Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-30
MINNESOTA NEWS.

+ Inc D1fC06 IN OaIVeI County, Anot year were
423: deaths ~.
Mortified building improvements last year
amounted to $85,965.
In Mower county last year there were 495
births and ITS deaths.
In Olmstead county there were 1876 births
to ITO deaths last year.
Diptheria is raging severely in Laketown,
Carver County, also in Waconia.
The people of Anoka are signing petit
ton asking for a city charter. Don't!
Hon. j. V. Daniels of Rochester is improv-
ing in health, being able to ride out occasion
ally.
Frank Rande, the St. Elmo, ILL.,, desperate,
did not. as has been stated. once reside at
Chat6eld.
r. I. Cults, of Victor, pays the largest
personal property tax in Wright county
$143.49.
Stickney Brickle of Eyota, Olmsted county,
who came to Eyote in 1856, died on the 10Th
aged Is years.
Mr.. Barrows, the Speaker of the Wisconsin
Assembly, formerly resided in Pleasant Grove,
Olmsted county.
About 1875 head of cattle were bought by
butchers and others the last fair day at Wa
tertown, Carver county.
Five children from tie family of VIM.
weeks past of diptheria.
The births in Wright county for the last
seven years were 2,781; deaths a47. Last
year-births 425; deaths 1876.
There are more yearling babies in Mime
sofa than in any other state not having
million or more inhabitants. Fact.
| -Four inches of snow is reported on the
Chibonazie, a tributary of the Nahmakoggin,
where Saltwater parties are numbering.
Speaker Barrows of the Wisconsin Assembly
now resident at Chippewa Falls, Wis, form
erly lived at Pleasant Grove. i'll Olmsted
county, Mimi,
Mrs. John Chambers of Kenyon. Goodhue
county, recently vomited a brass medal,
half an inch across, which she swallowed ff-
teen years ago.
The births in Winona county last year,
were 500, including four pair of twins.
Deaths 308. Who says weneed immigration
to fill our State?
The st. Charles Union calls Harry Howard
recently arrested in St. Paul for stealing a
show case, - miserable character who not
long ago infested St. Charles.
The State papers generally notice the call
for meeting to organize State Dairymen' S
association, to be held in st. Paul Feb. 18th
next and approve the project.
The fire which burned the stable of DR..
Davis at Moorhead and killed twenty-four
head Of stock, was caused by laborer laying
his hot pipe on bunch of straw.
No less than three railways are projected
to or through Cannon Falls-one from Red
Wing, one from Rochester, and another
from Vermillion. Station on the Hastings
& Duluth road.
H. P. Beard, of Minneapolis, is the owner
of one of the Apostle Islands of Lake Su
perior, covered with heavy growth of oal
of good quality, and is about to put up
sawmill on the island.
| Some of the lumbermen in the Rum Val
ley pineries now run sprinkling carts owe
their logging roads and so keep them in tol
cradle working order. The sprinkling is no
to lay the dust, but to improve the shedding
1t is proposed in Kandiyohi county to asl
authority for issuing $4,000 in count.
bonds to buy seed wheat for those who's
: crops were destroyed by grasshoppers-
!, addition to what the State is expected
e supply.
A resident of Zumbrota, according to th
S Independent, recently brought from his doc
yard some fresh earth for his wifes fowe
. potts. and from this earth, after being in til
house few days, there Matched out lot c
t grasshoppers.
t In Stearns, and Mile Laos counties, til
I law requiring the county funds to be counte
Il by the board of Auditors, has never bee
complied with. Perhaps the officers al
learn what their duties are.
= The Owatonna Journal estimates the los
= by the burning of P. Gonser's brewery
r. that city last Tuesday morning at $4,000 I
II $4,000. The insurance was only $4,000, {
r which $4 900 was in the North America, an
$4,000 in the St. Paul Fire and Marine.
g A Willmar fisherman tells of seeing
II pickerel in the lake there as large as an ave-
, ! age size man. The doubts recently expresse
~ about the existence of that lake of fire.
% which the authors of fishermen's yarns al
,e promised a part is already having its effect.
5. There were 86 deaths in Red Wing la
1t year, Of which II are charged to consum
y tives, and II to typhoid fever. Births 20t
0. being males, ITO and females 81
y including three pair Of twins. During seve
:. years ending with last year there were ~:
If births in the city, and 544 deaths.
# Sheriff M Mickey, of Stearns county, Fl
70 twenty years or more resident of Mimi
sota is under promise to visit brother
70 Pennsylvania, who lately learned his wher
A. abouts and opened a correspondence wit
y him, after they had for many years had 4
knowledge of each others doings or plac,
=, ~ of residence.
" Mr.. Leo of Waseca, hardware mercha1
le en- route for Texas, was arrested at Burlin
le ton on suspicion of being one of three me
~ who garroted and robbed passenger on
~ car platform at that place, and was locke
,e up over night. In the morning he was alb
ID to prove his identify and was released, abo
'e the time the real thieves were caught
Peoria. Ill.
Diamond 10 is negotiating with one
the Eau Claire mill companies, for takil
their lumber by barges to the company
sales yards in different towns along the Mi