The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1877-09-28
Minnesota News.
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Jumping claims is. pretty lively bust
ness just now and uneasy homesteaders are re-
turning in all directions, Naturalization pa
pers are being issued by the District Court IN
CT recently got drunk in Granite Falls, when
aparty OF white men put q rope around his
neck andlhaulcd him through the streets. :
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The. Caledonia. postioficet was entered
by q burglar on the night of the 10th, and
nickles, pennies and stamps to the amount o
eight dollars distracted IS. While Anthony
Molitor, Of Caledonia was engaged in working
about thresher one day last week, his right
hand was caught in the pinion wheel Of the
power and almost instantly severed from the
arm. The farmers, of Money Creek are
hauling their wheat to Winona, as it is zen
cents higher in that market than in Houston.
IA large quantity Of sweet potatoes were
raised about Hokah this, season. - =, sr,srr
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The first train onithes Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern Railway reached Albert
Lea on the 10th. The new Catholic Church
at Albert Lea was dedicated on the 9th, Bish-
OPP Ireland and Revs. P: Riordan and Theodore
Venn officiating.
Land buyers are plenty around Win
dom. IA MIR .Kraussei of Germantown
threshed 20 bushels ofsWheat to the acre..
having hard time in breaking up their lands
=. Thomas Faucet raised 81 bushels of the
Lost Nation wheat to the acre: business is
lively IN Mountain Lake. John Cook of
Lakeside, while engaged in oiling a threshing
machine caught the fore-finger of his left
hand in the cogs and suffered q terrible mu-
tilatiOn. Gerhard Isaac of Mountain Lake
threshed 6SS bushels of wheat, from % acres.
Hattie, the six-year old daughter of
Miles Growt, of st, Charles, was taken with
cramps and dice, shortly after eating -quan-
tity OF black cherries, supposed to have been
poison ivy berries. The merchants and
tradesmen Of St. Charles are kept busy from
rosy morn to dewy eve 49,
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A Boston missionary . with lady
stopped recently alta Red Wing. hotel regis
tering the name of "a. c. Pomeroy and wife,.
Detroit Mich" While the couple were seated
at the dinner table, a stranger leaned over and
asked the man how he got out of his scrape
the other day. Without finishing their meal,
the couple rose and left the room and without
further delay, took the eastern train. It SUBJ
sequently appeared that the party had eloped
from Menominee Wis, and had been overtaken
at Hudson by a brother-in-law of the girl who
compelled the swain with the aid Of revolver
to undergo then and there, the marriage cere-
mony. The girl, it also appeared, was the
hall daughter aI OF rich lumberman at
Menominee, and from expressions let fall by
Pomeroy, it is almost positively certain that
heTis eagerly awaiting: an opportunity to
skip. and leave his helpmeet lone and deso-i
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Wheat receipts at Adrian are 500.
bushels per day.: Peter Befort, aged Is, en-
ployedsae an engine wiper 'atlthe round house
in Worthington, accidently shot himself with
a self-cocking pistol on the 14tf The wound
is in the. right breast just below the nipple
andis supposed to be fatal. /. {. An old resident
OF Graham Lakes is chargedw with incest BY his
own daughter: Bishop Iteland's colony will
comprise six townships instead of two as
heretofore stated. Twenty six. hundred
sheep were recently brought into the county
and sold to some eight persons at an average
cost OF about SITS per head. =.
STEELE.
Eugene Hare, Of Clifton; recently caught
in steel trap, aybung wolf, measuring from
tip of nose to end Of tail, four feet, and stand
ing % inches high The Minnesota academy
T + SR on th n 10TH h::
completed 49,: Farming lands are in brisk de-
mand:. IAN old log house which was built in
1855 by Mr.. iWinship and for q l0ngstime,used
as q partt.of the old Winship House, in
Owatonna, has just been torn down to make
room for other improvements. It was the
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wAToNwAN.
s1'he red ribbon Society id Madelia has
been revived. Water is low in stho,wellsL
around Madelia. The Catholic church in
Madelia was struck by liz htniRg on the after
noon Of the 18th and slightly damaged. 80.
Miss Ada sargentt6 st. James has gone to
Owatonna to occupy q position as assistant in
the Academy at that place. = NOR s-15is7+a
MINNEAPOLIS. IL Is t-sT f$5t
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seventy two feet deep and throwing Q stream
at the Monitor PloW works on the line of the
st. Paul &, Pacific Railway il. Auditor Black
isabout TO institute legal proceedings to coll
lect the delinquent Inebriate Asylum tax.
man named Edward Kelleyfwa shot through,
the breast and dangerously wounded, in a
melee at dance at Lambert's boarding house
corner OF Second street and Second Avenue.
North. lsfs;rs-s,..aa IL M -at!EE ~ T.
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An old building in Chaska which was
erected in 1857 and occupied as small groc-
cry, and subsequently, added to and occupied
by the county officers, has been torn down to
Buggeman of Benton was run over and suf-
fered fracture Of ono Of his legs by the
wheels 81 aWagQn. 49,. The Catholic School Of
Chaska, under the superintendent Of the
ofStcTS mas lVU scholars. a : n
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An old hunter has killed over 80 wolves
in the big woods near Forest iris summer . .
Wheat thieves arc operating in, the vicinity of
Union Lakes. !. Wild plumB are. scarce this
fall. j. Charles Bingham Of Northfeldis favor
ably mentioned "a a Republican candidate for
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Seven bright-looking young = Indian
girls from White Earth l't were recently taken
St. Joe, Stearns County. :. Is ], ..s.
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Barnes & Co. of Glyndons are erecting