The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-01-21
Auti- 8}uuupolist.
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.


wheat.
Rush CRY shipped $4,000 pounds OF
Venison during 1874; also 1900 car
loads Of wood.
On the LIST day Of January the rates
of toll for the St. Cloud wagon bridge
were reduced SO per cent.
The Grange and citizens OF st.
Charles sent about $500 to the grass
hopper sufferers.
Tue ferry boat, Iowa City. is making
regular trips across the Mississippi at
Reed Landing.
A TOTAL Of 277,311,0l0 bushels OF
wheat we're shipped from Dodge Centre
during the year.
The amounts expended in Albert Lea
in 1874, aggregates $76,l2l, an amount
in excess Of any previous year by near
iy 100000.
THE plainview and Minnesota tele-
graph company has declared dividend
Of is per cent, after being in operation
only six months.
TIE dwelling house Of S. Rainer, near
Lewiston, Winona county, was destroy
ed by fire Monday. Most Of the con.
tents were saved.
HEREAFTER German is to be taught
in the public schools Of Faribault, Prof.
G. Hageman having been engaged as
teacher.
The improvements the past year at
Mortified amounted to 100000. The
population IF the place is estimated at
$500.
THE citizens of Wadcna, the county
seat of Wadena county, are literally
subscribing to the stock for a paper at
that place.
DAVID HARRIS of St. Charles will try
the experiment Of raising a fence o.
Usage Orange, he having procured a
quantity of seed from Illinois.
TIE Grange warehouse at Delavan IN
the two and half months it has beer
doing business, while giving farmers
more reasonable rates than those rul
ing in other warehouses, has made {
profit of SsS22334.50.
THE landlord Of the Cook House, Ro
chester, is monied man. He had al
the editors Of the place to New Year
dinner, and still manages to keep on
of the bankruptcy court.
The engine house Of the Southern
Minnesota railroad at Ramsey, togethe
with large number of tools used i
the repair of engines, cars, ETC.. wa
burned Monday. the 4th. Loss aoou
$4,000.
THE city of Rochester has been sue
for $2,l4l sc, BY Mr.. Warren w. Doty
$2.l26.Sl is for services Of engineer
the steam fire engine at So2.oO pc
month, and the balance for wood &C
vanced the city.
The one thousand shares offere
for sale in the Taylor's Falls cope
mining company have been take'
mostly by citizens Of Taylor's Fall
The shaft is now down about forty ii,
feet, and from the commencement tt
indications of copper have been gro'
ing better and better.
NORRIS RUSSELL of the phnmx'
Brainerd Tribune wants the Legisl
ture to appropriate ten, fifteen
twenty thousand dollars for the pu
pose Of having Minnesota decently re
resented at the Philadelphia cente
NAL celebration, the Governor to
the custodian and dispenser of the a
preparation.
Crow Wing county is busted, tina
cially. and the best and speediest vi
to Get back to solid ground once MOI
is what is troubling her citizens. l
most sensible proposition is to fund
present debt, levy sufficient tax
paw the annual interest and SIM
part of the principal, practice econon
and keep out of debt in the future.
THE last issue Of the Albert
Standard, the first number Of volu
fifteen, is valuable statistical do,
ment. containing as it docs record
the legal business of the county for
wear 1874, the building statistics,
railroad business, ETC., etc. In
computations Of these important o
interesting Items. Tue St0"oU'~ 10
advance Of oil other papers in
State.
DURING the year 1864 total Of
$50. Of acres of land were entered
the L;tchficld land Office as folio
Under the homestead act. Soo,25o
with cash, sll,S67.l6. and under
timber culture act, 15,o2'.e4 ac'
The entries under the homestead
during the last six months OF the J
we're loo per cent. less than the I
six months and $50 per cent. less I
any corresponding month during
asst six years.
The Roe Brothers, firm IN Che
in the "Granger" line, who have Q
doing missionary business IN
State. selling farmers groceries they
not want at rates no better than !
could have bought at home. have
seconded, after putting all their av'
Bile assets into cash. jewelrv. Y. S. DO
etc. The amount thus carried Ava
estimated at about S20O,O0O. The
ne Of property lcf, behind inventc
ab out $4,000. while their indebted
aggregates 100000.