Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-10
MINNESOTA NEWS,

A lookup is being built in winnebag'
City.
The new depot at Jackson, jackson county
is nearly completed.
Flandrau will be the terminus for the
winter of the railroad beyond Fulda.
John A. Wilder has been appointed post
master at Willow Creek, Blue Earth county
The editor of the Alexandria Post, In hif
issue of Dec. g. chronicles the death of hit
mother.
The railroad track has been laid to Pipe.
stone City, and regular trains have been
put on.
It is reported that the scarlet fever Is pre-.
vailing to an alarming extent in Alden, Free
born county.
At Wells sneak thief was convicted OF
Jail for twenty days.
! The grade of the postofice at Alexandria,
Douglas county, has been raised to salaried
Office. Salary, $1,000 year.
Rev. MIR. Burnell, an evangelist, COM
menced series of revival meetings in Fair
mont, Martin county, last week.
Mr.. K. Armstrong has been appointed
railroad land agent at st. James Watonwan
county, in place of w. w. Gibbs
The citizens of Lake Crystal, Blue Earth
county, have voted to raise by bonds $4,000
for the erection of school building.
The other day John Barte fell from scat
fold at the tank in Ortonville, and received
very severe injuries, but will recover.
A barn was burned in Marshall, Lyon
county, last week, in which six horses and
oneScow persisted in the burning building.
A Mr.. Phillips is laying out a new town in
Big Stone county, about twenty miles from
Ortonville, the name thereof being Phillips,
town.
NJ. Lynch, of Ortonville, was thrown from
horse the other day, and dangerously in
jured. The chances of recovery are agains,
him.
Winnebsgo City, Faribault county, has
established quarantine against Prescott and
Lura, in the same county. where diphtheria
prevails.
Rev. Adam Simpson has accepted call to
preach at Sterling, Blue Earth county, dur
ing the winter, his brother, meanwhile, TAX
ing charge of bis fern in Silver Lake.
"The Public Spirit" is the name of new
paper just issued at Lake Crystal, Blue Earth
county, by j. D. Duane. It is handsomely
printed, we'll filled quarto sheet of six COL
umns page.
A. D. NJ oran, of Marshall. went to St..
Peter recently to buy wood. Making change
in hotel he laid his pocket-book down in a
chair for convenience, when some thief stole
1t. Mr.. Morgan lost 800.
The improvements made in building,
mostly in residences, in Blue Earth county,
the past season, are estimated by many to
have reached $65,OOO. One substantial
business block has been erected.
George Drentlow, who lives about five
miles from Northfeld, Rice county, had
some forty bushels of wheat stolen from his
granary the other night. The robberles of
granaries by thieves with wagons is getting
to be quite common.
Two strong minded, or rather, heavy listed
females in Rush City had quarrel the other
day about hired girl, and came to blows.
The broom stick, woman's proverbial weap-
on, was brought into requisition, and for
about fourteen seconds things were decidedly
lively.
Detroit (8scker county,, Record: A re-.
ward of 1926 is offered for information re-
garding the whereabouts of little Peter Carl
son, who was lost in Otter Tail county last
March. The father has been making dill
gent search and inquiry all summer, but has
! failed to find any definite trace of his lost
boy. He is supposed to be among the In
dams.
! Mankato Review: The st. Paul & Sioux City
railroad has been doing heavy carrying trade
this fall, not only in the transportation of
lumber to the South and West, but IN haul.
ing wheat and other produce to market.
The branch line is contributing good bust
ness, all the stations attracting full share
of the wheat coming to market. and also
cattle and hogs, for the accommodation Of
which they have capacious stock yards.