Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Albert Lea raised SeS for the Irish relief
fund.
Prairie fires were raging in Lincolns county
last week.
Logs commenced running in Beef Slough
las week.
Work on the stone bridge at Jordan, Scott
county, is delayed by high water.
The Sleepy Eye Wide Awake fiessthel flag OF
James G. Blaine for President.
A handsome court house building ca by 50
feet. is being erected in st. Peter.
The steamer is about ready for regular trips
on Fountain Lake, Freeborn county.
The German Methodists are holding g series
of religious revival meetings in Albert Lea.
A number of new dwelling houses ara to be
built at Marshall Lyon county, the present
season.
Thirty-five thousond railroad ties have been
unloaded at Glencoe to be used in constructing
branch road.
Complaints are made of frequent insults to
women and girls on the streets of st. Peter by
graceless rowdy scoundrels.
1t is reported Mr.. Parnell secured 5000 acres
of land near Graceville, Big Stone conaty, for
a colony of Irish emigrants K
The work on the new court house at Litch-
field, Meeker county, has been commenced, and
the excavation is nearly completed.
Several families, numbering in al thirty
persons, have recently arrived in Montrose,
Wright county. from West Virginia
There was lively time among saw mill men
the other day at Hastings, caused by broken
boom of logs floating down the river.
1t is reported that narrow gauge railroad
will be built from Montgomery LIE Sao.E couu-
ty, to LIE Sueur Centre the present year.
The first steamboat of the season arrived at
the levee in Hastings on Monday, April 5. 1t
was a small craft from the other side of Lake
Pepin.
The house of August Miller, a German, of
Elba, Winona county, was destroyed by fire,
the other night neat and new house; insur-
ance $3.50.
1t is reported that prominent young lady
of Mankato recently sent to an eastern city to
purchase copy of the Koran, with view of
embracing the Mohommedan faith.
The Advocate says Jordan, Scott county, is
enjoying an unprecedented boom in real estate,
and that there will be more good buildings put
up there this season than for some years be-
fore.
Mr.. s. Fraquer, of Hermann, Grant county,re-
Gently had about l50 bushels of oats stolen
from his granary, short distance north of
town. No clue to the thieves has been found
and the case is being worked up.
A two year old daughter of James Gebbie
came near losing her life recently by eating
crackers on which poison had been spread to
kill rats. A timely discovery and prompt ac-
tion by a physician saved the life of the child.
Miss NJ. Mead, a teacher in the public schools
in Red Wing, had SO pupils in her school room,
when it dawned upon the minds of the school
board that it was time to divide, and another
room was rented.
Fire in the roof of small frame house in
Red Wing, the other day, brought out the whole
fire department into the mud, but before the
engine could reach the scene of confagration,
! the bucket brigade had squelched the flames.
On late afternoon a drunken man at Sauk
Rapids, depot, attempted to board a moving
freight train, and fell between the platform of
the depot and the cars, and escaped uninjured.
If he had been sober and not helplessly drunk,
he doubtless would have been killed.
The publisher of the Advance at Red Wing,
has bought lot on Bush street and will pro-
ceed at once to erect 'the Advance Block. -
fitted up for complete printing and publish
ing house in every particular. The Advance is
evidently on the upgrade and is well worthy
of its growing business.
David Burton, of Eureka, Dakota county,
| caught two large timber wolves in a trap the
other night and took their heads to Hastings,
the county seat, to get the bounty. During
the winter Mr.. Burton has caught seven foxes,
six polecats and badger. A mixed assort-
ment.
Last week, Mrs. N. B. Langdon, residing on
what is known as the Langdon farm, some
seven miles distant from Marshall, Lyon
county, committed suicide by the use of chic
roform. She had not lived happily with her
husband. and during the last week is reported
to have been in bad state of mind.
In Wheeling, Rice county, last week, Mr..
Boaldar had loaded his gun and placed it in the
corner of room while he went to get nail on
which to hang the gun. The gun fell and was
discharged, the ball passing through deor
and into the heart of his daughter in an ad-
joining room, producing death almost in
stantly.
The Hermann Herald gives an account of the
drowning of fine span of horses the other day.
belonging to E. s. Beck, of Browns valley,
while endeavoring to ford the twelve mile
creek. The high water had carried away the
bridge, and the horses sank down into deep
water and were unable to help themselves.
Another team is reported to have been drowned
in the same locality the next day.
Church Indebtedness in Faribault is being
rapidly liquidated. On Easter day, contribq-
tions were received at the cathedral of Our
Merciful Savior to the amount of $52S. "a, of
which $3.50 was applied to the extinction of
the organ debt, and Sl8S.24 to missions and
other purposes. The parish of the Good Shep-
herd, which was in debt five years ago to the
amount of $1,000, is now entirely free from
debt.
Lake City is Just now exercised with scan-
dal of considerable village proportions. The
parties are a leading merchant, his wife and
brother-all high-toned, but the two latter will
probably be less 'tony' in the future than in
the past. The wife is charged with having
committed theft, and was caught in the act by
her 13-year old son, and on being confronted
by the injured husband, both the guilty parties
confessed the crime.