The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

nave rs yet been unable to ascertain the
names of any Of the wounded soldiers.
MINNESOTA. NEWS ITEMS.


MANKAro has got the hotel fever.
PRoF: HOWE is to organize brass band
in Mankota.
MADEI1A voted against license by ma.
jority Of II.
GEO. G. HOWE, Of Faribault, has com.
menced the manufacture Of his natent
water elevator in that city.
Mr.. A. L. WOOD, of Sank Rapids. in
jured recently by the caving in Of a eel.
lar he was digging, died Saturday last.
The Duluth Alinnesotia7a reports TWEEN.
ty cases of scarlet fever at Oneota. and
two deaths have already occurred.
W. G. DICKINSON, freight agent for the
Lake Superior and Mississippi railroad at
Duluth, left Thursday With his famil~ for
Topeka.
MR.. JAMES DOUGLAS is about to build a
single mill at Moorhead, and now ex.
poets to manufacture 100000 shingles
this season.
MAJ. J. H. PARKER, of Faribault, is
about to remove to Carson City, Nevada,
to accept position as Master Mechanic
on railroad.
RED Wing Argus: Foot ball. base
ball, spelling matches and the measles are
quite prevalent in the city just at pres
en:' but the symptoms are all favorable.
MAJOR Geo. A. Clarke of Mankato, has
been appointed general. agent for the
Home Insurance company of New York.
for the States Of Minnesota and Wiscon.
sin.
1T is said that company OF twenty
hve has been organized at Pine Island.
with Mr.. I. Cooper as leader, for the
Black Hills gold fields.
HE amount of wheat in store at Vino.
ma upon the opening of navigation was
only 2o,OOO bushels, a largely decreased
amount from that of any preceding wear
for many years past.
A SIX year old daughter of Rev. j. W.
Powell, of South Bend, Blue Earth coun.
ty, while playing along the bank fell into
the Blue Earth river Saturday the 10th.
! and was drowned.
The residence and household goods of
John Dorsey Of Chester, Wabashaw
county, was burned Saturday, the 10th.
The family discovered the fire barely in
time to escape with their lives.
E. P. EVANS, late deputy warden of the
Penitentiary, who has been confined in
the insane asylum for some months past,
has been discharged greatly improved,
though still far from we'll.
GEORGE W. SwEErs1R, on tria, at Wi.
mona for being too much married, plead
guilty Monday. Sweetsir, it will be re-
| membered, deserted one wife at Winona,
but was subsequently arrested at Arcade,
N. Y, last fall.
THERE we're $4,000 bushels of grain at
Minnesota upon the opening of naviga-
ton. The amount is less than usual.
The first shipment of grain above Du.
buque was from that point and consisted
Of nine hundred sacks.
The ice moved out of the Des MONIES
river in Jackson county Saturday, taking
out a portion of Hunter & Storing's mill
dam at Jackson. Such food has not
occurred during the last five years.
KRu1s' saloon building and Germania
Hall at Hastings were destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning. The building was
new two-story brick. Loss about 49, 500
on building. Reeds new hotel building
narrowly escaped.
IT is not always safe to publish to the
world ones recollections. Andrew Hale,
chairman Of the commissioners of Clay
county, has been publishing his ''recol-
lectiOns'' of the Red River valley in the
Red River Gazette, and now he is sued
for libel, with $4,000 damages, by j. B.
Blanchard, sheriff of Clay county.
The Mankato Rerielc, always an ably
edited paper, is now one of the handsome
est papers in the State, having just donned
a new dress Of beautiful, cleas-faced type.
May the Repiew and its editor 6 live
long and prosper"