The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-03-31

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Minnesota News ny Telegraph and Nai'.
The East Henderson depot was burglarized
OF $40. The thieves gained an entrance to the
office through a window.
A decree of divorce was granted at Mnneap
alis to John C. Baillie from his wife Amanda G.
Ballic on the ground Of adultrey.
The little village of Gracevlle has pepula-
ton of about 1GO, and the township about 400.
The hitter embraces the Connen,ara district.
A company with capital stock of $40, 900
is being organized at Lake City for the purpose
Of fitting up and operating q class custom
grist mill.
r. Parker, probate judge of Grow Wing
county, having resigned, Gov. Pillsbury appoint
ed H. d. Follett to fill the unexpired portion Of
the term.
County Attorney Goodwin of Mower county,
secured J. H. Lossey Of La Crosse as associate
counsel in the prosecution of Riley, the alleged
assailant of Judge Page.
NJ W. Glenn of Minneapolis has been ap-
pointed inspector of boilers Of steam vessels
plying on inland waters of the State, under the
act of the last legislature
Out at Grass Lake, four miles South east of
Willmar, the farmers are having harvest of
1lSl a mole Is cut III the ice anu TIC uSl come
up to get air, and are thrown out with forks,
and by the shovelful and even by the pailful
In the district court at Winona Judge Start
sentenced the following prisoners to the state
prison, all for larceny: Joseph Blumer, fifteen
months; Edward Lass, eighteen months; Charles
Parker, fifteen months; John O'Connor. fifteen
months
authorizing copies of all public documents that
can be spared from the State library to be for
warded to the governor of Minnesota to replen-
ish the State library recently burned, was
adopted.
On Monday night of last week August Koel-
northeast Of that place, and was found on
Tuesday lying dead on the prairie about mile
and half from home. He is said to have been
Intoxicated when he left Odessa
The point selected for the erection of the
building for the Imbecile school at Faribault
of the institution for the blind on the brow of
the hill overlooking Straight river. It is very
pleasant location and commands a very fine
landscape
Among the new Enterprises to be inaugural
ed at Lake Mi 'netonka this season will be q
mel camille suIpy boat, which will stop at diff
fer;nt hotels and stopping places each day
during the summer, with full supply of all
necessary commodities, which will be sold to
customers at reasonable rates. In other words.
it will be floating dry goods. grocery and no.
ton store.
Miss frankie Scott, whom Adam Forepaugh
elects as the handsomest woman In the United
States, was formerly a resident of Morristo' n,
Rice county, but subsequently resided in Min
neapOis until about one year ago, when she re-
moved to Albert Lea, and for SON time con-
Quoted a millinery establishment at the latter
place. Recently she has been living at Alle-
gheny City, Penn.
A set of charges against William j. Bodkin,
sheriff of Clay county, charging him with con-
tlnual drunkenness aud consequent gross neg
lect of duty, has been received by Gov. Pills
bury, accompanied with petition that in the
ecutive, he will institute proper inquiries, and
if he finds the charges sustained, will remove
Bodkin from office.
Articles Of incorporation of the Homeopathic
hospital Of Saltwater have been filed in the Sc
cretary of states office The general
and homeopathic treatment of the sick and
diseased, regardless of nationality color or sex,
and the purchase, erection, maintaining or rent
ing of suitable buildings or rooms for carrying
on it's said business
Mr.: James X. Humphrey of st. Paul, for
merly U: s. revenue collector, has entered
suit against Mr.. W. f. Merriam, to recover 81 o.
900 Humphrey bought stock Of Merriam III
the Florence silver mine in the Black Hills, and
alleges that he was inlucetto do SO by false and
fraudulent Representatives. The Florence was
d favorite stock in st. Paul some years ago, and
many citizens made large investments in the
same, but the mine did not pan out we'll and it
Is alleged that the stock therein is almost
worthless.
The St. Cloud city council has passed re-
solution of ten sections, to be submitted to the
legal voters of the city at the election to be held
city bonds to aid in the construction of dam
across the Mississippi river at that point, and
to be given to any responsible company that
will carry out the work in all respects satisfac-
to1ily, according to the plans and specifications
to be provided by competent engineers, to whom
the matter of location within the city limits,
will be left
The Legislative investigating committee which
has been appointed to examine and report up
on the charges of sectarianism in the normal
school at St. Cloud, commenced its sessions on
the 22d Mr. J. N. Searlee of Hastings is
chairman, and Senators Daniel Buck and w. H.
Officer, with Representative Denny, make up
the committee, the remaining member. MI.
Thomas Wilson of Winona, being absent on the
railroad bond business at st. Paul. From the
testimoney thus far it seems probable that the
charges will not be sustained
In the preliminary report of the State Board of
Health, the deadly dyphtheria is referred to and
three conclusions are arrived at, viz First
That it is very contagious and Infectious. Sec
ond-That the only reliable mode of preventing
its spread is by rigid quarantine, speedy and
private burial and thorough disinfection. Third
That families cannot be relied on to take sys-
tematic steps to prevent the spread of the dis
ease. Smallpox is spoken OF at some length,
and the gratifying intelligence given that all
classes are giving hearty support to the physi-
clans in their efforts to prevent the spread of
the disease.
A man named Moses Rice, travelling sales
man for H. L. Elsen & Co., Milwaukee, at
tempted to board the south bound train on the
NJ T. st. L. railway at Merriam Junction while
the cars were in motion, and missed his footing
and fell between the platform Of the depot and