The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.


A BANK is about to be established in
Glencoe. vera #
PAULINE Colby of Taylor's Fails was
bitten by dog Tuesday evening.
TIE assessment of Lu Verne, Rock
county, is something ever $57, 900.
CHAuNcY BUTLER of Litchfield, Meek
er county, began cutting his spring
wheat Saturday last.
RUMoRs are afoat that the S. M. rail-
way is soon to have new set Of mana
gers.
HARVEST wages in Rice county range
from $3.50 to SO day, and hands are
plenty.
SIX passenger coaches left Winona
Tuesday and again Wednesday, loaded
with harvest hands.
FRANK GARDNER, a young man of Mic
oilet county, was sun struck last week
and is not expected to recover.
Two more railroad switches are to be
put in at Litchfield-one for the new
elevator and one for the steam Touring
mill.
The Rock County Herald says Mr..
Douglass, Of that county, drives the
gray horse which Little Crow rode at
| the battle of wood Lake.
Two of the Indians who robbed In
gerbrett Oleson, of Otter Tail county,
of the jug of alcohol he had bought for
haying, have been arrested.
THE LIE Sueur Sentinel is informed
of locusts' eggs being deposited in
Nicollet and Blue Earth counties, some
times over 100 to the square inch.
In Richland, Rice county, Francis
Berdell, about II years old, in some
way fell in front of a mower in motion
and his arm was cut off at the elbow.
TIE farmers in the vicinity of Brock
inridge are quite successful in keeping
the locusts off their fields by keeping
the fields covered with smoke.
| A GRAIN warehouse is to be built at
Redwood Pals, by local company in
corporated under the general law.
TIE commissioners of Pine county
have decided to put in passable condi-
ton the road laid out last fall from
Rush City to the St. Croix.
NoRrHFIELD grangers have done we'll.
Last winter they gave $l03 for relief of
the grasshopper region and now they
give $lO7 more and Is barrels of -four.
| MONDAY the first load of the new
wheat crop was delivered at Waseca, by
j. d. Sabin Of Freeborn township, who
commenced his threshing last Saturday.
A DROVE of Isl head of beef cattle
have been taken from Wright county
to be wintered at Georgetown in Clay
county. The drive is near $50 miles.
FROM Woodbury., Washington coun-
ty, it is reported that farmers, on going
into their fields, find the wheat likely to
yield not more than two-thirds fair
crop.
DIR. BALLARD and others, of Albert
Lea, think enough locust eggs have
been deposited in parts of Freedom
county to threaten trouble next season.
JAMES You've of Baldwin, Isanti
county, dropped dead Sunday last while
feeding his stock. His death is sup
posed to have been caused by heart dis
| ease.
TRIPLES were recently born to Mrs.
Henry Mangeles, of LIE Sueur, to
another lady in Tyrone, and to third in
| the lower part of Nicollet county-all
in the fruitful Minnesota valley.
In lakewood, Wabashaw county, near
Melville post Office, Friday fast week,
Godfried Bunger, farmer. committed SUI
icide by hanging himself to a small oak
sapling with bag string.
A BOY named Mcdonald, in trying to
take loaded gun by the muzzle from
boat, Monday last, near Fair Haven
in the southern part of Stearns county,
was fatally wounded.
SHERIFF SMITH, of Wabashaw county,
is trying to cath a thief by the name
| of Miller who stole pair of horses at
Hudson. The horses have been re-
claimed but Miller don't propose to be.
SUNDAY night last, W. S. Crosby was
walking on Seventh street, Faribault,
when he met two men, one of whom
knocked Mr.. Crosby down, injuring him
considerably. No cause for the assault
| is known.
A TWO year old child Of Peter Keat-
ing, who lives upon the bank Of small
lake near Breckenridge was drowned
Tuesday. It was absent from the house
only few minutes before being missed
and searched for.
FRED CARLTON, who was bathing in
the pond at Sank Rapids the other eve
ming, sat on log with his feet in the
water when large fish seized one Of
his feet and bit it so as to inflict fearful
gashes. The fish took in at least half
his foot.
/ A. H. WHEELER of Waseca county
| undertook to nav a debt to r.. r. Int