Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-11
Minnesota News items.
wAaAsHAW COUNTY.

wABAsHAW COUNTY.
Oliver Craft, of Wabashaw, settled in Min
nesota in 1928, and has resided in the State
ever since
Ex-Sheriff Box, of Wabashaw county, Is
about to remove with his family to Crook
| ston. Polk county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Halverson, of Lake City,
were expecting their young daughter home
from Chigao, where she had lived for years,
and Mr.. Halverson returned nightly from
the depot with increasing disappointment. At
last, few days ago, he received letter an
nouncing that she had been taken with
| typhoid fever about the time she was to have
started for home, and died after few days
sickness.
GOODHUE COUNTY.
| Fifty-fve school teachers attended teach.
ers' institution held at Cannon Falls this
| week.
Cyrus A. Cook has retired from the Can
non Falls Beacon, leaving o. T. Jones its
| conductor.
The Red Wing Scandinavian colonists
have selected nine sections of land lying in
Mobiles, Jackson and Murray counties, where
| these counties corner.
AS to free bridges Jennison says: 'No city
should be without one" and advises all cities
to follow the examples set by Red Wing, st.
| Paul and Winona.
The Mazeppa Tribune, of the Both with a
| flourish of head lines, announced that the
| track layers were at work on the Midland
railway and were expected at Millville that
| evening.
The Red Wing Argus hears runors that
Judge Crosby contemplates resigning
that Senator J. G. Mcclure is proposed for
his successor. The Senator's father was
Judge of that district next preceding Judge
| Crosby.
The Hon. Joseph F. Potter, of La Crescent
| lectured on temperance at Plainview two
evenings week before last. The Neacs says:
'sHe is not very eloquent speaker, but seems
to be thoroughly in earnest in the temper
ance work.
Minneola and Zumbrota townships, Good
hue county, are to vote next month on the
proposition to give town bonds $4,000
each town in aid of the Rochester & North
ern railroad. conditioned on the roads being
completed from Rochester to Zumbrota vii
lage during the present year.
| NC LEoD COUNTY.
| Liberty Halls Glencoe Register SAYS Budd
Reeve 'exhibits wonderful ability in his
original and quiet way of dressing up old
thoughts"
| It is reported at Glencoe that stations for
Hastings & Dakota railroad will be estab-
lished at Lake Addie and about four and a
half miles west of Round Grove, Just south
of Buffalo Lake, in Renville county.
FARIBAULT COUNTY.
Hubbard. Wells & Co., have built second
grain warehouse at Zumbrota village.
LEsUEUR COUNTY.
DR.. Otis Aver, of La Sueur is about start
| ing for Boston to have a surgical operation
performed on himself. Two years ago he
came near dying from laundering opera
ton. He suffers from a painful internal
disease of long standing.
STEVENS COUNTY.
l Jacob Marx, of Raymond, Stevens county,
once lieutenant in the Prussian army and
an intelligent old man, committed suicide by
hanging Friday night last. He lived with
his son-in-law, Jacob Fierce to whom it is
said he had loaned $500 he brought with
him from Prussia few years ago and by
whom he was badly treated.
DOUGLAS COUNTY.
The Alexandria Post would not be sur
prised to meet Mr.. L. W. Rima, whom Nc
Laren brought from Idaho, on the streets Of
Alexandria.
Recently Peter johnson, an apparently
healthy farmer of Moe, Douglas county,
came into his house, sat down and died,
without previous illness or known cause.
| MOWER COUNTY.
The Masons of Austin have leased Hunts
Hall, and are engaged in fitting it To for
odge room.
The Austin dramatic club is preparing to
play ''The Ticket off, Leave Man. in that city
this month.
| CLAY COUNTY.
The Moorhead postoffice has issued 500
postal orders in the last six months.
Mr.. Douglas, of Moorhead, has the con-
tract for building a new steamer and three
barges for Winnipeg shippers.
SCOTT COUNTY.
The monthly cattle fairs at Shakopee con-
tinue successful, bringing an increasing
number of both buyers and sellers.
Shakopee voted by 271 majority (onIy 90
negatives) to issue $4,000 of city bonds, for
building free bridge over the Minnesota.
The Both ult., a son of Frank Rivers of
Eden Prairie, Scott county, accidentally shot
himself. The charge raked his right side
and entered his face, destroying one eye and
inficting serious but not fatal wounds on his
body.
| MOBILES COUNTY.
Worthington streets are being FURNISHED
with lamps.
Mr.. A. S, Lindsay, OF Sibley has become
part owner of the Worthington Journal.
MARTIN COUNTY.
John Miracle, of Paramount, Martin coun-
ty, went to his barn few nights ago, in the
evening, without a lantern, and encountered
two horse thieves, with whom he had round
at fsticuffs before they fed. His face was
badly bruised, but he thinks he gave the
villains as good as they sent.
| FILLMORE COUNTY.
Albert Lea voted, 250 the 176. to be a city
have city officers, city style and city taxes.
A tannery and mandatory of heavy nit
tens and gloves is to be established at Alex
andria, Fillmore county.
F. @. Stowe, of Preston, is about to begin
the publication of weekly paper at Wykof,
the sixth paper in Fillmore county.
Henry Cobb, of Spring Valley, who went
to the Hot Springs after the body of Eugene
Hartman and to learn the particulars of his
death, writes back that while the residents,
hotel-keepers, &C., all profess to think that
Hartman committed suicide, the visitors from
the North think he was murdered.
A correspondent OF the Journal gf Ed
ucatiOn thus relates her experience in
attempting to help a child write CONF
position on her dog "Flick:" "After a