The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-20
Minnesota News Items.
OLMsTED.

Work on the Catholic Seminary is being rap-
ld!y pushed forward: "A Mr.. Mclaughlin
who recently lectured in Rochester, was one
OF the Light Brigade which made the famous
| be held near Chester, on the 14th . Charles
Culver of Rochester, was recently seriously
hurt by being thrown from a pug gy . The
frame of a barn 1O0x3O feet belonging TOD. F.
| by a high wind on the LIST inst.
On Saturday night the residence of Mr.. A.
! Park caught fire from the bursting of a lam
that had been left burning, but turned down
IN one Of the sleeping apartments, while the
family was temporarily absent. The fire must
| have been burning over an hour, and when it
| broke out through the roof it went very rap
idly, so by the time the fire department had it
extinguishcd, all the second story was burned.
| Loss, III ,OOO J
WASHINGTON.
On the afternoon of the 10th, near Point
Douglas, thirteen year old girl, a daughter
| OF Samuel Frick, was caught about a mile
from home and brutally outraged by q negro
named Taylor Combs. For similar ottenscs
Combs has twice been sentenced to the peni-
tentiary-once in 1869 for twenty years, for
which after two years. Imprisonment he was
pardoned out by Gov. Austin, and again in
1872 when he was sent up for five years, which
| term has just expired He was arrested at
Wescott, in Dakota county, two days after
wards.
In Baxter town, the hoppers are re-
ported to be doing very little damage
John Hurley and son, of Pierce county, Wis,
have commenced breaking on their claims in
this county, and will break over one hundred
| acres each. n.
"A little son Of Henry Dimon OF Sank
Centre recently fell from his fathers wagon
and was badly hurt, the front wheel passing
| over his head, and the hind wheel over one Of
! his feet. The barn and sheds on the farm of
John Williams, in the town of Grove, were
burned recently, the fire having caught from
pile of straw which had been fired purpose
ly to kill the hoppers which had collected in
it.. Sheets saturated with kerosene and
| dragged over the wheat is one of the methods
OF fighting the hoppcrs near Sank Centre.
| Two old business men of Sank Centre have re-
Gently folded their tents and stolen away,
much to the disgust of their numerous credit
OrS.
DAKOTA.
| The records pertaining to the State
road from St. Paul to Shakopee via Mendoza
and Hamilton have been filed in the Clerks
Office in Hastings. The expenses of survey
were S539.50, and Of right OF way $3.50, Of
which Scott county pays more than one-half
DR. G. H. HAYES of Hastings lost a valua-
bic horse by his breaking through plank
ing into a well forty feet deep. The board
of Commissioners has refused to grant any
liquor license in the town of Empire.
! MORRISON.
| Crops continue to look splendid and
there are no hoppers to make the farmers
afraid: -. Large quantities Of new land are
being broken. One day last week a heavy
whirlwind moved northward, six miles east
| of Little Falls and in its course, which was
| only ten rods wide, blew down and unroofed
| several buildings and demolished fencing over
a mile in length
A young man named August Rigel of
Lester, while cutting wood, very severely cut
| his right foot with the AK. .Dundas talks of
celebrating the Glorious Fourth. .. The coun-
| try around Dundas is swarming with pigeon
| catchers, trappers or shooters The birds are
shipped to Chicago, New York and other
places, and millions have already been for
warded. Prairie Creek Division, No. H. of
! the Sons OF Temperance was organized lately
with IL charter members. .Messrs. E. I.
Archibald and j. T. Ames have gone to Buffa-
ton Of the National Millers' Association which
meets at that city on the 18th inst. .. Oscar
| Lockerly, while pigeon shooting near North
field, was accidentally shot in the by a
companion. Mrs. Hedreen, who with her
husband and two lady companions, was return
ing in the night from Prairie Creek, was With.
| the rest of the party thrown from the carriage
by the team jumping over four foot culvert
in the road, and severely kicked in the
stomach by one Of the horses. A suit against
the county will follow.
| FREEBoRN.
Thirty-two wolves have been killed
since May 18th, 1877, for which a bounty of
$96 was paid. An old folks base ball
club creates lots of fun at Albert Lea One
hundred barrels of tar and 200 sheets of iron
have been distributed to the farmers for fight
ing the 'hoppers.
Graham Lake feels safe from hopper
| depredations .. Corn is looking little yellow
on account of cold weather. .. The contract to
build bridge in Lorraine across Okabena
creek has been let to A. c. Robinson . "A
pair of elk were seen recently at Indian Lake.
| KANABEC.
A man (name unknown) recently lost
his life by being crushed about the head
| and arms, on a drive near Brunswick.
! HOUSTON
A Brownsville physician cut wen as
large as an egg from the palm of a boys hand
49,. Miss Anna Beach of Houston lost 5000
while on her way to La Crosse. She there had,
was found to implicate her. Reports of the
depredations of the chnch bugs have been
greatly exaggerated.
| DODGE.
Concord talks of having big time on.
the 4th of July. Potatoes are in active de-
mand in Claremont and bring fair prices. In.
Claremont there is an increased acreage Of
beer saloon in Claremont was arrested and
committed to Jail, and the German citizens of
that locality threaten to withdraw their pat
ronagc from the village. Washed wool in
pound. &. On Decoration day, the citizens of
Dodge Centre turned out in numbers, to i'm
prove the appearance of the village cemetery.
| sIBLEY.
A horse belonging to Henry Buck was
accidently killed lastweek. Joseph Desilct's