The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-03-27
Minnesota News Items.
oLMsTED, COUNTY.

~ oLMsTED, COUNTY.
L. w. Newberry was arrested in Rochester
on the 18th for bigamy.
Eyota, Olmsted county, has voted mo
license" by majority of fifteen, and Pleas
ant Grove, of the same county, recently in
corporated, by a majority of one.
Work has been commenced upon the new
railroad, and already some twenty-five car
loads of ties have been received. We I'M
derstand that the right of way has been pur-
chased for part of the way, and several
hundred yards of ground have been broken
and partly graded.-Rochester Record and
FREEBoRN COUNTY.
The Danish Lutherans Of albert Lea ara
about to commence the erection of new
church. A
A lodge of United Workmen has been
established at Albert Lea, with membership
of ten. 81
More rain has fallen at Albert Lea the past
week than for the same length of time dur
ing the year past. . "a a.
Fred Reiber and II. Rice have confessed
to wheat stealing from the elevator at Alden,
hymerson. All have, been bound over.
- ~, DOUGLAS COUNTY &
The Alexandria Post says land BUYERS are
swarming into Douglas county and prices
are going up. Several sales have been made
| during the past week.
wAsEcA COUNTY.
Mrs. I atrick Healey, resident of Waseca
since 1856, died on the 9Th, of typhoid
pneumonia, aged So years.
Mrs. McManus, of Waseca, Saturday, the
9Th, took a 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.
| se~ MARTIN COUNTY. - b
Fairmont, Martin county, voted license by
a small majority.
| DAKOTA COUNTY s.
John j. Rhodes is prominently talked of
as the coming mayor of Hastings.
The library of Hastings has been removed
to afford more room for the post Office
0ne-half the wheat sowing is completed
in Dakota county, says the Hastings Union.
small tenement, occupied by Polander,
was destroyed by fire at Hastings on the
10Th, involving loss of 800, the household
goods being saved.
The house and barn of Mr.. James Kear-
ney, Pennington, were destroyed by fire
Saturday light, the 10Th. and nearly all their
contents consumed.
Squire Thompson has been fined SIS for
contempt of court by rival justice, Squire
Keegan, both of Rosemount township, Dako-
ia county. The former has appealed to
the district court.
According to the Hastings New Era, "the
Hastings and Dakota grading contract has
been ordered to be let. The number of miles
to be graded is forty, which, with the thirty
miles now under contract, will complete the
distance from Glencoe west to Granite Falls
Work will first be commenced in the deep
cuts on Hawk creek, Renville county,
WRIGHT COUNTY.
The Monticello, Wright county, mills are
running night and day, having a plentiful
supply of water.
The St. Paul & Pacific railroad company
is building new bridge across the Crow
river at Delano.
So far this year, $4,000 bushels of wheat
have been received at the Howard Lake,
Wright county, elevator.
Waite Archibald, of Monticello, with
rifle, brought down three wild geese at one
Z shot, the other day, says the Wright county
Times.
The Wright county Times says that
female porker belonging to Joseph Perkins,
has brought forth three litters of pigs within
eleven months, numbering As in all.
j. r. Fitzpatrick, of Dakota Territory,
sends us by mail an Indian war club. It's
regular headache inducer, and we don't pro-
pose, hereafter, to take back anything we've
said nor allow any galloot to got sassy on
our hands. Lake 4duocate.
| STATE AT LARGE. (:
Henderson is putting up street lamps.
"Some land some land, my kingdom for
some land,'' is the cry all along the frontier.
A man named Beaulieu was drowned while
attempting to cross the Red river on the ice
at Moorhead, on the 18th inst.
Michael McGraw, ST., a resident of Green
leaf township, Meeker county, since 1859,
died on the 9Th, aged 81 years.
DR.. G. J. Erickson is about to commence
the publication of paper in the Swedish
language at Grove City, Meeker county.
Redwood county, and that section of the
State, has been visited by rain storm con-
tinuing from Friday, the 9Th, to Tuesday,
the 12th-the heaviest storm of the kind
known in years.
Minnesota farmers, says the La Crosse
Liberal Democrat, are too busy putting in
grain to have any market, and if they were
so disposed the roads are too bad. Hence
falling off in wheat receipts per Minnesota
7 railroad.
convention of farmers was recently held
in Becker county, the object being to consult
on the destruction of blackbirds. The pro-
ceedings are described as having been char
7 monious and enthusiastic" and resulted in
determination to purchase strychnine at
wholesale, with which to SOW the county
. simultaneously in all parts.
The American export trade is assuming
large proportions with each succeeding
, month, and is destined to- set our finan-