Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

There were Al births, aud II deaths in Albert
Lea, in 1873
There is talk of rebuilding the stone mill
lately burned at Dundas.
Mower county is taxed $lO4, 1901 for all
purposes. Freeborn county $S3,978.42.
The sleghing is now excellent on all the
avenues leading into st. Charles, Winona coun-
ty.
Mrs. Chambers, of Mankato, administered
iodine to her little boy, by mistake for cordial
by the prompt service of physician the little
fellows life was saved.
The natural increase and decrease in the
population of the town of franklin during the
year of 1878 as reported to the town clerk,
sums up as follows: Births, So; deaths, IA.
The improvements in Granite Falls, for the
year 1878, in repairs, and in the erection of
dwellings,, stores, hotels, warehouses. elevators,
mills barns, etc., aggregate an expenditure Of
| $lL9, 939.
The deaths and births in st. Charles, Wnona
county, make the following result: Deaths
1873, II; 1874, Al; 1875. Is; 1876 II; 1877. II:
| 1873, IL. Births-l873, 81; 1872 81; 1875, 20;
1876, 81; 1877, IS; 1878, 81.
| At the farmers anti brass kettle meeting at
| Litchfeld on the 4th inst. an enthusiastic
| farmer said of '.the wheat ring that 1.-THE
devil would kick them out of the nethermost
| recesses of hell ON the ground of total deprav-
| ity.'
Delano, Wright county, Eagle: The taxable
valuation IF real estate in the village of Delano
for 1878, is $50, 1873. This does not include any
personal property. The total taxable valuation
real aud personal, in the town of Franklin, in
| Guiding the village of Delano, is 1922, ISL.
The Standard makes the following exhibit
for Albert Lea, for the year of 1878: Total
value of building Improvements, $99, GA;
wheat shipped (bushels), $50, 900; total shipped
from. the county l,OJO,l4O bushels. And
a big increase of marriages, while divorces
only tally five. Marriage licenses issued
l72.
Mr.. j. F. Cook, well known as one of the
Ramsey the day after New Years became SO
thoroughly chilled as to produce partial
paralysis and the tendency has been to paralysis
ever since. Much Of the time he has been
partially unconscious, not realizing his condi-
tion.
Faribault Democrat: Pork is coming in
freely and brings $3.50. Phil Conner, of Deer
field, one the most extensive farmers in this
part of the country, brought into market on
Friday last, twenty hogs, the aggregate weight
OF which was eleven Thousand two hundred and
| ninety pounds, or an average of 4l8 pounds to
the hog.
Brainerd Tribune: William Dean, of Brainerd.
was severely injured at his logging camp on
Rabbit river. He was engag! d in loading logs
ON sled with yoke Of oxen when the Chain
broke, owing undoubtedly to the severe cold
weather, one end of it striking him on TIP of
| the head. He instinctively threw up his hands
to ward off the blow, and in so doing knocked
his hat off SO that the chain struck his bare
head, cutting deep cash and knocking him
senseless.
Mankato Union: A Young German who was
engaged in learning the milling business in
OK Rapids mill in Blue Earth county met
with narrow escnpe of losing his life last
week, ling caught by the skirt of b 8 coat,
while oiing some machinery the pinion,
twisting him up backwards, and in his efforts
to escape, a thumb and several fingers were
torn off and one shoulder dlsloca,ed His
clothes clogged the machinery, throwing the
plnlon out Of gear, or he would have been torn
to pieces.
Mankato Union, Jan. 10: Last Saturday we
received the sad intelligence of the death of
Wlthher p rents in Cambria, Blue Earth coun-
ty. She had came down to Judson the previous
week to attend, as bridesmaid. at the wedding
of MIR. Richard Wigley's oldest daughter.
Having scarcely recovered from an attack of
scarlet fever, the atmosphere of Judson thor
oughly tainted with diphtheria, SOON made her
victim to that dread disease, after an illness
of one short week.
Litch6eld Independent: During the cold
spell last week l.. .. Spooner tried an expert
ment on preserving his cellar vegetables from |
frost. He simply placed half tub full of
water in the cellar and arranged his apple and
ice formed in the tub to the thickness of three
fourths of an inch while the apples and
potatoes right by were not hurt. The phil |
Osophical explanation of the fact ia that the |
water absorbs the frost that would otherwise |
attack the vegetables.