Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
No snow, no logs, is the talk at Saltwater.
A blue ribbon 'smum'' sociable is the nov
city at Red Wing this week.
Stephen Gardner pays the largest personal
property tax in Hastings, $3,949.84.
The municipal expenses of the little city of
St. Charles, in Waseca county, are about
$4,000 year.
The Democrat says that Eastern parties
are negotiating for site on which to erect
paper mill in Faribault,
At the Indian Christmas exercises at the
Episcopal church in shakopee, six of the
Other-day family were present.
The temperance reform club of Austin has
four hundred members of whom ninety-two
joined in one evening of last week.
The commissioners of Mile Laos county
have decided that the proposition for that
county to give $4,000 in aid of the pro-
jected Princeton & Anoka railway was adopt
ed by 80 majority.
Capt j. w. Scuarbox is to deliver the ora
ton at the annual meeting of the Old Set
tiers Association of Scott county, at Shake
opee, Tuesday, the 22d.
Bishop Whipple, accompanied by his wife,
left Faribault last week for Florida. His 90
ing was advised by his physician and he will
remain in Floriday, his address being at ST.
Augustine, until the return of warm weather
in Minnesota.
The Faribault Democrat reports a wolf
hunt in that (Rice) county last week, in
which 800 persons engaged, and the wolves
were started but only one wolf was killed.
Another hunt was appointed for Saturday
in the town of Walcott.
On Greenwood Prairie in Olmsted county,
Friday the 18th, Mr., M. o. Fuller captured a
gopher or ground squirrel by striking it with
his horsewhip. These animals hibernate
during the winter, but this one seems to have
been unable to learn that winter had
come.
The city council of Saltwater has directed
the City Attorney to notify the st. Paul
Saltwater & Taylors Falls railway company to
vacate street on which the railway track is
laid, for the alleged reason that the company
has not complied with their agreement re-
garding the street.
JAS. r. Robinson, county attorney, Jacks
boro, Texas, writes to the SAer5urne Couuta
Star, that one William Drenner, (or Bren-
ner,) person badly afflicted with the St. Vi
tus' dance, and supposed to have friends in
Minnesota, was lately found dead on the
prairie near Jacksboro.
At pnblic meeting in Red Wing last week
it was stated that tha swamp land grant fol
building railway from that place up the
Cannon river valley will soon become availa
BILE, andsit was agreed that as soon as the
lands can become located an attempt will be
made to provide for building the road.
Mr.. Pratt, the new sheriff of Faribaul
county, has been indicted for libel, the Win
71eb0go CITY Press reports, on evidence pro.
duced by the defeated Republican candidate
Mr.. Cummings, for stories told during the
campaign, which, the Press says, were
very damaging to his character and defeated
Cummings.
Isaac Staples, of Saltwater, owns and runs
a saw mill, sash and door factory, store
butcher shop, harness shop and machine
shop and foundry, besides having a large
logging business to look after. His sales OF
last year of lumber, logs, sash and doors
meat, harness work and products of the ma.
chine shop and foundry amounted to SLIP.
32O. And now he's just starting new -four
ing mill.
The Diamond Mill of Red Wing, built the
past season, is said by the Argus to be The
first in the United States to operate on the
Hungarian system Of high grinding, The
mill has - run of four-foot stones and fif
teen sets of porcelain rollers. It's method is
to reduce the wheat to flour by five success
i've grindings, in connection with the use OF
the porcelain rollers in addition to the usua
machinery employed in the patent process
The mill cost nearly $4,000 and has ca
pacity of 500 barrels day.
Edward O'Neil, railway section hand a
Elk River, on the 18th inst. went to Biz
Lake to collect balance claimed for work
from John Bradford, and was stabbed b,
Bradford. O'Neil says when he presented
himself at Bradford's house he was invited
in and took chair, but before he had tim,
to explain the cause of his visit, Bradford
stepped into an adjoining room, and imme
diately reappeared with sword with which
he attacked O'Neil, and stabbed him in th.
left thigh, inhicting a wound about an incl
and half deep. Bradford, the Star, of Ell
River says, is under bonds to keep the peace
for threatening last summer to shoot tn,
station agent at Big Lake.
q A. R. Cohoon started on Monday for Chi
cago with two car loads of hogs, SO in mum
Der. They were a very fine drove, large anf
& well built. It was estimated that quite pro
portion of them would weigh as high a,
three hundred pounds each, and some 8
them will tip the beam at four, five and 81,
hundred. We were shown four specimens
that Mr.. Cohoon informed us were a eros
between the thoroughbred Poland China and
Chester White. They were II months old
summered entirely on grass, and were as fin,
looking fellows as one often sees. The
will probably weigh 500 pounds each. Mr.
Cohoon says that he keeps his hogs well sup
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