Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
And now it is Rice county farmers who are
being swindled by ''cloth peddlers.,'
The library of Hastings has been removed
to afford more room for the post Office.
Surveyors have commenced work upon the
Plainview, Wabashaw county, railroad.
A new hotel is to be butt this summer in
st. Charles, Winona county, by Dennis
Cater.
A new timetable will 90 into effect upon
the Winona g. st. Peter railroad on the LIST
pro1.
Mortified has voted favorably on the no
license ticket, and the saloons therein are to
be closed.
The Monticello, Wright county, mills are
running night and day, having plentiful
supply Of water.
An eight-run of stone Touring mill is
talked of as likely to be erected at Beaver.
Wabashaw county. Z
So far this year, $4,000 bushels of wheat
have been received at the Howard Lake,
Wright county, elevator.
Mrs. Patrick Healey, resident of Waseca
since 1856, died on the 9Th, of typhoid
pneumonia, aged So years.
The temperance people of Winona county
have been generally successful in carrying
the no-icense ticket at the late elections.
Amanda W., wife of DR.. Hammond, died
in Waterford, Rice county, on the Sd, having
resided in that place since 1855, with the
exception of three years in Minneapolis.
AS result of the temperance wave in Cal
edonia, Houston county, division of the
Sons of Temperance has been organized
there, with charter membership of thirty
six.
boy named John jacobson, aged about
Is years, residing near Long Prairie, Todd
county, when in the act of carelessly picking
up rifle by the muzzle, was shot, on the
effects Of which he died on the following
day.
| The prohibitionists of Mankato, having
advertised a convention to nominate ticket
municipal election in that city, the ReUieu
is induced to remark that "the time is short
for the convention, but pretty long for the
campaign
On the 9th of August next, the county of
Blue Earth will have been organized just a
quarter of a century. Two of the three
then county commissioners are still alive,
beside many of the settlers of that early
day, which facts moves the Mankato Repieac
to urge al appropriate celebration of the
anniversary.
According to the Hastings Ne,o Era, ':the
Hastings and Dakota grading contract has
been ordered to be let. The number of miles
to be graded is forty, which, with the thirty
miles now under contract, will complete the
distance from Glencoe west to Granite Falls.
Work will first be commenced in the deep
cuts on Hawk creek, Renville county,.
The first examination at the Mankato
Catholic college occurred on the 9Th inst.
Bookkeeping, elocution and Latin were the
more prominent branches under review, in
viii oh satisfactory progress was noted. Pre-
miums were awarded to Geo. Hodapp, Ed.
| Lynch, w. Vahle and E. Sullivan, many
others rendering themselves conspicuous in
the competition.
| w. III. Stone died OH the 5th of dropsy of
the chest, at Waterloo, Province of Quebec,
Dominion of Canada. Deceased was one of
the oldest settlers of Wabashaw county, hay
ing commenced his residence therein in
1858, where he remained until 1862, when
he purchased the hotel at Plainview. He
continued as landlord of that establishment
for seven years, and since that time has been
travelling for the benefit of his health.
We learn that, during the warm weather
in January, John Ferschweiler, of LIE Sank,
| in this county. seeded a field of wheat. The
grain came up in the last days of February,
and is now growing finely, presenting a
beautiful and healthy appearance.-St CLOUD
Times.
There are fourteen miles of grading yet to
| be completed between Glencoe and Round
Grove on the line of the Hastings and Dako-
ia extension. Five contractors now have
their forces on the ground, and the work is
progressing rapidly. -Giencoe Register.
Railroad moves still continue all around
us. Another survey of the Chippewa Valley
. railroad is talked of, via Mondovi to Alma.
| The survey of the Plainview and Eyota road
is in progress, and another project preached,
is short line from Minnesota up the
Whitewater to Beaver. The Northwestern
and the Milwaukee & St. Paul are glaring at
one another across the Zumbrota and Can
non Falls district, each realizing that for
one to move is to start the other. Wnba-
| s1sdD Herald.
| Winona county justice of the peace,
having heard the testimony in bastardy
case brought before him, rendered the fol-
lowing decision, republished from the Wi
mona Herald, with the result: 1T is the
judgment of this court that you marry the
on your soul-you will remain in the custo-
dy of the officer, who will permit you to go
to Winona to obtain the license Result:
Married the LIST day of March, 1878, in
the town Of New Hartford, as equity and the
law directs. No cake. no cards.
Viii Not Enforce the Outrageous Measure.
| [Owatonna Journal
The miserable attempt to give one man q
monopoly of the school book trade of Min.
nesota bids fair to prove failure, notwith-
standing DonneIly's success in getting
through the supplementary bill. Just how
the great schemer and his friends have been
defeated by their own lack of foresight, will
be ascertained by reading an article which
| we CODY from the MINNEAPOLIS Ilihune We