The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-26
MINNESOTA NEWS items.

"A AOOo6 VI OOOu 1cmp1aTS mas DecD eS- |
tablished at Litchfield.
HE Patrons in jackson county have
just organized county council.
The Yellowstone expedition, of 1871.
is being written up by the Little Falls
Courier.
The post Office at Otter Tail has been
re-established, and j. Nash appointed
postmaster.
"BUcKwHEAT Flowur for Sale Here,''
reads sign ornamenting Mankato bust
ness house.
REV. Mr.. Door has been holding
series of meetings at Red Jacket, result.
ing in twelve conversions.
Representative Frazee has opened a
road from Frazce City to Pelican Rapids
at his personal expense.
HE cheese box mandatory of J. B.
Bassett, at Genoa, Olmsted county, man
utacturcd 5000 cheese boxes last year.
AN incorporation of citizens Of Chisago
county is being formed for the construc-
ton of driving park at Long Branch.
The Eagle Lake Golden Prize is the
name Of new paper in Blue Earth coua-
ty. The Prize must be seen to be ap.
preclated.
THE Mankato Revieac says that expert
ments made with view to Matching
grasshopper eggs in that &locality
uniformly succeed.
MERRY and Williams, the Faribault
county horse thieves, recently captur ed
at Moorhead, are now in the penitentlary.
Williams is lad of Is.
E1GHTY-s1x pupils are attending the
normal department Of the Mankato nor
nal school the present term. Of these
twenty-five are new students.
ANTON MILLER of Stearns county had his
feet SO badly frozen in the storm of the
9Th that it is feared both will have to be
amputated.
The store Of the St. Croix Lumber
Company in South Saltwater, with the
contents, was burned Thursday evening.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The Madelia Herald attributes the
large falling off in the number of mar
rlages in Watonwan county the past year
to the pestiferous grasshoppers, and the
maids refuse to be comforted.
The granary of Mr.. Joseph Hanahan,
near Eyota, Olmstcd county, was burned
the 18th inst, with 1000 bushels of
wheat, 600 bushels of oats, and consider.
able farm machinery. Incendiary.
The house of Mr.. John Hilbert, in the
town of Rollingstone, Winona county,
was burned Saturday. Most of the
household goods and furniture were
saved. Insured for $4,000.
The orphans fair at Shakopee last
week, nettcd 81, 1920.
The Shakopee Argus commenced it's
fourteenth volume with its issue of Thurs
day last.
The amount Of wheat marketed at Kas-
son for the year 1874, aggregated ll4,500
bushels.
The common council and citizens of
Austin are considering the question
lighting the city by gas.
MISS MARTHA MCNAMARA, of Rice coun-
ty, while visiting friends in Dakota coun-
ty, was taken violently insane. and has
been sent to the insane asylum at Saint
Peter.
They ale down with the shaft of the
Taylor's Falls copper mine. So confident
are the practical miners engaged in this
work that they accept stock in prefer
ence to cash in payment OF wages.
The cooper shop of Messrs. Doud, Son
u Co., Winona, was burned Friday morn
ing. Loss $1,000; insurance $500. The
workmen lost tools to the value of 5000.
The shop will be rebuilt Immediately.
THOUGH Wells had a good fire depart
ment on the occasion of the recent fire, it
was not effective for the reason
most ofits members removed to Hokah
with the machine shops.
ARTICLES Of incorporation have been
filed for the formation of the Duluth and
Iron Range Railroad Company. The
capital stock of the company is $4,000
600, divided into 10000 shares of 800
each.
WHILE little five year old daughter of
Alexander Gallagher of Dundas was put
ting some wood in the stove Tuesday of
last week, her clothing took fire, burning
her so badly as to cause her death in
few hours.
JOHN MCGOWAN of Saltwater, employed
in scaling logs for Hersey, Bean & Brown,
in going from one camp to another, Fri
day the 6th, lost his way and was over