Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-17
MINNESOTA NEWS,

zens. The date of his settlement in Minnesota
is 1869. In politics he is a Republican.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A building society is being organized at Dun
das.
The diphtheria is reported in Faribault with
fatal results.
The liabilities of Behnke & Bro, of New Ulm,
reach $4,000.
Bogus dollars bearing a very deceptive ap-
pearance are afoat.
The influenza is quite virulent among horses
in the lumber districts.
G. F. Case, of the Messenger, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Marshall.
The Fergus Falls Journal proposes Gen. Egg
gleston, of Dodge county, for Governor.
Several old veterans in Chatfield and vicinity
will draw upwards to $1,000 under the new
pension.
Plans are maturing for the erection of several
fine brick buildings in Litchheld, Meeker
county, next season.
The parties in Kilkenny who lost SO heavily
blythe late fire will erect better buildings than
they had before the fire.
''Calico balls,'' on Washington's birthday,
are the rage in a large number of pleasant,
lively villages in the State.
Florida is the name of a new township
recently formed from territory lying in Yellow
Medicine county west of the village of Candy.
Rev. DR.. Vincent of New York, the leading
Sabbath school teacher in the United States,
will lecture at Northfeld, Rice county, February
~.
The lower dam at Easton's trout pond, at
Chatfeld, gave way last week, and over 5000
OF the speckled trout, it is estimated, were
lost.
A man digging we'll in Lamberton, found
at the depth Of twenty feet, willow log OF
tree two feet in diameter and grapevine wind
ing around it.
On a late Sunday evening Rev. Mr.. Dixon, OF
| Worthington, preached on the subject OF
''Hell." He takes issue with Henry Ward
Beecher on that subject.
new Touring mill is the present leading
project of Waterville, LIE Suer county. It ii
believed it will be ready for work by the time
the next harvest is secured.
The Presbyterian church and society in
Litchfeld have extended a unanimous call te
Rev. Mr.. Sheriff. to become their pastor. The
salary paid is 81 900 q year. ST.
The st. Cloud Journal Press announces that
/ this vicinity has been visited by another terri
BILE snow storm. Snow fell to the depth Of
nearly quarter Of an inch.''
Frederick Strauss, of the town of Wheeling
Rice county, found piece of wire two inches
| long in the liver of one of one of his butchered
hogs. He has fed his hogs on wheat bran.
| A peddlar's wagon; in Morris, Stevens county
was robbed, few nights since, of dry goods
to the amount of $500. The goods have beer
recovered, but the thief has made his escape.
The new Congregational church edifce at Mar.
| shall is being finished in a neat and beautiful
| style. It has stained windows as we'll as many
| other exterior and interior modern adornments
By kerosene lamp explosion girl at the
| residence OF MIR. Wilkinson, in Albert Lea was
| badly burned in the face while attempting tt
| kindle fire with the oil. It is feared she may
lose her sight.
Personal prop erty taxes become delinquent
on the irst day Of March. and real estate taxes
on the first day Of June. The penalty is 5 pei
cent, added to the former, and 10 per cent add
ed to the latter.
The new county of Candy is proposed to con-
tain twelve towns, six from Yellow Medicine,
three from Lyon and three from Lac qui Parle.
| 1t the three counties vote yes, the new county
will be established with Candy for the county
seat.
The late Rev. DR.. Horatio Brindsmade, Of
! Newark, N. j., has left $4,000 to Carleton col.
lege, in Northfeld, and $1,000 70 the Congrega.
being for the education Of young men for the
ministry.
Col. Albert M. Lea, the founder of the town
of Albert Lea, Freedom county, is now an army
officer on duty in Texas. He has forwarded to
| the State Historical society manuscript his.
tory of the early events in Minnesota and Iowa
in which he took part
An increased number of Sherburne county
farmers will engage in raising sugar cane next
convinced of the Importance of diversifying
their pursuits, and of not combining their at
tention SO exclusively to wheat culture.
Numerous wells are being driven through
| the rock at Shakopee. Some twenty wells have
| been driven there this winter. In the east part
of the town water is found at depth Of from
thlrty-six to forty-fve feet; and in the west
part at depth Of from hfty to sixty five
feet.
Hastings Ne,o Era, Feb. IL: Miss Ada
House, formerly of this city, who became in
| sane and was taken to the asylum at st. Peter
about three years ago, died on Monday, of last
| week, at st. Peter. Her body was brought to
this city and inferred on Wednesday. Her
mother resides in this city.
The burning of Nicolin's Touring mill, at
London, Scott county, is regarded as a great
| calamity to that place and vicinity. By this
disaster forty-fve men are thrown out of en-
ployment, and the large number of farmers
who found a market there for their wheat will
have to seek a market elsewhere.
Moorhead (Clay county,) Adyocate: It costs
more to ship bushel of wheat to- St. Paul,
from Breckenridge, than it does from Fisher
Landing; and the reason why, because wheat is
worth ten cents per bushel more at Moorhead
than at Breckenridge. We can get our wheat to
market cheaper and quicker than at any other
point
Early Wednesday morning, February 18th
the house Of George W. Fowler, two miles east
of Mazeppa, was discovered to be on fire. Mr..
Fowler was the first to awake, nearly suffocated
with smoke. By heroic struggle of the in
k@~ L.
saved. Damage from 5000 to $40O to house
and furniture.
Nicollet county seems to be financially strong.
The amount on hand March L. 1875 was
1913, 264.58; receipts from that time to JAM 8.
1879, $47. 47.3O, making total of $50, I'll. 88,
while the expenditures during that time
amounted to only 1854, 3l6.35, leaving a balance
in the treasury of $26,395.53, belonging to
different funds.
was broken in the fight at Veith's brewery on
the 29th of December. died from the effects of
the wound Saturday, Feb. 9Th, and his
funeral took place at the Catholic church on
Monday. The point of the faucet with which
he was struck penetrated the brain over two
inches, it is said, and it is surprising that he
lived as long as he did.
case of mistaken identity occurred at Has
tings the other day. Sheriff Chapel, of Farm
lngton, was in attendance at court, saw q man
he was sure was Fred Martin, who stole $500
worth of jewelry from Mrs. Campbell's board
ing house in st. Paul some weeks ago. He ar
rested him. The man admitted his name was
Martin but claimed he was not the thief, but
his brother. This proved to be true. The re-
semblance between the two is very striking.
Red Wing Republican, Feb. -: Yesterday
afternoon Albert Halverson, about 8 years old,
whose parents live corner of Bluff and Sixth
streets, and another boy jumped on
driver warned them not to ride on the side of
the load, and turning the corner of Bluff and
Fifth streets, Albert either was thrown off or
attempted to get off, and fell in front of the