Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-02
MINNESOTA NEWS.

1t is reported to be in contemplation to
establish bank at Sleepy Eye next spring.
George Tuft, of Plainview, Wabashaw
county, lost his house by fire the other
day. portion of the furniture was
saved.
Mr.. Berry is building steam mill in Mar
shall. He has recently removed his family
to that place, and taken up his permanent
abode there.
A drunken tramp last week spent night
in barn at East Henderson, Sibley county,
and came out in the morning with his feet
badly frozen.
Fred Halverson of Urness, armed with an
axe, gave chase the other day to full
grown otter, and succeeded in capturing and
dispatching him. %.
Blue Earth county has paid for 161 wolf
scalps during the past year. The county
pays bounty of SIS, and the State 50, MAX
ing $S for each scalp.
j. Q. Adams g. Co., of st. Paul, are about
to build at once, at Fergus Falls, horse ele-
vator. This firm are building elevators at
Brandon and Brighton.
A boy in Faribault the other day fell into
we'll fifteen feet deep, while drawing wa ter
and his sister drew him out with rope, not
much damaged by his cold bath.
Augustus Rider, of Miltons, Douglas coun-
ty, was recently very badly injured by the
bursting of gun, which he was carelessly
and indiscretly handling. He will recover.
Dan Berry, of Sleepy Eye, while hunting
on a late Sunday afternoon, had one of his
legs broken in two places. The surgeons
chloroformed him and put his leg in proper
shape.
On Christmas day A. E. Somerville, of
Speepy Eye, was knocked down and run
over by some one driving cutter at break
neck speed. He was much bruised, but for
tunately escaped fatal injury.
A postofice has been established at Kim
dred (Shell river in Wadena county, and
A mail route has also been established be-
tween Kindred and Verndale.
On late morning Thurston Land, living
near Fergus Falls, was found lying by the
road crossing Opperman lake, with life
nearly extinct, guarded by his faithful dog.
He was drunk the night before, and probably
fell from his sleigh, and there he lay in sight
of his house, while his loving wife sat up
during the entire night waiting for his COM
ing. He was taken to his house, but never
revived.
Early on Christmas morning fire broke
out in the attic of the building in Brainerd
owned and occupied by j. M. Hartly, as
fruit and confectionery store. By the most
energetic exertions of the "hre bucket bri-
gade' the fire was confined to the building
where it originated, thus saving the village
from a devastating confederation. The
weather was bitter cold, the thermometer
marking from so to SO degrees below zero.
Several of the brave men who fought the fire
had fingers, ears and toes frozen.
Alexandria Douglas county, Post, Dec.
26: Rev. John Salmon, minister of the
gospel, preached his last sermon in the Bap-
fist church about two weeks ago, on the 85th
anniversary of his birthday. Last Thursday
he walked down town and called in our Of
fee for the last time. He complained of
not feeling very we'll, went home and lay
down, and at 10 o'clock, Sunday evening,
his spirit entered the Saints Rest. For all his
ministerial labors he never asked nor re-
ceived dollar of compensation.
The Little Falls transcript says: Mr..
d. Burial, of Swan River, has had remark
ably good SUCCESS in the honey business
during the past season. Last spring he
had twenty-seven swarms, and during the
season he stored little over twenty-one
hundred pounds of honey, and now has
twenty five swarms in winter quarters. If
Mr.. Burrell had saved all the swarms, he
would now have over seventy; but he
adopted a plan to ge. as much honey as
possible without increasing the number of
swarms.
A man residing in the western part of
Stevens county, and living in his claim
shanty. was awakened the other morning by
hearing noise: he awaited Developments,
and pretty soon of went a roof board from
his house, and board after board kept going
until nearly half the roof was gone. The
owner began to think it was time to inves-
tigate this, to him, cool proceeding, so he
got up and went out, and discovered q
neighbor, busy piling up the lumber on his
sleigh. Two more surprised men probably
never met, but the owner was equal to the
occasion, the thief was compelled to not
only replace each board, but also made
pay for every article that had disappeared
from the premises during the season.