Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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Hon. NJ. s. wilkinson has gone on visit 7
to the East. 9
The roads around Rochester are almost
impossible. '
Albert Lea has two new railroad depots,
very neat in appearance.
monthly cattle fair association has been
organized at st. James.
The lightning-rod swindlers have been
doing Fillmore county.
Hastings will be represented at the Paris
exposition by E. B. Allen.
Wheat is growing nicely, is the report
from all sections of the State.
A son of Bishop Whipple is going into the
banking business, at GAINESVILLE.
The Hokah library has recently had an in
crease in the number of its books.
Judge Nathaniel T. Hauser, of Minneapo-
lis, is about to remove to Glencoe.
Asturgeon weighing IS pounds was spear
ed by Furgus Falls man, recently.
The city authorities of Worthington are
putting out $50 trees in the public square.
New potatoes are turning up, or rather
being turned out of the ground, all over the
State.
The Swedish Lutherans of Welsh, Good
hue county, are building handsome church |
edifce.
The Glencoe Register man makes an i'm
| perative demand for 'sthe strawberries of our |
daddies.''
Fillmore county is the swine breeding
county of the State. The number raised last
year was I5,4OS.
| Track laying on the Sioux Falls branch of
the st. Paul & Sioux City railroad, will COM
mence this week.
The depot at Faribault was ransacked by
thieves one night last week, but nothing of
value was taken away.
A tramp stole watch from the house of
Jens Lee, in Albert Lea, last week, and was
caught and put in Jail.
The Hastings Gazette says large number
of emlgrant wagons are passing through
town headed westward.
/ The first logs of this seasons drive reached
Anoka Monday of last week, and the saw
mills will soon commence work.
4 N. P. Clarke, of st. Cloud, has purchased
some 40 head of blooded COWS from the
famous herd of Mr.. VIM. s. King.
The next conference of the Danish and
Swedish Baptist churches will be held at
Albert Lea on the 9th, 7th and 9Th of June.
The people of Chatfeld are still agitating
the subject of the new railroad, to be built
from that place to either Rochester or Eyota.
Mr.. Sven Eckdahl, of Grass Lake, Kandi-
yohi county, denies story that has been
circulating, that he shot man near Swede
Grove.
Efforts to learn the whereabouts of friends
of August Byrne, who killed himself at the
Minnesota house in Alexandria, have failed
SO far.
} Under no circumstances could wheat look
better at this season of the year than it does
: at the present time.-Willanar Republican,
Gazette.
A. j. Gibson, of Otter Tail County, who
!. attempted suicide by cutting his throat some
! days ago, is likely to recover from the
5 wounds.
Nee Brothers, of New Richland, Waseca
: County, have made an assignment to Major
, Dyke, of Faribault, for the benefit of their
:, creditors.
q side-track will be run from the Southern
! Minnesota railroad to Gordonsville, Free
q born County, in time for moving the crops
next fall.
The Albert Lea boat club are building a
house, l2x5O feet, in which to keep their
new boat. The members practice nearly
every day.
DR.. Martinitz, of Rochester, will leave for
! Europe about the 4th of next month, to be
g gone for year or more on visit to the
ssFaderland.'
/ Y The stock has been subscribed for steam
/ Touring mill at Meriden, Steele county, and
/ work on the building is to be commenced
Immediately.
u Two prisoners, Langdon and Allen, es.
, capped from the Douglas County jail at Alex
I; andria, on Wednesday last. It is supposed
: that outsiders assisted in the escape.
Judge Dickenson's illness continues, he
:. ;. being obliged, by rheumatism, to go on
: clutches. The term of the district court in
> Mobiles County has been adjourned until
May.
Two hotel thieves robbed the Winona
house, in Rochester, of several articles OF
: jewelry and other things on Wednesday last
u rested.
: The Rochester & Northern Minnesota rail
way company have made a proposition to
(, build through the village of Oronoco for 9
e bonus of $4,000, and the Narrow Gauge
propose to run there for $25,0OO
r Mr.. j. II. Hall, an insurance agent in
/ Spring Valley, Fillmore county, has had On
ear bitten or by a vicions horse. But doubt
e less he has made countless thousands
, mourn by assaults upon their ears.
The Winnebago City Touring mill has
). been enlarged and greatly improved, aud il
J. is now one of the most complete institutions
/. of the kind in the State. It's capacity is one
hundred and seventy-fve barrels of hou,
daily.
About twenty tramps, who were stealing g
: ride IN an empty car, were switched off at
: Henderson. Sibley County, one day last
: week. They deliberately spread themselves
:, ). about the depot platform, to finish their
;. snooze.
u Grading on the Extension has com
It mencedsat this end, and as soon as profile
of the work has been completed, large
:. force of men will be put on all along the
route between this place and Fairmont.
Wtnnebago CITY Press.
: The Winnebago City Press comes out in
a handsome new dress with its issue of the
goth. geographically the Press is now
one OF the handsomest papers in the State
n while its entire appearance is that Of a sue
e cesstul AID prosperous paper.
e Rev. Geo. w. Dubois, of Faribault, fol
many years connected with Bishop Seabury
8. mission, and, at one time rector of the par
. lsh of the Good Shepherd, has received sew
= eral calls to Pennsylvania parishes, and has
70 concluded to accept one of them.
! gang of ightning-rod swindlers are
- operating extensively in Olmsted county
Many farmers have been defrauded. The
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