The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-16
minnesota NEWS ITEMS.

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lied in Dodge county.
Ir's Waseca that is now troubled with
twin.boys. Mrs. Manderfield did it.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to organize 4
building and loan association at Mankato.
Ten new schoo houses were built
Blue Earth county last year valued at
$21, 600.
JOHN A.. S1cLER announces that he has.
no further connection with the New Ulm
Herald.
The salary of the State Prison pAysi-
clan, DR.. Lambert, has been increased
from 5000 to S 900.
The Lutherans are building church
ediices at Chisago City and Center City,
Chisago county.
THERE has not beer a single business
failure in LIE Sueur the past winter-a
statement that will apply to very few
towns in the State.
PROF. J. R. RICHARDS, Principal of the
Winona High School, died at his residence
in that city Tuesday, after an illness of
about week with pneumonia.
The artesian we'll at Mankato has
reached depth of $500 feet and the
work is still in the sand rock. The water
is now 80 feet from the surface.
A WING of the residence of J. J. Dough.
ty, Lake City, was burned Sunday, in
volving loss Of from five to seven hun
dred dollars, with no insurance.
CALEDONIA contains a brilliant educa-
tional light. Says he: "Whisky, EUR.
(hic) brightens the intellect. 1t ought ter
be introduced inter the public schools.
zur.''
A TWO story house at Kandiyohi, owned
by W. b. Conkling, was burned Tuesday
night. Most of the contents were saved
in a damaged condition. Insured for
$4,000.
The Mankato Gnseed oil company have
appropriated an aggregate of $500
bushels of faxseed to the grassaopper
districts, which will materially aid the
farmers there in seeding their farms.
The Record says the firm of G. w.
Van Dusen & Co., of Rochester, do a
warehouse and grain business Of $3,O0O.-
QUO year, extending nearly the whole
length Of the Winona & St. Peter rail-
road.
The Mankato Reuie1o understands that
so abundant have been the donations of
clothing to the grasshopper distriqts that
the relief committees have requested
their correspondents not to send them
any more clothing.
CHAs. FRAwHAwK, one of the four men
arrested at Mazeppa week before last,
charged with stealing horses, has been
held to appear at the next term of the
District Court of Houston county. The
other three arrested were released.
ANOTHER libel suit is spoiled. A. B.
Easton, editor of the Saltwater Gazette,
publishes card over his own signature,
in which he takes back the reflections
published in the Gazette, upon the charac-
ter OF George NJ. Seymour, thus removing
the c1usus belIi.
The hotel Of Mr.. Pickett of Prairie
Mound was entirely consumed by fire
Thursday morning the 4th. Friday the
5th, the dwelling house Of NJ. Louis Boe-
sci, near Henderson, the same county,
was also burned, with contents.
WAsEcA has got the Black Hills fever
bad. The boys intending to go into this
enterprise had better ponder the state
ment of Gen. Terry, commanding the
Department of Dakota, and keep out Of
trouble by remaining at home.
Mr.. JOHN KRE1DLER of Wright county
undertook to save a dog from being
caught by falling tree, and was himself
caught, suffering fracture Of one bone
ofhis right leg, the dis'ocation of several
bones of the right foot, besides being
otherwise badly bruised. He is doing
we'll.
A YOUNG man named Lewis Brand. aged
20 years, was frozen to death in Minneso-
ia Lake township, Blue Earth county,
Sunday, the 2Sth ut. He was returning
home from Saturday night ball, where
he had drank considerable, and it is sup
posed that overcome with sleep and
fatigue, he laid down to rest, fell asleep
and froZe to death.
The dam of the water power company
at Sank Rapids is nearly completed. The
work has given employment to some fifty
men during the winter. In it has been
used 10000 lineal feet Of timber, 1000
cubic yards of stone, two and half tons
of iron for pins, besides several hundred
oak pins, ne'ton Of ship spikes and 35,-
600 superficial feet Of plank.
ROBERT MURRAY, formerly agent of the
American Express Company at Hender-
SON and who dica nnoarod cana xnonfhs