Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-17
MINNESOTA NEWS,

of buildings.
A grist mill will be erected at Yellow Bank
early next spring. thus supplying want long
felt in that section.
Fish are being supplied TO the Winnebago
City market from the lakes in Martin county,
by the wagon load.
Litchfield reports for 1875 births IS, namely.
females 20, males Is. EDeaths Is, namely,
adults 4, children IL.
Workmen have commenced to repair the
stone mill at Chisago City, and it will be put
in operation next spring.
The village charter question is again being
agitated in Dundas, and seems to meet with
more favor than formerly.
The commissioners of Mile Laos county
have fixed the salary of the prosecuting at
torney at $500 per annum.
In Owatonna in 1878, there were eighiy-eieht
births and sixty deaths, twenty seven of the
deaths being from diphtheria.
boy of Eric Etifson's, of Lac qui Parle,
while coasting had leg broken between the
knee and hip-a bad fracture.
Mrs. Eva Larson, of Cedar Mills, Meeker
county, has been adjudged insane by the pro-
bate court and sent to the asylum.
The jail in Morris, Stevens county, caught
fire the other day, but by timely discovery
the flames were speedily extinguished.
Ludwig Frank, of New Ulm, few days
since, fell dead while saving wood in his door
yard. Heart disease is supposed to have been
the cause.
Peter Johnson, the corn thief, in Jail in
Hastings, Dakota county, will lose one of his
feet by amputation. While stealing the corn
his foot was frozen.
The Princeton Union has entered upon its
third volume. It is a we'll conducted Journal
Its editor, R. C. Dunn, is an Intelligent and
enterprisiEg gentleman.
The 25th of January is the day appointed by
the commissioners of Swift county, for the or
ganization and election of officers in the towns
of Meyer and ST. Joseph.
There were twenty-four births and twelve
deaths in Princeton in 1878. All but five of
the deaths were adults one, an Indian, had at
| tanned the age of LOG years.
Several Minnesota papers are advocating the
reduction OF the fees and salaries of county
officers and the leDgthening of the official term
OF service from two to four years.
At fracas in Beaver Falls short time since
knives were freely used and some cutting DONE
enough to require the services of surgeon,
but no fatal results are anticipated.
Mrs. Lindsay, wife of the publisher of the
Worthington Journal. is announced as associate
editor of that paper, and her name appears as
such at the head Of the editorial column.
In Brown county, during the year 1878, there
were AZ Births OF which 21S were males and
1914 females. There were 112 deaths; of these
Vital statistics of Merton, Steele county,
for 1878: Births, twenty-seven. of which
eleven were males and sixteen females Deaths
six, Of which two were males and four females.
Fergus Falls Journal: There were thirty-six
| marriages in Chisago county in 1877, against
! thirty-fve in 1878. But then four-ffths Of the
| marriages are solemnized in Wisconsin, where
| no license is required.
The dwelling of Anton Meagen, of Lime
| tNyu, Inc Eorfh
| fire with nearly all its contents, few DAYS
| since, resulting from that very common cause,
an insuficiently protected stove pipe.
| The county commissioners of Meeker county
recommend the early erection of court house
for that county. The legislature will be ordered
voters of the county at the election in March
| next.
midnight cry Of fire at Luverne, Rock
county, a short time since, aroused the people
to discover the Robinson block on fire. Sew
eral Babcock extinguishers were brought into
use, but the weather was SO intensely cold that
they did not work WELL
Last week the election for village officers
| came off in Benson. The license ticket was at
ISSUE There were two tickets, the Republi-
! can, opposed to license, the Peoples in favor.
The latter was elected by large majority.
very full vote was polled.
The Eagle mills at Sank Rapids are the only
| Mills IN chat part OF the country that do not
suffer from a lack of water, az they have the
entire Mississippi at command. Most of the
small streams are so low that they furnish but
very little power for the mills upon them.
! Hokah, in Houston county, is a village of
1,400 inhabitants. During 1878 the number of
births there was forty, tho number of deaths
three. Within that time there have been no
fatal accidents, suicides or murders. A model
village for increase in population, health, peace
and order.
Fergus Falls Journal: Rumors come down
from Perham that the law against selling liquor
to Indians is violated there; that drunken In
dians have of late not been uncommon, and
that public sentiment and decency has been
outraged. We are promised more positive de-
velopments ere long.
Sank Rapids Sentinel: Albert, a son of Mr..
Frank Walker while skating on the ice on the
river a week or 80 ago, broke through, and but
for extraordinary presence Of mind on his part
would have been drowned. Being alone, and
unable to get g bold on smooth ice to draw
himaelf cut, he nQisteped hig pittens and