The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-07-13
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.


The State Teachers Association meets
in Red Wing next month.
The post office at Beaver Falls is to be
made money-order office.
The new addition to the State Insane
ASYLUM at St. Peter is approaching COM
pletion.
St. Peter boasts of having furnished
more State officers than, perhaps, any
other town in the state.
The twelve>year old son of Rev. Mr..
Goodrich was drowned in Rum river,
Anoka, on the 1st.
Mrs. Berg, of Pilot Mound, Fillmore
county, was killed instantly by lightning
on the evening OF June 26.
VIM. Tech, aged II years, son Of Au-
gust Tech, of Sheildsville, Rice County,
was drowned in Mazaska Lake near that
village, on Sunday evening, July 2.
St. Peter Tribune: The wheat crop
of this county promises to be falr
one. except in a few untavorable local.
ties.
A small boy residing in Waterford,
Dakota county, had his eyes blown out
on the Fourth, in consequence OF his put
ting a lighted match to quantity OF pow
der.
A farmer named Rosche, residing al
Pire Creek. this state killed at La Crosse
on the Fourth by being struck in the
back bv the shaft Of the ferry boat Nc
Roberts.
Mrs. O. S. Cutler, wife of the count.
hnrnQG
the Fourth by her clothes catching mr.
from u match thrown aside by her Sol
who was discharging fire-crackers.
On the Fourth. at st. Peter, Augustu
Woolsey had his right hand burned AM
the flesh torn from the arm up to the el
bow, by the premature discharge OF
cannon. The wound is painful but no
dangerous,
LeSueur Echo: A man named Henri
Harder living near the Baptist churc
who was here about Il year since, ha
inst returned from California, havlni
walked the whole distance in As day
and nights. He still lives to tell tn
story.
During the celebration OF the Fourt
at Taylor's Falls, premature exploslo
OF the cannon occurred, whereby r
REYNOLDS had his right had shattered an
Louis AVID was severely injured. A sui
scription, amounting to 5000, was imm'
diately raised for their relief.
The Latta brothers, who lately escape
from the Jail at St. Peter, were RECAP
Tired at Shakopee. Jacob Fritz OF Re1
vile county, suspected OF furnishing Il
al .,
cane was affected, has also been arfe:
ted.
Window Reporter: Since our last
sue the grasshoppers have been osclll;
ting overhead with the wind, when Il
weather has been pleasant. Most ha'
wings now. Yesterday their course W
southerly, where their greatest flight h
been.
A Swede named Anderson fatally sh
the wife of Herman Anderson on t
Fourth while sitting behind her II
wagon. No cause, save insanity. can
assigned for the deed. ! he culprlt, W
is an entire stranger, has been lodged
the Jail of Sibley county, the shire wher
in the crime was committed.
Wabasha Herald: We have tax
pains to interview numerous tarmt
coming in from the prairie, and the &C
clusion formed is that wheat on new Ia
is above the average, while on old i,
below, and that the best result possi
will not be much, ifany. over halfa cr'
All agree, however, that the last
weeks have been very favorable,
some few venture to predict with cont
uous favorable weather an average CT
at least, in individual cases, and Ia
accounts continue to grow more
more favorable.