Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-26
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Diphtheria is reported to be assuming serious
proportions in and around Princeton.
The storm of Sunday, April 18th, is every
where spoken of throughout the State as very
severe.
EThere is now probability of having new
bridge over the Pomme de Terre, on the Glen
wood road.
Phineos Gage, of Seward Mobiles county,
was so badly burned a short time since, by q
prairie fire, as to cause his death.
A tramp was caught stealing wheat in Gran l..
ite Falls the other night, was tried for the mis-
demeanor and sent up for thirty days.
The total expenditures of the county of Car
yer for all purposes during the last financial
year were Sl4, lag, being decrease over the
previous year at $4OO.
The city council of Owatonna are considering
the building of an addition to the city hall forty
feet long and two stories high-the lower part
to be used lookup"
@. Cogil, living four or five miles from Nor
ris, Stevens county, recently sold 1G0 acres of
improved land for $4,000. This marks the
value of land IN that vicinity.
The other day Peter Anet, aged II, fell bt-
tween his horses and q loaded wagon. The
horses ran, and wheel of the wagon passed
over his bead, causing instant death.
Mrs. Emma Cook, of Caledonia, widow of
the late Judge Cook, received recently $2,OOO
from the Order of United Workmen, the judge,
at the time of his death, being member of
that organization.
Reports of the Sunday darkness, April Is,
continue to come through the local press from
nearly all parts of the State. That day will
hereafter be known in the States history as
'the dark Sunday"
The remains of a man were recently found
in Dora, Otter Tail county, supposed to be
those of German. missing since last Christ
mas. The skull was broken, which leads to
the belief that he may have been foully dealt
with.
At recent school meeting in Crookston in
relation to educational matters, it was decided
to build one school house on the Davis addition
and one in South Crookston. to cost 81 900
each. proposition to build large school
house in the city was voted down.
The Morris, Stevens county, Tribune says:
Game is very plenty in that vicinity, and hunt
ers are bagging quite a number of ducks, geese
and crane. Chickens are reported to be quite
numerous, and should the season be favorable
for Matching, the prospects are hattering for
good sport and an abundance OF game for next
season.
John Reynolds, employed on the Southern
Minnesota railroad met with fatal accident
at Houston, last week. He was coupling cars,
mIbSeO HIS lOOtluS duu ACil uuuCA VIC OoAos AAA'
thigh was so badly crushed that it could not
be set, both legs were broken, and he received
other injuries. He died in few hours after
receiving his terrible injuries.
Little Falls Transcript: Mrs. New, the wife
of man who recently took q claim in the
northwest part of Little Falls township, is said
to be one Of the best wood choppers in that
neighborhood. We are informed that in addi-
tion to doing her house work and taking care
of three small children, she makes eleven rail-
road ties each day. doing all the chopping,
scoring and hewing.
Duluth Ne,Us: The highest price paid for
Duluth real estate since 1872 was given by NJ
Pastoret last week. He has bought from Mr..
John l.. Dodge, for $2,5O0, the twenty-five
feet front on Superior street, where his saloon
now stauds, and will put in good cellar and
solid stone foundation under his present build
ing. No one else would have given this figure
for the property, but Pastoret was determined
to have it.
Long Prairie Todd county, ArguS: One day
last week Mrs. Len Eddy, of Reynolds, went
out to gather some maple sap and left her
6-months old baby sitting in chair at safe
distance. as she thought, from dish pan full
of boiling water which she left standing on
the floor. When she returned, in She rt time,
she found that in some way the child had
tipped over the chair and fallen into the pan of
hot water, and was wallowing in it almost dead
when she entered the house. The child was al
most cooked and suffered but one hour after
being taken from the water, death coming to
its relief