Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.


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Nearly a wood famine is reported to exist
N Red Wing.
Coal is said to be cheaper than wood in
Litchheld, 4eekex county.
John Anderson, of Teylors Falls, sold
5000 worth of cattle last week.
Droves Of hogs are being shipped from
Preston, Fillmore county, to Hsstern mar
kets.
Wright's mill at Fergus Falls shut down
last week, and the NEXT day the pond was
frozen over.
Neal Dow, the Prohibition candidate for
President received one vote in lie Sueur
county.
Rev. B. n. Adams, of Ohio, has been en-
gagged to supply the Presbyterian pulpit In
Fergus Falls.
A timely supply of wood reached st. Cloud
the other day when pinching scarcity be-
gan to be felt.
A large portion of the corn crop in Nicol-
let county is reported to bs still out in the
fields unhusked.
The Litchfield Independent, of Nov. 1e,
says snow fell every day last week, and had
reached depth of six inches.
Jadson West of st. Charles, has manu-
factured 800 gallons of amber cane syrup
the past season, Of fair quality.
A workman at Fergus Falls the other day
fell eighteen feet from scaffold and escaped
with only badly sprained ankle.
Rabbits are reported to be plenty in
Chaska, and the sports find lots of fun in
hunting them by moonlight.
All the lakes in Douglas county are report
ed frozen over, and the sans is probably
true of every other lake in the State.
W. Fl. King, of Sharon, Ls Susur county,
marketed three live hogs, last week, whose
aggregate weight was 1894 pounds.
Since Saturday night, November IL, the
night of the hard freeze, the mill pond at
Austin has bsen freely used as skating rink.
coasting the other day, had seven Of her
ribs broken by the sled running against q
tree.
Diphtheria If reported to be prevalent in
many portions of the country around Waba-
shaw, and it has caused two deaths recently
in that place.
The mercury in the thermometer last week
was reported at, and in many places consid-
erably below Eero-early in the season for
SUCH severe cengelation.
It is said but few hogs will be slaughtered
in Nicollet county this year, as farmers can
sell to better advantage on foot, and thereby
save the corn necessary for fattening.
The Crookston Chronicle has noticed
during the past week the arrival of more
emigrants than at any time during the sea-
son. The government land is filling up
very fast.
A 1O-year old son of Frank Meyers, of
Ottawa, Le Sueur county, was badly burned
the other day by flashing powder on stove.
The flesh of the face was roasted and the
eyes shut.
The Register says there never has been q
time in the history of Glencoe when the de-
mand for fuel SO greatly exceeded the sup
ply as it does now.
The steam saw mill at Anoka has shut
down for tha season. It disbursed $1,000
in paying off its employees. It manufactured
over 16, 100000 feet of lumber since the 1st
of January last
Samuel Dunnell has just bought and ship
ped from Nicollet county 200 fine ewes to Mr..
Langdon's Brookield farm in Lyon county,
where he had 700 previously, including some
very fine imported sheep.
jain Henry, 16 years old, son of Michael
Henry, of Hastings, had leg broken the
other day by being thrown from load of
ties by the baking of the team.
Col. ]. L. Drake, of LIE Sueur, last week,
sold over one hundred head of sheep al
1920 head, being unwilling longer to
risk the depredations of dogs and wolves.
Bishop Whipple said in lecture in Ben
| son the other day he had never found an In.
| stance in which the plighted word of an In.
dian had been broken, but that the Indiar
term for white man was Synonymous with
ssliar.''
| On recent evening, A. B. Rich, president
of the Hastings Union Industrial association
Was presented by the directors with hand.
some gold.hsaded cane, as token of theil
esteem for his labors in making the late fail
the grand success it was.
Taylors Falls Journal. Nov. 19s Nothing
has yet been heard from B. j. Saith, and il
is feared that he mistook the road LEADING
to the old steamboat landing for the one t.
the bridge, and in the darkness fell into tn,
river and was drowned. He was So year!
old.
1uo aIuOuNt OI taxes r6CelVoU III OaKOLl
county on all county funds for the year end
ing Ostober 1, 1880, was 1927 7,9s6.62. Amour
received for all purposes during the same
term, $s3,375.5S. Amount of school land
principal from July 1, 1880, to November
18th, 1880, $340; interest $224.S1.
About noon, On Monday, Nov. Is, th
building occupied by the Exchange banl
and express Office, in Wabashaw, was dis
covered to be on fires aud narrowly escapes
total destruction. But the timely discover
and prompt and energetic action saved tn
structure, With damage only to the amour
of $500.
The st. Peter Tribune says: While j. B
Saekett was having case last week he va
called upon to marry couple. He prompt
ly called an adjournment of the case en-
performed the ceremony. BENZ. Rogers wa
grand usher, Sheriff Downs acted as brides
maid and Charley Davis as groomsman. o
course they all saluted the bride. 1t was
brilliant affair.
Lively street Car Ride.
| A damaging accident, and one that Great
ed great CONSERVATION but resulted in n
personal injury, took place on Iglehart stree
about o'clock last night near the junction
of Rico rtraek At tho TINA nauad cor NJ