The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-23
MINNESOTAz NEWSITEMS.

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THs female barber At Hastings has
pulled up and lit out Of that town. -. I"
The sum Of sl41.oo was expended for
improvements in the city of Faribault
last year. ~-4a;~;4,. = ....-
EDWARD V. PRICE, the defaulting attor.
ney 1t Willmar, has been disbarred nv
the Kandiyohi bar association. =.
The first car load of barrels were shin.
ped from the Wells, Faribault county,
factory on Saturday the 18th inst.
TIE saw mills of Fred Albers, It Union
Lakes. near Dundas,s Rice county, were
burned on the night of the 18th inst.
THREE hundred and sixty thousand
bushels Of wheat have been received At
Benson, Swift county, since the season
opened last fall.
A NAN named j. n. Curry. engaged
in chopping wood near Hastings, recently,
fell upon an axe and came near seyerine
three fingers of his hand.
IT is said that though the gross earn.
ings of the S. NJ. R. R.,for 1878 were on,v
$1,000 more than the previous wear. the
savings were about $4,000 more than
that year.
CHARLES Poor, of Hastings, was hit in
the eye by the lash of whip with which
he had struck at horse, and was so Sc.
1lously injured that entire loss of sight
may result.
An old settler of Wright county
named Joseph RocklifFe, was kicked on
the elbow by horse, about four weeks
ago, and died from the effects of the in.
jury on the 10th.
A CHILD of a Mrs. Broberg, who lives
IN the lower part of the town of Chisago
Lake, fell into tub of home made beer
which its mother was brewing, and was
so SCALED that it died the next dav after
the accident.
CoKAro, Wright county, has scandal
in high life, in which physician and the:
wife Of his former partner in the drug
business arc the principals. Suits for di.
vorce. adultery and damages are to be in
stituted.
G. HAzEN of Parker's Prairie, Otter
Tail county, who was convicted at the
last term of court Of assault with intent
to commit rape, and sentenced to nav a
tine of $500 or years CONTINENT in Jail.
has been sent to st. Cloud to serve out
his time.
A YOUNG man % years of age, named
dawkinson, was instantly killed in Mari
on on the 10Th inst. While at work in a
stone quarry heavy rock became losse:-
ed above him. and in its descent crushed
the poor fellow to death.
In cleaning out a well at Eyota,
satchel was found containing the body of
an irfant. The people who have used
the water of the we'll naturally demand
the detection and punishment of the
criminal who placed it there.
LESUEuR Sentinel: Ground was bro
ken onFriday morning for the eastern
shore pier of the iron bridge across the
river here, and the first pile was driven
for the foundation of the pier of Tuesday:
The work will be vigorously pushed un.
til the bridge is completed.
In 1854 every oak sapling on a claim
adjoining Lake City was cut off: To-day
part of the same ground bears trees that
would yield twenty-five cords of wood to
the acre, of the slow-growins oak. What
would have been the result if the ground
had been planted with European larch,
butternut or maple!
AUSTIN Transcript: There is an old
man about the city who sleeps in any
hall or cellar.way to which he can find an
entrance after business hours. 1t would
be we'll for the officers to keep an eye out
for him lest he should get so cold some
of these bitter nights IS not to wake up
in the morning. We don't know who
he is.
A MAN named H. A. Buckley, who pur-
ported to be an agent of the Continental
Insurance Company of Martinsburg,
West Virginia, was arrested recently in
Austin on the charge of doing an insur-
ance business for a company not author
lied ly the State Insurance Commission.
er. He was bound over in the sum Of
5000 for trial.
The first number of the Benson Times
has been received. tits neatly printed
seven column sheet, well filled with edi-
torial, local and miscellaneous matter,
and deserves liberal support from the
people of Benson and Swift county. 1t
is published by Edward Thomas, known
in this city as an industrious and worthy
young man, and edited by w. A. Poland.
They have youthful incendiary in
girl twelve years old went
to a neighboring house when the family