The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-08-26
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
six dogs were poisoned the other dav in wiz
dom. ~ - = ~ 70
Three horses died recently in WorthinetJn
trom eating new oats.
Peter Burter. of Cannon Fa1Is agexdf so wears.
tnreshed II acres of wheat in one day.
The corn oropi in Blue Earth county Is
s SAL. 70 be simply immense
Inc foundation is being prepared ON which
% erect Congregational church edifioe IN
Il Is reported that there are seven canai-
oates 1or nomination for county clerk in
Freeb0rn county.
Tramps are reported to be very imprudent
and troublesome of late in several localities
in Blue Earth county.
The police of Minneapolis are vatohinc
the saloons with view of ENFORCING pro.
hibition Sunday ordinance.
Henry Jones, of Brush Creek, Faribault
county, was arrested the other day for q scan
dulous assault on Mrs. Marietta Hunt,
A youth of ~, Jim Stoufer by name, was
sent to jan in Mankato the other day for
forging note to the amount Of $75.
Last week trsmps set fire to several shocks
OF wheat on the farm of Michael Farley, in
the town of Chester, Wabashsw county.
A new postoffice has been established in
the town of Gainesville, Big Stone county,
and Frank B. Sanders appointed postmaster.
1t is estimated that oats in MoIeod
county will range from forty to seventy
bushels to the acre. The corn crop will also
be good.
farmer in LeSueur has threshed his
wheat fro-o seventy five acres, and finds the
average yield to be sixteen bushels to the
acre. Rtse1 -
Freddie Brown, of LeSueur, aged IL
years, fell from Dutrernut tree the other
day, and had wrist and one of his ribs
broken.
John Hogan, of Ottawa, LeSueur county,
has fallen heir to legacy of $4,000, left
him by deceased aunt in Kilkenny county,
Ireland.
j. ID. Moore, living four miles from Rush
ford, Fillmore county, was gored by bull
the other day. His neck was aislocated, the
doctor says. Lut he is improving.
The New Ulm Reoieao is authority for the
statement that the St. Peter population of
3,437, shown by the late census, includes
over 700 patients in the insane asylum.
The money drawer in the saloon of John
Brandt, OF St. Peter, was robbed of $26
during his brief absence from the room. A
young man OF the tramp genus has heen an
rested.
Most of the Scott county farmers had
their grain stacked before the late rain. No
damage, however, was done to unstacked
grain, as the succeeding bright sunshine
dried the wet bundles.
Every old gun in the State is cleaned up,
and an army of ''sportsmen" are valisntlv
engaged in exterminating the entire race Of
prairie chickens. The work will be soon az
complished, and then what will be done for
'ssnipe?' aa ~,
Wabashaw HerG2d: The Beef SLOUGH
company are rafting out 1000, 1000 feet of
logs per day. There are about IS 600
remaining in the slough. Hands are scarce
and the works are not running at their full
capacity. ...,...t.. a. .~.,.
The other day Geoge Brewer, at work in
stone quarry in Msnkato, had one of his
feet so badly crushed and mangled by being
caught undar heavy stone as to make am
putatlon necessary. The leg was taken off
below the knee.
Mr.. 81. A. Stimsop, pastor of the Plyna
outh Congregational church, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, for eleven years, has recently re-
signed his charge there, to accept call Of
the Union Congregational church, at Wor-
cester, Massachusetts.
Window Cottonwood county, Reportey,
Aug. 10: Old Mr.. Mason was 80 years old
Tuesday, and IN the evening Mrs. Mays
children gave him o birthday party. They
had large cake, surrounded by ninety wax
candles, and made the evening very enjoy
able for the old gentleman.
The question is asked why the flowing
springs, or wells, in the lower portion of the
village of Mankato, are not utilized By intel
ligent enterprise. The waters have been
analysed, and are said to contain valuable
medicininal properties Put in proper shape
these springs might rival the celebrated
Bethesda springs in Waukeshs, Wisconsin.
A human skeleton was found the other
day on the prairie, in Clay county, by par
ty of engineers running out new road.
The bones we're gathered up by the coroner
and buried in the cemetery at Moorhead.
1t is supposed that the skeleton was that of
g. G. Berry, who had claim near Gyndon,
who was lost in the winter Of 1928 and
never afterwards heard from.
Crookston Journal Aug. 10: South
Crookston is looming up conspiciously. A
new hotel is nearly completed, the 10000
bushel round elevator of E. s. Corser & Co.,
is nearly completed, Utzinger e. Guse have
moved their store building and reorgsnized
it since the wreck; got their goods in and
doing good business Wheat harvest 1s
we'll along end everything is booming.
In St. Charles, Winona county, last week,
one Burt Carter invited William Armstedt to
accompany him to a cornield, when Carter
suddenly presented revolver at Armstedt's
head, demanding his money. The latter
handed over his wallet containing something
near SIS. Carter was subsequently arrested,
and is doubtless booked for Saltwater.
Jordan 4doocate, Aug. 10. Last Sunday,
Sheriff Weiland went to Eagle Greek and
took charge of an insane girl, named
Blanche Price, and on Monday he took her
to the asylum at st. Peter. The girl is vio-
lently insane and very vicious. While they
we're getting her ready for removal she shut
her teeth down on her mothers hand and
had to be choked off. At the asylum one Of
the assistants approached her with pleasant
word, when she suddenly doubled up and
gave him kick that sent him of rubbing
his shins in pain.
Brainerd Grow Wing) Tribune: G. P. Hal
let has bought and shipped this season near
10 nnn $houcopd huohnla IF hual,nxxsor +.