The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

WELLS wants steam grist mill.
THE public schools Of Saltwater re-
open Monday.
A CITIZEN of LIE Sueur is carrying
$4,000 life insurance. :.
MARTIN county will have its fair on
the 9th and 9th Of October.
The town of Havcrhill, Olnsted
county, is to have q town hall.
SIxrY.FoUR shares have been sub
scribed for Grange warehouse in Wa
SEGA.
TIE Methodist church at Sauk Rap
ids has been supplied with fine new
organ
TwENry-rHREE farmers have organ
lied a Grange Chapter in jackson
County.
The Democrats of Sherburne county
nominated G. II. Chadbourne for Rep
reseatative yesterday
The towing business on the St. C<eix
is so dull that owners Of tow-boats are
discharging their crews and banking
their boats.
IT is reported that Prof. Raiser and
. anothc: party, are soon to start Ger
man paper, Democratic in politics, in
St. Cloud.
The Changers in and about Cannon
Falls propose to unite on day for the
public sale of horses, cattle, and farm
produce generally at that point.
FIT. ST.. JOHN of Winona fell through
q trap door into the cellar of one of his
ncighbor' houses, on Monday evening,
and dislocated his left shoulder.
The people of Cleveland, LIE Sueur
County, at meeting the other day,
proposed to raise $4,000 to make can.
vass for the removal of the eounty.seat
to that village.
The survey of the Mississippi River
above the Falls of St. Anthony is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. Monday the
surveying party were at point few
miles above Monticello.
"PArsEy'' Downs, of Wells, Faribault
county, was sentenced to thirty days
confinement in the county Jail, last
Saturday, for abusing his wife, while
drunk.
LAST Wednesday Mrs. Henry Krieser
Of Iosco, Waseca county, while at work
at sorghum mill, had one Of her
hands caught in the cogs Of the mill
and terribly crushed.
The Republicans Of the eleventh ju.
dicial district in convention at Brainerd,
Thursday, nominated 0. T. Stearns of
that city by acclamation, Capt. Sleeper
Of Bra,nerd, withdrawing.
A YOUNG girl named Mary Bache, at
Minnesota Lake. Faribault county, had
her foot badly cut by reaper while
unhitching team on Wednesday. The
foot was amputated. Miss Bache is
doing we'll.
THREsHERs report the average yield
of wheat in Benton co:nty at l3 bush
els per acre. Oats are said to be much
better, while the corn cropis as goo1 as
ever before raised in that region.
MICHAEL GAkNoN, Jr., of Montgom
cry, LIE Sueur County, caught his hand
in the gearing of a threshing machine
Tuesday, injuring it so badly as to
necessitate the amputation of the whole
hand.
W1NoNA is still Fostering itself over
the project Of supplying the city With
water by the Holly works. The cost
for works suitable to the present and
prospective wants Of the city is $685.
7o3-a pretty tough nut to crack these
hard times.
LAST Friday Litchfield had visit
from the electric fluid. The chimney
of Ekbom's house was struck and
knocked to pieces the lightning tore
the walls and ceilings, and damaged the
building $3.50 worth.
Mr.. w. H. BENNETT and wife of
Mortified, enjoyed silver wedding
Saturday evening last. A large gath
ering of friends. and numerous neat
and costly testimonials, made the occa-
sion one to be pleasantly remembered.
NoRrHF1ELD has just put in operation
a free reading room, and on Wednesday
sort ef an informal dedication meeting
was held, which was largely attended
by the friends of tho enterprise.
The synod of Minnesota meets in the
first Presbyterian church, Saltwater,
Thursday evening, the Oath inst, and
will be opened by sermon from the
Rev. j. G. Riheldafer, D. D., of St.
Paul. :
The new gas works at Saltwater are
so nearly completed, that it is now ex.
pccted to give it an experimental trial