Daily globe., 1878-02-25
NINNEsoTA NEWS.

1877, of which 80 were males.
Dundas, Rice county. has taken the initia-
tory steps toward incorporation.
The temperance sentiment and movement
are gaining strength in Owatonna.
Owatonna is to vote on the question of
license or no license on March u.
The petrifed body of an infant, buried in
1872, has been discovered in Waseca.
Lanesboro, Fillmore county, is to have q
new railroad passenger depot this spring.
The preliminary survey of the Princeton
and Anoka railroad, has been commenced.
Parties from Ohio are seeking to invest
$4,000 in steam Touring mill at Albert
Lea.
Wolves are reported to be more plentiful
in Freeborn county than for many years
past.
Morristown, Rice county, offers induce
ments for the erection of paper mill
thereat.
Worthington is overrun with scarlet fever
about sixty cases being reported up to the
21st inst.
Constant Villaumie, resident of Winona
since 1856, died in that city on the goth
aged "A years.
Mrs. M. Sanford died in Princeton on the
18th, after a residence in that village OF
eighteen years.
The annual carnival ball of the Red Wing
Liederkranz and Turnverin will take place
on the 5th pro1.
Red Wing claims to have had building i'm
proyements carried on therein during 1877
amounting in value to $44O.9OO.
Land hunters are beginning to find theil
way into the vicinity of Sank Centre. an6
farms are rapidly changing hands.
Baldwin Olmstead, widely known through
out Minnesota, died in Burnett county
Texas, on the 9th ult., aged 67 years.
Frank Langdon and Frank Allen have
boen lodged in Jail at Alexandra, Dougla!
county, in default Of bail, for sheep stealth g
John Dolan, sentenced to thirty days i'm
prisonment in the Brainerd jail, has made
good his escape, having, in so doing, flee
and wrested off three bars in the grating O
the front door.
There is some talk Of improving the mag
nificent mill power below Preston Fillmore
county, which has a capacity sufficient tt
drive twelve run of burrs, and is owned b,
men abundantly able to utilize it.
The Red Wing police are on the hunt fo
an infant purported to have been drowned
Immediately after birth in the Mississippi
the supposed mother being young unmar
ried woman named Mary O'Brien.
Henry Strobach, foreman of Gregg & Girls
wolds brick yard, Chaska, was thrown from
brick wagon on the goth by runawa,
team, and had his right arm badly crushe,
below the elbow by the wheel passing owe
it.
The Southern Minnesota Stock Breeders
association will hold it's next annual session
in the Arnold house, Owatonna, on the 5t]
prox., when the officers will be elected, th
place of holding the next exhibition selected
and other important business transacted.
The common council of Owatonna ha
directed its committee on parks and publ
grounds to expend, during the ensuing sea
son, sum not exceeding $4OO in advertis
ing the mineral springs now in the possession
of that city.
S. L. Staples, the defaulting treasurer o
Ia hoe
custody. AS his term does not close unit
March next, it has been arranged to disc O.
tlnue the prosecution, if he pays over tn
deficiency before his official career expires
and his friends ale making an effort to rails
the sum required.
Rev. p. S. Wilson, of All Saints churcl
Northfeld, has been transferred from th
acting professorship of church history. c
the seabury divinity school, to the chair 9
old and new testament exegesis and Hebrew
Rev. F. Humphrey, pastor of the mission a
Dundas, succeeds Mr.. Wilson in the latter
former professorship.
Myers, the man stabbed at the Rich Praj
RE, Morrison county, school entertainment
light, which was heretofore noticed in thes
columns, has died from the effects of hi
wounds. The St. Cloud Times says ssthe al
fair was finally amicably settled. regardles
of public interest,"
Samuel Watson, an hostler of Caledonia
Houston county, died from the results of
curious accident on the 18th. The decease
I was leading two horses across the street
when the animals suddenly SHE'D apart, Jerk
ing Watson's arms to an unnatural heigh
and straining him SO badly internally tina
death ensued in thirty-six hours.
There are but thirty-two children in th
Soldier s Orphan home, nearly all of who1
are girls, ranging from eleven to eightee
years Of age. The home is expected to b
closed in June, having accomplished mos
excellent work, for which it was etablishee
- Wjn0nd Herald.
One hundred Mennonite families are ex
pected to arrive at St. James by the first q
June.-Mdnkdto Record.
A fight between some squaws encampe
near Perham, resulted in the killing of on
and wounding another so that she died i
two days. s.-Alerondrsa Post.
The Boot OF. the Other Leg!
To the Editor of THE GLOBE.
Were it not well that some of our Reput
lican brethren :'rise and explain somewhat
Who mixed the chalice now held to the
lips? Who enacted the laws under whic