The anti-monopolist., 1876-05-18
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
The plow factory at Austin is busy.
GEORGE Law, of MOBILES county. planted
$3.50 trees on Arbor day.
Tue machinery for the elevator at
Perham has been received.
THREE million feet of logs will eros
Big Pine Lake this week.
The branch railroad from Worthingten
to Sioux Falls is being surveyed.
RAILROAD ties for the Southern Mime.
sofa are being delivered at Wells.
The government land in Chippewa
county is being rapidly taken ul.
TaE county board of Mcleod IS study
ing over the plans for new court house.
NEXT come the liquor dealers OF Litch-
field to fight the inebriate asylum mposi-
tion.
A BALooN1sr1c, that is greenback, paper
is to make its appearance soon in Lisch
field.
The apple and peach crop in the vicin.
itv Of Redwood Falls is declared to be un-
injured.
Nor grasshopper has appeared this
spring in the vicinity Of Eagle Lake, Blue
Earth county.
YET another. Minnesota Falls is to
have an elevator, to be built by Milwau.
kee parties.
THE wool-carding mill at Faribault has
started up, and weaving machinery is to
be introduced.
The barrel factory at Wells has re-
sumed operations with the demand equal
to the supply.
The Minnesota Baptists' Central Asso-
ciation convenes at Austin on the 22d and
23d Of this month.
ROCKFORD, Wright county, is extern
s:vely attacked with scarlet fever, but
not Of malignant type.
THERE is only one prisoner in Nicollet
county Jail.
4 THERE are 400 patients in the State
Hospital for the Insane.
WILD pigeons have made their appear
ance in the vicinity Of St. Peter.
TWENTY-FIVE ladies voted at the recent
school election at st. Cloud.
FouR pickerel, agregating over 100
pounds in weight, were caught lately near
, Clearwater, Wright county.
; s.No license carried the dav at James
Vile at the late election by majority Of
out Of totality Of 1856 votes.
A COW belonging to John Lucas Of
Hastings has been shot because she
evinced 5 gns of hydrophobia.
SrEEL rails are supplanting iron ones
on the c., NJ. 4 st. P. railroad between
( Lake City and Reads Landing.
A BOAT has been constructed to run reg
ularl- between Redwood Falls and New
Ulm in the wheat trade.
i. THE engineers Of the Minnesota and
+. Dakota railroad are now In Rock county.
: and portion of the grading has been
let.
IT is confidently believed that, since
the late cold snap, the grasshopper eggs
: refuse to hatch out around Window,
Cottonwood county.
: LITTLE hope is enterta med Of the re
covery of 0. S. King. founder of The
Fergus Falls Adrocdts.who is dangerously
i'll of rapid consumption.
The FIRST train on the St. Vincent ex
: tension left Glyndon for Crookston or
. the 4th inst. and regular trains com
menced on Monday last.
TIE board OF underwriters offers a re
ward Of $500 for the detection and COZ
viction of the incendiaries Of the late De
structive fire At Riverside.
d NEAR Round Lake, Jackson county
i T. L. Twiford lately shot = wild swan
measuring eight feet, six inches acros:
e the wings. which he secured after shary
q tussle.
OK Monday night the store of G. q
Gardner. st. Charles, was burgiarized Il
the extent Of about SlO0. the plunder Sc
4 cured consisting Of pipes. cigars and no
tions.
TUESDAY,, the oth.a train left Marshal,
: Lyon county. for the Black Hills, takin,
9 direct line thither to its destination
: The caravan consisted Of fully loo
! persons and twenty wagons
THEsE hare been more sales Of land ef
/ fected IN Blue Earth county this sprin,
than in the three former years. cause.
partly by the influx Of new corners A.
al partly By The prosperity Of settlers xh
], have been enaiied - make additisns 4
4 thsir fsrnsr p.Esa1lsL