Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Inc Dulldlng Improvements or ferSus
: in 1879 amounted to 1856, 807.
A movement is being made to form fire
department in Marshall, Lyon county.
The total number of marriage licences is
sued in Carver county in 1879 was 107.
The total number of marriage licenses
issued in Dodge county in 1879 is 102.
Bya recent census the population of Fer
gus Falls, Otter Tail county, is found to be
1918.
The De Graft (Big Stone county, Courier
has been sued for libel, damages laid al
$4,000.
Major Whittle and Mr.. McGranahan are
laboring in revival meetings in Rochester
Olmsted county.
A handsome set of pulpit chairs has re-
Gently been added to the furniture of the M.
E. church in Faribault.
Frank Rowley killed q wild cat in Forest
Prairie, Meeker county, last week, which
weighed some forty pounds.
An owl was shot west of Glencoe the other
day which measured four feet eight inches
from tip to tip of its wings.
N. b. Uford, county auditor of Winona
county, has gone to Vermont to attend the
golden wedding OF his parents.
The railroad ticket sales in the depot in
Hastings for the month of December,
amounted to $2,249.9O, decided falling off.
The amount of freight in pounds shipped
from the station at Elk River during the six
months ending Nov. 80, 1879, was 4,s9O,O4O.
Mrs. Mary Zavier, of Hastings, lost her
family horse the other night, by his getting
one of his feet over the halter and choking
to death.
Diphtheria is still raging in the town of
Whitefield, Kandiyohi county. Several chill
dren have died from the disease within the
past week.
Another child of P. Fissette, of Elk River,
died of diphtheria the other day, making
the third child that he has recently lost by
that disease.
A couple of tramps in Owatonna stole
some trifing articles in order to be sent to
Jail during the cold term. They were &c
commodated.
Cody, Kinney and Leary, of Willmar,
threshed 25,O74 bushels of wheat with their
thresher in forty days, without single
breakup or accident.
In Litchfeld, Meeker county, tie other
day, Nels Levonson was thrown from his
vehicle by his frightened team and so in
jured that fatal results are feared.
The team of D. o. Goulet upset his cutter
the other day and threw him out on to
harrow, the teeth of which made seyerel
severe but not dangerous punctures.
Rev. T. G. Northcote, of the Congrega-
tional church in Faribault, plucked from the
Christmas tree a purse containing 500,
placed there for his benefit by some young
people.
| The ladies of Willmar, Kandiyohi county,
gave New Years. leap year ball at Rodlun
& Johns hall. They had fine music and
splendid supper for the "fellers" they had
invited.
| DIR. II. A. Thurber, respected citizen of
Glencoe, and highly esteemed professional,
died on the last Sabbath in December. His
remains were taken to Austinberg, Ohio, for
interment.
New Years day throughout Minnesota
was one of the loveliest imaginable. A
cloudless sky mild temperature, and splendid
sleighing contributed to make it in every
way enjoyable, and thousands improved the
! happy opportunity.
Rochester Record and Union, Jan. 2: DR..
Banks, of Pine Island, was arrested We'd
nesday night by Sheriff White. and brought
to this city yesterday, charged with produc-
ing an abortion on the person of Mrs. Mary
McCarty, wife of Charles McCarty of New
Haven. There are more deyelopments to
follow.
ROME, Jan. 4.-The newspapers to-day
publish letter from Menotte Garibaldi, in
which he also denies the assertion contained
in the pamphlet of Signor Imbreani, that the
ministry were in secret sympathy with the
Italia Irridenta, and had acted from polite
motives in Selling the flag which that body
displayed at the funeral of Gen. Auezzana.
Little Falls Morrison county, Transcript,
Jan. 2: On Monday last John Bench, of
Rich Prairie, an old man over seventy years
of age, killed wild cat near his stable, and
then started to his sons house, about forty
rods distant, to tell him about it. He only
went about half the distance when he gave
out for some unknown cause, and was
found several hours afterwards dead and
frozen.
John McDuffey, who has been missing for
some two weeks, it is feared got lost, or
frozen to death on the prairie. His home is
in Chippewa county, about seventeen miles
southwest from Willmar. He left the latter
place for home, driving lot of cattle which
he had been to Cokato to procure, since
which nothing has been heard from him
parties are out with teams securing the
prairie in search for him.
Hastings Union: On the last Sunday
night in December, some burglars entered
the residence of Rev. Father Halton by the
window and opened his safe, rifiing it of the
snug little sum of $3.50. The burglars must
have the combination, as they seemed to find
no trouble in opening the safe. This is the
second time in two years the good Fathers
residence has been bu-glarized. The sus-
pscted parties have cleared out.
Emanuel Stapf, of Castle Rock, Dakota
county, was induced, the other day, by a
couple of smooth-tongued, seductive chaps,
to sign notes to the amount of $50, who
pretended to be agents for light draft plows.
He will probably be soon called upon to pay
the notes in the hands of an innocent holder,
and will find that he has been swindled to
that amount. Intelligent farmers who take
and read the papers ought to escape all such
swindiers.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. "A man named Boyd,
discharged employe of the Milwaukee post
Office, has forwarded to the postmaster-gen
eral charges against Postmaster Payne and
Assistant Postmaster Fowler, accusing the
former of nepotism and the maintenance OF
sinecures; the latter of having an interest in
the city mail contract. The postmaster says
that Boyd's attorney called upon him and
read him the charges and offered to sup
press them for $40. He states that he re-
jected the attorneys proposition and Al
once forwarded request to the postmaster
general to send special agent to investieat,
the management of the Office.