Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.


Faribault county, is approaching compile
ton.
The now court house in Otter Tail county
is nearly completed and will soon be ready
for use. a. .-#.s..
Henry Harrison Clay Brown, of Orion,
Olmsted county, is in JUL in Rochester on
charge of blgamy.
Ortonville claims population of 1000.
The Hastings & Dakota railroad has been
completed to that place.
Father Venn has secured site, and is pro-
viding materials for $4,000 Catholic
church in Blue Earth City. -r:.
Zeb. Wood, of Belle River, Douglas couu-
ty, last week, shot and killed deer at short
range, with partridge shot.
! An incendiary fire caused the destruction
of the slaughter house OF Heatherington g.
Co., of Hastings, the other night.
Albert Smith, of Walnut Grove, Redwood
county, made one thousand gallons of syrup,
this season, from sorghum of his own rais-
ing.
G. W. Seefeld, of St. Charles, Winona
county, is putting in q three-run Touring
mill next season in connection with his
steam grain elevator.
tits reported that parties are going through
Blue Earth county swindling the farmers by
selling gang plows, taking their notes and
never delivering the plows.
E. Nj. Broughton, of Waseca, was taken
home from Redwood Falls last week in q
dangerous state of mind, supposed to result
from a last summers sun stroke.
Mr.. Kane, of Credit River, and Matthew
lIr, oG HoIo Lob hoxy 0ao1,
the value of wheat burned by steam thresh-
ers, of the owners of the machines.
An emigrant wagon passing through Wells
the other day, drawn by two steers, a COW ard
a mule. The establishment had come from
southern Illinois since September 1.
The school board of Anoka have voted
$4,000 as special school tax for the coming
year, which is nearly eleven mills on the
dollar. Last year the tax was three mills.
Skating accidents haze commenced for the
season. Charles Vandyke, while skating,
last week, on the treacheroCs Ice of Lake
Winona, broke in and was rescued with diff
ticulty.
Mrs. E. G. Parker, wife of Hon. E. 3.
Parker, living near Gorden City, Blue Earth
county, had one of her legs broken between
the ankle and the knee by falling down the
cellar stairs.
Mike Lipp, of Cottonwood, Brown county,
last week lost two children, aged and Z,
by diphtheria, and has another child sick with
1t. Other families are suffering severely by
the disease.
Peter Robinson, of Deer Creek, Otter Tail
county, has become insane and has been
taken to St. Peter. He was so violent that
l. E.. ~
hereditary in his family.
fire was discovered in one of the bed
rooms at the residence uf James Morris, of
Mankato. A quantity of wearing apparel,
bed clothes, etc., was destroyed. MIR. Morris
had his hands and face severely burned in
extinguishing the flames.
The Rochester, Olmsted county, Post, has
entered upon its twenty first volume. Mr..
Leonard, the present proprietor, has been
connected with the paper fourteen years, land
is one of the best editors in the State. His
paper is chiefly devoted to local affairs.
On Monday night, Nov. II, the boarding
house and contents of Lawrence Walsh, OF
Lake City, we're destroyed by fire. The
family we're absent when the fire was dis
covered, attending St. Mary's church fair.
The fire was the work of an incendiary.
Wilson Penney and D. Crosby, of Brock
way, Stearns county, were out hunting re-
Gently in the woods back of Fort Ripley
when Crosby shot at Penney, mistaking him
for deer. The ball passed through the lef!
arm just below the elbow, making bad
wound.
In Faribault, last week, a fve-year-old
daughter of Thomas McMannus went to
the we'll to get cup of water, and when
reaching for the bucket, lost her balance and
fell in. When about halfway down, she
clutched the rope and held on to it till assis-
lance came, when she was taken out unin-
jured.
Between shutdown and dark the other day
the jewelry store of Oliver Peterson, OF
Waseca, when he was at supper, was robbed
of watches and jewelry to the amount OF
$40O. The robbers we're seen escaping from
the back door with their plumber, but have
not been captured.
On the 18th of November, Mr.. and Mrs
John B. Allen, of Shakopee, celebrated their
golden wedding. OF their fifty years OF
married life, twenty-six had been spent OIL
the farm two miles west of the village.
Children and grandchildren swarmed into the
| old hive on the occasion.
The publication of the Winnebago City
| Faribault county, Press has been discontin
| ued. j. Lutte Christie, the publisher, has
sold his paper to William Allen, who viii
| continue it's publication under the name o.
the Sun. Mr.. Christie goes to Mankato t
join Gen. Baker in publishing the Free
Press.
1t is alleged that the judges of election il
Albion, Wright county, at the late election
adjourned for dinner, taking the ballot-bo,
with them some distance from the place oil
voting, in the removing an hour or more
thus partially closing the polls and prevent
ing voting during their absence. Hungry
if not enlightened oficials
! Faribault Democrat, Nov. 21:-As the fire
man were running to the fire, Tuesda.
evening last, dragging some hose with them
they pulled up post on Third street, which
struck Mrs. Geo. E. Skinner, who was walk
ing along the sidewalk at the time, throw
ing her to the walk and inficting severa
severe though not very painful bruises abou
her head.
| A dog belonging to man from the coun
try was guarding his masters wagon in tn,
streets of Faribault the other day, but mis-
judged in the excess of his Jealous fdelit,
and tore shawl from the shoulders of
lady and bit a man. The man shot tn,
poor dog, who had meant we'll but m!sjudget
as to the extent of his responsibility in care
ing for his masters property in his absence
An Ioelander got on the cars at Minnesota
City bound for Marshall, paid the regular
| fare to the conductor, afterwards was made
to pay twenty-five cents more by brake
man, and subsequently, at the command o.
the breakman, juaped from the cars while
in motion for fear of his being pushed off
Both bones of his right leg were broken be-
low the knee, and his shoulder was badly
bruised. He was taken to hotel in Mar
| shall and cared for. The dishonest break.