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

! There is not vacant house in Howar
Lake, Wright county.
The citizens of Window successful
| fought q prairie fire last week.
| A majority of the people of Currie, at tn
late election, voted "no license"
Building improvements promise to b
quite lively in Waseca the present season.
The people of Martin 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
a buggy.
1t is reported that a Cincinnati, o., com
pany contemplate erecting sugar refinery ii
New Ulm.
There are seven newspapers published il
Fillmore county, and five townships yet I.
hear from.
The arrival of emigrants in localitie
throughout the State 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 a 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 tc
se:-;tsaolish a joint stock bank at Willmar,
Kandiyohi county, capital $4,000.
Considerable anxiety, not to say alarm,
exists III Albert Lea on account of the al
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.
tramp at Waseca attempted to board q
moving train to steal 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 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
ths late cold snap, had the toes of his left
foot so severely frozen that two of them had
to be anputated.
j. G. Backus' residence, in Owatonna,
was destroyed by fire last week, with most
of the valuable furniture. House valued OF
$4,000, insurance 81 500.
One Overland, the keeper of saloon in
Albert Lea, had his 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 900 for the erection of
county buildings, in case the county seat is
removed from Beaver Falls to Bird Island.
The Independent is the name of a new
paper just issued at Lac qui Parle by Messrs.
Chamberlain & Jacobs. It claims to be
"ijndependeDt in all things, but not neutral.''
Two incipient fires in Delano, Wright
county, last week, 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 a male infant, judged to be
two weeks old, with pillow-case for cloth
ing, was left on the door steps at William
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
$50, 900 bonus to the Minnesota Central
Railroad company, and taking ss25, 1000 stock
in that company.
The perversity of the mule was fully ex-
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 etforte of the driver to pre-
vent the catastrophe.
FL. r. Jones, of the town of Getty, Stearns
county, very adroitly set fire to 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, in 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 arc respectable white
people.
While two sons of Mr.. Palmer, of Coco
Thunder, Blue Earth county, were engaged
in splitting wood on Tuesday last, one o1
them accidentally received blow upon the
head from the ak, laying the skull open sev
eral inches il length. Fears are entertained
that the brain was reached, and there is bare
ly a possibility of his recovery.
A ''smart young man, but a practica
idiot, was handling a revolver that he knew
was not loaded, in Catlin's jewelry store, Al
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. Sow
eral of our exchanges note serious loss ans
disaster by reason thereof. Look out TO
your property. Your only safety lies in
thorough watchfulness. It is not too muc]
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 laters
braces of the new bridge being erected
there, the brace broke, and he, falling dis
tance Of sixteen feet. striking William Muel
Ter on the head, fracturing his skull, causin
his death in few hours. The only injur
sustained by Mr.. Burns was the dislocatio
of one of his wrists.
George Robinson, of Faribault, has recen
ly tested the wheat of the years 1877 an
1873 as to the quality of the seed, and find
after giving it a fair test, that the wheat
| 1877 is the best to SOW. It sprouted an
came up quicker, and the stalks presented
more hardy appearance. Besides this, MOI
! of the kernels of 1877 wheat sprouted tina