The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-06-17
MINNESOTA NEWS,

Wright county has population
of 10000.
Hay is hard to get at Taylor's
Falls, even at $15 per ton.
Potato bugs have put in their
appearance in Fillmore county.
20. b. Turrell, ofSt.Paul, the Red
wood county farmer, has fifty-one
breaking teams at work.
Twenty-Five Canadian horses, and
the same number Of mounted police
passed through Duluth last week for
the British Possessions.
Chicago county has over 5000 in
habitants, and only one practicing at
torney. But then, he is able to at
tend to all the business.
-Leverman's brewery, at Chaska,
was burned Wednesday night, and is
thought to have been set on fire. Loss
about$5, 900; insurance $4,000.
"A little son Of J. Marcett, of
Blakely, was thrown from his fathers
wagon Friday, one Of the wheels pass
ing over his head, killing him in
stantly.
The Worthington Aduance says
the crop prospect in that section was
never better, and it confidently looks
for flush times among the farmers
| after harvest this fall.
of the $4,000 taxes paid by
residents of Minneapolis up to June
LIST, Messrs. H. T. Welles and
Franklin Steele paid $4,000, or one
tenth Of the whole amount.
Cash Day, son of w. E. Day,
of RichGeld, Hennepin county was
shot through the brain Sunday by a
young man named Heimenson, who
was carelessly handling a pistol:
"A Dodge county farmer COM
plains of the formation Of a hook and
ladder company in his neighborhood.
The ladder is used for climbing into
hen houses, after which the hooking
takes place.
The new wool clip is coming in
we'll at Faribault. Buyers are paying
the following prices: Tub washed
SO cents to 40 cents; fleece washed
| 33 to 393 unwashed, from 25 to 81
cents per pound.
The abatement made in Hennepir
county up to the 31st of May, 1875
amount to over $4,000. These will
reduce the State tax about 81 800; the
county revenue about 81 800, and tn
city revenue over $4,000.
Mr.. Albert Armstrong, clerk o
the District Court at St. Paul, is il
receipt of $40,420.50 from the ST
Paul & Pacific railroad for the use o
, George B. Warren, as damages 70
property condemned for the use 0
that company.
, "A frightful runaway occurred in
Fountain, Fillmore county, last week
by which Mr.. Blossoms little daughte
r Ellen, six years of age, had her thig]
, fractured, child two years old wa
r badly crushed and had it's ankle dis
located, and another, four of age, ha'
its skull fractured. -Raslstord Star.
We regret to hear that, after tn
expenditure Of about 81 100000 in al
attempt at opening up the cope
mines on Isle Royal, the work is to b
suspended and abandoned. Durin,
the past two years, there have bee1
lively times on that island, and it
trade has been no small advantage
to Duluth.-Dula%th Tribune.
Il On the Sd inst. two fishermen
f named Gustave Torkildsen and AL
fred Honson, aged respectively 2
and 81 years, we're drowned in LAX
Superior, about eight miles iron
Duluth. They were out, it appears
, to set their nets, in a stiff breeze, an
their boat capsized. The boat an
l the hat Of one of the parties wer
found the next day.
The new mayor of Brainer'
must be an ornament to the city
The Tribune says 1--WE are credibl,
informed that the mayors lady wa
on her muscle last Wednesday night
and put the mayor and all the littl
mayors out Of doors, and enjoyed tn
'Brainerd White House in delight
full and happy solitude. Whoop e
up Liza Jane"
"A farmer named Ole Anderson
{ living mile and half east Of ST
I John station, on the Main Line, wa
instantly killed by a stroke of light
ming Sunday morning. He was lynn
on a bed with his two children, whel
the stroke passing down the stove-pip
E and glancing off, struck him. TIL
children were stunned. but not seri
g ously harmed. His wife, present il
the room, had her face and eyes bad
3 ly injured, but succeeded in crawling
: short distance to a neighbours for re
lief.
Serious disturbances have oc
Cured at Plusnitz, in the PROVING
: of Western Prussia, on the occasion