Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-13
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A Swedish Baptist church is to be built III
Wlllmar this season.
In Madelia and vicinity there is quite de-
mand for farms to rent.
s. A. Cooper has been appointed postmaster
at Hope, Wstonwan county.
Seeding is late. generally, throughout the
State, caused by the unfavorable weather.
Winter wheat in the vicinity of LIE Roy,
Mower county, is reported to be all right and
to bid fair for fine crop.
The other morning, N. W. Portech found one
of his valuable cnws dead in his barn. 1t had
been poisoned by some enemy.
At Waseca the other day, valuable horse
belonging to Charles Ward, while being driven.
suddenly springing up, fell to the ground.
project is on foot by the Union society OF
| Elk River to construct church building to
cost So. 900. The plans are not yet entirely
matured.
w H Davy sold six farms last week below
Georgetown, Clay county. The purchasers are
actual settlers and have gone on to put up their
buildings.
John McCue, of GAINESVILLE, Waseca county,
has 168 acres of wheat already sown-and forty
other acres which was up after being nine
days sown.
Litchfield News-Ledger: Henry Ames will
have five or six families of negroes here TINS
summer, most of them to be employed IN his
brick yard.
A Wasecs paper is authority for the state
ment. that during five nights IN the past week,
four men spiked eleven hundred pickerel IN
Lake Elysian.
little daughter of ]. Sullivan, of Lake
CITY, playing with fire in the yard near the
house, had her clothes set on fire and was
severely harmed, but will recover.
Mrs. N. A. Clark, of Morehead, has pur-
chased $l1 900 worth of horses and farm ma
chinery. She will cultivate $50 acres this sea-
son, and break up 100 acres more.
A car load of crockery and stoneware was I'M
loaded at the depot at Delano, Wright Bounty,
the other day, which had come through direct
from Akron, Ohio, without breaking bulk.
1t is reported that dancing parties are being
held at Saltwater for the benefit or the pastor
of church. Whether the reverend ''divine"
also Joins in the light fantastic" is not stated.
Cambridge, Qsanti county, Press, April g.:
Geo. F. Pool, of Harris while hunting duckA
last Sunday had his right arm shot off below
the elbow. He was padding the boat and
some bushes caught the hammer and fired the
gun off.
1t is reported that in Lake Mira, Watonwan
county, buffalo fish have been dying of In
great numbers The shores are strewn with
fine large fish, which have died from some
cause. The bull heads have also died in great
numbers.
The Chaska Valley Herald reports that the
Sioux CITY railroad will ON aud after May lst,
run their express trains via Merriam Junction,
Chaska, Minneapolis to st. Paul, over the Min
neapolis St. Louis track. and will next year
build their own road bed via Chaska.
During the absence'of the family the other
day the house of L. II. Johnson, of Mantor-
vile, took fire from stove pipe. daughter
II wears old was alone at home. BY the most
brave, energetic and persistent efforts she sue
ceeded in Esubduing the flames and saved the
barn.
A drunken tramp in the lookup at Owa-
tonna the other night, set fire to the floor, but
not relishing being roasted alive extinguished
the fire before it got dangerous Roadway. He
then broke up his bunk, and with the timber
thus obtained, broke hole through the roof
and escaped.
The scandal in Lake City about the wife of
a merchant and his brother wherein suit was
commenced on charge of adultery has been
compromised, and the injured husband" has
agreed to drop the suit and live with his erring
wife. The thigh toned" parties have lost some
of their plumage in the transaction.
Thomas Brundette of Green Point, pro-
cured marriage license, the other day, au-
thorizing his union with Miss Flora Schunard,
who lives in Little Texas, in the town of
Swan River. He then purchased two kegs of
beer with which to celebrate the glad event
On arriving at the house of Miss Schunard he
learned to his dismsy that she would not mar
ry him. The minister went home, but the
beer was dispensed to the assembled company
Brundette Smiling a sickly smile" the while