Daily globe., 1879-03-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

! MINNESOTA NEWS.
There are 925 postoffices in the State of
Minnesota.
Farmers in Mobiles county began sowing
wheat March Z.
On Saturday, March 8, Mankato was Wis.,
tied by a thunderstorm.
About $4,000 gallons of Chinese amber
syrup were produced in Watonwan county
\ last autumn.
The sugar makers have begun their work
the logging camps have been mostly
broken up.
| Quite number of farmers in the southern
part of Blue Earth county were putting in
their wheat crop during the week.
Peter Montabue, living four miles from
Mankato, had his shanty burned the other
day, and IN it his youngest child, aged 10
months.
VIM. Miller, who was working on a bridge
at Richmond, Mimi, was struck by fall
ing timber and received injuries which
proved fatal.
Mr.. Nicolin is rebuilding the Touring mill
recently burned at Jordan, Scott county.
One set of burrs have been received, and the
millers are at work preparing them for use.
On aries Essler, of st. Peter, while ''taking
off heat'' at the foundry, bad a drop Of
molten metal fall into his eye, penetrating
the eyeball and destroying the sight of the
| eye.
Arrangements have been made to BULL a
| Catholic church in the new village of Kronz-
burg, on the Winona q St. Peter railroad.
1t will be finished by July, and will be the
first church in central Dakota.
There was a fire lately on two successive
nights at New Ulm, but by prompt action
| were extinguished without great damage. At
| the last fire good deal OF damage was done
to furniture by hasty, reckless removal.
man attempted to cross the Minnesota
| river the other day, at Redstone, on the ice.
When near the center of the river, in about
eight feet of water, the ice gave way, and
horses, wagon and driver went into the
| water. The driver was rescued with diff
Guilty. The horses were drowned.
| During the fall and winter past, the
diphtheria has prevailed to large extent in
| the town of Lime, Blue Earth county, and
thirteen deaths in all have occurred. The
progress of the disease can be clearly traced
| from one family to another, by their visiting
| back and forth during the sickness.
John Becker was repairing the wall of an
old we'll in Hampton, Dakota county, when
| the wall caved in and he was buried twenty
two feet deep. The work of digging him
out continued from 3 p. M. Saturday until 4
| A. M. Sunday. He was alive when taken out
| and spoke to his deliverers, but died few
minutes after.
Monday, March 10, the store of John
Mathison, of Rushford; Fillmore county,
narrowly escaped destruction by fire. On
opening his store in the morning he was
confronted with large volume of smoke.
| hasty examination disclosed that it pro-
| ceeded from a daguerrean room overhead.
few pals of water put out the fire.
Wabashaw Herald: Red Wing and Can
non Falls are agitating the question of build
ing the Cannon Valley railroad, and the latter
place is willing to bond the town in behalf
of the enterprise. The question coming up
whether to give bonds in aid of the Roches-
ter s. Northern or the Cannon Valley road, it
was decided in favor of the latter.
The school house of Iberia, Brown county,
was entirely destroyed by fire few nights
since, with all the furniture, books, etc.
Though the building stood in the midst of
the village, and the nearest house was only
four rods distant, no person knew of the fire
until tho morning dawn, when heap of
ashes and smouldering embers alone re-
manned.
The coroner's inquest, in the case of the
dead man found near Jackson, returned
verdict that "the deceased came to his death
by wounds received on the face and head by
a club or some other weapon, between IL NJ
of Feb. II, 1879, and - NJ. Of Feb. 20,
1879" Several persons were arrested and
examination had, but they were discharged
as there was not sufficient evidence to bind
them over.
On Friday, March Z, Knut Tollefson, a
we'll known citizen of Meeker county, resid-
ing about 6 miles northeast of Forest CITY,
committed suicide, in Panlson's timber,
about one mile south of his farm, by hang
ing himself to tree. Mr.. Tollefson com
mitted the act while laboring under de-
preston of spirits, occasioned, it is suppos-
ed, by domestic troubles. The deceased was
about 40 years old, and leaves wife and
sever al children, the eldest about Is years of
age. The body was not discovered until Sat-
urday.