The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-31
MINNESOTA NEWS.

won the walking match IN New York the
other day.
GEN. G. c.. WAsHBuRN, now at the Hot
Springs, is not improving as rapidly as his
friends could wish
A NEW roller Touring mill, the Gardner
Mill, will soon start at Hastings. with ca
pacity of 400 bushels per day.
BIZ actual count there are ffty-three new
dwelling houses in course of erection in the
Third and Fourth wards OF Winona.
DULUTH owes debt Of about s175, 900, and
the county, of which the city is the principal
constituent, owes an additional SOS 900.
HARRIET A. TENNEr, the !" sweet librarian
OF Michigan" has notified Librarian Taylor
that $50 pounds of books have been forwarded
to his adde's.
THE widow Of Ossian F. Dodge has gone
to England to join her children. having only
recently learned where her husband placed
them at his DEATH
SEVERAL of the old railroad bonds have been
deposited with State Auditor Whitcomb for
settlement under the terms Of the act passed
by the legislature.
THE new charter for the village of Duluth
the village comforting municipal, authority
with village organization.
| The millers at Minneapolis report p!entyaof
water now, and state that the recent rise wi1l
make three thousand barrels Of -four differ
ence in the daily product Of the mills
THE new stone dam on the west side of
the falls, at Minneapolis, constructed under
direction of the Minneapolis Mill Company, is
practically completed, and ready for service.
THE widow of Charles 3. Slauson, promi-
nent citizen, Of St. Paul, who committed sui
eide in that city year ago, was recently
married at Kansas City to VIM. B. Towne, of
Chicago s ILL.,. ~ -t
UNDER the provisions of the boiler nspec-
ton law, enacted by the state legislature, the
boilers of all steamers on Lake Minnetonka
must be inspected before the summer
campaign commences. I8 s.4 g.
THERE is prevailing in Minneapolis very
general epidemic of that blushing but usually
harmless disease known in the books as
roseola. In many families it is making a
clean sweep from grand parents to babies.
HUNGRY rats are said to be deyouring young
calves and chickens in the town of Richfeld.
They are expected to tackle the heads of the
herd next, but the old roosters arc invulner-
able against the assaults of the desperate ro-
dents. -
The adjutant general is inundated with let
tiers from almost every town in the state
sent by parties who desire to organize military
companies under the new militia law. He
finds it impossible to answer 1.-THE of the
letters promptly. .2
THE weather clerk at Winona has been look
ing up the record of the winter, and reports
that there have been five months of winter up
to March II, which day was the first of the
sixth month. In only two nights in all that
has mercury been above freezing. sleighing
has been good for four and half months.
Gov. PILLsBURY has invited number of
architects to prepare plans for a new capitol,
and asks that two be furnished from each, the
first on the basis of an entirely new building
and the second providing for the use of the Old
walls, vaults, ETC., as they are in a moderate
ly good state of preservation. The maximum
estimate Is limited to $S3, 900. 1
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Duluth
Brick and Tile Company have been filed in the
office of Secretary Won Baumbach. The capital
:. stock is fixed at $4,000, and the members OF
the company are Messrs. John H. La VAGUE
, w. W. Spaulding, J. E. Cooley, V. Smith
JAS. D. Ray, Walter Van Brunt, John P. John.
) son, George H. La Vague and r. S. Munger.
5 THE boom in building operations has never
, equaled the present activity in st. Paul. The
I business houses to be constructed during tile
, ensuing season will alone have frontage OF
I 3,745 front feet,or frontage of three-quartcrs
I of mile in length. They are three, four O,
, five story buildings, and will be erected in
style to surpass anything yet attempted in
that city. .......
LETTERS that have been received from The
firm of Messrs. Morrison, Anderson d Butch
5 art, of Dundee, Scotland, announce that the,
! contemplate establishing in Minneapolis a
once large mandatory for the purpose O
y supplying the American morket with burlap
{ and export bags. The firm have ample cap
- ital and are now engaged in the same busincs
= in Scotland
DURING ten years past 573 suits for divorce
:. have been entered in the district court Of Hen
y nepin county, and 2S9 divorces were granted
/ lin this time 5,271 marriage licenses were is
e sued. One in every fourteen marriages result
d in divorce. The grounds for divorce are given
j. 1876 for desertion, 100 for cruelty and inhuma
}. treatment, 50 for adultery and 43 for drunk
@ ness, for impotency.
THE annual report of the Minneapolis Boar
of Trade says the wholesale business of tina
city has increased from S., 1913, 651 in 1876 t.
s24 ,290, 200 in 1880; and in addition there
s the product of flower, saw, oil, and woole
:, mills, and of the sash, door, and blind factore
: which are mainly sold tojobbers. This woul
~ swell the amount to over S50,000,000. Th
retail trade is estimated at $4,000, 600.
: AN extensive colony from Ireland is expect
20 ed to arrived at New York about April ]
- These immigrants came out to America at tn
instance of John Sweetman, a wealthy mar
who has purchased two thousand acres c
e land IN Murray county, Mimi, adjoining tn
s Catholic colony of Ayoca. Mr.. Sweetman'
intentions, it is asserted, are philanthropie
n but this he denies. He extends present helE
It but insists that those who receive, receive onl
Y loan which they will be able to repay.
d BUSINESS at Duluth is rapidly on the move
p The elevator company is going to bull
7. another 100000 bushel elevator this yea