Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.

There is talk of rifle club at Plainview.
A national bank is to be established at
Cannon Falls.
The Roman Catholic fair at Hastings last
week Melted $512.
The Anoka Union hears unfavorable re-
ports from the Rum river drive.
Mayor Roos, of New Ulm, died in New
York city on Wednesday, the 9th.
Over three hundred car loads of wheat
have been sent from Hastings direct to Liy-
erpool.
The Masons of Austin have leased Hunts
Hall, and are engaged in fitting it up for a
lodge room.
A mare belonging to John Shields of
Houston county, foaled q double headed colt
the other day.
colony of some twenty-five citizens of
Orion, Olmsted county, are about to locate
in Minnehaha county, Dakota.
MIR. T. A. Wilson has retired from the
editorial control of the Plainview Ne,os, and
is succeeded by Mr.. H. J. Byron.
A much larger breadth of land, says the
LIE Sueur Sentinel, is being put into crops
in this vicinity than in any previous year.
The Hastings Gazette is authority for the
statement that the Cannon Falls branch of
the Hastinge & Dakota railroad is virtually
abandoned.
The Wells Advocdte remarks: Gin sixty
days the steam engine and cars will be at
Fairmont and then we are going to see the
.Hinglishmen and their 'osses.'"
The Lake City Leader has given up the
effort to keep record of the people in that
county going West to grow up with the coun-
try. There are too many of them.
Mr.. E. Whitcomb, formerly of Rochester,
but for the past half dozen years residing at
Gainesville, Ca, has returned to Rochester,
where he will engage in brickmaking.
The pocket gopher business opens out
briskly in Dodge county this spring. From
the 18th to the 26th of March there were
brought to the auditors Office AT scalps.
Wm. Hobine, of Blooming Grove, Waseca,
county, lost his barn, granary, seven horses,
and considerable grain, ETC., by fire, Tues
day, the 26th. Loss 1908; insured 81, O18.
Supposed incendiary.
Mr.. r. r. Briggs, of Winona, and Mr.. F.
A. Elder, of Mower county, have associated
themselves together for the practice of law,
at Moorhead and Fargo. Their Office being
at the first named place.
Mr.. A. J. Underwood, of the Fergus Falls
Journal, speaks good word foi Mr.. J. 8.
Brockelhurst, who is about to locate at that
place in the newspaper business, wishing
him success in his enterprise.
Glass ball shooting is growing in favor at
Faribault. At prize shooting there Wednes-
day afternoon Mr.. G. L. La Grave won the
first prize, Mr.. Phin Durham the second,
and Mr.. Landrus the third.
The lamb and lion have lain down together
in Hastings. The Gazette says: '.The Demo
cratic caucus on Thursday was largely at
| tended by citizens of all parties, and the
ticket gives general satisfaction
Mr.. E. B. Jordan, of Olmsted county, has
planted this season about 1000 fruit trees,
the Wealthy and Duchess apple, and will set
out about 500 Flemish Beauty pear trees.
He now has about 70 acres in orchard.
A lot of scalawag boys, out of pure cussed-
ness, set fire to and burned the barn and
granary of Mr.. S. B. Barteau, of Zumbrota
on his farm near Mazeppa, one day last
week. The dwelling was saved with diff
Guilty.
John McNiff of Hastings, says the Gazette,
claims to have come to this State in the fall
of 1841, as private in company II, first
regiment United States infantry, which emit.
| ties him to a front rank in the list of old
settlers.
Arson Hilger, a former policeman in st.
Paul, is keeping the Northwestern hotel il
Glencoe. He has the honor of erecting The
first street lamp in that place, an innovation
which the citizens hope good many Others
will follow.
| Hon. A. =. Runyon, of New Brunswick
N. j., formerly comptroller of that State, hal
located in Mobiles county, he himself settling
near Worthington, while his sons have Sc:
cured locations in the northwestern part d
the county.
Mr.. Thomas Eckles, of Eyota, Olmstead
county, will this spring set out about 1O(
apple trees and so evergreens. He has al
orchard of some $50 trees, many of then
now in bearing, and last fall picked three
barrels of fruit from his Duchess trees.
Sam b. Nichols was employed in the past
week taking af6davits of the claimants or
the State swamp lands, with view to a re.
lease on the part of the State to all genuine
claimants-the State to be reimbursed BY
the government. Fergus Falls Journal.
Saturday night the 23d, Mr.. Vinton' drug
store, and Masonic hall above, and stable
belonging to Mr.. Arnold, were burned. Some
of the goods from the drug store were re-
J moved, but in 9 damaged condition, The