Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Mrs. John Jerlow of Albert Lea died from
relapse of typhoid fever last week.
wv. Walker, recently an attorney at Little
Falls, has gone to San Francisco.
Lightning struck Caleb Halleck's barn in
Jauesville last week. Damage slight.
Peoples Advocate, is the name of n new
| paper just issued at Fairmount, Martin county.
Fred Williams, OF Sauk Centre, has paid SiOO
| for license to sell liquor in Glenwood, Pope
county.
| A new elevator is to be built at Cokato,
| Wright county, with capacity of $4,000
| bushels.
| Farmers generally report that they have
| never seen wheat growing so fast as at the
| present time.
The c. N. Nelson lumber company, Duluth,
| has purchased 722 acres of pine land In ST.
Louis county, price $500.
Herbert Buell. fell from moving wood train
| in Faribault the other day and had shoulder
dslocated and was otherwise bruised.
Adelbert W. Tenny, of Fairbault, has receiv-
| ed back pension to the amount of S400, and is
| to receive "a month for the future.
| A drove of 454 head of cattle bought In the
vicinity of St. Cloud passed through Alexau-
dria the other day, bound for Fort Garry.
| The council of Lake City has passed an
ordinance prohibiting the use of blinds or
screens to doors or windows of saloons.
Austin, Mower county, is greatly rejoiced
at the erection of the machine shops of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad in that city.
The Preston Republican says: "The wheat
| is looking splenddy, and much of the corn is
| already above ground, promising an abundant
CROP"
A four year old child of Rev. NJ o. Back
man, of Holden, Goodhue county, was re-
Gently fatally scalded by falling into tub OF
| hot water.
A destructive rain and hail storm visited
| Faribault county last week. A large number
| of window lights were broken and other dam
age done.
The other day a sou of P. E. Folsom, OF
| Rush City, was run over by wagon, and his
skalp torn open to the extent of four inches.
| He will recover.
| The house of William Berrill, near Morris,
Stevens county, was destroyed by fire Monday
| with most of its contents. Loss some 81 500;
insured for $3.50.
| Fairmont Sentinel: Six tons of dead fish
were found on less than nalf an acre of ground
near the railroad bridge. They were buried by
order of the Council.
| A three days. service was held in st. Pat
rick's church In Melrose, Stearns county, last
week, and a number of youth were admitted
| to their first communion.
Smith Shepperd, Indian interpreter at the
| Sisseton Indian agency, fell from horse when
rapidly riding the other day, causing concus-
sion OF the brain, from which he died.
John Bush, the oldest white settler In Min.
nesota, informs the st. Peter Times that In
the year 1929 the food in the Minnesota river
was five feet higher than in the year 1881.
Mr.. H. c. Stivers, editor and proprietor OF
the Little Falls, Morrison county, Daily Tran
| script has leased the Office to F. J. Pearson,
| of Minneapolis, and retires permanently from
the newspaper business.
Fergus Falls Journal, May15: The body of
Belle Eyenson, who was drowned in the river
| at this place on the Goth of April, was found
| on Sunday, May 18th, by her father, Mr..
Gregor Evenson, about two and a-half miles
below the city.
Albert Lea Enterprise, May 19: drove OF
about two hundred head of one, two and three
wear old steers were driven through town last
Thursday, on their way to Iowa. By selling
all their young stock farmers commit great
blunder, and others make all the money there
Is in stock.
Samuel Muncy, ESQ.,, Of Swan River, Nor
rison county, was drowned last week. while
attempting to ford river with horse and
buggy. He was thrown into the stream where
the water was only about two feet deep. It is
supposed he was stunned by the fall He was
72 years old.
Morris (Steyens county, Tribune, May 19:
Lightning last Friday morning fired the stable
on the Griswold farm, in Grant county, and
between twenty and thirty head of horses,
together with the barn and contents, were
destroyed The farm Is situated between
Tintah and Gorton, near the railroad