The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-07-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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Six hundred Mennonites passed
through St. Paul on Friday, en- route
for Manitoba. 49,.
The County Commissioners Of
Dakota county offer a reward of So
apiece for wolf scalps.
"A drove of 80 head of cattle
passed through Redwood Falls Thurs
day, going to central Iowa. They
were purchased in Chippewa county.
-Mantorville has population of
469, decrease of 1874 since 1870;
Kasson, just two miles distant, has a
population of 923, an increase of 414
since 1870.
While bathing in the Zumbro
river, near West Albany, on Sunday,
two young men, sons Of Nathan Will
son and John G. Thompson, were
drowned.
IS. Greenwood, of Pennington,
obtained 1923 from a Rochester butch
er for three Cotswold sheep, after
having received $12 for the wool
sheared from them.
BY the accidental discharge of a
gun, a son of Mr.. Simmons, of Man.
kato, was shot through the hand, the
ball aterward entering the shoulder
of the lads brother.
The Madelia Times is authority
for the statement that Tuesday last
grasshoppers were so thick on the
track of the Sioux City road that
they delayed the train.
Governor Davis has pardoned
William Wagner, who was convicted
of larceny and sentenced to Stillwatei
for two years and two months. HI
has served out about half his term.
Thursday night burglars attempt
ed to force the safe of the Treasurer
Of Hennepin county, but being fright
ened ran off leaving their job unfn
ish9d and their tools behind them.
Fields of wheat in Lac qui Parl,
which about month ago were eater
to the ground by the grasshoppers
have since started afresh and now Civ
promise of being a fair aveage crop.
Last Thursday night John c
Reibe, a merchant of Glencoe, wa
knocked down in the street of Mime
apolis and robbed of his watch, $500
in cash and $500 in notes and checks
Monday dead body was found
in the Mississippi river about fou1
miles above Aitken. 1t is supposed
to be that Of johnson Mckinney VIII
had been employed by G. Berry a
Scott Meadow.
"A part Of the men and materia
belonging to the old Yankee Robinson
show have been reorganized into "E
F. SCOTS Oriental Circus and Men
agerie" which is now making a tou
through the southern part Of the State
Saturday evening last, near tn
Grange Touring mill, three miles from
/ Mortified, MI. D. B. Kelsey cam
to his death by the caving in of {
cellar in which he was at work. MI
Kelsey was an old resident and high
ly respected.
1T is reported that the heav,
grocery house of Beaupre & Kelly
St. Paul, will buy out the house Q
| McQuillan & Co. The reason as
| signed is that McQuillan must g
out of business on account of hi
health. Since denied.
| Immense quantities Of English
| railroad iron for the Canada Pacific
are now being transported to their des
tination over the Northern Pacific
That fact makes everybody wish tina
| those Hollanders could see the neces
sity Of finishing up the St. Paul ant
Pacific, which onght to be done thi
year.
"A serious ru naway occurred a
Dover Tuesday, resulting in the deatl
of an old gentleman aged eighty-six,
named Edgar. The team started from
the elevator of Ingham & Co., and "a,
down Main street, breaking loose
| from the wagon, striking the man as
he was crossing the street. His fac
was badly mangled and his skull
crushed by the horses hoofs.
While the children fMrs. Louis
Juenger, of New Haven, Olmste'
county, were celebrating the Fourth
a little boy put some powder in
bottle and then threw in a fire cracker
The bottle was blown to fragments
one piece striking Charley, a boy o
six, in the neck, cutting one Of tn
large blood vessels, so that he bled t.
death in a few minutes.
"A motion to dissolve the attach
ment in the case of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company against Col
w. S. King, was argued before Judg
Young, at Minneapolis, Mon
day. The action was brought to re
cover the sum Of 1000, alleged t.
have been paid Col. King, the detail
of which transaction are somewha
familiar to the people of Minnesota
The matter was taken under advise
| ment by the Court, and a decision
| rendered the next day dissolving tn
attachment.
Dan Sullivan, arrested las
| winter for the murder of a Swed'
near Grantsburg, Burnett County