The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-01-07
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

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Pickert at St. Charles.
ONE hundred convicts of the low a
state prison are making shoe packs for
Red Wing manufacturer.
THE Hutchinson Enterprise has
adopted the cash in advance system.
No cash no paper OF work.
The Burleson Bros. will soon issue a
monthly paper from Blue Earth City
to be called the Vidette.
The steam saw mill at Otter Tail re-
Gently purchased by Gee. B. Wright,
Esq, is to be removed to Frazee.
The Duluth papers are once more
indulging in their private Amusement
ridiculing and abusing each other.
A SURVEY has been made with view
to the connection Of the tracks Of the
Superior and Taylor's Falls railroads
at saltwater.
TIE school vacation at Sank Centre
has been extended one month, on &C.
count of the great amount of sickness
prevailing.
IT is claimed that Albert Lea contains
more ladies and gentlemen without
their knowing it" than any other place
in the StaIe.
The Congregational Society of Wal.
nut Station, Redwood county, built a
church the past season costing $4,000,
and have it all paid for.
G. E. RENoUF, young gentleman
who has been spending some m, nths in
Albert Lea for his health, left that
place Tuesday morning of last week for
700 mile walk to Colorado.
THD total loss by the burning of the
sawmill of Bennett, Knight & Co.. Fri
day night, was abont $9,l5O, on which
there was $4,000 insurance. The fire
was incendiary.
A NORWEGIAN woman in Rice county
is ahead. She has been married six
years and has six children, the eldest of
which is not yet six years of age. The
last instalment was twins, one weighing
eight and half and the other fifteen
pounds.
WITH January LIST reduction was
made in the salaries of all agents on
the Southern Minnesota Railroad. The
agents arc, however, to receive a COM
mission on tickets suld in the future,
so that the more tickets sold the higher
the salary.
THE Dakota County Protective Soci-
ETY. is in a fourishing condition, the
parent society steadily gaining new
members. while branches are being or
ganized throughout the county. Horse
thieves, beware.
THE Albert Lea STANDARD, one of the
best interior papers in the State, closed
it's fourteenth volume with its issue of
the 3lst ult. As a local paper the
Standard has few superiors, and as it
deserves enjoys = large and steadily In
creasing Patronage.
The receipts Of general merchandise,
coal, salt, ETC., at Duluth by lake for
the season of 1874, amounted to 3d.
615,649 pounds against 90. lB5.2O4
pounds in 1873, and the shipments 1877
772.505 pounds against 1o6,7l0.56l
pounds in 1873.
The Minnesota Stage Company have
withdrawn from the route between Mel
rose and Alexandria, and transferred
their stock to the Moorhead and Fort
Garry route. Mr.. H. Smith IS now
operating the Melrose ana Alexandra
route.
The Lake City Sentinel comes to US
this week changed from quarto to an
octave. by which it is greatly. enlarged
and otherwise improved. The Sentinel
is ably edited, and altogether one Of tie
most credtable Of the country press OF
the State.
A HORSE belonging to Mr.. Laa6s Of
Pennington, Ohnstcd county. fell into
. we'll Christmas day, remaining there
five days, and nights before discovery.
The wea was six feet vide and eight
feet deep. The horse, though consider
ably crsmped up in its dose quarters,
was alive and we'll.
THE Owatonna Journal gives list
Of the Improvements lD that city the
past wear, the whole footing up $780,
l65. The three largest items are the
Touring mill Of II. Reiaell i Co., $751;
600. Opera House block OF g.. NJ. More
house, $500; and Chambers 4
Mitshell's mock, 5000.
THERE be Simpsons among -. At
. Lifting natch the other day At Beaver
Falls Geo. H. Mayuile raised $50 pounds
AID Nike Murphy ''got sway" with
LOO pounds.
TIN FIRST number u the Chisags
county Post is cut. It - pablished d
Rush City by Nessrs. Robe 4 Hughes,
is very readable and good looking
| paper, and starts out with good show
i Of business.
Nh. j. B. HgBsELL,s thorough bred
horse, Thomas p. Wallace, died in Man
kato Wednesday. the Both nit. Wal
lace Was grandson Of the world re-
nowned Lexington, and is claimed 70
have been one Of the best bloodea horses
in the State.
| MEssRs J. Diamond, Daniel Buck, J.
Z porfse and n 7 Nveus nresentAd