Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
The new bank building at Pipestone is
nearly completed.
Farmers in Dakota county have nearly
finished their fall blowing.
A ''lock-up'' is being CONSTRUCTED at Or
tonville for the accommodation of law
breakers.
Miss Mary Daniels. of Belvidere. Goodhue
county, aged 101 years and six months, died
last week. y-..
A Granite Falls newspaper deems it its
duty to warn the people that diphtheria is
raging in that town.
A SO, 900 two-s ory brick Catholic school
house is to be built in Chaska, opposite to
the Catholic church.
It is announced in various localities in the
State that farmers are holding back their
wheat for higher prices. '............ 49,.
Fargo has population of only about e.
600, and yet a venturesome printer proposes
to start daily paper there.
George Bixby, son of John Bixby, of Au-
rora, Steele county, had one of his feet badly
injured in a threshing machine the other
day. ...''...-.-
The Grant county elevator, remarks the
Herman Heral1, has handled 10000 bushels
of wheat during the month it has been in
operation.
On an early morning lately barking dog
frightened thieves from the granery OF
Michael Senskie, who resides about three
miles from Waseca.
The church of the Guardian Angels in
Hastings is to have new bell, to weigh l.
500 pounds and to cost 5000. It is expected
to be put in use about the first week in d.
cember.
-Four boys in Hastings were arrested the
other night for attempting to steal key of
beer, and each fined IS aud costs. Tires of
them paid the fine, and the fourth was sent
to Jail for ten days. e.
The Alexandria Post say DIR. Vivian, as
sisted by DR.. Denniston, performed very
delicate operation the other day on young
child by the excision from the forehead Of
an unsightly birth mark.
young woman at Little Falls, Morrison
county. on complaint of discarded lover,
was convicted of larceny. On the expiration
Of her term of Imprisonment she was mar
ried to her other lover before leaving the
Jail.
The other night the team of Hon. M. S.
Wilkinson, of Wells Faribault county, was
stolen. Three days afterwards the team was
recovered in the town of Hayward, Free
born county, having been abandoned by the
thief or thieves.
The amount of money discussed in Steele
county, in the month of October, for the
support of schools, is $6,195 SO, of which
$3,36l.56 is from the State, $73715 from
the one-mill tax and $2O9717 from tax
raised by the school districts.
DR.; Berry. of New Ulm, attributes the pre-
valence of diphtheria in that place to back
alleys literally loaded with filth, decayed
vegetable matter, pig pens that have not
been cleaned for months, and privies that
have not been disinfected for years.
Last week 0. X. Chance was tried at Buff
falo, Wright county, for shooting Miss
Hitter at Monticello. He was found guilty
and sentenced to pay fine of $3.50, or be
imprisoned in the county Jail one year. He
paid the fine and was discharged.
Renvi)le Times: Several nights since.
while returning home from Hector. Matthias
Johnsons team ran away, throwing Mr.. J
out into slough, where he remained all
night. The team ran into an open cellar,
breaking the neck of one of the horses.
Nathan Dibble, of Cannon Falls, while
cleaning loaded revolver the other day, &C
cldentally discharged it. The ball struck
him in the log five inches above the knee,
and following tho bone down came out five
inches below the knee; painful but not
dangerous wound.
DR.. G. M. Allsturff, of LIE Roy, Mower
county, was thrown from a wagon the other
day, by run awayteam, and had two ribs
aud a collar boue broken. He was taken up
for dead and lay in all unconscious condition
for two hours. It is now thought he will
recover.
Last week, as Sherman Martin, of Red
wood Falls, was moving posts from the
ground, one of them was pulled out with
such sudden force that be was unable to get
out of the way, and it struck him on the side
of the head, knocking him insensible, caus-
ing severe injury but not fatal.
At Seward, MOBILES county, the other day
Mr.. Stiles, while working beside his wagon
loaded with lumber, was thrown down by
his horses starting and the wheels passed
over his body, breaking two ribs, dislocating
his right shoulder and breaking an arm in
two places. The injured man will recover
Jacob Minnick, of Cannon Falls, while
chopping the other day, caught his ak in a
clothes line, causing it to strike his left foot,
cutting fearful cash in the instep. 1t cut
off part Of the bone and severed an artery,
causing the loss of a great deal of blood. A
physician dressed the wound and he is doing
we'll.