Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

| A burglar proof safe has been put into
the bank at Delano.
The ice on Albert Lea Lake is strong
enough to bear up teams.
| Large quantities of venison are being
shipped from Tsylors Falls.
| The Willmar railroad round house was
destroyed by fire the other day.
The Diamond Touring mill of Owatonna
has shut down for boiler repairs.
Over $500 was the net profits of the Cath
olic festival in -Anoka on Thanksgiving
evening.
| Telegraphic communication with the out
side world was established at Taylors Falls
| asst week.
The Cannon Falls Beacon, of December 8,
says the diphtheria has entirely disappeared
| from that place.
Rev. Mr.. Joss slipped and fell on the ice
at Northfeld the other day, and severely
sprained an ankle.
The young people of Howard Lake,
Wright county, have organized social club,
to meet once week.
The diphtheria again prevails at Beaver
Falls, Renville county, and vicinity. A
number of deaths are reported.
A.. j. McInervy, of DeGraff, had fine
$175 horse die the other day in thirty min
utes after showing scgns of sickness.
The golden wedding of Nj. and Mrs. P.
b. Basford, of Austin, was pleasantly cele-
brated on the evening of November 90 by q
surprise party.
"The Swift County Observer" is the name
of a new paper just issued at DeGraff. 1t is
handsomely printed, and is mildly Demo-
cratic politically.
George Dennison, of Maple Lake, Wright
county, killed an immense otter the other
day. 1t measured four feet two inches in
length. The fur was beautiful.
The slaughter of deer in Minnesota is said
to be great this season. Many hunters carry
off only the hind quarters and the hide, leav-
ing the fore quarters in the woods.
Warner Godfrey, one of the pion esrs of
Maple Lake, Wright county, killed fine
deer the other day, and had an encouraging
prospect of slaughtering many more.
1t is reported that new paper is soon to
be started in Melrose, in place of the Record,
recently removed to Sank Center. This
will mako six papers in Stearns county.
MIR. Mosher, of Maine, Otter Tail county,
the other day shot William Paddock, mis-
taking him for a deer. Paddock received
an ugly wound in the shoulder, but not a
dangerous one.
One of the Hastings city prisoners was let
out of confinement the other morning to 20
off threshing for the sheriff, and in less than
fifteen minutes became 80 drunk that he had
to be locked up again.
Last week Samuel Mackey, son of Louis
Mackey, of Mound Prairie, Houston county.
accidentally discharged the contents of
Colts navy revolver into his right leg, six
inches above the knee.
1t is stated that navigation on the Missis-
sippi river has closed but twice in twenty
five years as early as it did this year. In
1857 it closed November 19, and III 1875 and
1880 it closed November 20.
The other day fire was discovered under
the roof of the Union Mills,'' on Sauk
River, at st. Cloud, but the discovery was so
timely that the fire was easily extipguished
without doing much damage.
The little Office belonging to and located
near the grain warehouse of Richardson &
Buchanan, in Glencoe, was burned the other
night, and with great difficulty the fire was
prevented from reaching the main build
ing.
Potatoes in large quantities are reported
to have been destroyed by the cold weather
in the town of Ashley, Stearns county. A
number of farmers who have covered their
potatoes with straw in their cellars, found
them badly frozen.
Mrs. Mary A. Cooper, widow of John Coop
er, has been put on the pension roll at So
per month and her daughter Lille M. at So
month, and to draw back pay from Feb. l,
1879, the date of Cooper's decease, from
disease contracted in the army.
The Little Falls Daily Transcript, of
December 2, says: w. w. Baln brought
four bears that he himself had killed to town
to- day, and sold them to P. j. Gessner &
Go. They were a mother and three cubs,
and each was shot in the head with breech
loading shotgun.
Little Falls Daily Transcript: Peter
Roy, who has been III the eastern part of the
county buying venlson from the Indians,
says that the Indians are killing greater
| number of deer this year than usual. Deer
are not more plenty than they have been in
former years, but the Indians are better
armed.
Z. Henry s. Phillips, the Beloit telegraph
operator, who stole at one time $3.50, and at
another $115 from the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railway Office, has been sentenced
to two years in the State prison for the first
offence, and two years for the second, the
last sentence to commence at the expiration
of the first.
Eau Claire Press: Copper has been dis
covered in large quantities at the mouth of
Cotty brook in Douglass county, in town 43,
| 1o,,l IL L. L..
Dam company and Isaac Staples. 1t is said
to be very rich, and Mr.. Staples has some
men at work opening mine, and has taken
some specimens to Milwaukee to be assayed.
If it comes up to expectations he will at once
| form company and 90 right to work.