The Princeton union., 1877-12-12
Minnesota News items,
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55 JACKSON.
HeTon Lake wants a few young men 10
come there, who are not afraid to see the
girls home in the evening {. Land Land 10
still the cry along the st. pani 8 Sioux civ
Railroad, and wheat, Wheat,is what everybody
talks .AnGxtensiye prairie fire was rsging
over In Wisconsin township on the eyeninr q
the 2ath nt. No serious damage reported
lll Drt lhe heasens were SO brilliantly iinmiaa
ted that several of our citizens visited the
scene, fearing destruction of property ,night
ensue.
Flocks of wild geese were still 70 ho
seen in the lakes of Orange Grove towasbir
~. A large camp of Indians is located otI th.s
north side OF the county. These miserable
red skins are a terror through all that region
OF country. Women and children are ali
afraid OF them. They are killing off all the
game.
OTTER TAIL
s a twoeyear old steer attacked a little
four -year-old son Of Andrew Nelson of Parker.
prairie and knocked him down;Bu the little
fellow erawled out, and getting hatellet re-
turned and drove off his assailant
& PINE
A vein of copper, five feet below the
surface, and Of good quality has been discoy.
cred at Chengwatona ). McCaine Bros. md
Barteau have sawed at their mill in Hfnck- q
iIJ ttt dSG eeaoOn, bfEft ,bOu,U5U ieef OF itfn-
5ber....A new saw mill is to be quilt at Lyeo
side track, two miles south OF Pine City
FAEIBAULT
a. G. Dunn of Winnebago CITY raised
last season, upon IA acres of land LAC bpsbels
OF eorn---an average OF 1U5 bushels to the
acre.
Msssrs yiesselman and Haekeft late
candidates fer County Treasurer having de- q
clded not 10 resort to the counties to decide 81
the question OF Illegal votes between them, IF
investigated the subject themselves and|Gnd b
ing that Hackett was legally elected, tiae fern.
er withdrew al claims to the office and the
latter will be peaceably installed.
BECKER.
An Indian while engaged IN stalking
deer near Detroit WAS killed BY the accidental
discharge Of his gun Allen Morrison. ! a.
member OF the First Territorial Legislature
OF Minnesota died at White Earth on the
2lst nit He had lived there for over 80 wears.
wAToNNAN
Ihity families of Mennonites have set
tied in the county. Five ladies recently
joined the Presbyterian Church in Madelia. -.
The public schools in Madela have been di-
vided into three departments. st
AITKEN.
A lumberman who left Nettletons'
Ehing mill at the mouth of Swami river on
the upper Mississippi for Grand Rapids, was
50 badly frozen that his life is despaired off,.
John Randolph who has been suffering LONG
time With rheumatism, recently broke his leg
while lying il bed. George Houghton who
owned The steamer Poke gama recently,
burned aFlI build another boat in the spring.
OLMsTED.
Miss Phoebe CoZzlns, of st. Louis, lee
tured toa large audience in Rochester on the
29th ult.. DIR. E. G. Cross removed a schirrus
tumor from the tongue OF Wm j. Mich. so
large that he could not close his mouth, and
in doing so cut off twe-thirds of the tongue.
The patient is completely recovered. George
Albee, while working for a farmer at ZumbTo
WabashaW county, had his arm caught in the
cylindersof threshing machine, and so badly
injured that amputaticn was resorteG 10 and
his life spaired OF for a long time He is
now. However, rapidly conyaieseing.
RICE.
PrisesF the county Jail at F aribault,
escape at a IateEhoh on the
~ 5ssh lsslt. A hole hid been made s
~ sTlieh was two feet thick,
with 81 iron brace taken from bench in one
OF the CELLS. One of the jail-birds, thinking the
coast clear, pulled out the last stoue: When
instead offreedom, he behel6 Hart Barton on
guard =. 1t is reported that Dwyer, the Fari-
haiilt watch thief who made his escape from
policeman in that city, has been re-captured
near Greenyale.. "A new posto1iice has been
established at Norsetrand, In the town Of
Wheeling, and a. 81. Brokke appointed post
master. The school house at Little Prairie
has been furnished with thirty new, patent
desks, which are great improvement over
the old ones, besides increasing the seating
capacity of the room.