The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15

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The Langdon en- csc factory, Washing
ton county. IS manufacturing eight cheese
daily. .a..-a
The Fourth of July Grafton at Man
kato will be delivered by Hon. NJ. s. Will
klnson.
THE Birge elevator at St. Charles has
been purchased by Messrs. Miller & Els
worth Of Winona.
L. NJ. FISH, recently arraigned and
tried at Mankato for rape upon his own
daughter, has been acquitted.
On the Sd Samuel Wilson, a brakeman
on the Winona & st. Peter railroad, fell
from the cars and was killed.
THERE are $4,000 bushels of wheat in
the Morris, Stevens county. elevators,
owned mostly by the farmers in that
vicinity.
THE Mankato brick ompany last week
received an order from LIE Mars, Iowa,
for 100000 brick, delivery to commence
Immediately.
THERE is Scandinavian temperance
society at Saltwater, which counts lo4
members, although only organized very
few months ago.
NINE daily trains are being run upon
the Southern Minnesota ard Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads tor the
accommodation of the wheat traffic.
The amount Of currency forwarded On
the LIST from Chicago to St. Paul and
other points in the State for wheat was
about 100000.
SHASG and his gang Of three card
monte sharps were in Moorhead last week,
but soon silt OUT for Fishers Landing,
where they expected to find lots OF green
les.
IT is reported that the Dakota Division
Of the Northern Pacific railroad will be
kept open next winter, the president,
General Stark, having given orders for
the building of snow fences.
The current session Of the United
States district court at Winona was for
mally opened on the 5th, Judge r. r.
Nelson. presiding. Hon. G. H. Graves, Of
Duluth, being appointed foreman of the
grand jury.
The country around Appleton, Swift
county, is settling up rapidly with solid,
substantial farmers from Wabashaw and
Goodhue counties, and on nearly every
quarter section breaking plows are at
work turning up the virgin prairie.
RESPONSIBLE parties are willing to put
$4,000 steam Touring mill i'll st
Charles if they can get bonus of So
600. and it is believed that, with properly
directed efforts, the latter amount can be
secured in ten days.
THERE are l50.000.000 feet of logs in
the boom near Saltwater, of which
100000 are being daily sorted. Some
35,Ooo,0Oo feet are hung up or various
streams tributary to the St. Croix
Sales of logs at Saltwater are exceedingly
quiet.
A BODY. believed to be that Of Albert
Jordan who was drowned off the tow boat
Chauncey Lamb, was found some three
miles below Minnesota on the 3lst OF May
| The body was inferred under the direc
ton of Deputy Coroner Slater Of Winona
county.
OK the 9th, at Marine Prairie, Stearns
county, jeremiah Sabine, instigated BY
an old grudge, fred at Meyer Greeley
hut the latter frustrated the deadly in
tent by striking up the gun as the form Ell
pulled the trigger. and the ball passed
harmlesSly over Greeley shoulder.
OK the Sth. gentleman named Smith
aged IS years, and resident of Alber
Lea. while attempting to cross bridge
was instantly killed by passing express
train on the Southern Minnesota, fo1
which the railroad officials are in no wis
culpable Deceased was much esteemed
and was a soldier of the war Of 1872.
TIM Rock county Herald is authorit,
for the assertion that ''some Wisconsi,
capitalists are negotiating with the rail
road company for the purchase of 2o.oO
acres of the companyss lands IN Rocl
county The party is expected here il
about twenty days IL inspect the lands
and. if successful in making a purchase
will proceed at once to colonize IN
same.
WHILE engaged in burning some gras
or straw. on the 9Th, in order 10 destro
crasshoppers, Simeon Garfield, Cotton
wood county, discovered the flames ha
communicated to his barn. The horse
we're released, though so seriously ourne
as to render their recovery desperate,
j: Young colt was lost: and the stable wit
/. harness and other contents. was total
destroyed.
WINDOW Reporter The grasshoppe'
: are commencing 10 march. Ihey ha'
destroyed pretty much all the crop
n Corn has suffered the least. but they 8,
q working on that very badly. NJ. J.
s Bear al Westhrook was in town on "a
1 urday. and says that, notwith>tandiT
), the reporr I a. the 'hoppers are dying
$ great numbers, they are so thick that
IS any have died they are net missed /
' thinks not ke-nel will BE- raised in TIL
part o. Cottonwood county, and Mr. Bes