Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.

and Hyde Park, Wabashaw county.
Christmas day 5000 bushels of wheat
were shipped by rail eastward from Glen
coe.
The Albert Lea Standard of Dec. 80
says fuel famine is imminent in that
city.
1t Is estimated that fully one-half of
the corn in Freedom county is still I'M
husked.
Rev. Moses Goodrich, Universalist
minister, died at Anoka, Christmas day,
aged So years,
Hon: w. H. Lyon has presented an Or
gan to the Congregational Sabbath school,
in Lake City.
The late. '.co.d snap has greatly re-
tarded business operations in all places,
and in all directions.
A postoffice has recently been cstab-
lished at Tintah, Mimi, and Charles
Smith appointed postmaster.
The school teachers in Albert Lea, at
the close of their late term, received their
wages in gold, aggregating 81, 200.
During the month of December, TWEEN
ty-seven marriage licenses were issued by
the clerk of court in Goodhue county.
Diphtheria is said to be raging in the
towns south and southwest of Sank
Center, and many deaths are reported.
Another telegraph wire has been
stretched into Austin from the south by
the American Union telegraph company
The houseSof James johnson, of Anoka
city, was destroyed by fire last week.
Several of the tiremen were frost bitten.
Of Oh
rested one day last week on charge of
forgery, and was put in Jail for lack of
bail.
Hutchinson, Mcleod county, has
raised $500 to start a public library, and
is vigorously pushing things in that
direction.
The Moorhead, Clay county, Advocate,
has changed hands once more. 1t will
henceforth be know as the "Moorhead
Arganaut."
The house of George King, a few miles
west of Lansing, Mower county, was
burned last week. Loss, $4,000; insur
ance, 81 200.
From seventy-five to 100 passengers is
going and incoming trains the past week
in Taylors Falls
The postoffice at Cannon City has
been re-established under the name of
Ocean," and William G. Kickenapp has
been appointed postmaster.
The Anoka Union says Mrs P F. Pratt
was presented by her husband, on Christ
mas, with an elegant gold hunting case
watch and chain worth SS5.
The Union says two women met in q
restaurant in Anoka recently and while
partaking of oysters got into a dispute.
One drew revolver and the other re-
treated.
Mr. Poehler has introduced into the
House, and had referred to the committee
on military affairs, bill for the relief of
the First Minnesota Mounted Ranger
volunteers.
On a late evening, some forty members
of the Swedish Lutheran church, in
Anoka city, called on their pastor, Rev.
Hans Nelson, and left with him presents
| to the value of so.
The basement of the new Congrega-
tional church, Lake City, that
is now in process of
completion, is now used by the society
| for Sabbath religious services.
The Bulletin says the improvements
| in Wabashaw the last year have been the
most notable since the foundation of the
city, and the approaching season prom
ises to be just as lively as the one draw
| ing to close.
| st. Peter Tribune: Henry l.. Moss, of
st. Paul, has brought suit against the
town of Marshall for damages sustained
| by defective sidewalks, causing him to
! fall and dislocate his shoulder. A warn
| ing to st. Peter
The horse supposed to have been stolen
from James Cain, of Mt. Pleasant, Wa
| bashaw county, last summer, was found
recently on the premises of a farmer of
Belle Creek, Goodhue county,, and re-
stored to its owner.
Knudt NIkleson, young man living
near Rose Creek, in Mower county, in de-
scending from wheat stack last week,
was impaled on crow bar standing be-
side the stack, and received injuries
which caused his death.
On Monday evening, Dec. 81, the Their
mOmeter indicated a temperature below
zero as follows: In Winnipeg, 80; Crook
ston, q; st. Vincent, 81; Grand Forks,
40; Fargo, 80: Bismarck; 81; Detroit, IS;
Glyndon, 81; Duluth, 2s; Waseca, %.
Issac c. Hart, the Wabashaw agent of
the Singer Sewing Machine company,
was recently arraigncd before Justice Nc
Bride, in Lake City, on the charge of
forgery in connection with his business
He waived examination and was put in
Jail in default of bail.
The Waseca Herald of Dec. 81 says:
Emma, aged II years and IL nontls S,
daughter of J. W. and NJ. J. Van Orden,
died on Thursday morning at o'clock of
diphtheria Other members of the family
have had slight attacks of the same dis
ease, but have recovered.
The other day a ve-year-old son of
David Watson, of Red Wing, fell from
the outside stair landing of three-story
barn, to the frozen ground, distance of
between thirty and forty feet, and no
bones were broken, no serious injury sus-
tanned, and he is rapidly recovering.
Red Wing Advance: There probably
will be no more wolves sold to the county
this year unless some are found frozen to
death The last years wolf product was
not heavy. Only twenty-three were de-
livered to the auditor for the whole year,
ending November 18th, 1880, for which
the nartieS who received warrants eypect