The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-03-11
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Francis Irving, of Duluth, has
removed to California to make it his
home.
Colds, fevers and spneumonia are
prevalent 1t Anoka, and the towns
people are discouraged:
Five persons indicted for murder
are to undergo trial during the pres
ent term of the Court of Common
Pleas Of Ramsey county.
-Minnehaha was visited Sabbath
by hundreds who were anxious to see
the falls frozen up. The ice in front
of the fall is nearly hundred feet
thick.
"A little son of Rasnus Nelson, of
Danielsen, Meeker county, fell into a
boiler Of hot water Wednesday, and
was terribly scalded. His recovery is
doubtful.
One hundred and seventy-six
children were absent from the Fari-
bault public schools last Monday, on
account of sore throat, mumps, mea-
sles, chicken pox, etc.
The Board of Trade of Blue
Earth City have resolved to limit
credit to four months, at which time
debts must be settled by payment or
note at ~ per cent. interest. I
Captain William Van Horn, U.
s. A., on Friday completed canvass
Of Otter Tail county in behalf Of
grasshopper sufferers, and reports on
ly sixteen cases Of actual restitution
in that county.
The lumber mills of Pine City
propose to run but few months each
year hereafter, and residents of the
town discouraged at the prospect are
anxious to sell out and leave. A doz-
en- dwelling houses are offered at a
sacrifice.
Last Thursday night kerosene
lamp exploded in the house Of Chris
topher Ellison, in the town of Mans
field, Freeborn county, burning the
house and causing the death of Mrs.
Ellison and seriously burning two
children.
"A little daughter of Henry AT:
terhalt, of LIE Sueur, was kicked on
the head by colt which was in the
yard where she was playing, and sew
eral inches of the skull IN the. front
part Of the head was broken in. It
is thought she will recover.
On Friday last Deputy Sheriff
Smith, of Cambridge, Isanta county,
had warrant to arrest William
Kostermann, merchant at that
place, on a charge Of theft. Roster.
mann resisted, when Sheriff Smith
drew a revolver and shot him through
the head, causing instant death.
Wright county had four Grim. con-
cases on the calendar at the last
term Of court. The latest was Jos.
Elsenpeter, Of Chatham, arrested on
a charge Of adultery with the wife Of
his cousin, John Elsenpeter. The
woman owns the soft impeachment,
so that the case seems to be pretty
clear.
The Washburn one-third inter.
est in the Palisade Mill property has
been purchased by the brothers John,
Wesley and Lorenzo d. Day. The
purchase price is s26,666.66, the one
third of $80,000, at which figure the
mill is valued. The entire property
is now owned by Leonard Day &
Sons. 4.'.
| w. o. Williams, confined in jail
at Winona awaiting trial on three in
dictments-one for seduction and-two
for forgery-was married within the
prison, on Thursday Of last week, to
Miss Nellie Kittleson, which settled
the charge of seduction. The bride
and groom parted at the cell door, she
to her home, and he to wait for his
trial. . .. -: -
The California fever is dying out
sooner than we expected. We learn
that most of those persons in this vi
cinity who had determined to start
to California about the 10Th inst.
have already concluded not to 60.
They have been disappointed in Sc
curing the promised reduction in fare,
and the sober second thought has in
clined them to remain here.-Le Sueua'
Sentinel.
The locomotive works at Scran-
ton, Pa, were burned Saturday.