The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-10-02
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The steam Touring mill at Shakopee, Scott
county, u fast approaching completion.
Peter Gratz, of Glencoe, has lost by prairie
| fires 700 bushels Of wheat and 200 bushels OF
| oats. M bit
Four persons we're confirmed at st. Cloud,
by Bishop Whipple, on one evening last
week.
a young man was robbed by highwaymen
on the road between Sank Rapids and ST.
Cloud
| The Presbyterian church are considering
the matter of establishing college in Al
bert Lea
| A boy in Winona had one of his arms
caught in the belt of steam thresher, break
ing it in two places.
A trarnping qnack doctor waa arrested in
j ~. Ciond Tor uaisbehayior, fined SO, and put
III jail IN defanlt of payment
! ,Pralrle fires are prevailing in Todd county
ana other sections of the State, greatly en-
dangerlng stacks Of hay and grain. s.,
William q. Cory, of Elk River while rid
ing ~ a buggy, collided with u stump, and
was thrown ont and severely injured.
Inc people OF Albert Lea are clan1oritlp
Tor for Touring mill, butas yet have found no
| capitalist to invest in such enterprise.
| In New Haven, Olmstead county. four
stacks of wheat and threshing machine
| were destroyed by fire, the work of an in
cendiary.
| by Irlentened runaway team, Mr.. ,J. e.
| Ihomas, OF ELK Biver, was thrown from a
| buggy and was badly bruised, though not
| seriously injured. 34ia
H. lsaacson, Of Black county, Wis, has
| purchased the American House at Glencoe,
Mcleod ou1lty---consid Iteration, Sc, 800. He
! goes into immediate possession.
Two men in Cannon Falls were throwing
sticks at a squirrel on opposite. sides Of q
tree. stick struck one Of the men il, one
or his eyes, destroying the sight.
| A man at Little Falls a few DAYS apo waded
across the Mississippi river. and didn't think
1t much deeper than q heavy dew. What a
showing for the Z. Fatherof Waters.''
Shakopee Argus;. Work on the bridge is
progressing finely. The excavation for one
of the abutments is already finished and the
filing in of the rip-rap begun. les
The Long Prairie (rodd county, 4rqus is
informed that another attempt was made to
drive the Indians from the northern part OF
the county, but the red men could not be
found.
The dwelling house of William Ross at
Two rivers, Stearns county, has been de-
stroyed by fire-caught from chimney
most Of the household goods were saved
Loss, $500: insured, $500.
Thomas Mcclure, of St. Cloud, while
hunting, accidentally discharged the con.
| tents of bis gun in his left arm below the
elbow, shatterlng one of the bones. The
surgeon thinks he can save the arm. +
A dog fight in st. Cloud, resulted in a
fstlcutf fight among the Polanders. Dur
/ ing the melee gun was brought in req.
uisition, but not discharged. Arrests were
made, and one party was fined $l5, and the
other $14.
jonathan Greyson, of Austin, Move,
county, as he was returning home from the
circus the other night, was seized bv two
robbers, who attempted to rife his pockets
but were scared away by some persons com.
ing along in the nick of time.
Ole G. Nelson, of Rock Dell. Olmsted
county, had o span of horses stolen from
his stable, but they were recovered in a few
hours. About three miles from the stable
the theves met party Of young men re-
turning late to their homes, and mistakine
them for party in pursuit of the horses
| :
Hastings Gazette. The wing dam on The
west side of the island near Point Douglas
has SO far proved a complete failure. No
enough water has been turned on the othel
side to form channel, while the dam itsel
prevents the passage OF boats around tn,
island as heretofore. The Nellie Kent ha:
not been able to reach here the past ter
days, although thousand barrels of -four il
waiting her appearance.
John Griffith, aged % years, of weak mine
and subject to fits, son of P. Griffith. Of
Ayr postotiice, Goodhue county, left his
fathers house Monday and wandered in the
! vicinity until Friday, when he was found
one-half mile south of Zumbrota, living by
the side of the road asleep, with his pockets
full of crab apples The father of the lost
man. assisted by about 100 of his neighbors,
were searching for him until he was
! found.
u. Valentine, a farmer living near Cannon
Fails, went into his pasture on horseback for
the purpose of driving his cattle to the ward.
All of them started in front of the horse, ex.
oept the animal named, which refused to
move. Mr.. V. approached him and attempt
ed to strike him with stick, when the ami
NAL rushed at him. one horn penetrating the
calf of his right leg to the depth of two
inches, making very painful though not
| dangerous wound. gss sz7ss5ssgs,=
The other day several nice young men
went into the jewelry store of Mr.. Newell at
Shakopee, and asked to see some watches.
Severed were handed out. AS they were pre-
pairing to go, Mr.. Newell saw that one of
| the watches was missing, and accused them
of stealing it, and proposed to so far intrench
on their valuable time as to detain and search
them. The search revealed the watch in the
vest pocket of one of the nice young men.
Near Plainview, Wabashaw county, the
granary of George Nelson was struck by
lightning and burned, the fire communicate
ing with his wheat stacks and barn, also
consuming them. The granary contained
$50 bushels of old wheat and quantity of
oats and barley. The wheat in stacks raised
from eighty acres, with sixteen tons of hay
IN the barn, reaper, horse-rake, drags and
other farming utensll, all were destroyed.
A. A. Martin lost seventy five bushels of old
wheat which he had stored in Mr.. Nelson's
granary.
h. Red Wing Republicans. AS Deputy Sheriff
Armstrong was driving in from Cannon
Falls, about II O'clock, he had reached little
valley three and-a-half miles beyond the Sar-
gent school house, when, in the darkness. he
saw, near the horses heads, the flash of a re-.
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