Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The Mississippi is wide open from Has
tings to Lake Pepin.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectures in
st. Peter on the 18th prox.
The Lake City band has received it's new
instruments, seven in number.
Several hocks of wild geese have been
seen at Lake City during the week.
The Mississippi is clear from ice at Red
Wing, and the ferry boat is running.
There is not licensed saloon in Martin,
jackson, Mobiles, Rock, Murray CT Pipestone
counties.
John Grishanler. all old settler Of Carver
county, dropped dead i'll his door yard on
the 18th.
Contracts for work on the deep cut, Gran
tie Falls, of the Hastings & Dakota railroad,
are being consummated.
Mrs. Bennett, widow lady, and sister
of Hon. w. G. Ward, of Waseca, died sud
denly, on the 10Th, of apoplexy.
An amendment to the city charter of st.
Peter is proposed, by which the question of
license or no license will be submitted to the
people.
A Woman's Christian Temperance Union
has been established at St. Peter, being the
result of the labors of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster
in that city.
A house in the southwestern portion of
Duluth, owned by J. D. Howard and occu-
1oI H1ra Of o1 Ind Woo
destroyed by fire OH the 10th.
Messrs McCardy & Lamberton, of st.
Peter, have purchased in that market ILL.,
600 pounds of pork i'll thirty days, nearly all
of witch wits shipped to St. Paul and Mil
waukee.
The trestle work between Lake avenue
and Rice's Point, Duluth, is to be filled up
with gravel. It is computed that the work
will.occupy forty men for five months in its
completion.
D. H. Gregg. of Lake City, has entered
into contract with r. G. Schulenbury, of
Saltwater, for packing 10000 tons Of ice,
and has commenced work thereon with a
crew of fifty men,
fair will be open at Hastings on the
18th prox.. that being the substitute date for
st. Patrick's day. which comes on Sunday
this year, in aid of the Church of the Guar
dian Angels, in that city.
The Sleepy Eye and Redwood branch of
the Winona and st. Peter railroad is being
vigorously pushed forward, and is being sup
Mi Q6 q froi1, of ,i,rhf Nno
completion by August Sth is anticipated.
The Hastings Union of the goth, says:
'sLast Sunday, young Morey killed large
and ferocious wildcat in the vicinity Of Pine
Cody, about one and half miles from this
city. The animal weighed, when killed,
over forty pounds, and was shot with fine
bird shot. Its mate is still at large i'll that
vicinity
In Plainview township, Wabashaw county,
a large majority for issuing railroad bonds
has been already secured, but number of
residents in the eastern and northwestern
portions thereof. considering that the bene-
fits derived from the proposed railroad would
be far outweighed by the additional taxation,
have not only signed a remonstrance against
the issue, bnt some of them have pledged
from $40 to 1925 to test its legality in the
courts.
The Litchfield Independent says that the
infamous Rande, now on trial at Galesburg,
ILL.,, resided at Kingston, Meeker county, in
1866, under the name of Smith, moving
thence to Forest City, where he took up his
abode in the school house, from which he
was elected. Thence he departed to Manan-
nah. and soon after left the county. While
at Forest City he worked at the gun l