Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

DR.. D. 3. Horsha, of Owatonns, aged SO
years, is dead.
The Mississippi at st. Cloud was nearly clear
of ice April /.
In numerous localities farmers are COM
mencing their seeding.
The ice in the Mississippi river at Elk river,
moved away March 31st.
W. FL. Kelly has purchased the Park House
property, Owatonna, of John Shea, fer $10,-
600.
Swamps, marshes, and small streams are re-
ported to be full of water in all parts of the
State.
The Willmar, Kandiyohi county, school has
received $409 of the State appropriation for
high school purposes.
Building new houses and Improvement Of
old ones ia reported TO be the order of the day
Ia Elk River this season.
A number of towns are rejoicing in the
amount of $400 recently recovered from the
State for the high schools.
The mild spring weather has quickened into
.-ctivity the tramp nuisance. The vagabonds
are again on their begging, thieving travels.
A 12-year old daughter of G. RUSSELL of Le-
mond, Steele county, carelessly handling .
loaded revolver the other day, shot off one of
her fingers.
The Redwood Gazette says W. 81. Hawk.
clerk of the court, was recently arrested and
held in $500 bail to appear before a legal tri-
bunal on charge of embezzlement.
Paragraphs in substance like the following
from the Willmat Republican-Gazette. appear
in numerous local journals in the State: Every
passenger train west is loaded with people
seeking new homes on the broad and fertile
prairies of Dakota and western Minnesota.
There is room for all, and to spare.
Rochester Record and Union: Last Saturday
DIR. w. A. Allen removed from the arm of MI
81. Rathburn thorn that he had carried
therein over thirty years. 1t had occasioned
Mr.. Rsthburn no trouble until the last year,
when it became very painful. That arm will
be lonesome without its old companion.
The Sunday ''church evening bell" of the
Congregational church in Owatonna is said to
be very injurious to several very sick people in
the vicinity, and even a city ordinance in
recommended to regulate the ringing, as those
in charge seem not to have any sense of pro-
priety IN an emergency of the kind suggested.
A drunken man left Morris, Stevens county,
the other night, for his home, with his team.
but tum6led out of his wagon on the PRAIRIE
but was luckily discovered and cared for by
passers along the road. As the cold suddenly
increased during the night and heavy fall Of
snow occurred he would have persisted before
morning.
The Good Samaritan (EpiscopaI) church
property at Sank Center, was bonded with a
mortgage of $4,000 and interest thereon
amounting to $500. The holder agreed to ac-
cept 81, 500 as payment in full of the indebted
ness if paid by April l. By a vigorous effort
of the church and society the amount was
raised and the mortgage destroyed.
Mrs. Montgomery, of Rochester the other
night heard some one in her woodshed and
knowing that no one had any business there
she suddenly opened the door and fred re-
volver in the darkness. A very large man ran
out and she fred again. and once more as he
was clearing the fence, bat evidently did not
hit the rascal. he left red mitten behind.
which will be returned to him if he will call
for it.
A fellow named Showack was left in charge
of a farm, owned by a nonresident, for the
winter, in the northern part of Stevens county
having on 1t a herd of over forty head of cat
tie. The worse than brute, Though Iaziness
and carelessness, let the cattle actually starve to
death, about twenty or twenty-five head having
died during the winter. The whole herd was
kept In small barn, and, being loose, many
were trampled on and killed. Showack has
left for parts unknown.