The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-25
MINNESOTA MATTERS.

autcnlnS0n.
The Faribault mills are paying 81 Dor
bushel for wheat. po4
The Moorhead mills receive vhe.+ h.
the carload from Perham.
The harvest in Mcleod comfy b.s
been the heaviest known for years.
TH1Rr1'oSE schools in Otter Tail conn.
ty held spring term.
DAKOTA county had more sheep last
year than this by exactly 249.
PRAIRIE chickens are said to he conn.
Paratlvely scarce in every section Of the
State. wv
The corner stone of the Swedish Col.
lege IN st. Peter was laid on the 10Th
INST in presence of large crowd.
peasants cannot be lawfully shot be.
fore September lst, as prescribed bv act
OF Legislature. session of 1874, chap. 50,
sec. l.
The rumor is incorrect that a man
dressed in woman's clothes has been en-
gagged in selling corsets to ladies in and
around Pennington.
CH1sAGo county supperteda pauper in
its almshouse, who recently bought 40.
acres of laud and is worth altogether
about $500 or 5000.
ABOUT % tons of hay belonging to a
MIR. Sank, of Sank Rapids, was burned
on the 18th inst. Supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
HE warfare on prairie chickens has
been general throughout the State, and
large numbers have been slaughtered
since the 18th.
WHEAT threshing is going on very live
" IN the neighborhood of Appleton.
Swift county the first load of new wheat
having been sent to market on the 18th
inst.
"A FRAcAs occurred in Taylors Falls ON
the 10th, between two men named re.
spectively Ike DeLill and Gotleib Knaske.
IN which the latter was badly pounded
about the head and face.
The 18th annual convention Of the Min.
nesota State Temperance Union will be
held at Mortified on the 8th, 9th and
10th of September, and will be addressed
by Prof. Humiston and long list of
others.
On the night of the 18th inst, the
house of Mrs. Bridget McKenaa. in Has.
ngs, was broken into and pocket book
containing $s97 and some valuable notes
and papers was carried off. No clue to
the robbers.
The notorious horse-tbief, Martin, who
was captured some weeks ago in Sioux
Falls, Dakota Territory, with two horses
IN his possession, was taken to Moorhead,
and arrived there OH the 18th.
ED. CLIFTON, living two miles cast of
Sank Rapids, lost five tons of hay by fire
on the 18th INST. The fire is supposed to
have been started by persons hunting
chickens and shooting in the vicinity of
the stacks.
The election in Otter Tail county to
decide upon the question of issuing the
county bonds to the amount of 100000
to aid In the construction Of the Northern
Minnesota railroad has been called by the
County Commissioners to come off on the
18th day of October next.
SAUK RAPIDS Sentinel: So great has
been the drouth in this vicinity this sea,
son that both Elk river and Mayhem creek
are, in some places, without running
water in them. We do not know that
this has ever before occurred to these
streams.
GEO. W. DAMP, Of Cannon City, Rice
county, from crop Of barley taken from
six acres, aggregating 2S4 bushels, re-
ceived 1918 in cash. The yield averaged
over AZ bushels to the acre, making a net
income of 1926 per acre.
The runaway of team belonging to
man named Carlson. of Whiteield, which
was attached to wagon loaded with
harvester resulted in the upsetting of
the wagon and the breaking of one of the
horses legs and pretty general smash
up of the harvester.
FRANK LAFFELMACHER was drowned on
the 18th inst, while attempting to cross
the Minnesota River near Golden Gate,
Brown county, with team of horses, one
Of which was drowned and the other sue
cecded in getting ashore. Lafelmacher
was 80 years old, and leaves wife and
three children.
ALL the printing of the Dakota county
Agricultural Society last year was done
in Pennington at the Press office for $49.
Cheap, to say the least; but no sooner
was the fact made known that the Press
had secured that large sum than two
burglars forthwith burglarized the estab-
lishment, but we're fortunately thwarted
by the watchfulness of the old Cerberus
who keeps watch and ward therein.
The examination of Prof. Chester and
party who are now on an exploring expe-
dition to the Mesaba Iron Range have not
yet developed Gre which comes up to the
general expectations. The specimens
thus far obtained have not yet been fully
tested, and cannot be until the return of
the party which will probably be about