The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

| A SOAP factory has been established in
Rochester.
AN Episcopal church is being built at
Redwood Falls.
WOLVES are inflicting much damage by
killing sheep in Faribault county.
The Methodists of Rochester will build
new parsonage the coming summer.
Hon. ]. V. DANIELS, dangerously sick
for some time past, is permanently i'm
proving.
THE LIE Sueur Sentinel says that tax COL
lcctions in that county this year are not as
good as last.
THE Olmsted Agricultural Society find S
its cash on the right side of the ledger :,
s1S7.6l in the treasury.
! FERGUS FALLS Journal J. p. Jacobson
of Kirkhoven has been appointed Assist
ant Secretary of State by Secretary Irgens.
JUDGE MCKELvY, says the St. Cloud
Journal Press, is steadily improving and
will probably be able to sit up in few
days.
The Young America Touring mill, Car
yer county, manufactured over II, 900 bar
rels of flour last year, Of which 5000 were
marketed in the East.
! Mr.. THOMAS K1NsELI4A, of Olmsted, has
sold his farm of eighty acres for S., 200, for
the purpose of purchasing large tract of
land in Mower County.
THE Wells Advocate prophesies lively
times in the railroad shops at that place
the coming summer from the extension of
the Southern Minnesota road.
THERE were 1876 births and only 175
deaths in Mower county last year. In
Freedom county about the same difference
exists, 4S2 births to 135 deaths.
THE Fergus Falls Journal understands
that Mr. John Schroeder of that place has
some expectation of being put at the head
of democratic Scandinavian paper.
The Waseca Weekly Herald says the
immigration to this State this year will be
simply immense-forty families of Cor
nish, Maine, will be of the number.
Now WE have it. On the 2sth of De-
cember, says the Rochester Record and
Union son of Mr.. Dixon of Oronoco
plowed half day, and bare-footed at
that.
Rochester Post Since our last issue,
one more of Mr.. Holden's children has
died of diphtheria. making in all, five in
one family swept away by death in "a little
over two weeks.
Waseca Herald: w. G. Ward took his
departure Wednesday for business and
pleasure trip South, during which he will
visit St. Louis, Memphis, the Hot Springs
and other points.
Waseca Herald: Laura May, four-year-
old daughter of Edward Atward, of Silver
Lake, died on Sunday of diphtheria. We
recorded the death of Eva, an eight-year-
old daughter, last week.
IT is reported that II. G. Rising, form
erly publishing paper at Glenwood. Pope
county, but now of the Northwood Eagle,
is about to return to GlenwOod and re-es-
tablish his paper there
Mr.. and Mrs Griffin of Worthin gton
have lost three children by scarlet fever,
their deaths following each other in close
succession At the same time many other
cases existed in the place, some Of which
also proved fatal
| S. G. FLANDERS and II. G. Whitney of
Farinault, were very seriously injured by
being thrown from a light wagon Tuesday
the odd Mr.. Flanders, who was injured
int, rnally, has not been able to leave his
bed since the accident.
THE Isanti County Press, discussing a
proposition to give bonus of S40O towards
building Lutheran church editice, thinks
the material interests of the place would
be better subserved by devoting such aid
to establishing cheese factory.