Daily globe., 1879-04-26
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The prairies are turning green.

The prairies are turning green.
The Moorhead Methodist church edifice is
nearly completed.
The front Of the new hotel ct Lyon, Mar
shall county, is up.
The Shakopee bridge is in fair way to
be soon completed.
Stephen Gardner, of Hastings, is putting
steam power into his mill.
James Lemen, three miles from Hastings,
claims that five wolves have made his farm
their home.
The house of William Moore, near Lake.
vile, was destroyed by fire the other day,
with all its contents.
The public schools at Howard Lake,
Wright county, are very much demoralized
by the presence of measles.
Morris (steyens county, Tribune, April
"a: Early sown grain has started but is not
yet sufficiently high to tint the ground.
A child of Bernhardt Weaver of Lake
Washington, aged about 6 years, fell from a
wood pile the other day and broke an arm.
Frederick Hankey, of Eagle creek, Blue
Earth county, committed suicide, April 22d,
by cutting his throat with razor. He was
81 years old.
New buildings are springing up in every
part of the village of New Ulm, giving evi-
dence of enterprise, thrift and substantial,
healthy growth.
Rev. R. A. Beard, of Oberlin college,
Ohio, has accepted call to the pastorate
| of the Congregational church in Brainerd,
Grow Wing county.
ScarIat fever ia roo,;rr, =, ~. no-roor .o&
tlement of Monticello, Wright county. A
little six year old girl died of it after an i'll
ness of three hours.
| George n. Davis, of Red Wing, fell from
scatfolding on Tuesday afternoon on q
house owned by 81 Bruce, and fractured the
bones of the right forearm.
Owing to somebody q carelessness prairie
fire did considerable damage across the rive1
from Shakopee, few days since. Muct
fencing was burned and two stacks of hay
| L. G. Spooner was appointed county attor
ney pro tenn. at the late term of court il
Kandiyohi county; Arctander, the incum
bent, being temporarily suspended from prac.
tice.
Albert Lea (Freeborn county, Enterprise
April "a: Wheat is up on many a field il
this county, at the present writing, and i
never looked better at this season of tht
year.
Lac qui Parle Independent: A farmer
who lives only few miles from this village
found a skeleton of human being, within
about half mile of his house, one day las
week.
| A few days since three years old son o
William Otto, of st. Cloud, while playing
l n I>,.s0
out on Lake George, fell into the water an
was drowned.
At the late charter elections in Faribaul
Rochester, Winona, LIE Sueur and Kasson
the car didates in favor of license we're elect
ed. These places were carried last year b
the anti-license party.
A town plat of 12O acres on the opposit
side of the Red river from Emerson will b
at once opened. It will be called Wes
Emerson, or Lorne, in honor of the go,
ernor general of Canada.
The Pennington, Dakota county, Pre-
: says: "Much damage has been done to tret
and fences in that neighborhood, from grat
fires. Thoug b often warned, owners
premises are still dangerously careless.''
A small barn owned by David Roth, I
Faribault, was burned the other day. A littl
3 son of MIR. Roth, who is seven years old an
: deaf and dumb, caused the fire by starting
small bonfire near the hay stack.
Recently the barn, house, stables, ha
etc., of Mr.. Widdeman, of Pickerel LAX
Freeborn county, were destroyed by fir
f The wind was blowing gale. The fire
supposed to have caught from sparks fro,
the chimney.
A little child of Erick Peterson in Taylo1
3 Falls recently fell into hog pen, renderin
Q itself insensible by the fall. The hog bit an
chewed the child's limbs in dreadful mar
ner. DR.. Murdock is attending it with hop
of it's recovery.
Seed wheat sown before the cold freeze,
said not to have been seriously affecte
J. Most of the grain on prairie land is abo,
= T. the ground, but rain is much needed. Farm
Y ers declare that the ground was never befo
q so dry at this season of the year.
Red Wing Republican,: Just as Marsh.
!, was about to shoot at glass ball the 9th
= day, some one called out: 1Look over Il
" :, river" He looked and saw flock of sniI
: fired into them and killed thirteen. And
hadn't loaded for snipe, either.
Lac qui Parle Press: Il certainly begi
: to look as if the Hastings & Dakota was g
8 ing to leave Lac qui Parle out in the col
We understand that the survey now bell
D. made is permanent, and if so, the road "
escape us by about five or SIX miles.
- Jos. Pfeifer, of Milford, Brown count
II when working in his garden few days q
- had the misfortune to run q splinter on
: half inch long, into his right eye. He is {
= = der the care of DR.. Berry, who thinks he c
70 save the eye, although the fears the sig
will be somewhat dimmed.
y While William Lauttman, of Lafayet
Nicollet county, was at church Sunday, Ap
# Goth, his stable was burned, in which was
40 reaper, several calves and lot of shee
,6 The fire is supposed to have been caused
sparks from the remains of straw sta
n which had been burned near by.
s, Thirty seven boys and seventeen girls
ceived first communion at early mass at [
e. Church of the Guardian Angels on Sund
April 20, at Hastings. They had been reoe
ut iEg special instructions for this all import,
O. event, at the hands of Father Halton and
r Sisters of st. Joseph, for the last two wee
William johnson, Swede. while at VIC
n in the stone quarry at Frontenac Static
N Washington county, q few days since, {
l. his left hand caught between heavy ir
20 bar and large rock, and was seriously
O. jured. DR.. Hall was called to attend 1
~ case, and found it necessary to amputate Q
he of the fingers.
r Breckenridge Free Press, April "a:
er man named Duncan Mcmillan. from Be
OF ton, Ohio, fell from Conductor Fishers tr.
II Sunday morning near Kerkhevan. As SO
ae as the train could be stopped it was back