Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-30

keep one broker let alone fifty that are striving
to gain their daily bread. Curb $12. As March.
Lard 81. As, and weak. Packers all selling and
they are the ones that pull the string.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The water is very low in Pelican river this
winter.
A mammoth elevator is about to be erect
ed in Duluth.
The other night sixty couples graced the
ballroom at Melrose.
There is soon to be daily mail between
Lac qui Parle and Watson.
Robins are reported to have already put
in an appearance at Duluth.
There were SO marriage licenses issued in
Swift county during the year 1879.
The Duluth harbor was reported still open
last week, 30 that vessels could enter.
A "mush and MILK sociable is advertised
to come off at Melrose, Stearns county.
It is estimated that about one-third of
last years crop of wheat is still in the houses
of the producers.
The village council of Grove City have
ordered street lamps to be set up in different
parts of the town.
Since August LIST the elevators in Willmar,
Kandiyohi county, have taken in $4,000
bushels of wheat.
During the past eight months, GAINESVILLE,
Waseca county, has had $4,000 worth of
property destroyed by fires.
The Pine City Record says John Mexican,
of Win Staples camp, has been arrested for
biting off the ear of Charles Storey.
Last week P. Hanson's residence, mile
and half from Wabashaw, was destroyed
by fire. Contents mostly saved.
1t is reported that wolves are making
troublesome deprecia tons in Nininger,
Dakota county. Hunger makes them bold.
q Martin county is to vote in March on the
proposition to borrow $4,000 to build
county house. The same proposition was
defeated last March.
1t is reported that $4,000 acres of prairie
have been set to trees in Minnesota during
the year 1879. The railroads have set 25O,-
O45 along their lines.
EAT st. Thomas church, in Derrynane
township, Lie Sueur county, in one hour,
$500 was raised and paid to be forwarded to
the furnishing in Ireland.
The chill dren of John Farley, of Wilton,
Waseca county, were playing with edge tools
the other day when by some means the
fingers of his little girl were cut off.
Early in the Springa new NJ. E. church
edifceis to be erected in Jackson, Jackson
county, and new steeple and belfry are to
be placed on the Presbyterian church.
F. Rommell & Bro, furnish meat at 61ac
pound, and D. !. Morrison furnishes
bread at SIC pound to the insane hospital
at Rochester, these being the lowest bidders.
One day last week eighty barrels of flour
were turned out from the LIS Sueur Touring
mills, being the largest amount produced
in any one day since the mill went into oper
alton.
Col. Healy, of Rochester, owns section of
land in Dunbar, Fa1ibault county, and in the
spring designs to divide it into four farms of
16O acres each, and will erect suitable dwell
lings and barns on each.
Many of the local newspapers of the State,
on account of the large advance in the price
of white paper, are raising the subscription
price of their paper from $1.5O to $500 per
annum-a matter of necessity.
Mrs. Mcintosh, whose husband was &C
cidentally killed at Hawk Creek, Renville
county, early in the winter, has received
$1,000 in cash from the Druids, of which
society her husband was member.
Detroit, Backer county, Record: Every
farmer in this section is busy in the woods
cutting wood and ties. The quantity cut
this winter will exceed that of any previous
winter since the settlement of the county.
Grove City, Meeker county, Tribune, Jan.
23rd: Quite q number of children have died
of diphtheria in this neighborhood during the
past week. 1t seems as if there would be
no end to the raging of this dangerous dis
ease.
Three Germans got into dispute and
fight in saloon in Blue Earth City the
other day, resulting lie one of them being
stabbed in the neck with pocket knife.
They were arrested. The belligerent that
welded the knife is in Jail.
Bishop Peck, who has supervision of the
Minnesota conference of the NJ. E. church,
this year, has rendered to Prof. D. E. John,
of the Normal school at Mankato, the pre-
siding eldership of the Winona distritc, made
vacant by the resignation Of Rev. William
Mckinley.
Edwin Clark's store, in Melrose, was
burglarized the other night-but the burglar
was scared away before getting any plumber.
Charles Crumlett was arrested charged with
the crime, and confessed his guilt. He is
about twenty-four years old, and halls from
Sleepy Eye, Brown county.
Brainerd Tribune: A very interesting relic
of olden times in Crow Wing county has
been recently placed in st. Paul's church, in
this city. It is piece of broken bowlder,
upon which is engraved very neatly an In
dian pipe of peace and broken hatchet,
both surmounted by Roman Cross.