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

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 Mobiles
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 nice John Renard, resigned.
The l1adepe1adent says the wheat market in
Lltchheld IS kept or cents above market
price, and wheat comes there from twenty to
| thirty miles around.
A workman by the name of Louis MarteI,
employed on the railroad trestle opposite Has
t'ngs' mad the misfortune t." break his leg last
week by heavy timber falling on it.
| There is person living in Big Stone county.
| 80 says common report, whom the physicians
| pronounce a1eper. movement is being made
to have him removed from the county.
N P. Olson went through Litchtield the other
day, on his way from St. Paul to his now loca-
cation at Swede Grove. He says he has coming
the type and other material for a 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 LakeviIle
TO nave q new postmaster appointed to that
place. and the post Office removed to some other
building. A remonstrance is also being circu-
lated, and both papers are receiving 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 tatching it now.
The senior editor is sick, the junior might as
we'll be, the foreman has been confined to lis
bed for six weeks, and the devil never did
| amount to much.
At the Drake school house, Mortified, after
a spelling school, the sleigh containing a num-
Der of young girls was 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: MIR. Gottleib ziegler, of
hay 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 Greek valley.
Worthington Journal: Considerable excite
ment is being manifested at Sioux Falls over
the reported discovery of gold quartz, in Lake
Couuty. loICy-u!c mics 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 Revic,y, Feb. H. One evening last
week, young woman who claims to reside at
Waseca, arrived here via the Winona road. and
applied at hutel in that vicinity for room
with ire. She was told that she could not be
accommodated. She crossed the street to pri-
vate residence and in a few minutes afterwards
was taken sick, and gave birth to child. She
was properly cared for.
Bishop Seidenbusch has authorized commit
tee to remove the Catholic church building,
short 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 q handsome and spacious structure.
ample for the accommodation of the members
OF the parish Tor years to come.
Some excitement was produced in Farming
ton, Dakota county, by the news that the legis-
lature had passed, and the Governor signed, q
bill, amending the village charter SO as to re-
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 a 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 4, difficulty that his attending ply
slclan, DIR. Fitch, could convince him that the
bone was In two pieces, SO clean and painless
was the wound. 1t 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 adioin-a
ing township of Grand Prairie, Mobiles county.
some part Of his clothing caught in the tumbb.
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 uncoupIed. He was clad
in suit of ''ducking." 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 u Co., boot and shoe manufse-
$3.50 O0O 'isief.