ulm and
Redwood Falls.
n HARvEGTER was stolen from a gra-
nary near Madelia last week. The
owner is 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 WHALLoS, the Dodge County
Republican says, can shake hands with
more acquaintance in Minnesota than
any man living.
JOHN CARTER, living near Owatonna,
is suffering from broken arm. received
at the end of short excursion from a
bull horns.
DULUTH has scandal case, but the
parties are poor and out Of society, and
nobody cares about it. Poverty and
Eowl y 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
cr 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.
IT 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
crvation, although they have not had
the best Of crops, contributed 1855 for
relief Of the southwest people who
AAA" y AOOS 0AA GAVAA NAOpos
The barn of E. P. D. Kimball of
Waitham, Mower county, was burned
recently. Eight horses in the barn
were rescued. Loss $3.50; insured for
$l0O in the Farmers.
SAND RIVER brags Of seven pound
brook trout.
JACKSON county farmers are early
piowing up the ground gone over by
the grasshoppers with view to i'm
prove the next years crop.
F. HAcuEsE 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 good
deal of glass in the central part of the
city.
OwAroNSA has cleared away its bond
cd debt for railroads, all but $4OO, and
owes besides only for it's school house.
OK DR.. Hanilton's place in Kingsto n
Neeker county, during the storm Of the
9Th inst, hail fell the size Of a man s
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 as scalawag whose
assertion that he was robbed is un-
worthy Of belief.
TaE Steele county fair is to be at
Owatonna on Friday and Saturday, the
18th and 26th Of September
JOSEPH KERN has returned to his
friends at Delano, cured Of insanity by
several months treatment at the State
asylum.
LAKE Madison, ten miles from Man.
kato, is becoming a favorite place of re.
sort for the people of Maakato and Wis.
itors to that place.
By the St. Cloud Press we see that
Rice and others, trustees, have filed
notice of the pendency Of their suit fol-
foreclosure against the St. Paul and
Pacific company, which is probably de.
signed to prevent the company selling
any of its lands until the suit is decided,
A Tricky Prisoner.
[Fllmore County Republican,
John Warner, the horse thief vho