Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.


in New Ulm last week.
Tender vegetation was badly injured by frost
on the night of May %.
new Touring mill is being built at Nicollet
station, Nicollet county.
HAY is q scarce article and can't be had for
love or money in Browns Valley.
Last week, the house of Mr. Blackman. Pope
county, was destroyed by fire with all It's con-
tents.
Casper Green, of West Newton. Nicollet
county, was thrown from horse last week, and
had leg broke.
Last week. the house or Mr.. Jewett. situated
two miles from Browns Valley, was destroyed
by fire with all its contents.
Bishop Whipple confirmed fifteen and bap-
tized two persons in the Episcopal church at
Hastings on Sunday evening, May %.
mans skull was found IN Duluth the other
day underneath a house which was being re-
moved and caused considerable comment as to
how it came there.
The county commissioners of Dakota county,
last week. purchased eighty acres of land in the
town of VermilliOu for a poor house farm.
Consideration So, 800.
On Saturday. May "a, three burglaries were
committed in Hastings. Aggregate loss be-
tween eighty or ninety dollars in money and
two or three watches.
Tho Catholic church at Sleepy Eye is to be
ornamented by new altar, which will be I'M
veled aud blessed June I'd, with appropri-
ate solemn ceremonies.
A blacksmith shop, dwelling house and a
barn were destroyed by fire in Benson, Swift
county last week. The town has no fire depart
ment or means of fighting fire.
The other day, Phillip Phillips, residing near
Sleepy Eye, stole dog and was arrested for
the theft. The question is to be raised in
court whether dogs are personal property.
The advertising columns of the Reporter, the
new paper Just issued in Browns Valley
Traverse county. shows the town to be we'll
represented in every branch of business.
LIE Sueur County Netos: The county board of
Sibly county has awarded the county printing
for the next two years to the Pioneer Press.
and the Henderson Independent is justly indig-
nant thereat.
A small infusion of civilization into Sleepy
Eye might be beneficial. When an entertain.
ment was in progress at the hall the other night
some graeless scouujsFels smashed the windows
by throwing stones.
The Browns Valley Reporter is the name of q
new paper just issued at the town of Browns
Valley, Traverse county, MINI. 1t is an earn
est, industrious looking sheet. Republican in
politics. with a hankering after Window as
hrst choice Tor President.
The question of an enlargement of the st..
Peter insane hospital is being agitated. The
present accom- modatiOns are alleged to be
overcrowded. Nearly every day is said to bring
fresh arrival of patients. Immense number
of people seem to BEGGING daft these days.
Paramount Martin county Sentinel: Martin
county will raise more corn and cattle and
less wheat this year than she ever did before
and mark our word, when next years produce
is sold our farmers will find themselves with
more money In their pockets than they have
had for years.
Tyler Qincoln county, Tribune, May 81:
We were at st. Peter Thursday night, and
learned that DIR. Prudden is in jail there. Mai.
Strait. one of the trustees of. the asylum. has
endeavored to have the doctor placed in the
asylum, but as that institution is full, DR..
Bartlett declined to admit him.
Some farmers state that the chinch bugs are
doing damage to wheat in certain localities.
1t is said there is period between the first
appearance of the old bugs in the spring and
the Matching out of the new ones, when they
work in the wheat. That period is confined to
about ten days. After they have propagated
their species they perish.
A party of emigrants going west created q
good deal of disturbance in Hastings ON Sun
day night, and hourished knives and guns in
called out, and finding they were emigrants
they were ordered to move en- or take peep
into the door of the lock- up. They moved. and
the tempest in a tea pot subsidized.
Frederick Raihle, young German girl of
Mankato, aged seventeen years, affected with
ill health, which unseatsd her mind, wandered
away into the woods last week, and was gone
two nights and day, when found. She was
sitting on log, and was very weak from ex-
posure and lack of nourishment, having had
nothing to eat during her absence.
Window Reporter: The farmers of south
western Minnesota have cause to rejoice thus
far this season in the prospect of crop.
Wheat, oats, flax and barley look splendidly.
Copious showers and cool weather have had a
great deal to do with the present happy pros
pect, aud let us ns0ope that the favorable
symptoms for crop viii continue.
Hastings Nelo Fra: n. Marx, formerly of
Hastings has been sued by Martin Collins for
leg by the carelessness of his (Marx's) driver.
The boy also sues for S5, 900. 1t is a hard law,
but the master is responsible for his servant,
and it is quite probable that Mr.. Marx will be
compelled to liquidate to a certain extent.
couple of drunken men, belonging to Rice
ford. Houston county, the other day, found a
rattle snake in the road, and with maud'in
imbeciity undertook to capture it alive. The
snake bit one of the inebriates and as an anti
dote he took long and vigorous pull at the
little brown jug. and the poison in the jug be-
ing the most powerful entirely counteracted the
poison of the snake, and when the frisky in
ebriate sobered up he was entirely cured.