The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Ice four inches thick has afforded fir
skating at MantorviIle.


ty intend to cultivate the sugar cane next
season.
P. Gates, Of Red Wing, had his house
burglarized and pocket-book containing
$153 taken.
Maj. Kennedy, of Hastings, slipped on the
ICY walk, turning his foot under and frac-
turing his leg.
brakeman on the Hastings g. Dakota
railroad had thigh broken while coupling
cars at Shakopee.
new post Office named Waller has been
established in Lac qui Parle county, with
Oluf Streeter postmaster.
One hundred thousand bushels of wheat
had been received at the Ames mill in North
field for the year ending Nov. 80.
About 100 persons have signed the tenn
perance pledge or put on the blue ribbon at
Monticello during the temperance revival.
The grand jury in Yellow Medicine county
found two indictments against Henry Kanauff
for rape on the persons of his two daughters
A runaway team, the other day, at Sleepy
Eye, collided with railroad train. Ono of
the horses was killed, the other escaped in
jury.
Henry Geger, of Elysian township, Nicol-
Noo S~AAoJ3
below the knee, a wagon wheel having run
over it.
ar A 12-year-old son of Mr.. Swanson, of
Kingston, Meeker county, had fall from a
house, last week, which resulted in a broken
collar bone.
The weather is favorable to building and
q number of barns are being built in
Worthington, the better to protect stock
during the winter.
The grain house at Delano is to be closed
owing to lack of patronage occasioned by dis
satisfaction with the style of grading prac-
ticed by the agent
The burning out of one of the chimneys
of the court house at Lac qui Parle caused a
lively time, and no little anxiety for time,
but no harm was done.
N. J. Westby, of Fremont. Fillmore
county, had his house and its contents de-
stroyed by fire, from defective fue Loss,
ST. 500; insured for $3.50.
The East St. Cloud depot has been closed,
and persons wishing to take the cars at that
point are obliged to stand out in the cold and
await the arrival of the train.
Mr.. B. E. Cole, station agent on the Min
neapolis and St. Louis railway, at the village
of Jordan, will, about the time of Merrie
Christmas, wed one of the fair daughters of
that village.
Two boys, in Mortified, scuAiing in a
wagon, frightened the horses, and were
thrown out on the frozen ground. One was
badly hurt, and was taken up insensible, but
will recover.
B. G. Buck, janitor OF the Odd Fellows,
Winnebago City, in going down the stairs
from the hall, missed his footing and fell.
One rib was broken, and he received other
severe bruises.
In Hastings, the other day, a sensation was
produced by the appearance on one of the
streets Of crazy man entirely naked. His
elottss=ss gas fonssssessn the street. He ran at
full speed into the country, ana at the latest
date had not been found.
In Faribault, recently, an attempt was
made to burn a large three-story stone dwell
ing occupied By G. J. B. jackson, formerly
known as Hollock Institute, by pouring kero-
sene on the basement floor and setting fire
thereto. The fire did but little damage. The
result of the attempt was discovered next
morning. No clue to the miscreant.
Two st. Paul men wheedled away a very
valuable dog from Jackson, belonging to W.
Sears, on the 18th of last November. He
lately got clue, and found his dog at c..
Prescott's, St. Paul, and was greatly rejoiced
to recover him. Mr.. Sears purposes to give
the abductors of the dog taste of the law
for their enterprise.
Isaac Newcomb, of Pepin, Wis, while
skating from that place to Lake City Mon
day, broke through the ice when near the
center of the lake, and was only saved from
drowning by the timely aid Of some boys
who were acco mpanying him. Several of
the lads tied their coat sleeves together, and
by twisting the garments formed rope,
with which they rescued him.
Jordan Advocate: On late evening as
the express train on the M. & St. l.. road
was passing point a short distance above
Backofen's mills, volley of stones was fred
into the car windows by some persons con-
cealed near the road. We do not know that
anyone was injured by the cowardly assault.
The railroad men are on the lookout, and if
the offense is repeated the rowdies will be
treated with warm reception. ...f
An exchange says: Travelling over the
county, it is surprising to see how ruthlessly
the farmers cause their property to be de-
stroyed. We refer to the manner in which
they treat self binders, reapers, mowers, and
other farm machinery. Many farmers leave
these valuable helps of farm labor in the
open field, where they had performed the
last fthe seasons work, to undergo the
rains and storms of the fall and winter. Is
not this in a literal sense the destruction of
property?
Fred Marks, living near the mounds in
Blue Earth county, IN company with two
women and child were coming across the
Blue Earth river at Woodland, and as they
were ascending the steep grade at the end of
the bridge, the evener broke and the wagon
ran back onto the bridge, broke down the
railing on the side of it, and fell into the
river twenty feet below. One of the party
had a rather narrow escape from drowning,
but, strange to say, beyond this no serious
damage was done to any of the party.
s. J. Huffer, who lives in the woods some
seventeen miles from Sank Rapids, has
recently received anonymous letters threat
ening him with personal violence if he con-
tinued to ''harbor'' number of Mile Lac
Indians in his neighborhood who came there
to hunt. Mr.. II. says that he is in no way
responsible for the presence of the Indians
in the woods, and that it would be subiecting
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