The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-02
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

RUSH CITY is to have new grist md
the coming season. r..
The improvements at Moorheal last
year aggregated 3,oS6.37.
D. NJ. PYLE has severed his connection
With the Hutchinson Enterprise.
B. F. PAUL, leading citizen of st.
Peter, who has been dangerously i'll for
some time past, is convalescing.
ONE Eugene Rising contemplates start
ing paper at hontivideo, ChipPewa
county.
A 6O-HoRsE power saw mill will. in al
probabilities, be put in at Brainerd in the
spring.
The owners of the ferry chatter =.
W1nona are moving to secure an extern
sion of the charter for ten years.
NOTWITHSTANDING the hard times $4,000
worth of village lots have been sold at
Minnesota Falls since January LIST.
Hon. I. S. VAN DYKE of Wabashaw
is writing the Herald interesting Beecher-
Tllton letters directly from the seat OF
war.
The Patrons of Husbandry CT Mower
county are moving for the establishment
of mandatory of farm machinery -
that county.
HE store of I. II. Warner, at Sunrise.
was burned Thursday, the 18th. Loss on
building and stock about $4,000, with
$500 insurance.
The shaft of the Taylor Falls copper
mine is down y feet, and drifting has
commenced. The show of copper con-
tlnues to improve.
The LIE Sueur Sentinel calls attention
to the demoralized condition of the postal
service in that county, as a proper mat
ter to be investigated.
PRAIRIE wolves are quite plenty in and
about Rochester this winter, several hav-
ing been caught and killed Immediately
on the outskirts of the city.
The Rev. j. B. futile, Baptist cler-
gyman Of Anoka, has gone to studying
law; and j.. W. Steele, Esq, lately =
lawyer at Brainerd, is now stud wing the
ology in Ohio.
MIR. JOHN HARTMAN of Wells creek.
Goodhue county; while driving home from
Red Wing, on Saturday the 18th, was
stricken with paralysis, and lived but
few hours.
HE Green Bay & Minnesota railroad
company are putting on large string Of
piles to guard their elevator and freight
dock at Winona from damage by ice in
the spring.
SUNDAY evening Minneapolis rough
named Jack Sexton made brutal assault
on Mr.. G. Schlefke, merchant of Water
town, and robbed him of $500 in money.
Sexton made his escape.
WABAsHAw Herald: Talk about Min
nesota's coolest tropical beside Wiscon-
SIN; for gentleman informs us that
spirit thermometer at Chippewa Falls
marked down to So during the late cold
snap.
The Mankato Reriew says the mean
temperature for January last was 2 IL
degrees below zero, and it was the coolest
month for forty-two years. 1t was the
meanest temperature ever experienced,
and required lots of forty-two'd to en-
durc it.
LIE SuEUR Sentinel: A L. Sutton in
forms us that he recently purchased an
oak log at Cordova that scaled nearly 500
feet of lumber. The oak, ash and walnut
timber OF LIE Sueur county is not sur
passed in quality by any forests in the
Northwest.
W1NoSA Republican The weather
suddenly grew ''sultry' this morning and
the mercury rose to 10 degrees below
zero! Everybody began to rummaee
their trunks for Panama hats, palm leaf
fans, AMI busters. These great changes
from 80 degrees below zero to the sum
mcr heat quoted above have been rars
since the first day Of January.
A MAN named Patrick Heffron, liyinr
some nine miles from Kasson, was killed
Tuesday the 10th. lie was on ton of a
load of wood, and driving under the rail-
road bridge, his head was hit bv one Of
the timbers, pressing it down with sufi.
duce instantaneous death.
Mr.. ISAAC ENGLISH of Stearns county
had pistol o'il removed from his arm
the other day. which had lain there for
three years. The piece of lead in PASSING
along the bone Of the arm had fattene3
out, and was Of whitish appearance
when removed.
The Odd Fellows of Rochester have
fully arranged for erecting a fine, two
story building the coming season,the first
floor to be fitted up for the post office and
store, and the second fo1 hall for thu
Lodge and office rooms.
A MASSACHUSETTS gentleman, engaged
in the manufacture of stationary eneinee