Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-11
MINNESOTA NEWS.


Prairie fires have been numerous around
Sank Centre.
Our winter has been impeached.- Todd
County Aryus.
Rice county had 67s births to 2os deaths
in the year past.
The city of st. Charles has voted the no
license ticket by 1853 to LIP.
The three Touring mills at Red Wing daily
turn out 1000 barrels of flour.
The Madelia, Watonwan county. Times.
closed it's seventh year on the 9Th.
The steamer WEIGH has resumed its trips
between Hastings and Prescott, Wis.
The Touring mills at Champlin, Anoka.
county, turn out seventy barrels of flour
daily.
The vote on the incorporation of Morris,
Stevens county, resulted, on the 5th, in 55 to
in it's favor.
During the week past thunder storm
seems to have swept over nearly every por-
ton of the State.
A large elevator is to be erected at Hokah,
Houston county, by Bonner, Wheeler &
Hyde, wheat dealers.
/ Carl Hille, aged Il years, died at East
Henderson, Sibley county, after residence
in that shire since 1867.
| Four newly made brides were last week
simultaneously futtering their feathers in
Morris, Stevens county.
| During the year 1877, there were born in
Watonwan county 70 females and 80 males,
and 80 deaths occurred.
The ferry at Anoka commenced running
on the 7th, having only ceased since the
last week of December, 1877.
The Moorhead Adcoc0te AYERS '.that the
whole Red River valley from Pembina to
Breckenridge is full of land seekers"
The Rochester Record and Union COM
menced the fifth volume of its new series on
the 9Th, making eighteen volumes in all.
A. G. Judd, of Wells township, Rice county,
The bird had seven companions. all escap-
ing.
On the 5th, twenty-four tons of hay be-
longing to various parties, were destroyed by
county.
About ten tons of cheese were turned out
in 1877 by the Elk river, Sherburne county,
factory, and thirty-five tons in the whole
county.
G. F. Case, editor of the Marshall, Lyons
county, Messenger, has been appointed post
master of that village, in place of w. Cole
man, resigned.
| L. G. Martin, on the 9th, retired from the
Owatonna Peoples Press, leaving the sole
management thereof in the hands of his for
mer partner, E. L. Darby.
The Polar Star Mill company, of Fari-
bault, is turning out 200 barrels of flour
daily in that city, beside manufacturing SO
barrels daily at its mill in Warsaw.
Negotiations are pending between w. D.
Wasburn & Co., of Minneapolis, and Stein
Bros, of Anoka, for the purchase of the
Touring mill property of the latter.
The Olmsted County Agricultural society
has been recognized into joint stock
company, with capital stock of not less
than $4,000, divided into shares of Sic
each.
A cheese factory is being erected in Grow
township, Anoka county, for which the mill
from six hundred cows, is promised, thus
constituting it the largest of it's class in the
State.
The military company at Albert Lea ha.
been ordered to deliver up its arms forth
with, the government probably intending tt
replace them by others of more improved
pattern.
Wabashaw is putting on metropolitan
airs, having had occurring therein, on the
4th, three weddings, funeral, street parad,
of maskers and masquerade ball in tn,
evening.
The Todd county argus of the 9Th, say
fifty tons of hay have been destroyed by fir,
in the vicinity of Long Prairie, within tn,
last two weeks, all in consequence of burnin,
meadows.
I On the 5th, while boating hay, Henry Zub
Ter, wine maker, lately residing two mile
south of Brownsville, Houston county, wa
drowned in consequence of the capsizing o
his craft.
T The brewery of George E. Weiss, situated
Lat St. Michaels, Wright county, was total,
destroyed by fire on the I'd, involving loss o
from $4,000 to $4,000, on which there wa
no insurance.
The residence of Harvey and Leonard
Goldsmith, residents of Martin county, wa,
totally destroyed by fire on the 7th with :
greater portion of its contents, involving .
loss of fully $500.
Frank A. Muckenhern, aged Is years, Will,
engaged on the I'd, upon his fathers farm
near Delano, Wright county, in grabbing
and pulling out trees with team. was in
stantly crushed to death.
Prof. Baker, of Owatonna, has RESIGNED
his position as one of the examiner
of the candidates for the West Poin
cadetship, because some of his pupils viii
be among the contestants.
! G. Stebbins, after being connected will
the Hastings Gazette for over twenty years
retired from that journal on the 9th. Hi
partner, Irving Todd, will continue tn,
paper as it's sole proprietor.
! According to the Hokah, Houston county
Blade, the relatives of Daniel Vaughan,
young man killed at that place last October
while working on the railroad, are to com
mence suit against the company for $4,000