The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-07-27
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

Morris has organized its Frontier
Guard"
WORK upon the Swift county court
house at Benson has been commenced.
On the 18th two children of Mr.. Mix,
depot gent at Carver, had a very narrow
escape from suffocation in wheat bin.
THE preliminary survey ofthe Dakota
81 Dulu h railroad is completed, and grad
ing will commence in the course OF few
weeks.
THE son, aged seven years, of Mr..
Olson, Chippewa county, had last week
one OF his ieet completely severed from
the leg 10y q moving machine.
A NORRIS, Stevens county, cores
pondent thus expresses himself: The
crops arc looking splendid. There is no
other word in the English language that
can express the idea so.perlectly. praise
God from whom all blessings come"
Dealers in harvesting machinery are
doing Il lively business just now. Farm
ers are getting ready to cut. their grain
and are talking the machine business
already.
The German Catholic congregation of
Farieault, Rice county,is building a new
church editice, which will be OF stone. and
OF the dimensions 4Ox7O feet upon the
ground. 1t is to be ready tor use this
tall.
The Hastings Union is authority tor
the assertion that "Oliver Calrymplc has
ploughed up about 800 acres OF his grow
ing wheat on his Washington county
farm, opposite this city. He did not
think 1t would pay for the harvesting,
and disposed OF it in this manner"
On the 9th, man named Max,a resi-
dent near Delano, Wright comfy, and
agent for the American Sewing Machine
company, attempted to outrage a young
lady whom he was conveying in his car
riage. His object was frustrated by the
horse running away, and there is no re-
port OF his arrest.
The few farmers we have seen during
the past week report the crop prospe CT
in this section much better than they
were. They think there will be about
an average crop OF wheat throughout the
greater portion Of the county, although
III SOIilt p.tIlS IL Will Idll IuuCll DClOW
Carer county Free Press.
AT Waseca, on the 10th, John Sullivan
slashed John Haverson with a razor. be
cause the latter accused the former 0
stealing Il watch chain. Sullivan wa
committed to- the lock up to wait trans
ference to MaEkato Jail, whence he es
capped by calmly kicking off couple 0
inch boards.
AT preliminary examination on tn
18th, at Granite Falls. John huffman
wa held to bail in the sum of $500 TO
disappearance ut the September term o
the dlstrct court in Yellow Medicine
county. TO answer to the charge OF incest
Public sentiment, where Huffman is wei
known, is inclined to believe him limo
cent OF this grave charge.
ST. PETER Tribune: Since the recen
showers crops OF all kinds have YER
much improved in this vicinity. and un
less some unforeseen calamity occur
there will be 4 good average crop eNcel
on very wet ground where the drouth al
tccted the wheat Even in fields TIL;
We're supposed to have been ruined b
the continued dry weather, half crop
now expected.
LIE SuEIR Echo: They have a quee
kind OF Justice in Cordova. A couple {
young men We're found guilty OF tres
passin. on land belonging 10 Samu,
Dennett,an old man with one foot in tn
grave. and five referees, who were che
sen to settle the difficulty, decided tn
they might take the eight or ten tons {
hay they had cut and go and do SO n
more. This is dealing rather liberal
with law breakers
SPEAKING OF grasshopper ravages an
crop prospects the Benson Times say:
CONFLICTING reports come to us in r.
gard to The damages done by grasshol
pers, and this can only be fully deteru
ined after ,hreshing. We will not gi,
up yet; bright future is before our pc
pie. We are not aware that any We
great damage has been done in Sw
county. The crops in our county lo'
better than those we have seen betwe,
Litchiield and Breekinridge Bens,
people are not much frightened abo
the hoppers. They are going rig
ahead putting up buildings, making il
provenNuts and increasing their sto,
in trade"