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MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE. Albert Lea supports 12 saloons. Diphtheria is increasing at St. Paul. Small pox is reported in Wright county. Pinkeye is prevalent in Nicollet county. The First Minnesota reunion occurs at Anoka on June 21. Ground has been broken on the Brainerd waterworks. A new high school building is under consideration at Red Wing. A $700 team was drowned at Stillwater by backing off a platform. The bank of Perham will suspend in consequence of the Breckenridge failure. A 5-year old son of A. Oleson, of Faribanlt is missing. He is supposed to be drowned. large A new quantities lead, supposed of gold, to has contain been found at Granite Falls. A reward has been offered for the body of Mr. Smith. who recently dis appeared from Valley City. Twenty-tive cases of small pox have been reported at Frankfort. near Monticello. Two have already died. A $19,000 wagon bridge has been contracted for at Brainerd, and will be built by the King Bridge company of Cincinnati. The Northern Pacific iron foundry at is Brainerd nearly completed, course and of a new iron foundry is in construction. Some of the old money bags in Faribault have sustained a sever shock because the conneil favored water works. The Smith girl. recently missing at been found. She is in Duluth hands has friends, claims the of but cruel treatment by her parents. a resident of Presbeen selected as one ton, Nellie has Choate. of six teachers in the schools of the Argentine Republic. South America. The five year old son of Abel Oleson of Faribault, who mysteriously disappeared last Monday, was found Friday. drowned in Straight river. The Millers' association of Minneapolis has purchased 12,000,000 bushels of wheat this season, and ex pects to secure 2,000,000 bushels more. Geo. Falroy, ona of the burglars rearrested at Money Creek. near to cently Winona, attempted but escape broke his by jumping from the train, leg in the attempt. Halfred Oison, a young artist at Austin, will compete for the $3.000 for prize offered by Harper's Bros. the original drawing representing Domett's Christmas Hymn. The fire departments of Red Wing, and ed invitation of the Northfield the Owatonna Faribault acceptdepartment to visit that city on the 30th, to take part in the hose company contest. A raseal named V. W. Taylor. formerly of Anoka, deserted his wife and went to Rush City. She is penniless and in a delicate condition and the people of Rush City talk of tarring and feathering him. The original plat of the village of Excelsior, filed in 1885, and which has been missing for twenty-live years having been in the possession of a lady of that village. was filed at the register's office on Thursday. The grand jury at Cloquet found indietments against M. E. Whitmore and Kate McDonald for setting fire to the Knife Falls Lumber company's store at that place some time ago. The woman IS already under arrest, but Whitmore skipped out some time ago. The Bradstreet company's new book for Dakota has been compiled. and Superintendent MeIver says there are 820 more new firms doing business in the Territory than there were three months ago. The increase in Minnesota is between 1,500 and 1,000. J.L. Smith, indicted last week for a justice's jury bribing failing at when Pelican the Rapids. to appear called, leaving in turned up case the was lurch, his Tuesday and bondsmen states at Falls on the train, wants to stand will allow him to court that Fergus he histrial He appear if and the he bondsmen. says was to smallpox relieve exposed his would in Dakota allow and thought the court him time to come into the town.
