Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-23
MINNESOTA NEWS,

Grand Forks is over-run with land hunt
ers.
Dog fights are the chief amusement O
Isanti.
There were 1896 visitors to WorthinRto1
in April.
Zumbrota expects the Midland railroad il
| two weeks.
Pope county has $4,000 acres Of unoccu
| pied lands.
Trains will commence running to Vale,
Springs, Rock county, this week.
The Albert Lea Opera House will be for.
mally opened on the 4th of July.
fire at Duluth on Saturday mornins
destroyed two small houses. Loss small.
The next session of the United States
district court will be held at Winona June 3
An aged Sioux woman, over a hundred
years old, died at Ravenna on Wednesday
last.
The second annual horse fair of the Anoks
County Agricultural society will be helG
July 4.
The annual camp meeting of the Metho-
dists of Rice county will be held on the 18th
of June.
The Midland railroad has reached Mazep-
pa, and she has sent her fiery untamed steed
out to pasture.
Aprize fight between q man and a wo-
man at Hokah the other day, resulted in ia
vor of the latter.
its educational department because the con-
tributions were too heavy.
A son of Mr.. Zeller, of Austin, was serious
ly and perhaps fatally injured by being
thrown from horse on the 14th.
John M. Egan, chief engineer of the
Southern Minnesota railroad, has been APP
pointed assistant superintendent.
The Congregational society of Mantorville
have decided to retain Rev. Mr.. Gill for The
ensuing year. as pastor of the society.
Rev. w. II. Harrington, of Anoka, is
about removing to Saltwater, to become the
pastor of the Universalist church there.
Measor, the instigator of the Mapson rob-
berry, attempted to escape from the Blue
Earth Jail, but was frustrated and is now in
irons.
An iuegitimate child was suffocated at
East Rochester on the 18th and hidden in
the hazel brush. No clue to the mother or
murderer.
The debt of the Baptist church at Roches-
ter, $4, 700, was paid By voluntary contribu-
tons on Sunday, in response to an earnest
appeal by the pastor.
The Rochester & Northern Minnesota rail
road is being rapidly built, large force of
workmen being at work upon the line from
Rochester to Pine Island.
A fire at St. Charles on Friday morning
destroyed the barn of Joseph Backer, the
warehouse of Chas. Wells, and the city lock-
up. Loss $4,000; insurance 800.
II. B. Washburn and family, of Red Wing,
have fallen heirs to 81, 100000 left them by
relative who recently died in the East.
The money has not yet been received.
The McCardle insanity case, in which
Mrs. McCardle was charged with being in
sane by her husband, has had another hear
ing, and this tine the woman was acquitted.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the st. Cloud and St. Peter railroad, held
at Hutchinson on the 7th inst, Hamlet
Stevens, w. I. Bonniwell, D. A. Adams, s.
G.. Anderson, A. M. Schnell, G. II. Strobeck.
John NJ. Waldron, E. Kimball, Parker
Simons, w. D. Joubert, j. n. Hartman, and
G. Il. klattee, were elected directors, and w.
q. Bonniwell, president; Hamlet Stevens,
Vice President; D. A. Adams, secretary;
w. D. Joubert, treasurer; C. n. Strobeck.
attorney; S. G. Anderson, general mana
ger; and Parker Simons, engineer.