The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS. it
Mcleod county has organized teachers
Over 1000 ties a day are shipped. On the
H. & d. railway from Hastings.
The sheriff of Redwood county has cap
| tured and lodged thief in the Jail at New
| Uln.
August Hinkle, of Bear Valley, had leg
broken in scuffie. The fracture was a very
| bad one. +s
by an accident near Forest City, Meeker
county, child of Mr.. Rogers had an arm
broken. .-@
| Waseca has voted $1,000 additional for
! their new school house, with only seven
opposing votes.
| Sheriff Newton, of Dakota county, was in
pursuit Of fraudulent lightning rod peddlers
sfew days since. - ~
The barn and granary of John Irthum, of
Douglas, were totally destroyed by fire a
night or two since.
4. E. Barclay has bought the mill and
grounds belonging to the Morristown Mill
company for $4,000.
A large number of people from st. Louis
are spending the summer in Faribault for
health and recreation.
Senator Window delivers the address at
the Mississippi Industrial fair to he held at
Red Wing, Sept. 10, II and -. u ...
3-year-old child was run over by car
riage, in Faribault, but no bones were brok-
en-. The child is expected to recover.
H. H. French's house in Plainview, Waba-
shaw county, was burglarized a few nights
ago, and the burglar got $40 for his booty.
In field near Wabashaw rattlesnake
was found cooled under bundle of wheat.
He was harvested ty a farmer and graded
No. 1.
Fights aud petty thieving are getting to he
numerous in Mazeppa, and the authorities
are kept busy in arresting, trying and filming
the scalawags.
Another national bank is to be established
in Northfield, Rice county, in place of the
Citizens bank which is to be closed up.
Capital $4,000.
| The father of E. B. Slocum, of Castle Rock,
was run over by team, two of the wheels
passing over his body, and was severely, it
is feared fatally injured.
A farmer in Dakota county had his
reaper, left in the grain field, broken en-
tirely to pieces by gang of that valuable
citizens known as trampS.
Fish are said to be abundant in Roberds
lake, Rice county, especially black bass,
which is considered the best fish caught in
any of the Minnesota lakes.
A railroad employee at Hastings, while
coupling cars, had two of his fingers JAM
med off. A short time since similar acct
dent happened to his other hand.
Miss Agnes Cardin, of Gilmore, Faribault
county, was severely burned by the explosion
of gasoline stove, which she had impru-
IDENTIFY placed on hot wood stove. .-..
Although the grain crop in Plainview is a
poor one, the yield of poker players, tramps,
etc., is reported to be immense, and yet SO
worthless as to be of unquotable value.
/ A. A. Misener, of Faribault, came near los
ING his life byslaaying bank of earth} cave
and fall upon LINN. When rescued he was
insensible, but was soon restored to con-
seriousness. -'7-
In stating the sales Of old wheat one of
our local exchanges owns to mistake of
81, OOO, 100000. 1t is hardly worth while,
though, to use up type metal in correcting
so light mistake.
The number of cases (most of them hard
cases. during one week, that stood for judg-
ment in the Hastings police court, reached
10, and the aggregate fines and costs amount
ed to quite pretty sum:
In some portions of the State, especially
on the borders of Wisconsin and over the
line, the squirrels are said to be unusually
numerous and very fat. The woods are full
of them, and the hunters are after them in
force.
!, James Mead and John F. Larabee, two
Young men of Blue Earth City, went to 8
lake to shoot wild geese. While in the boat
rowing, Larabee accidentally discharged thu
N contents of his own gun into his body, anc
survived but a few hours.
Hugh Shaw, of South Mazeppa, bea
, Elisha Gray with whisky jug, inhictine
,, dangerous injuries on his head, and render
' ing him insensible. The Infatuated rough
was placed under arrest. He contrived t.
effect settlement with Gray by paying hin
$50. 49,.
It is stated that railway twelve miles il
, length is to be built this fall from Chatfielt
to Eyota, by the Northwestern railroad
/ company, for which service they demand {
g bonus of $5O,OOO-to which Chatfeld con
tribes 1885, OOO Elmira $4,000, and Jordan
! $4,000.
! A scaffold used by three plasterers in tn
: new French Catholic church at Faribault
! gave way, precipltatlng them to the floor
= distance of sixteen feet. One had rit
;, b'oken and his spine injured, another wa
b;uised about his thighs and hips, and tn
l. third escaped with slight injuries.
Westward no, seems to be the watchwor,
o. the great squirrel host. 10 accomplish
this they swim rivers and lakes, and grea
Numbers yield up their lives to the treacher
oIs waters, their bodies being washed to tn
shores. "Lo, the poor INDIAN predicts
from this strange emigration hard white,
), IA brave, intelligent, enterprising wife i
: OF value inestimable. Such an one is tn
k wife of Major T.. r. Toole, advertising agen
o. Forepaugh's show. The major being TEN
d p,rarily confined by sickness, she took u
! his work and passed through the towns a
t. tie forerunner of the great show, duly ad
! virtising the advent of the same-and sh
- did the work we'll.
The dead body of man was found on tn
roadside in clump of bushes, between Rose
,; mount and Mendoza. The body was muc
q delayed, but was supposed to be that c
I john Shannon, who had been missing fo
8, some time. He is supposed to have bee
e murdered, as he was known to have had $5
q inEmoney in his pockets. Two bullet hole
u ware found in his breast.
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