Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-11
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Albert Lea is to have street lamps.
Prairie fires are running in Stevens county.
The St. Peter Tribune has entered on its
year.
Asteam butter tub factory is to be started
near Hutchinson.
Nicollet county is afflicted with spread
ing horse disease.
Land seekers crowd the hotels of Worth
ington, Mobiles county.
The new court house at Anoka is all fin
ished at cost of $4,000.
Only three marriage licenses were granted
in Benton county last year.
The trial of the soldier robbers at Hast
ings has been set for the 21st inst.
A daily passenger train from Winona to
Marshall is one of the summer promises
During the year 1867 there were 1929
births and 1873 deaths in Goodhue county.
Francis Beisang, an old settler of Scott
county, died on the 31st ult., aged 4S years.
A Norwegian paper is to be started at
Mortified by Messrs Walsh & Henry, of the
Mail.
Faribault is agitating the propriety and
possibility of establishing there kindergar-
ten school.
Rev. L. 3. Fisk was duly installed pastor
of the Lake City First Congregational
church on the It'll.
Over ono hundred tons of hay were de-
stroyed by the rupture Of the dam in Goose
Creek, Pine county.
st. Charles is agitating the question of
establishing by public subscription steam
Touring mill at that point.
The Mankato smallpox scare has subsid-
ed, all the sufferers being convalescent and
the epidemic not spreading.
There are 63 students in the Swedish col
lege at St. Peter, and the institution is re-
ported as highly prosperous.
Diphtheria carried off last month six chill
dren out of ten of the family of VIM. Holden,
of Haverhill township, Olmstead county.
Mrs. Almeda Wood, who had resided in
Waseca county since 1856, died in Waseca
on the 9th, of consumption, in her 18th
year.
The store of z. w. Poplin, near Vermil-
lion bridge, Dakota county, was recently
burglarized to the extent of $50. No ar
rests.
Sank Rapids has decided to erect free
bridge at that point by majority of ia to
4. The structure will be commenced forth
with.
Capt. J. w. Sencerbox, of Shakopee, broke
one OF his ribs on the LIST inst. by reason of
falling from his hay NOW across the manger
beneath.
The authorities of Albert Lea are engaged
in an active crusade against violators of the
village liquor ordinances and sinners of
deeper dye.
Reports from the main St Croix are to the
{ effect that an abundance of snow has fallen
and the men are rafting in the logs at sat
isfactory rate.
l Rochester will vote on the question of aid
ing the Rochester and Northern Minnesota
railroad on the 18th. The amount to be
granted is $4,000.
Henry Sutherland, of Hastings, recently
lost his horse by the animals breaking
through the ice in crossing the Mississippi
river, near Nininger.
, During the two weeks preceding the 9Th
. inst, over $4,000 pounds of pork were
8 bought and shipped at St. Peter, the price
ranging from $3.50 to $3.50
Charles F. Miller, of Dundas, has received
from United States Agricultural Commits
sioner LeDuc, an order for about $500 worth
= of seed of the celebrated amber cane
Window Reporter "E. Cook, ESQ.,, of
: Amboy, has just received letter from Mrs.
Kelly, stating that she has become an heir 10
$4,000, and expects to receive it soon.''
American agriculturist: ssThe best spring
: wheat in the country is grown in Minnesota,
: and flour from Minnesota spring wheat
brings the highest price of any -four in the
MARKET
The county treasurer of Mile Laos county,
6 3. u. Staples, was committed to jail on the
I'd inst, in default of $4,000 bail There is
a probability, however, that the matter will
be settled
Northfeld and Faribault, according to
Superintendent Burts report, pay smaller
average wages for the instruction of their
youth than any other cities of their character
and size in the State.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
I ern railway company is putting in large
> quantity of machinery into its shops at Al
bert Lea, where and by which it is intended
y to accomplish extensive repairs.
4 Joseph Sedrick, of Sciota, will be tried at
= Hastings on the 21st inst, on the charge OF
adultery with Mrs. Lucy Straider, on which
occasion the disgusting revelations incident
q to such cases are promised and expected.
The Henderson authorities have prohibit
ed the performances therein by travelling
troupes during the next three months, in
consequence of the prevalence of epidemic
diseases in some of the surrounding towns.
The three Greenmans, after preliminary
! examination on a charge of murder at Heron
7 Lake, have been discharged. The killing
arose out of family feud between the
Greenmans and the Smiths, one of the latter
being slain.
Taylors Falls hopes TO secure portion of
the immigration tide of people and capital,
} by instituting movement for the improve
! ment of its immense water power. The con-
tract for putting in piers above the old dam
has already been let.
A large mass meeting Of settlers in the