Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-12
Minnesota News.

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lightning entered the office Of the station
agent at IDundas, burning the instrument,
melting the telegraph wire, and filling the
room With a blaze OF light The operator was
unhurt. The commission to adjust the
claims growing out of the capture of the
allowing $3,S65.50, of which the amount ap-
propriated, 5000 will pay about rs per cent.
&C. F. Goodell, has sold his trotting stall
lion, Little Mack, to Eastern parties, and the
animal will be taken back to Vermont. The
Carletonian, 16-page college paper, published
field, has made its appearance:
DoTGE.
Master Henry Humason, of Dodge
Centre, has hen which is caring for her own
chickens and also for brood left !" by the uu-
| timely demise of the natural mother, and in
addition to these duties, lays an egg every day,
Sundays not excepted. The work on the
town hall and engine house, at Kasson, is pro-
| crossing slowly. The Kasson post-ofice is
worth 81, 900 per annum Freddie Barnhart,
- year old boy of Mantorville, was drowned
recently, while bathing in pond.
| WRIGHT.
A wing dam is being put in on the
river at Battle Rapids below Monticello.
The total vote ON the bond question was 1880
of which only $50 were "ayes-". Nearly
every village in the county is to have some
sort of Fourth of July celebration =. Within
two months coon has made away with forty
dozen chickens in Monticello, but trap
/ caught him at last and ended his depredations
=. Buffalo is to celebrate the Fourth and has
called in the aid of the State Grange Lecturer,
Hon. NJ. II. Sullivan Of Rosenount Dakota
county.
/ GOODHUE.
Drunken Indians are a frequent sight
on the streets of Red Wing. Arthur White
man aged eleven, was drowned on the 2lst
ult. in the river just above Zumbrota -. .Bish-
op Ireland of St. Paul will administer the rite
| of confirmation and also lecture for the bene-
fit of the Catholic Society of Cannon Falls on
Sunday July goth. !. (. "A little son of Stranton
come near losing his life from being attacked
by two Infatuated hogs, but was fortunately
rescued by his father.
There is no practising physician in this
county :. Long Prairie is making prepare
tions I'd celebrate the Fourth iIi becomin g
style. The residence of Mr.. Conkling OF
Reynolds was recently entered and five dollars
stolen. John Ostrander of Long Prairie re-
Gently cut two inch cash on his leg below
the knee-cap, but was not seriously injured.
| MOBILES
Citizens of Shakopee are looking over
railroad lands in Adrian, with the view of
purchasing and locating d c0lohy THEREON -. :.
Mr.. Radaiit has been appointed postmaster at
Seward. Crops continue to look fine at
molested them.
Barley is heading out. The weather
has been little too cold for corn, but just the
thing for wheat. :. The Austin Cornet band
is engaged to play at LIE Roy, on the Fourth
-. Emigrant wagons with Z" Black Hills OF
Bust" inscribed on them, are seen passing
through the streets of Austin. Brownsville
has brass band, which is vigorously practis-
ing for the coming Fourth.
HOUSTON.
Hokah is to have balloon ascension
on the Fourth. "A large number of two car.
loads of emigrants from southern Norway
who arrived in La Crosse recently, sought
homes in this county. A number of excur
sionists went to Albert Lea, on St. Johns day
to attend the Masonic celebration there.
On the 10th ult., Louis Bremen, of Browns
vile, fell from his wagon and was almost in
stantly killed by being run over.
MORRISON.
Trade is lively in Little Falls. Snake
root is being dug in large quantities in differ
ent parts of the County =. The frost has dam
aged the corn in Two Rivers. Crops il
Green Prairie are looking well. :. Little Falls
is to have the privilege of selecting depot
grounds,provided the town donates the same tc
the Railroad Company Crops in Rich Prai
RE are luxuriant aud bountiful.
| SHELLEY.
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order post office. :. The teachers association
will be held in the school house at New Au
burn July 18th. Captain Sigler, of Hender
son, has received forty Springfield rifles fol
his company.
| oLMSTED
Wheat receipts at Rochester are lighter
now than for several seasons past but prices
are well maintained. =. "A son of Mr. Chapman
ofRochester while handling reyolverrecently
| shot in tho hack DOI1tOnV tho fnmnnr
ance revivalist is expected at Rochester July
18th. IT,. The Rochester base ball club scooped
the St Charles club recently by score of q
to2... VIM Hyslop of Chester has sold over
900 pounds of wool at IS cents per pound. His
sheep averaged six pounds each. Twenty
boxes of cigars were recently found IN straw
stack at Olmsted, having evidently been stolen
and placed there for safe keeping. They were
all spoiled. Miss Mary Ann Quinlan of
Rochester was one of class of Deaf and Dumb
which graduated at Faribault recently.
Blue berries are in the Rochester Market.
An epileptic patient, a ten year old son of a
German farmer Claus Behrns of Greenwood
Prairie has been cured by having made bed
fellow of little puppy So says the Rochester
Post.
| ST. LOUIS.
The caterpillars are stripping the trees
of foliage near Pike Lake. :. The schooner
Alice Craig, which was built at Duluth, has
just been launched. The canvassing board
on the bond election received just $1.6O for
| their laborS.
! sTEARNs.
Fred Martin and Jonas Clark, of Sank
Centre, have been sentenced to the State pen
itentiary, for horse-stealing-the first for one
year and six months, and the latter for one
year and three months. There were six
persons convicted of horse stealing at the late
term of the County District Court. 4. The
crop of small grain in the vicinity of Sank
Centre is failure.
| JACKSON.
Large numbers of immigrants are COM
ing into the country around Heron Lake
many of them driving large droyes of stock
-. The German settlers of the town of La
Crosse are charging their farms, and doing
considerable breaking this season. 4. Heron
Lake is the best butter market in Southwest
ern Minnesota. No damage has been done
the crops by the 'hoppcrs, in Round Lake
township. Small grain is looking finely
/ in Christiana. ..E.. B. Miller of Christiana,
has 'Hyslop apple-tree that has borne apples
| two years and this season did not blossom in
the spring, but blossomed last week and
| promises to have some fruit this season if the
season holds offlong enough in the fall.
POLK.
| The season has been an unusually wet
one, but has now settled down to its normal
dryness. :. The machinery of the saw and
grist mill at Crookston, is being placed in po-
| sition Nicholas tBOck, of Stearns county,
with his family, a drove of cattle and fifty
sheep has located on Snake River, where he
proposes to COLOMBO large number of his
former German neighbors. Frank DeMers
has charge of the work on the levee, at Fishers.
The river continues unusually high at
Fishers. Eight carloads of threshers and
fourteen of different kinds of agricultural i'm
plements hayelbeen shipped to this county :. :.
| The cottonwood trees near Fishers are not