Daily globe., 1879-03-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

majority of the people of Currie, at tn
late election, voted 'sno license"
Building improvements promise to b
quite lively in Waseca the present season.
! The people of Marlin county have vote,
against issuing bonds to build court house
Business in the building line is expecte,
to be brisk in Cannon Falls the present sea
| son.
Mrs. Danforth, of Red Wing, was badl,
bruised the other day by being thrown from
buggy.
1t is reported that Cincinnati, O., com
pany contemplate erecting sugar refinery j,
! New Uln,.
There are seven newspapers published ii
Fillmore county, and five townships yet t.
hear from.
| throughout the Stats are being chronicled b,
the State press.
The farmers who have attempted seeding
have found the ground very dry. Rain il
very much needed.
A movement is being made to build {
steamboat to ply on the lake between Saul
Center and Little Sank.
A young man In Amboy, Cottonwood
county, accidentally shot himself few days
since. He died in few minutes.
Nicholas Berry, Of West Newton, Brown
county, had his stables and eight tons of hay
burned by prairie fire last week.
The preliminary stops have been taken to
establish joint stock bank at Willmar,
Kandiyohi county, capital $4,000.
Considerable anxiety, not to say alarm,
IL II - H. -
legged prevalence of diphtheria there.
The other day, at Dodge Centre, Eli
Vertrese, by runaway team, was thrown to
the frozen ground and had one of his thighs
broken.
A tramp at Waseca attempted to board a
moving train to steal a ride. He slipped and
fell, and had one of his feet crushed by the
wheels.
March Is George Gilley, of Columbia,
Brown county, cut down a tree, which, in
falling, struck his son, aged - years, and
broke his arm.
The serious illness of Ex-Gov. Miller, at
Washington, is reported. His life was de-
SPARED of last week, but later advices speak
more hopefully.
Andrew Anderson, of Crookston, during
the late cold snap, had the toes of his left
foot so severely frozen that two of them had
to be amputated.
J. C. Backus' residence, in Owatonna,
was destroyed by FIRE last week, with most
of the valuable furniture. House valued at
$4,000, insurance $1 500.
One Overland, the keeper of a saloon in
Albert Lea, had bis jawbcne broken by a
blow from drunken, noisy rough whom he
attempted to eject from his saloon.
Renville Times: Bird Island carried the
"bond" question-$3,0 600 for the erection of
county buildin, "a, n case the county seat is
removed from Beaver Falls to Bird Island
The I7adepends6t is the name of a new
paper just issued st Lac qui Parle by Messrs.
Chamberlain & Jacobs. 1t claims to be
"independent in all things, but not neutral -
Two incipient fires in Delano, Wright
county, last weaSr were. extinguished by
prompt action, without doing much damage.
One was in the Palace hotel, the other in q
doctors Office.
During the high wind one day last week,
the house of Allen Marshall, of Union
Grove, was destroyed by fire. Mr.. Marshall
was absent, but the women folks saved near
ly all the contents.
The pair of eagles that have made Graham
Lake their summer home for several years,
returned punctually in the early days of
March, which is regarded as an indication
that spring has also come to stay.
The other day male infant, judged to be
two weeks old, with pillowcase for cloth
ing, was left on the door steps at William
Hamilton's, in Utica, Winona county. The
abandoned babe is being we'll taken care of.
Red Wing Republicans: Petitions are in
circulation asking the city council to call
special elections on the questions of voting
$5O,OOO bonus to the Minnesota Central
Railroad company, and taking 1926, 700 stock
in that company.
The perversity of the mule was fully OK
emplified the other day at Jordan, Scott
county. A mule team on the river bank
backed over the bluff, wagon and all, in spite
of the frantic efforte of the driver to pre-
vent the catastrophe.
II. r. Jones, of the town of Getty, Stearns
county, very adroitIy set fire to a stubble
field to burn it over. The fire got away
from him and burned the stables of his
neighbor, B. w. Veeder, and four tons OF
hay, farming utensils, etc.
Augustus Werner, of Waseca, publishes a
card, which he forbids all saloon-keePers
IN that place to sell or give him any intoxi
eating liquors, giving notice that he will in
every case prosecute according to law any
one who furnishes him Intoxicating drink.
On Monday afternoon, March 18th, in
Lake City, Charley Brown, a colored drunk.
en- loafer, attempted to commit rape or
Mrs. Mary Black, wife of William Black,
barber. Brown was arrested and is in jail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Black are respectable white
people.
While two sons of Mr.. Palmer, of Coco
Thunder, Blue Earth county, were engaged
in splitting wood on Tuesday last, one o
them accidentally received blow upon the
head from the Ak, laying the skull open sew
eral inches in length. Fears are entertained
that the brain was reached, and there is bare
ly possibility of his recovery.
A sssmart young man, but practica
idiot, was handling revolver that he knev
was not loaded, in Catlin's jewelry store, a
Dodge Centre. The pistol was discharged
the ball passing close by Catlin's head. I
struck the front of an upright glass case
and rebounding, struck and shattered mir
ror on the other side of the room.
Renville Times: Prairie fires begin t,
| light up the horizon in all directions. Ssv
eral of our exchanges note serious loss an,
disaster by reason thereof. Look out fo
your property. Your only safety lies in
thorough watchfulness. It is not too mucl
to say that much of the ruin caused b.
prairie fires is due to carelessness.
At Richmond. Stearns county, as Mr.
Burne was walking over one of the latera
braces of the new bridge being erected
there, the brace broke, and he, falling dis
tance of sixteen feet, striking William Muel
ler on the head, fracturing his skull, causin
his death in few hours. The only iniur
sustained by Mr.. Burns was the dislocatio
of one of his wrists.
George Robinson, of Faribault, has recent
ly tested the wheat of the years 1877 an
1878 as to he quality of the seed, and finds
after giving it fair test, that the wheat Q
1877 is the best to SOW. It sprouted an
came up quicker. and the stalks presented
more hardy appearance. Besides this, NOR
of the kernels of 1877 wheat sprouted tha
did of the crop Of 1878.
Anoka Republican, March 2l: This morn
ing about o'clock fire was discovered in
house owned by James Shepard, and occu
pied by James Ready. The house and al
its contents were consumed, except two ia
bles and trunk. Mr. Ready and folks wer