The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-18
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS,

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
The Austin lecture course comes ont
with deficit OF. 1913.
Work on the Swede College at St.
Peter has commenced.
The killing Of muskrats or mink for
six months from the LIST ST May is unlaw-
full.
The Ladies festival for the benefit IF
the Red Wing Opera House netted
$276.
A LOT of young California salmon have
been placed in the Cannon river at Fari-
bault.
A LARGE fire has been raging in the
woods south of Detroit, Becker county.
for week past.
G. c.. BoYNToN, a prominent merchant
of Winona, died in that city, early yes.
terday morning.
Mr.. NJ. A. W1ScHELL, of Berlin, thinks
of starting an educational monthly Jour.
nal, which will be published in Owatonna.
SUCCESSFUL experiments in the manu-.
facture of box-elder sugar are being made
this spring by number of people in the
State.
AN extra train of six coaches arrived at
Moorhead Saturday morning laden with
Mennonites and laborers for the Canadian
Pacific railroad.
A LIVELY fight is going on between the
steamers Knapp and Nellie Kent, and
travel on the St. Croix seems likely to
get very cheap.
TWENTY SEVEN pound sturgeon was
caught with hook and line by boy on
the Dalles of the St. Croix near Taylor's
Falls few days ago.
The Grand Jury of Goodhue county
found true bill against Thos. Condor
for the murder of VIM. V. Churchill, his
trial has been set for Wednesday
next:
JUDGE VANDERBURG, of Hennepin, has
been presiding over the District Court in
session at Red Wing, in place of Judge
his family.
LUMBERMEN who have cut pine on the
Bayfield, and St. Croix land grant have
been unable to settle the matter with the
State, and it is now thought the U. S.
Courts will oe resorted to.
ARcHY BAKER, aged about fourteen
years, Of Farm Hill, Wabashaw county,
was instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge Of gun Saturday, the Sth, the
contents lodging in the lungs and heart.
THE Grand Jury of Olmstead county
failed to find an Indictment against 10.
seph Wise for killing Robert Gravelin
some months ago. The accident was
caused by the careless handling Of fire.
arms.
The Norwegian people generally
throughout the State are preparing for
an appropriate observance of the ami.
versary of the independence of their mo-
Their country which occurs Monday the
18th instant.
Two lawyers Of Faribault, while trying
case the other day, got into a dispute,
when one called the other liar, where
upon the latter launched a volume of
legal lore at his opponents head. The
Judge then interfercd, and order was re-
stored.
CAPT. WEST of the new hotel at St.
Cloud now under process Of construction,
has already sent on an order for nine
teen barrels of goblets and ten cases of
tumblers to be used at the grand opening
dinner on the Sd of July. They are,
however, to be used for lemonade only.
A SON of M. c. Humphrey of Lake
City met with a serious accident Monday.
He was chasing pig with a pitchfork,
when he fell, striking upon the tines Of
the fork. which penetrated his abdomen
to the depth of five or six inches.
JUDGE MITCHELL, of Wmona, has rem
dered decision in the case of Hamilton
VS.. Brown, sustaining the injunction and
restraining the defendant from shutting
off the water at his mill during the night,
and thereby flooding plaintiff s land.
A YOUNG girl living in Forest City,
Meeker county, has been missing for
several days, and there is every indica-
ton that she has committed suicide.
Although young j, years she had been
seduced and deserted, and was about to
become mother.