Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-26
MINNESOTA NEWS.

cemetery association has been organized
| in Verndale, Wadena county.
It is averred that there are over 5000 lakes
; IN Minnesota, over mile in diameter.
The widow Ames, of Austin, Mower county
has hive children down with the diphtheria, and
they are all severe cases.
The Touring mill at Rushford sold in one day
last week. twenty tons of bran to farmers,
making about 100 wagon loads. M i
Some banking houses refuse to receive the
Mexican silver dollar for more than 20 cents.
They claim that is all it Is worth.
The house of Mr.. Sawyer in Sherburne coun-
", opposite Monticello, has been destroyed by
nre wlSh its contents. No insurance.
Ambrose Lorentz. proprietor of the European
hotel in Mankato, fell down stairs and broke
an arm and received q severe scalp wound.
At Sank Centre wheat of all grades has ad-
vanced seven cents per bnshel. No. is now
graded at IS, No. 2 at 65. and No. 8 at SIC.
The six weeks revival meeting held in the M.
p. church in Rochester, Mimi, has closed.
Sixty eight have united with the church, and
Others are yet to unite.
ak-thieves are making their presence
known in various localities Of the State by their
depredations on wood piles, corn cribs, hen
roosts, clothes lines, etc.
Triplets have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Hawkins, of Parkers Prairie, Otter Tail coun-
ty. Aggregate weight, 15A pounds. The ba-
bies are lively and doing well.
New buildings,' says the Albert Lea Stand
ard, 'are going up every day in this city, just
as though hard times had cot exhibited his
forbidding visage to our people"
A burglar attempted to enter the house of
Andrew Palmer at Albert Lea the other night,
but shower of stove wood hurled at him by
MIR. Palmer caused the rascal to run.
The Austin Mower county, Republican saws:
Dlphtheria SO fatal in it's effects that the very
name of it carries terror to the stoutest heart,
is in our midst, and gradually spreading.
A man named Kugel, of Rich Prairie, was
chopping wood the other day when he cut one of
his feet SO badly that he could not walk, and
when found was almost dead from loss of
blood.
As result of a revival meeting, of eleven
days duration, held in a school house in Gray
Eagle, Stearns county, there were over forty
conversions, and addition of forty-two to
the church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Frank Sicora and Joseph Kaplan, of Ovation
na are under arrest for attempting to burn
the store building occupied by themselves.
There stock was insured for $500. It is be-
lieved it was not worth 800. The building
is owned by MIR. Morehouse.
In Glencoe the other night three YOUTH
full roughs, all under 20 years of age, knocked
down a drunken man. Frederick Ortloff, of the
town of Penn, and robbed him Of bottle of
whisky and SO in money. One of the fellows
has been arrested and the others have run
away.
In Bergen Mcleod county, Reuben Holcomb
stabbed William Burton with knife, but not
fatally. Both young men. Holcomb claimed
that Burton had slandered girl with whom he
(Holcomb) was keeping company. They quar-
relied, With the result stated above. An officer,
with a warrant, went to arrest Holcomb, but
could not find him.
Wells Aduocdte, Feb. 20: We reluctantly
chronicle the failure of j. NJ. Nye, together
with the bank of Wells, which occurred last
Saturday by assignment af all his property
eqanimity of our people so much as did the
above announcement. As far as we can learn,
it was the best possible way to do in order for
Mr.. Nye to protect himself as well as all credi-
tors alike