The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-03-20
Minnesota News Items.

MinnesOt.. News Items.
GOODHUE COUNTY.
A bank has been established at Cannon
Falls.
The three Touring mills at Red Wing daily
turn out 1000 barrels of -four.
RICE COUNTY.
Rice county had 673 births to 2O3 deaths
in the year past.
A. q. Judd, of Wells township, Rice county
shot wild swan in Wells lake on the 7th
The bird had seven companions, all escap.
ing.
The Polar Star Mill company, of Fari.
bault, is turning out 200 barrels of flou1
daily in that city, beside manufacturing sc
barrels daily at its mill in Warsaw.
Patrick Gardiner, troublesome characte,
III Wells township, Rice county, stabbed
James Downie, with whom he was quarrel
ing, on the 4th. When arrested the follow
ing day he was permitted by the officer to 90
into another room to change his shirt, and he
| levanted through the window. Downie is
cut to the bone in two places between the
arm and elbow of one arm.
According to letter in the Faribault
kepu6tlc0m from S. H. Kenney, one of the
fathers of the amber sugar cane culture, the
lowest estimate of that crop in this State for
the current year is 25,0OO barrels, represent
ing 5000 acres under the cane. Mr.. Kennev
affirms that he raised the cane nine success
sive seasons on one piece of land, seeded it
down to grass, and secured twenty-five
bushels of wheat to the acre, clearly demon
CfrOfI1Cv tho
land, which is still good. barrel of the
soft sugar has been forwarded to St. Louis
to be refined.
STEVENS COUNTY.
The vote on the incorporation of Morris,
Stevens county, resulted, on the 5th, in SIS to
3 in it's favor.
-Four newly made brides were last week
simultaneously futtering their feathers in
Morris, Stevens county.
wAroNwoN COUNTY.
The Madelia, Watonwan county, Times
closed its seventh year on the 9Th.
During the year 1877, there were born in
Watonwan county 70 females and so males,
and 30 deaths occurred.
DoUGKAs COUNTY.
On the 9th, two prisoners, named Lang
don and Allen, confined in the Alexandra,
Douglas county, Jail, improvised saw made
out of clasp knife, with which they
severed a double inch plank door, and
swinging back the upper portion, delivered
themselves without leaving clue to their
whereabouts.
TODD COUNTY.
Our winter has been impeached.-Todd
County argus. .-t.--.~. - .-.0
The Todd county Argus of the 9th, says
fifty tons of hay have been destroyed by fire
in the vicinity of Long Prairie, within the
last two weeks, all in consequence of burning
meadows.
srf WRIGHT COUNTY.
The brewery of George E. Weiss. situated
at St. Michaels, Wright county, was totally
destroyed by fire on the I'd, involving loss of
from $4,000 to $4,000, on which there was
no insurance.
Frank A. Muckenhern, aged Is years, while
engaged on the I'd, upon his fathers farm
near Delano, Wright county, in grubbing
and pulling out trees with a team, was in
stantly crushed to death.
The Wright county Eagle mourns over the
fact that the turbine water wheel, placed in
Walkers dam, at Delano, year ago, has
been taken out and shipped to Minneapolis,
thus ending that villages hopes for water
power, for the present, at least.
STEELE COUNTY
L. G. Martin, on the 9th, retired from the
Owatonna Peoples Press, leaving the sole
management thereof in the hands of his for
mer partner, E. l.. Darby. 81. 49, IT,
Prof Baker, of Owatonna, has resigned
his position as one of the examiners
of the candidates for the West Point
cadetship, because some of his pupils will
be among the contestants.
SCOTT COUNTY.
The Lanesboro Journal of the 9th, says:
Mr.. Duncan Stewart, of the Scotch settle
ment, ten miles south OF Lanesboro. sold his
farm of 800 acres, a few days ago, to Mr.. T.
&. Moore, of the same neighborhood, for an
even $4,000"
At the Shakopee, Scott county, fair. on the
4th, work oxen sold at from $50 to S1lO.
beef cattle at about 81 cents per pound, and
mich COWS with calves at from 500 to 1926.
There was a large attendance, and much
business was transacted.
Mrs. Sarah A. Porter, aged 81 years, and
the mother of eight children, seven of whom
are living, died on the LIST at Lydia,
Scott county. The deceased, born in New
York, settled in that shire in 1856, when
there were Tar more Sioux Indians i'll that
vicinity than white people,
John J. Ring was restored to the treasurer
ship of Scott county on the 9th. In Deem
Der last, when Ring filed his bond, there was
q deficiency of $3,337 not paid over by him,
but which he claimed there was some doubt
Of his owing, and he accordingly resigned,
Mr.. Yost being appointed in his stead. An
examination of the auditors books having
established the fact that Ring did owe the
money, he, on the day named, paid the
amount over, and was fully reinstated.
OTTER TAIL COUNTY.
two-inch wooden pipe is being laid from
Lake Alice into the village Of Fergus Falls,
Otter Tail county, distance Of about a
quarter of mile. At the latter terminus
fountain is to be erected, to which hose can
BIZ attached in case Of fire, and considerable
"head'' of water will be obtained. as the fall
from the lake is twenty-five feet.