The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-30
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The prairies are turning Green.

Inc prairies are turning green.
The Moorhead Methodist church ediice il
nearly completed.
Inc ohakopee bridge is in q fair way to
DO soon completed.
osepnen Gardner, of Hastings, is putting
steam power into his mill.
James Lemen, three miles from Hastinos.
c!aims mat i've wolves have made his farm
their home. - 80
mo mouse OF William Moore, near Lake
vl!ie' was destroyed by fire the other day-
with all it's contents. 0'
Morris (Stevens county, I,,bune, Anr;,
"a: Early sown grain has started but ia not
yet suhc'ently high to tint the ground.
A child of Bernhard Weaver of T,ako
Washington, aged about 6 years, fell from a
wood pile the other day and broke an arm.
Frederick Hankey, of Eagle creek, Blue
Eartn county, committed suicide, April 22d,
by cutting his throat with a raz or. he was
e. years old.
New buildings are %springing up in every
part of the village of New Ulm, giving evi-
dence of enterprise, thrift and substantial.
healthy growth.
Rev: r. A. Beard, of Oberlin college.
Onio, has accepted a call to the pastorate
OF the congregational church in Brainerd.
Grow Wing county.
George Il. Davis, of Red Wing, fell frcu
a scatfolding on Tuesday afternoon on "a
mouse owned by Bruce, and fractured the
bones of the right forearm.
win to somebody s ca~relessness a prairie
IRE dld considerable damage across the river
rom onakopee, a few days since. Much
1enclng was burned and two stacks of hav
Il. u Spooner was appointed county attor-
ney pro tenn. at the late term of court in
handlyohl county; Alexander, the 1ncum-
bent, being temporarily suspended from prac-
tice. ~
Albert Lea (treeborn county, E~nterpr5se,
APfu ~: wheat Is up on many q field in
tnls county, at the present writing, and if
never looked better at this season of the
year.
Lac qul Parle Independent: A farmer.
VINO lives only a few miles from this village,
round a skeleton of q human being. within
about half a mile of his house, one day last
week.
A few days since a three years old son of
william Otto, of st. Cloud, while PLAYING
Win some companions on a platform built
out on Lake George, fell into the water and
was drowned.
At the late charter elections in Faribault.
Rochester, Winona, LIE Sueur and Kasson.
the cal dldates In favor of license were elect
ed. These places were carried last year by
the anti-license party.
A town plat of 120 acres on the opposite
side of the Red river from Emerson will he
at once opened. It will be called West
Emerson, or Lorne, in honor of the GOV
ernor general of Canada.
The Harrington, Dakota county, Press
says: 'Much damage has been done to trees
and fences in that ~neighborhood. from GRASS
fires. Though often warned, owners of
premises are still dangerously careless
A small barn owned by David Roth, of
farloau!t, was burned the other day. A little
son OF Mr. Roth, who is seven years old and
deaf and dumb, caused the fire by starting a
small bonfire near the hay stack.
Recently the barn. house. stables. hay,
ETC., of Mr.. Widdeman, of Pickerel Lake.
Freeoorn county, were destroyed by fire.
The wind was blowing a gale. The fire is
supposed to have caught from sparks from
the chimney.
Seed wheat o before the cold freeze, is
SAID not to have been seriously affected.
Most OF the grain on prairie land is above
the ground, but rain is much needed. Farm
ers declare that the ground was never before
so dry at this season of the year.
Red Wing Republican: Just as Marshall
was about to shoot at a glass ball the other
day, some one called out: "Look over the
rlVer." dc looked and saw a flock of snipe.
tired into them and killed thirteen. And he
hadn't loaded for snipe, either.
Lac qui Parle Press: Il certainly begins
to look as if the Hastings & Dakota was CO.
ing to leave Lac qui Parle out in the odd.
We understand that the survey now being
made is permanent, and if so, the road will
ESCAPE US by about five or si1 miles,
jos. Pfeifer, of Milford, Brown county,.
when working in his garden a few days ago
had the misfortune to run q splinter one
half inch long. into his right eye. He is en-
der the care of DR.. Berry, who thinks he can
save the eye, although the fears the sight
will be somewhat dimmed.
st. Peter Tribune, April %: The Oldest
lnhRbitant does not remember such q drv
time in the spring as We are having at pres
ent. There is not sufficient moisture in the
ground now to sprout any kind of seed, and
the earth in the fields is drifted aud blown
around as if it were light snow.
While William Lauttman, of Lafayette.
Nicollet county, was at church Sunday, April
Goth, his stable was burned, in which was q
reaper, several calves and a lot of sheep.
The fire is supposed to have been caused BY
sparks from the remains of a straw stack
which had been burned near by.
Thirty-seven boys and seventeen girls re-
ceived first communion at early mass at the
Church of the Guardian Angels on Sunday.
April 20, at Hastings. They had been receiv-
special instructions for this all important
event, ct the hands of Father Halton and the
of st. Joseph, for the last two weeks.
William johnson, a Swede. while at work
in the stone quarry at Frontensc Station,
county, a few days since. got
his left hand caught between a heavy iron
bar and a large rock, and was seriously in
jured. DR.. Hall was called to attend the
case, and found it necessary to amputate one
of the fingers.
Breckenridge Free Press, April "a: A
man named Duncan Mcmillan. from Ben
ton. Ohio, fell from Conductor Fishers train
Sunday morning near Kerkhevan. As soon
as the train could be stopped it was backed
up, and McMillan's dead body found near
the track. The remains we're brought to
Benson, and the personal effects were left at
that place.