The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-08
MINNESOTA MATTERS,

Fl MlNNEOUIA MATTERS.
THE crews of the numbering firms on
the st. Croix are leaving for the pineries-
FLAX raising is profitable in Washing.
ton county the entire crop having been
already contracted for at sill Der ton.
Two men escaped from the A,hor+ To.
jail on the Both by cutting the bars
OF the windows. They were subsequent
ly recaptured.
WHILE some parties were excavat;np
for fume in the river bed at Sunrise
Chisago county, the other dav. {hev
found large piece of solid copper, WEIGH:
ing IL IL pounds.
AFTER paying the expenses of the re-
cent survey to Lake Superior via the st.
Crolx, the commission will have funds
enough to make survey Of the route
from the Mississippi to the Lake.
A GERMAN named August Valkinan.
while engaged in quarrel with August
Yonkman about an old threshing ma
chine, two miles north of Rushford,
stabbed and instantly killed the latter.
The murderer is still at large.
RECENTLY young man in Raymond,
Stearns county arose from bed in his
sleep dressed himself and started on q
ira mp: Hegot five miles FROM home
when he was suddenly awakened bv
stepping off bridge into the water.
The cranberry crop in the vicinity Of
hush and Pine cities, which, it was esti-
mated, would yield from 5000 to 1000
bushels, was total]y destroyed by the re-
cent frost. The berries would have been
ready for gathering in about ten days.
A HARVESTER named Mcclure, being at
tackled near Chester, Olmsted county, bv
some half dozen other laborers, fred a
pistol into the crowd. striking one Thos.
Fuller, but not seriously injuring him.
AT this, the crowd incontinentlY dis
persed.
| SALTWATER Lumberman From "a
acres, W. H. Guernsey. ofAfton, secured
LOO bushels of first-class barley, which
he disposed of for 81 per bushel. 1mme-
diately contiguous thereto he raised a
prime, No. l article of wheat, which
| threshed out at the rate of full 20 bushels
to the acre.
FERGUS FALLS Journal: We under
stand that A. H. Rosebocm o. Cherry
| Valley. n. Y. contemplates purchasing
between three and four thousand acres Of
! land lying between Otter Tail and Battle
Lake, with the view of farming on large
scale. This land is held in trust bv
Bishop Whipple for the college at Fari-
bault.
EXPERIMENTS made with the new lum-
Der dryer recently put up at Saltwater,
indicate that boar weighing 33 pounds,
after remaining 48 hours in the machine
had shrunk to Il l-2 pounds, and on be-
ing again subjected to the same test for
another period Of 48 hours further
shrinkage of only half pound was no.
ticeable.
The Glencoe butcher suddenly cit
OUT after having laid unlawful hands on
other peoples bovines and sold them oct
to his customers. Such conduct moves
the Register to remark that butcher
who is not willing to pay the low prices
that BEEF cattle command in this market
at this time. but will resort to stealing,
ought to be fed on buffalo fish for the re-
mainder of his natural life.
FAR1BAULT Democrat About year
since, Rev. Erik L. Peterson, Of this do
CcScs Oc6dA tlc utVcI UclOIo dIIeHpCcu
work of translating the mission service
of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer
into the Norwegian language. The work
completed, it was neatly printed at the
Office Of the Chicago Scandinavian, and
is very handsome job. Besides the
mission service the book contains forty
hymns and forms very perfect work for
the purpose for which it is intended.
RUSH CRY Post: A large bear was re-
cent?, killed in the vicinity of Spring
Lake by a Swede. The bear was in the
habit Of going into his cellar from the
outside in the night time and drinking
milk from pans. The Swede set a rife
for him so it would 60 off when the bear
passed into the cellar. He went in and
the result is the bears head, nicely
stuffed, is sticking up in the depot at
North Branch.