Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-22
MINNESOTA NEWS,

A three story brick hotel is to be erected in
Hastings in the spring.
The Fergus Falls Journal suggests Gen. Ed
gerton, Republican, of Kasson, for Governor.
Nearly all the wells in Worthington, Nebles
county, are dry. There has been no rain since
harvest.
Charles Ranshammer, of Jordan, was recent
~ taken violently insane. He has been taken
to the asylum.
The county commissioners of Benton county
have appointed Wayland Miller to the office of
register of deeds vice John Renard, resigned.
The Independent says the wheat market in
Litchield is kept or cents above market
price, and wheat comes there from twenty to
thirty miles around.
A workman by the name of Louis Martel.
employed on the railroad trestle opposite Has
| things, had the misfortune to break his leg last
week by heavy timber falling on it.
There is person living in Big Stone county,
SO says common report, whom the physicians
pronounce aleper. A movement is being made
to have him removed from the county.
MP. Olson went through Litchtield the other
day, on his way from st. Paul to his now loca-
| cation at Swede Grove. He saws he has coming
the type and other material for new paper
The late fall of snow, SO far as it extended.
has given decided impetus to business in the
logging camps, and the mill yards of way
| side' sawmills are being rapidly filled with
logs.
petition is being circulated in Lakeville
to have new postmaster appointed to that
place, and the post Office removed to some other
building. remonstrance is also being circu-
lated. and both papers are receiving a large
| number of signatures.
A car load of nitro-glycerine passed over the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway few
days ago, for Manitoba. 1t was shipped from
North Adams, Mass. and is intended for blast
| ing purposes on the Canadian Pacific railway.
The Hastings Union speaks thus cheerfulIy
of itself: The Union Office is catching it now.
The senior editor is sick, the Junior might as
well be, the foreman has been confined to his
bed for six weeks, and the devil never did
amount to much
At the Drake school house, Northfield after
a spelling school, the sleigh containing a num-
Der of young girls, tipped over severely
hurting several. The team ran, and severely
injured two other girls who were walking on
the side of the road.
Red Wing ADVANCE: Mr.. Gottleib Ziegler, of
bay Greek, exhibited in this city specimen of
the very hardest anthracite coal, which he claims
to have discovered in large quantities about
four feet beneath the surface Of the ground ON
his farm in Hay Creek valley.
Worthington Journal: Considerable excite
ment is being manifested at Sioux Falls over
the reported discovery of gold quartz. in Lake
county. forty live miles distant. on the farm
of MIR. Luce, residing on the bank of Herman
lake. Parties from the Falls are now looking
the matter up, and we hope that the reports
may prove correct
Mankato Reuieap, Feb. IL: One evening last
week, young woman who claims to reside at
Waseca arrived here via the Winona road. and
applied at a hutel in that vicinity for room
with fire. She was told that she could not be
accommodated. She crossed the street to pri-
vate residence, and in few minutes afterwards
taken rth 70 bo
was properly cared for.
Bishop Seidenbusch has authorized commit
tee to remove the Catholic church building.
shvrt distance below Sank Rapids, to place
in the town of Minden. The work of taking
down the old church and rebuilding it will be
commenced at once. The new building is to
be made handsome and spacious structure,
ample for the accommodates, of the members
of the parish for years to come.
Some excitement was produced in Farming
ton, Dakota county, by the news that the leRis-
lature had passed, and the Governor signed,
quire majority of all the votes cast at an cleo.
ton to establish mo license Not that the
amendment in itself was very serious, but the
opposition was to the change of village charter
without the full and free consent of the resi-
dents of the village.
Hastings Union: While working in the
lower bottoms cutting wood last week, Dennis
McNamara had the misfortune to strike the Ak
into his leg about midway between the ankle
and knee, completely severing the main bone.
He was standing on log chopping it in two
when he lost his balance, and pitching forward
just as the ak descended struck it into his leg,
1t was with difficulty that his attending ply
sician, DIR. Fitch, could convince him that the
bone was in two pieces, SO. clean and painless
was the wound. It will be some months before
Denny will be around.
Luverne Crock county, Herald, Feb IA: Last
Friday while Mr.. s. A. Shivelay. of Kanaranzi
township. was engaged threshing in the adjoin-
ing township of Grand Prairie, Mobiles county,
some part OF his clothing caught in the tumb-
ling rod. Being unable to extricate himself
Mr. Shivelay seized the rod and went round
with it, making about twenty revolutions be-
fore the rod could be uncoupled. He was clad
IN suit of 'sducking,' which was entirely
stripped from him. and his boots, even, were
torn off. He was picked up in an insensible
state, badly bruised, particularly about the
face. and with bad fracture of the right leg
above the knee.
w. McLaren & Co.. boot and shoe manufac-
turers, of Montreal, have assigned. liabilities,