Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.


The auditor of Steele county paid $50 the,
other day, for wolf scalps.
The spring trade at Morris, Stevens county,
is reported to be unusually brisk.
Tom Anderson, of Aurora, Steele county,
was fined $16 and costs for whipping his
wife.
A son of j. Graham, of Olmsted, had a
leg broken tho other day by the kick of a
horse.
A petition is being circulated asking for
the location of Norwegian college at Mon
tevideo.
There has been one death in Falda, Mobiles
county, recently, from scarlet fever-a child
of W. w. Casper.
Harry Bartlett and man named Good :
father were drowned in Lake Benton, near
Washburn, Hennepin county. Dies
A drove of $50 young cattle passed
through Mapleton the other day to pasture
on the point beyond Blue Earth City.
Thomas Hellenger, of Trout Brook Valley,
Wabashaw county, had his neck broken the
other day by being thrown from wagon,
A boy of eight years old, the other day
caught pickerel out of the mill pond in
Mantoryille that weighed eleven pounds
The railroad Car shops at Hokah are to be
removed to Milwaukee. This will be se-
we're blow to the business interests of the
town. 5 l.s
Morris McEligott, living few miles
from Rochester, by the kick of horse had
bad wound made in the face and a law
bone broke. i@- 8 aur
Last week the depot at Heron Lake, Jack
son county, was struck by lightning aud
burned with all its contents, books, tickets.
freight. etc.
Would it not be better to sink the old
world nationality in the nationality of the
new, and become American citizens in fact
as well as in name?
During severe storm one night last week
in Watonwan county, house was blown to
atoms, the wife killed, and the husband bare
ly escaped death.
son of DR.. E. j. Davis, of Mankato was
poisoned the other day by eating the roots
of the rhubarb pie-plant. By prompt reme-
dies his life was saved.
In Cambria, Blue Earth county. the othe
day, brother got mad at his widowed sis
ter and beat her In most inhuman man
ner. Base man! Excellent brother!
The indications of favorable wheat har-
vest were never more favorable than now,
bat experience teaches that there is many
a slip between seeding and harvest.
The Catholic cemetery of Rushford, Fill
more county, was consecrated on Thursday
of last week. A large number of persons
from both town and country were present.
Next Monday the 18th, will be the sixty-
sixth anniversary of the national independence
of Norway. Our citizens of Norsk descent
should celebrate the day.-Hardings (Lanes-
boro) Herald.
Some excitment was produced in Morris
the other day by the report that man was
lying dead near the grove at the lake. The
marshal repaired at once to the spot, and
sure enough, he found a man there lying
dead-drunk.
Joseph Morris, an old settler of Foster
township, Faribault county, died last week
of cancer in the stomach, aged 60 years. He
was genuine Frenchman with all the vivao-
lty that characterizes that race.
Isaacs Stewart, formerly of Rochester, we'll
known as former conductor on the Winona
& st. Peter road, was seriously injured at st.
james, on the Sioux City road, few days
coal. 1t is feared his injuries are fatal.
A little son of John Schultz, of Hokah,
was drowned in e cistern the other day.
Some half dozen cases of children being
drowned in cisterns at different places have
baen chronicled by Minnesota local papers
within the last ten days.
Window Reporter: Last Saturday, while
the gravel train hands were at work shovel
ing gravel from the pit on the hill, the bank
caved in on them, but fortunately only one
was hurt, Michael Destl, who came out with
broken leg, but under DR.. Greene's care is
fast recovering
Rochester Record and Union: A lady of
this city, who has been widow for dozen
years past, has lately received several hnn-
dred dollars for her interest in farm that
her husband lost over twenty years ago on a
mortgage, given for pair of old chooses -
but which she refused to sign. By law one
third of that farm was hers until she sold it
to the owner o. her husbands interest few
days ago.
Litchield News-Ledger Messrs. Gun
ningham & Hankey, of st. Paul, have with
In the past two or three weeks bought 400
head drove of steers in this and Stearns
counties, of which 100 were delivered in this
place last Monday. Part of the drove are
destined for st. Paul, part for Iowa and part
for some agency west of here. 1t beats all
what an amount of stock goes out of this
county each year. At an average of SIG
per head it enriches Meeker county to the
tune of about $4,000. Who says stock
raising doean't nav2