Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

| MINNESOTA NEWS.
The epizootic has struck Crookston.
The Catholic fair at LIE Sueur last week was
| q success.
Three deer were shot in the neighborhood OF
Silver Lake recently.
This ia alledged to be the coolest November
known in Minnesota for many years.
Last week twenty-four carloads of hogs were
shipped from Caledonia, Houston county.
The Herald says about $4,000 bushels of
wheat were marketed in Sleepy Eye Nov. IL.
a. P. Fosters house at Plainview was de-
stroyed by fire the other night. Loss $2,500.
Ice is fifteen inches thick on Lake Pipin at
Frontenac and loaded teams are crossing on
the ice.
The new Opera House at st. Cloud was
opened and dedicated on the evening of
Nov. 2S.
Banks are now refusing to receive silver
coins with hole perforated In them except at
q discount.
It is reported that an immense grist mill and
a first-class hotel are to be built ut Bird Island
next spring.
| The Independent says wood ia now coming
into Litchfeld ct lively rate, and the price has
decreased.
The outside carpenter work on the new Epis-
eopal church edifce at Glencoe is completed
and painted
The Wabashaw mills have shut down in or.
der to put in Oorliss engine, to increase the
capacity of the mill.
| The wolves have killed twenty-five sheep for
Henry Burk and fourteen for Thomas Savin,
in Henderson, Sibley county.
| A young man in the town of Baxter, Lao qui
Parie county, fell on large knife the other
day and received serious injuries.
The young son of Frank Wiokenhausen, of
| Dahlgreen, had a leg broken the other day
while sliding down hill on a bvb sled.
| Peter Morrill,, of Henderson, saw wolf after
| his poultry the other night. He set his trap
and in the morning had his wolfship's fur.
j. T. N. Van der Velde. of Anoka recently
| received a dispatch from Holland announcing
the death of his sister. Annie Van der Velde.
| The Methodists in Glencoe are proposing .
course of lectures this winter to raise funds
| with which to purchase bier for the church.
Four cane syrup manufactures in the vicin-
| ity of st. Charles, Winona county, have pro-
duoed this season 1850 gallons of choice syrup.
| The water power at Albert Lea, owing to the
| low stage of water in Fountain lake, has en-
tirely failed and the grist mill is run exclu-
siveiy by steam.
| City lost their eldest daughter, Mary, aged 8
years, from diphtheria last week. No other
cases are reported.
The NJ. +. Church in Oaledonia is making
vigorous effort to pay off Its DEBT, and is sell
| Ing subscriptions conditioned on the whole
amount being raised.
Bishop Whippl.'s noted horse Bashaw is
dead. He was 29 years old. He had carried
his master over Sc, ,00o miles in the course of
the bishops religious ministrations.
MIR. Phillips, who lives seven miles north of
Crookston, had seventy acres of wheat, all of
which he cut with cradle. His wheat aver
aged twenty-four bushels to the acre.
Navigation closed on the Mississippi river at
Winona Nov. 20, as carly as any year for twen-
ty-four years. with the exception of 1857, when
| the river closed ON the 18th of November.
| Henry Horning, of Freeborh county, was
| thrown from his wagon the other night and Sc
| verely injured. He laid upon the ground
some time and his hands were badly frozen.
Recently aworkman named Pepin was caught
in the betting of the stave factory at Avon,
Stearns county, and thrown violently againss
the machinery, inflicting, it is thought. fatal
injuries.
FL. s. Garrison, of Hayfeld, last week, while
driving across the railroad track at Blooming
Prairie. had his team struck by locomotive.
One horse was killed. and the other badly in
jured. He escaped unhurt.
Andrew Emill, of Sumter, Mcleod county,
has had his hands so badly frozen during our
present cold snap, that he will lose several of
his fingers. He had bsen about three miles
from home after load of wood.
At Pennington, on 8 late Sunday night,
when Rev. f. j. Fassell was in church,
drunken tramp entered his kitchen and greatly
| alarmed the family. Help being obtained he
was walked off to the lookup.
Last August three men and woman hired a
team of Mr.. E. Dodge, of Oanty, Chippewa
county, professedly to go to MonteViedo. But
they fed to parts unknown with the team. He
Gently one of the rascals was arrested at Yank-
ton, Dakota Territory, and the others will soon
be in custody, it is believed.
New Ulm Rcyie,u. Nov. a. Joseph Holm,
residing in the town of Siegel about four miles
from this place, has had terrible visitation
from dipptheria during the pastltWo weeks.
Within that time six of his children have died
from the fearful disease, leaving TO the bereav-
ed parents only one child, a deaf and dumb
boy. This is indeed sad inroad into the
family.
Fergus Falls Journal Nov. 26: The first car
sofa in bulk was shipped to Fergus Falls from
Kalamazoo, Mich, last week. and arrived at
this place Saturday evening. NotwithstanGs
ing the severity of the weather, the fruit was
not injured in the least. The car is specially
prepared for this business, and the success of
bringing apples 750 miles in midwinter is thus
assured.
TLittle Falls Transcript. Nov. az: Yesterday
morning at about o'clock Chris Mantey, iv-
ing in the western part of Little Falls town.
ship, met with very bad accident. He was
| driving his team aad walking behind the sled,
| when shotgun lying in the sled-box was fred
by being Jared, and sent nine buckshot into
Mr.. Mantey's leg, just above the right knee.
Drs. Guernon aud McMannis were immediate
| ly sent for and they found the bone badly
broken, and are doubtful whether they can
| save the leg.
| Marshall (Lyon county, Messenger, Nov. 19:
While VIM. Prechel, of Iosco, Was on his way
home, and when about mile northwest of
town, q tramp seized his horses by the bits and
| told the driver to dismount, which he did.
and was told to surrender up his money. On
| refusing, the robber hit Mr.. P. one blow in
| the mouth but not with sufficient force to
knock him down, and he retaliated with more
than compound Interest. sending the tramp
| robher to grass. Mr.. P. then jumped inio
| his wagon and made good time homewards
| with disabled thumb.
| Recently the house of Mrs. Berry of Eden
| township, Pipestone county, took FIRE in her
| brief absence. On her return the house was
| full of smoke. She rushed in to saye her two
children. She groped her way in. found them
both and took them out and laid them on the
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