The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-12-05

railroad, with special Jurisdiction
over the Winona & St. Peter division.
and its new and important branches.
AT Rochester. child of Robert
Elliott, aged three years, by some
unknown means got hold of some
| corrosive sublimate and swallowed
quantity of it. By the prompt atten-
ton Of two physicians the child's
life was saved.
Two fast boys at Eyota while rae
ing with colts ran recklessly into a
flock of sheep. One Of the colts
stumbled over sheep, threw his
rider off and fell OH him. The boy
was taken up for dead, but will re.
cover.
! The well-known physician, DR.. E.
G. Block. was found dead on Wed.
nesdav morning in the alley near
Henk's store in Chaska. The cause
of his death seems to have been
choral and laudunum. of which the
DR.. partook to great extent to re.
ieve him of nervousness.--Free Press
Goth.
Two drunken men at Sank Centre
| undertook trial of speed between
their respective teams. They drove.
with a reckless abandon, that none
but drunken men can. One of tho
men ran his team into fence, killing
one of his horses, valuable young
animal outright.
ROCHESTER, Mimi, Dee. Sired
Hittman, who murdered John Schroe-
der last summer, plead guilty, and
was sentenced for life to the states
prison, with the first day of each
month in solitary confinement. He
murdered his friend in cold blood, for
$2S, and deserves the gallows, but our
law lets him off thus easy.
The way to catch wolf without
trap. snare. or poison, is to jump on
his back, grab him by both ears and
run him till he tires out. He is then
docile and can be easily caught.-.St.
Charles Times. There is one kind OF
wolf that is hard to render docile,
though he stands at the door of many
houses these hard tim es.
We learn that the safe of Mr.. b.
F. Pillsbury, at Granite Falls, was
broken into last Sunday highland the
sum of $ll0 taken out. Very luckily
for Mr.. Pillsbury the thief or thieves
did not find $1,000 more which was in
the safe at the time. They have no
clew up to this date, as to who the
parties were.-Indepen dent, Glencoe.
For dispatching court business,
Judge Macdonald takes the medal.
No term of court under his jurisdic-
tion is ever prolonged beyond the
shortest possible time to finish the
business. He makes an excellent
Judge, and his decisions are as near
in accordance with the law as can be
drawn.--McLeod County Enterprise.
The regular passenger train,
bound west, on the Winona St. Pc
ter railroad. collided with freight
at 4 o'clock this morning two miles
west Of Claremont. Both locomotives
were badly wrecked and three head
of cattle were killed, but the train
men escaped injury. The conductor
Of the freight claims his watch was
twenty-six minutes slow, AMI thus
threw him out of time. The track
will be cleared in time for the regu-
lar trains tonight.
Mr.. O. S. Lund. of Zimmerman r
Co., has in his possession Norwe-
gian dollar, bearing date 1869, that is
a curiosity. 1t is at least six inches
in circumference and about half the
thickness of the trade dollar. On one
side is the great seal of Norway, and
ont the other a knight Templar, in
full armor. There is also Latin in
scription on each side. We will add
for the benefit of coin hunters that
Mr.. Lund will not sell this one.--
Record and Union, Roc hester.
"A large amount of wheat is COM
ing to this market from the Minneso-
ia river county, Notwithstanding the
Hastings and Dakota railroad is COM
pleted and in running order to Granite
Falls. It has generally been suppos-
ed that no wheat would come to Will
mar from that country after the
railroad reached Granite, because Of
the great difference in distances to tho
two markets, but farmers seem to
think that they can make it pay better
to haul their wheat forty miles to
this market than to sell at home -
Willmar Republic
ferrous FALLS, Mimi, Nov. q,
via Campbell.-Thej jury in the Heath
cote case did not bring in their yer.
dict until II o'clock this lThursday)
morning. The judge ordered tho
sheriff to bring the defendant into
court. and, in q few minutes. Mr..
Heathcote appeared, accompanied by
his counsel. The jury having an
swered to their names. the judge
asked them: Have you agreed upon
your verdict. gentlemen +" The
foreman said: Yes" How say ron
guilty or not guilty."
Not guilty"
Mr.. Heathcote was Immediately
congratulated by his numerous
friends and others, and left the court
room with them TO inform bis wife.
who was anxiousiy awaiting the re-
suit at the hotel.
The verdict gives great satisfaction
to large majority of the people. and
is singing rebuke TO those who tried |