Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.

since 1856, died recently.
The first raft passed through the railroad
bridge at Winona April 9th.
The population of GAINESVILLE, Waseca
county, is claimed to be 1920.
The Iberia, Brown county, school house,
recently destroyed by fire, is to be rebuilt.
The Episcopal church edifce at Shakopee
is to be enlarged and another tier of seats
| added.
Diphtheria is raging in Oakland, Mower
county. -Four cases are reported in one
ia mily.
Tramps abound in Mankato and in the
villages and towns generally throughout the
State.
Farmers in lie Sueur county have about
completed theft seeding, Notwithstanding the
late hard freeze.
The Austin papers of April 10 report wild
geese still flying in large numbers in north
westerly direction.
The citizens of Rushford, Fillmore coun-
ty, at tee late election decided in favor OF
license by 90 majority.
Spring Valley having tried "no license
for two yeats, has this year voted 'license"
by nearly four to one.
A new and larger bell has been purchased
for the steeple Of the Episcopal church in
Litchfeld, Meeker county.
Farmers in LIE Seur county report their
seeding about all done. The ground has
been in excellent condition.
A. DeLacy Wood is about to start new
paper at Breckenridge, Wilkin county, to be.
called the Northeastern Press.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. q. Black, of Fergus
Falls, have suffered another severe bereave-
ment in the death of a second child.
The cheese factory in Winnebago City,
Faribault county, pays ninety cents hundred
for milk during the month of April.
license to sell liquor in the village of
Candy, Brown county, costs 5000. Three
licenses have already been taken out.
Nineteen insane patients at st. Peter, be-
longing to Dakota, have recently been re-
moved to the insane asylum at Yankton.
A new bell has been put in the tower of
the school house at Herman-weight 200
pounds-cost $62, a gift from Gen. T. 81.
| Barrett.
Jordan Adoocute: The walls of the new
mill are rapidly growing skyward, as large q
force of mon being employed as can be
worked.
Mrs. Catherine Mcintyre, of Clitherall,
Otter Tail county, has been adjudged insane,
and ordered to be taken to the insane asylum
at St. Peter.
| Cannon Falls Beacon: Gardner & Shana-
han lost a horse one day last week by his
pulling back on the halter and throwing him
self in such manner as to break his neck.
Sank Rapids Sentinel: The out look for
Sank Rapids was never more encouraging
than at the present time. Let our business
men prepare for good and prosperous
times.
The following post routes we're established
in Goodhue county by the last Congress:
From Mortified, via Wangs and Stanton, to
Holden; from Zumbrota, via Wanamingo, to
Aspelund.
A. NJ Mueller, who has been absent about
year visiting his old home-Germany, re-
turned to his residence in Faribault last
week. His family accompanied him on his
visit to father-land.
Women attended the polls at the late vii
lage election in GAINESVILLE, Waseca county,
and in considerable numbers voted for mem
bers of the school board. There was 81 ma
jority against license.
man named johnson was found in his
hay NOV in Belle Creek, Goodhue county,
on the morning of April 9th with his throat
cut. There is no doubt that it is a case of
suicide. Cause unknown.
Near Long Prairie, Todd county, two
teams were racing leach wagon containing
three or four men-the horses ran away, the
vehicles were upset, and two of the men
very seriously, probably fatally, injured.
The Mankato Presbytery, embracing in it's
boundaries southwestern Minnesota and
Dakota Territory, and numbering about
1,oI1 ;4o
in Worthington, on the 9Th and 7th of May.
The country papers of the State speak
generally of the present days being very
busily employed everywhere by the farmers
in seeding. Many have already finished, and
others are drawing this branch of their work
to close.
Wabashaw Herald: We are happy to
state that Mrs. C. B. Lewis. from whom a
cancer weighing about three pounds was cut
two weeks since, is so far recovered as to be
about her room, with good prospects of full
recovery.
The postoffice at Litchfeld is entitled to
be taken out of the fourth and placed in the
third class. The receipts during the last
four quarters exceeded $1,000. A third
class postofice entities the postmaster to a
salary of $1,000.
Worthington Journal, April 10: A lively
prairie fire ragged near town last Tuesday.
On the Drake farm q small barn, 14O bushels
of oats and new crossing pillow we're burned.
The fire was caused by throwing ashes from
the stove on some rubbish.
Some careless shooter of ducks on Little
Cannon bottoms sent bullet whizzing over
| the head of George Mckenzie, who was
standing in his door yard, and passed through
the side of his house, and dropped on the
floor of one of the rooms.
A small house owned and occupied by
Gustof johnson, in st. Peter, was destroyed
by fire last week. The first they knew of
the fire was when it had burned through the
ceiling. Mr.. Johnson's mother was some
what burned before making her escape.
The other day as Mrs. o. F. Hayes, of
Hastings, returned home from buggy ride
she discovered the wood shed on fire. The
timely discovery prevented destructive
conhagration. An incendiary set the fire.
A tramp who was at the house in the morn
ing is suspected.
New Ulm Reuieu: The Winona & St.
Peter railroad is taxed to its utmost capacity
in moving the freight destined for stations
along their road. Every regular has all the
cars attached that the engine can possibly
pull. and still the company is compelled to
run from one to two extra trains each day.
The Methodist church in GAINESVILLE, Wa
SEGA county, narrowly escaped destruction by
fire last week. Some evil disposed person
had obstructed the air passages to the furnace
beneath the floor, thereby combining the heat,
which was so intense as to set the floor on
fire. timely discovery prevented cOnf1a.