Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The river at Wabashaw is reported to
be falling rapidly
One day last week forty-one cars loaded
with freight, arrived in Crookston.
John Coulter, living five miles north Of
st. Peter, lost his house by fire last week.
There is an immense pigeon roost on
Belongi island, near Spring Lake, Scott
county.
An architect is perfectlng plans for a
new court house in Austin, Mower
county.
The citizens of Austin last week cast
2s9 votes in favor of railroad bonds, and
not one against.
A young horse thief made his escape
from the lookup in Montevideo one night
last week.
A band of petty thieves, called "gyp-
sies," are cOngregated near Lakeside
cemetery, Hastings.
The house of Peter NJ. Nelson, of st.
Peter, was struck by lightning one day
st week and his wife instantly killed.
The Mortified NeaOs says: Wheat and
other small grain is still reported as very
promising, with good prospects of heavy
crop.
The Catholics in Crookston have been
organized into regular parish Father
Champaign is to be the resident oficiat-
ing priest.
Advices from all parts of Minnesota
and Dakota Territory give abundant as
surance, at the present time, of bounti-
full harvest this season.
Large numbers of emigrants are daily
arriving in Breckenridge, Wilkin county,
by wagons, most of them bringing extra
horses and cattle for sale.
The $4,000 six per cent bonds issued
byNicollet county, have been awarded to
Fl. Wilson, of Faribault, he giving pre-
MUM of $3.50 for the lot.
The Wabashaw Herald says June 8
over 10000 feet of logs were taken out
at the Beef Slough booms, the biggest
days work in its history
Some careless person threw lighted
match on to a bed in one of the rooms of
the Western hotel, in Hastings. A timely
discovery of the bed in flames, saved the
house.
Last week death occurred in the fam
lily of George Durbohn, in Lafayette, Mic
ollet county making the fourth death from
diphtheria that has occurred in that fam
lily during the last five weeks.
Christian Geiser, of Watopa, Waba-
shaw county, who was recently injured
by his mule team running away, died last
week, leaving wife and three children
He was highly respected.
The weeks mission or revival service
| Of the Catholic church in Austin closed
on Sunday, June r. Fathers Daley and
Splinter, Of the Dominican order, with
Father Hurley, conducted the services.
Saturday evening, June 11th, the dead
body of Martha K. Anderson, patient in
the insane asylum at st. Peter, was found
in the river at that place She had
escaped from the asylum and drowned
| herself
Andrew Weston, sent to the penitent-
ary for life for murder, who attempted to
commit suicide by stabbing himself with
| death, and positively refuses to eat any
thing
A boy in New Ulm, in the useful employ
| ment of handling toy pistol the other
day, exploded itso near the face of lit
tie girl as to badly burn her face-a mar
row escape from more serious conse-
quences.
The Pope County Press gives the par
ticulars of late elopement of a woman
living in Gilchrist, aged 48 years, with
her husbands hired man. She is the
mother of nine children, seven of whom
were left at home, the youngest being 4
years old.
Grove City, (Meeker county, Tribune.
Mr.. Jebb, of Union Grove, had "a young
horse cut himself up very badly on
barbed wire fence. Judging from the
number of accidents of this kind men
toned in nearly every State paper, these
barbed wire fences are a. source of great
trouble to horse owners.