The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-04-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.

HE street railroad company of Minneapolis
has Withdrawn all dead-head passes over its
line, beginning april /.
THE total postal receipts in Minnesota for
1850 were 1854, 644,3S. OF this sum $1O2 ,450
% was taken in at the St. Paul Office.
The liabilities Of Hahn, Knight s. Co., OF
Minneapolis, foot up $521s4,16, and the total
assets $5O,949,13, leaving deficit of 1,35, O3.
MINNEAPOLIS has "truly" case of small
pox quarantined in the pest-house on Niger
HILL. The wicked city of Chicago is charged
with supplying the scare.
WELL-1NFoRMED real-estate men feel
warranted in making the statement that at
least fifteen hundred residences will be built
in Minneapolis during the summer.
The merchants of Minneapolis, are doing a
vast amount of growing at the telephone
exchange of that city, owing to failure to have
their wants attended to promptly. St. Paul
also.
AMONG the new enterprises to be inaugu-
rated at Lake Mmnetonka this season will be
mercantile supply boat, which will stop at
the different hotels aid stopping places each
day during the summer.
DR.. CHARLES LORD, one of the early pio
neers, of this State, "a prominent member of the
medical profession, died at shakopee, April 8,
after an illness OF two days, of an acute attack
OF Bright's disease of the kidneys.
MUCH indignation exists in Goodhue county
against Olof Erickson, who lives near Red
Wing, for keeping glandered horses. Over
one hundred horses have died in that region,
and it is charged that they contracted CHAMBERS
from the Erickson hot-bed. Farmers threaten
! to sit down on him.
A MERCHANT who has his place of business
near Watertown, Dakota, walked down to
Sleepy Eye and arrived in Winona one day
last week, his object being to pay bills amount
ing to several hundred dollars, which he had
incurred in that city, the goods not having
been received as yet by him.
AN alto singer in Minneapolis has sued a
former admirer for $4,000 for breach of
promise. Now if the young man has that
amount on hand it is cheap-very cheap. Any
one who wouldn't give $4,000 rather than be
obliged to listen to the warblings of the average
alto singer for the rest of his life has no ear
for music, and is not deserving of pity.
THE stock yards now being built between
st. Paul and Minneapolis are about ready
for use and will be thrown open to business
April Is. This will prove to be great insti-
tuition in the coming years, for this is bound
to be the center of vast and now compare.
lively new interest. Stock from grazing
regions on the Yellowstone will be shipped
through this way to the eastern markets.
MooRHEAD is to have a driving park, and
articles of incorporation thereof having been
filed in Secretary Won Baumbach's office. The
capital stock is $4,000, of which 1000 is paid
ISOLATION are F. j. Burnham, president; JAS
H. Sharp, 3. A Bruins, g. 81. Clapp and c. P.
Sloggy, all of Moorhead, Clay county S. Par
fridge is secretary and P. H. Lamb, treasurer.
A COMPANY of fifty recently left Ottawa,
ILL.,, for Minnesota, where they have purchased
farms or expect to locate. They will make
their future home near Camp Bell and Toutah,
in Wilkin county. They take with them 100
head OF horses, some cattle, farming tools,
etc. Among them are the sons OF some of
our leading citizens They have two special
trains, and have filed thirty cars with their
effects.
the town of Erie, who was at work on the
Northern Pacific railroad work train, hauling
wood, was found dead in his bunk. The
coroner, Walter, Dun, at Audubon, was
speedily notified, and jury was impanneled
They returned the following verdict: Caused
by disease, together with filth, lack of ventil-
alton, and want of proper care during his sick
ness in the sleeping department connected
with the work train on the Northern Pacific
railroad.
WONDERFUL reports have lately gone forth
as to the splendid results brought about by
the use of salt on wheat lands. A firm in
Northwestern Iowa has made inquiries among
number of Wisconsin farmers in sectione
where salt has been used for several years
past. They all agree in saying that chinch.
bugs avoid land where salt is sown, and that
the yield of wheat is much in excess to what
it was before its use. From all that can be
learned there seems to be no doubt that by the
use of this valuable fertilizer lands can be
made as productive in wheat as in forme,
years.
The improvement of the St. Louis river, SO
long looked forward to by the lumbermen is
now an accomplished fact. Under the man,
agement of the contractors, De Graft & Co.,
OF St. Paul, the great undertaking has been
carried through in az actual working time of
seventy days. A few days since number of
1umbermen made an examination of the i'm
proved portion of the river and were much
gratified at the prospect OF getting logs down
the stream. Some logs will be sent down
this spring to test the thoroughness of the
improvement, the cost of which is said to be
IL the neighborhood of $4,000.
ARTICLES of association of the Lyndale
Construction Company, Of Minneapolis, with
capital stock of 5000, 900, divided into 1000
shares of $50 each, have been filed with the
Secretary of State. The incorporators are
William McCrary, Samuel E. Neiler, Joseph
Dean, A. B. Nettleton, and Judson n. Cross.
all of Minneapolis. Mr.. McCrary is president
and Albert Z. Scott has been chosen secretary
and treasurer until the meeting Of the direct
ors on the first Tuesday of August, 1882. The