River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-28
Minnesota News Items.
FREEBoRN COUNTY.

FREEBoRN COUNTY.
Albert lea is in the throes of city char
ter election figh.. The two papers take OPP
posite sides, and the voters are presumed to
, be divided in about the same ratio.
DAKOTA COUNTY
John j. Rhodes is prominently talked oil
| as the coming mayor of Hastings.
| One-half the wheat sowing is completed
in Dakota county, says the Hastings Union
| The house and barn of Mr.. James Kear
| ney, Pennington, were destroyed by fire
| Saturday night the 10Th. and nearly all theil
contents consumed.
| Noticing the report that Judge Crosby viii
| resign about May 1st, the Hastings Gazette
| home authority, says this is hardly correct
although he has serious intentions of leaving
the bench, and possibly may do SO before
his present term expires.
STATE AT LARGE.
Gophers hav, commenced operations.
'.Some land, some land, my kingdom fol
some land" is the cry all along the frontier
Minnesota farmers, says the La Crosse
lLSberdt-Denaocrdt, are too busy putting il
grain to have any market, and if they were
so disposed the roads are too bad. Hence &
falling off in wheat receipts per Minnesots
railroad.
DODGE COUNTY.
State teachers institute will meet al
NIantorville Monday, April LIST, and continue
two weeks.
TODD COUNTY.
There were forty-fve deaths in Todd
county last year.
MOBILES COUNTY.
The number of arrivals at this place, says
the Worthington Journal, range all the way
from $50 to 200 daily.
DIR. Craft of Worthington, has been select.
ed as one of the two Minnesota delegates to
attend the American Medical Association
which meets in Buffalo in May next.
The Worthington Adodnce mentions the
presence there of Red Wing parties in search
of lands for the accommodation of about one
hundred families from Red Wing and vicin-
ity this spring, and one or two hundred more
in the future.
Altman Fulweiler, or Bigelow township
Mobiles county, since the fur season began
has caught two hundred and fifty rats, seven
mink, twelve skunk, eight weasels, two
badgers, and tve wolves. In forty-six shots
he killed forty-two rats, three ducks and one
goose. All these were secured within a ra
dius of one and half miles of his home.
GooDHUE COUNTY.
The building society of Red Wing is about
| to issue its third series of stock.
,, The Red Wing argus says the great bulk
| of the grain will be sown in that county this
week.
The Red Wing Adrdnce understands thai
steps are being taken for the organization
of a glass factory at that place.
The Red Wing AdUGace is trying the ex-
pertinent of issuing its paper semi-weekly
| the issue being one-half the size of its pres
ent weekly.
The Lake City Ledder says Gen. L.. l
Hubbard, of Red Wing, is being put in train
ing for the Congressional nomination from
the I'd district.
The Zumbrota town meeting adopted q
resolution to give the Chicago d North
western company $4,000 to build a rail
road to that place.
The Red Wing lecture association has de.
clared dividend of IA cents per share, and
now the bloated stockholders are looking
about for profitable investments, and arrang-
ing for trips to the Paris exposition.
LIE sUEUR COUNTY.
There are twelve flour mills in LeSueul
county, having total of thirty-two RIM Of
stones.
The new town of Waterville, LeSueul
county, has already outstripped staid and
slow moving LeSueur, by the organization
of hook and ladder company.
CARVER COUNTY.
Mr.. John Pfegher has purchased the
Carver county poor farm for the sum of
$4,000.
BROWN COUNTY.
The electors of New Ulm are to vote upon
proposition for leasing the public square
to a school district for ninety years.
Mayor Roos, of New Ulm, is reported dan
gerously sick in New York, where he went
about two months ago to seek medical re-
lief.
A.E. McCarty, of New Ulm, says the
ReUie1r, contemplates moving his livery
stock to Redwood Falls as soon as the Sleepy
Eye and Redwood Falls railroad is built.
wAsECA COUNTY.
Mrs. ratrick Healey resident of Waseca
since 1856, died ON the Sth of typhoid
pneumonia, aged SO years.
Mrs. McManus, of Waseca, Saturday, the
9th, took dose of croten oil by mistake.
Medical aid was promptly summoned and the
patient relieved of the poisonous dose before
| it had time to do its deadly work.
| WRIGHT COUNTY.
/ The st. Paul & Pacific railroad company
is building new bridge across the Grow
| river at Delano.
| Waite Archibald, of Monticello, with a
rifle, brought down three wild geese at one
shot, the other day, says the Wright county
| Times.
The Wright county Times says that a
female porker belonging to Joseph Perkins,
has brought forth three litters of pigs within
eleven months, numbering 45 in all.
j. r. Fitzpatrick, of Dakota Territory,
sends us by mail an Indian war club. It's a
regular headache inducer, and we don't pro-
pose, hereafter, to take back anything we've
said nor allow any galloot to get sassy on
our hands.-H0pdrd Lake AdU0cdte.