The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-19
MINNEsOTANEWs.

Barnum's Hippodrome took in
g at Minneapolis Tuesday.
Il Parker Paine, the well-known
banker Of St. Paul, died Tuesday.
Ginseng diggers are making
from So to 81 per day in the Chat
field woods. ,....~....,....:. .......
The wife of w. w. Erwin, a St.
Paul lawyer, has obtained a divorce
on the ground OF cruel and inhuman
treatment. @.-s ,*.s25s
Fillmore county is to have no
less than three fairs this fall, as fol-
lows: at Spring Valley, Preston and
Lanesboro. 4. a.esys. -, 1t TX >s.. y lTsa
"A fire at Minneapolis Sunday
evening destroyed a house occupied
by M. M. Cruikshank. Loss, $4,000.
Insurance, $1,000. Il. w. 5>.arss.s
"A Bouquet is wanted in Mime
apolis. His maiden name is Will
lam, and he Aeeced Wilson & Tiffany,
music dealers, out Of $3.50.
The safe of Geo. II. Whiting and
Co., Minneapolis, was opened by burg
lars Tuesday night. The plum
der amounted to only $50. .,s
From the different places where
it-has exhibited come reports that
| thieves and hard cases of every de-
scription accompany Barnum's Hip.
podrome.
-:.-Thos. Condor, convicted Of the
murder of VIM. ". Churchill in Cher
ry Grove, Goodhue county, has been
taken to the State prison to serve a
life sentence.
st. Charles is to have city wa
ter supply for public use from three
windmills, and tanks put up and
kept in repair for three years at an
expense of $1,000. -:
| Train No. s. going west on the
Winona & St. Peter road, on Friday;
struck a baby, throwing it into ;: the
ditch. The little one was sunhur'
with the exception Of a slight bruise
on one leg. IT,. H.
Mr.. Gassel's little boy who fell
from a church steeple the other day
at Window, met with another misfor'
tune Monday afternoon by running
on scythe and cutting himself very
and that didn't kill him. g..
Two "old settlers" at Rochester
were burned last week. They were
buildings erected in 1853 and 1859
the one belonging to R. Porter and
the other to E. M. Bennett. Loss or
buildings and stock $500, with nj
insurance.
"A Litchfeld boy put his heae
through the hole in one of those &C
commodation family chairs for infants
and then couldn't get it out until al
afectionate parent sawed the thing
in two, and released the youth who
put his wrong end into the aperature
.. BY the will of the late Charlie
Schefer, Of st. Paul, his residence on
Summit avenue, and his life insuurr
ance, amounting to $4,000. j. add
tiou to some undrawn dividends, ar,
] bequeathed to his wife, together will
one third; Of, the, remainder. Of tn
PROPERTY. after deducting some small
bequests to dependent relatives. Th;
other two-thirds are 'bequeathed t,
his children, of whom there are four
VIM Hitchcock, better know
to frontiersmen and readers of, MI
Beadle's little books, as "Wild Bill
left Brainerd for the west one .da,
last week bound for Bismarck, from
thence up the river. He has cut. Of
his long hair and heavy ,moustache
dotted his buck-skin suit, laid away
his revolvers for the present, ant
looks like some well-to-do tourist il
search of some new excitement, in
stead of the daring scout and Indian
fighter he really u.s., whose reckless
deeds have made his name familiar
: the world over.