Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-19
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A new Catholic school house is being built in
Ohaska.
A large Touring mill is to be built this sea-
son at Cologne, Carver county.
The board of health report the scarlet fever
to be abating in Litchfeld, Meeker county.
Nels Nelson, of New London, Kandiyohi
county, hung himself on Monday, April IL.
Greatly enlarged building improvements
over former years are projected in Owatonna.
A case of illegal voting is pending in Chat
field, Fillmore county, causing some little stir
there.
Miss Carrie Bryant has been appointed clerk
in the Office of the register of deeds in Olmsted
county.
A daughter Of Horace Cook has been ap-
pointed clerk in the postofice at Rochester,
Olmsted county.
The house and its contents of L.. Dibble, of
Hazel Run, Chippewa county, were destroyed
by fire last week.
Alfred Croft young man of Caledonia,
Houston county, has been taken to the insane
asylum at Rochester.
The bridge at the outlet of Rush lake, Otter
Tail county, has been destroyed by fire. 1t
was first class structure.
A fire at Eyota last week destroyed six build
ings and portion of their contents. Loss
about $4,000; no insurance.
A revival of religion in connection with Meth
Odist preaching is reported to be in progress at
Window, Cottonwood county.
An Irishman named Powers, the other day.
knocked down Andrew Johnson a Norwegian,
in Albert Lea, and robbed him OF $54.
The house of Patrick Cassidy, of Hastings,
was burglarized the other night and $68 in
cash stolen from the trunk of his daughter.
1t is understood that the Southern Minnesota
railway company will make Pipestone the end
of division, and locate machine shops there.
The engineer of Owen & Kohlbach's Touring
mill, at AnOka, had one of his hands badly
smashed the other day by the fly wheel of the
engine.
The town of Hastings is reported to be full
of lightning rod men, and farmers are warned
against this incursion of oily tongued de-
ceiYers.
Henry Armenian, of the town of Pine Island,
has joined a company in st. Paul for the
manufacture of distilled liquor, and furnishes
100000.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union,
of Jordon, Scott county, now hold temperance
gospel meetings at the Presbyterian church
every Sabbath afternoon.
Stringent laws against tramps in neighboring
States are driving the tramps in multitudes
into Minnesota, where no adequate laws against
the tramp nuisance exists.
The bee keepers of Hastings report great ia
tality among the swarms last winter, and it is
believed that there is not half as many sWarms
in that locality as last year.
One day last week young man named John
DAILY was bitten by horse, the animal seizing
him by the wrist shook him violently and
broke both bones of the forearm.
Upwards of $4,000 bushels of wheat were
sold from the elevators in Hastings during the
past two weeks to millers in Minneapolis and
Red Wing for immediate delivery.
Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch, bishop of the st.
Cloud diocese, departed last week for Rome, to
attend the annual meeting of the Order of
Benedictines, of which he is member.
A surveying party are now engaged making
preliminary survey for the proposed railroad
from Taylor Falls through Isanti, Mile Laos
and Sherburne counties to Sank Rapids.
James McCabe, of Rochester, the painter, who
fell from Daniels building April 2, died April
Is. It seemed for time he would recover,
but pus formed in the brain and caused his
death.
Last week A. P. Say, of Stockholm, Wright
county, was whiting when his knife slipped
and struck the eye of his 4-year old boy, pene-
trating the eye ball and completely destroying
the sight.
The construction of the Hastings & Saltwater
branch of the Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad,
has been indefinitely postponed owing to the
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directions.
An honest hard-working man, Ogree by
name, living in Litchfeld, Meeker county,
having become insane, has been taken to st.
Peter He has family consisting of wife
and several children.
A tramp asked food and lodging the
other night of J. Starken, of Dahlgreen, Car.
yer county, and his request was granted. As
a reward for the inequalities extended to him,
made good his escape.
Two Polanders Quarreled in Onaska the other
evening. when one knocked the other down and
stabbed him with knife in the breast, about
an inch above the heart. Though dangerously
wounded it is thought he may recover. His
assailant is in Jail but came near being
lynched.
Albert Lea Standard: Judge Farmer says
that when he ordered Riley under arrest during
court in Austin the other day for an attempt to
assault Judge Page, general movement was
made towards the hip pockets by the audience,
and that he has no doubt half of them were
armed. 1t was thought bloody row was i'm
minent for moment.
There was disastrous fire occurred last week
in the older portion of the cemetery at Lake
City, resulting in the destruction of ever
greens, hedges, decorations and blackening
monuments and headstones very badly. The
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kettle of birthstone by q marble cutter who
was setting monument.
Rochester Record and Union A farmer in
this county informs us that he supposed the
chinch bugs had been disposed of by the cold
weather of last winter, but one day this week
he had the curiosity to examine the land to
see. He says he dug In several places and
found the ground literally swarming with the
pests, and that they were as lively as could be.
young man named Henry Harlow. who
left a wealthy home in Cleveland Ohio, four
years ago, on account of q disagreement with
his father was discovered in Minneapolis few
days ago following the occupation of profess
sional tramp. His father had died in the
meantime and the overjoyed mother gladly
sent him money to come home to his
friends and the fortune awaiting him.
Rochester Record and Union: The cold
weather of the last days of March killed all va
vieties of winter wheat, except strip along
fences under hills covered with snow. Prior
to that time the prospect was fine for good
yield. Most of the ground sowed to winter
wheat will be drilled with spring wheat, leav-
ing such winter wheat as may have withstood
the cold to come up with it.
St. Cloud Times: A severe accident happen
ed at the house of Theo. Keepers, of Avon, on
Sunday, the 4th inst, which was all the result
of the parents going to church and leaving five
small children at home. A son of IL years.
found horn containing powder, and in play
ing with it near the stove, fire was communi-
Gated and an explosion followed. The clothing