Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.

tin county, are now occupying tuelr how
jchurch edifice.
Over 1000 one cent postage stamps we're
sold at the postotfice in Lake City on st.
Valentines day.
good deal of building for the coming
season is already projected in Long Prairie,
Todd county.
The starting of bank this spring in
Breckenridge, Wilkin county, is in con-
temptation.
Mrs. John F. Norrish, of Hastings, slipped
on an icy sidewalk the other day and broke
one of her arms.
The school house at Marshfeld, Lincoln
county, has been refurnished with patent
desks, slope chairs, etc.
Mrs. Seth Harris, of Hastings, was found
dead in her bed the other morning. Heart
disease the probable cause.
The Courier says the late visit of Bishop
Ireland, at De Graf, Swift county, has given
to the colony new impulse.
The people of st. Peter have presented to
Nicollet county an entire block of land on
which to erect court house.
Peter Rowdy lost his team at Red Wing
the other day by their breaking through the
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Page Brothers, of Anoka, have put in
about 100000 feet of lumber this season,
at their camp on Rum river.
Mrs. s. Mclaughlin, of Plainview, Wa
bashaw county, lady about GO years of age,
has had at attack of diphtheria.
The measles are prevailing extensively in
the eastern part of Meeker county-some
entire families being down with it.
Mrs. M. Nelson, of Lanesboro, had an
arm broken recently. The injuries were
greatly aggravated by her advanced age.
Judge B. Reynolds has purchased the IN
finished residence of Mr.. w. A. Chattenton,
on Oak street, at Crookston, Polk county.
Mrs. John Reiger, of Hastings, slipped and
fell on an icy sidewalk, and striking on her
head fractured her skull. The injury is very
serious.
The Fairmont Sentinel contradicts the re-
port that the Southern Minnesota railroad
has prohibited the running of Sunday trains
on its line.
1t is reported, on what ground is not
stated, that Redwood Falls and New Ulm
land offices are to be consolidated and re-
moved to Tracy.
A four weeks protracted meeting in the M.
E. chapel at Red Wing has resulted in %
new converts, mostly adults, joining the
church on probation.
Burt Shreve stole twenty bushels of wheat
the other day from Edward McMannus of
Green Lake, and is now left to to his refec-
tons in Willmar Jail.
Two lady teachers in Plainview, Waba-
shaw county, have been taken down with
diphtheria, and the schools have consequent
ly been closed for the present.
Rev. @. T. Coen has disposed of his inter-
est in the Rochester Record and Union. A..
W. Blakely & Co. continue the publication of
that able and prosperous journal.
John Roth of Lamberton, Redwood
county, recently lost three children and a
sister in-law by diphtheria. There are
twenty-ons cases reported in town.
Fairmont Sentinel: The bank of Fairmont
property, including bank, hotel, brewery,
farms, etc.. etc., will be knocked down to
the highest bidder on the sixth day. of next
April.
Tho report that the Faribault Wind Mill
company is about to be removed to Mime
apolis, is pronounced by the Democrat to
be premature. The company has formed no
such determination.
The large new furniture factory in Volks-
vile, near Lake Washington, Nicollet
county, was entirely destroyed by fire and
Its contents, early Sunday morning. Loss
between $4,000 and $12.O
Three gentlemen in Lake City have do
| mated building lot on which to erect a
congregational house of worship. The So
ciety has a fund of $4,000 on hand, and
will proceed at once to erect a handsome
edlfce.
William D. McGinty, riding on load of
hay the other day when near Hastings had
his wagon upset, and in the fall had one of
his legs above the ankle badly fractured.
So much SO that he will probably be troubled
with lameness for the remainder of his life.
Two horses of G. II. Wier, of Faribault,
disappeared from their stable few days ago
and were thought to be stolen, but were sub
sequently found four miles away near Prai-
rieville. The absence of halters and the sta
BILE door ajar, made it possible for them to
leave the stable and stride off.
little son of Louis Peterson, of Stock
holm, Wright county, died recently from tie
effects of grain of coffee lodgad in his
windpipe. Three physicians were summon
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and open the windpipe to extract the kernel,
but the little sufferer expired before the ope-
| ration could be performed.
| Anoka City Herald: At the numbering
camp of Ben Mccain a crew of twenty men
| cut 217 900 feet of lumber in the week end
ing February 7. This performance is the
largest done by any crew this winter. The
| lumber cut this winter will be of better
quality than has usually been cut of late
years, as the amount of snow made the best
timber accessible.
Some six weeks since member of the
family of Gilbert Hansen, of Rock Dell,
| Olmsted county, was taken down with ty-
| phoid fever, and since then eight other mem
bers of the family, including both patients,
have been attacked by the same disease.
| There have been no deaths in this afflicted
family, and all are now convalescing, and are
considered out of danger.
Pine City Record: The old mission farm
on the shore of lake Pokegama has been
selected as the site for a new hotel for sum
mer boarders. The first printing press in
Minnesota was established there in territor-
ial times, and what is now known as the
| EMISSION Farm was cleared and cultivated
at that time. Pokegama cuts an important
| figure in the history of Minnesota.