Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.

| Powers saloon at Jackson was closed by
| creditors last week.
Benson, Swift county, has no preacher, but
| then it has seven saloons.
81. McGrew, of GAINESVILLE, has made an as
! signment for the benefit of creditors
! The revival meetings at Luverne, Rock county,
are still in progress and with increasing in
| terest.
| The people Of Jackson are seeking legislation
| to enable them to issuse bonds to build
bridge.
| Petitions are in circulation for the removal of
the county seat of Mower county, from Austin
to Ramsey.
The villagr council of Princeton, Mile Laos
county. have gxed the amount OF license for
selling liquor at $3.50
There is unusual amount Of sickness in
St. Peter and vicinity, and the same is true Of
many other localities in the State.
William B. Mohler, of Reeds Landing, dry
goods merchant, made an assignment last week.
Hard times and to much credit the cause.
During the year of 1875 over $57, 900 was ex-
pended in Waseca, in the erection OF new build
ings. in Improvements by way of additions,
etc.
The Misses Banning, of St. Paul, gave an en-
tertainment (the second of the library course)
at Sank Centre, Stearns county, on the evening
of Feb. -.
Glenwood next summer, all but $4,000 of
which will be used in constructing the new
Court horse.
! Horace Founce, of Blue Earth, commenced
threshing his grain crop of 1878 last week.
Rather Late in the falr for an enterprising
farmer to be threshing.
| The Northern Pacific land department has
just issued 40, 600 copies of special edition OF
the Fargo 1inlrS devoted to the interests of
i'm immigration to northern Minnesota and Da-
kota
William e. Barber, of Wrightstown, Wadena
county, who came from the southern part Of the
State last November, has built good log house
| and cleared six acres of heavy timbered land
during the month.
Alexandria, douglas county, Post: The
| frost has penetrated so deep that grading Oh the
| railroad west will not be commenced till spring,
when it will be pushed with the utmost possible
| vigor. Evansville will see the locomotive next
4th Of July.
| The fatal diphtheria still continues it's
ravages in the southeast part of Moe, Douglas
county. a few mornings since a child Of Mr..
| Elofson's died The disease is IN almost every
| house. The district school is suspended.
There have already been four deaths in the
| neighborhoOd.
| Currie Pioneer, Feb. 6: On Saturday last the
| residence of s. e. Johnson, in Lime Lake. was
! destroyed by fire with all its contents. Mr.
| and Mrs. Johnson were absent from the house,
the latter only temporarily, when it supposed
| the fire originated from sparks from hay which
| they were using for fuel.
The LeSueur Sentinel gives the shipments of
| pork from all the stations in that county for
| the present season, amounting in the aggre-
| gate to 1882, 249 lbs. OF this amount LIE
| Sueur shipped the most, TBS, 1873 lbs, and Wa
! terville next, 100000 lbs. l.. z. Rogers shipped
$4,000 lbs. in one week.
Hl,o off,
st. James, Watonwan county, is being agit-
ated somewhat. In reference to this the st.
James Journal says: A Touring mill in st.
| James would enable farmers to get from four
to six cents per bushel more for their wheat
than they now receive. At the Rapidan mills
this is the case, the owners paying an advance
Of several cents over and above the price offered
by shippers.
Waseca Herald, Feb. Z: The south bound
freight the M. & St. L. road, due here at 80
| P. NJ, was thrown from thetrack Tuesday even
| ing about one mile north of town. The acct
| dent was caused by one of the trucks breaking
! and letting the car down. Seven cars were
ditched but no one hurt. The train was loaded
with -four from the Minneapolis mills, most of
which was billed for Liverpool and London.
Some of the barrels came out headless yet but
| very little flour was destroyed.
| The Mankato ReUie,o says the Linseed Oil
company is issuing large quantities Of flax
seed to farmers in this county for seeding.
| The impression is quite general that the offer
made by the company is a good one, that flax
being as sure CROP with good culture as
wheat, larger return can be realized. This
thing is CERTAIN the farmer knows before hand
just what he IL to receive for his crop, and runs
no chance of high or low prices, and can govern
himself accordingly.
Luverne (Rock county, Herald: Mr., J, A.
| Frank, who, for the past two years has been
| under medical treatment for a feeling OF
| weight on the brain and throbbing in the ears
| causing partial deafness and a continued suf-
fering, was relieved and cured at once by an
operation Of one of our village physicians,
who, by the use of proper ear instruments, dis
covered the cavity to be filed with compact
secretion, hardened to the consistency of leath-
er and enclosing a kernel of wheat lying against
| the drum of the ear, which Mr. Frank thinks
has been in the ear six years, as he had oc-
casional spells Of deafness during that time.
January 18th, at the new church in Red
Lake, Rev. ]. A. Gilfllan Qndian), assisted
by Rev. John Coleman, united in marriage
Rev. Mark Hart, of the Red Lake mission,
to the blooming daughter of Leading
Feather, one of the Indian chiefs. Rev.
George Smith acted as ''best man, and the
charming Angelique, daughter of Chief
Little Thunder, one of the pupils of the
boarding school, was brides maid.
Three miles from Eyota the other day
reuben Hamlet received dangerous injuries
by fall from railroad hand car. Beside
other injuries one of his hands was smashed.