Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A case of small pox is reported at Hokah.
A case of small pox has appeared in Roch- |
ester.
The Benton Times reports slots of wood |
and coal in town."
Cases of typhoid fever have about disappear
ed from LIE Sueur.
The public school in Wells had to adjourn
last week for lack of fuel.
The wood famine continues in Glencoe.
The Enterprise sadly remarks, "not a stick
left"
Sitting Bull, VS.. Vennor The former pre-
diets three weeks of Indian summer yet to
COME
At Melrose man worked all day, thinking
it was Saturday, but going to neighbours in
the evening, found it was Sunday
The old wea'her-evil prophet says, when
cranberrles and apples commence to decay, it
is sure sign of an open winter.
A new bank is about to be established in
FerR us Falls, to be opened for business about
the first Of January. Capital $4,000.
The Jew Ulm sugar works, the past season,
worked up 800 tons of cane, and obtained a.
500 gallons of syrup of excellent quality.
The Crookston Chronical says, two years
ago there were but two hard coal stoves in
| that city; now there are nearly one hundred.
head, were shipped from LIE Sueur to St. Paul
last week. The rnling price was five cents
pound.
Winthrop is the name of new town to be
| located on the line of the Milwaukee & St.
Louis railroad, west of Gaylord, Sibley
county.
The Mankato Free Press, of Nov. IS, says:
1.-THE last spike which binds Sioux Falls and
Dell Rapids with iron rails, was driven last
Tuesday,
A. G. Ansel has retired from the editorial
staff of the Glencoe Enterprise, and assumed
the position of night editor on the Fargo
Republican.
| W. NJ Fuller and F. B. Simmons, have
purch ased the Little Falls Transcript, a,
will henceforth publish that large and -four
ishing journal.
Wahby station, in Big Stone county, has
been named B'ne Lake, and postoffice has
been established there, and Mr.. Rexford ap
poibt9d postmaster.
The fight In Traverse county, for the county
seat is ended, and the new town OF Maudad
has gained it over Browns Valley by the
small majority of Is.
Several cases CT smallpox among the en-
ployes on the railroad al ng the west bank If
Lake st. Croix have been reported. Thus far
only one case has proved fatal.
A vllain in Morris attempted to commit a
rape on girl Ii years old, but failed throu Oh
theintervention of the house dog. whit h
SEIZED and bit him severely. The rascal has
fed.
Thanksgiving services, either union or 9th.
erwise, are noticed in nearly all the village
papers of the state. The observance of the
day it appears will be very general and uni
versal.
Last week the barn of George Cummings,
of Lynd, Lyon county, was DESTROYED by fire
with all its contents including seven horses.
The fire was caused by the explosion of a
lantern.
"Cyelone Center" the name proposed for a
railroad station on the Minneapolis & ST.
Louis railroad in Cairo township, Renville
county, is the center of the track of the last
July cyclone.
E. A. Tiffany, of the opera house in Manka
to, has engaged Miss Louise Clara Kellogg
for Thanksgiving evening, contracting to pay
her $500 IN gold. He puts tickets at $1.25
and Sl,00.
Diphtheria has appeared in the neighbor-
hood of the village of Benton, in Carve
county. John Bitten has buried 5 year-old
child and his wife, and the rest of the family
are down with the disease.
Jackson Republic: A little child of Mr.. II.
W. Chandler, of Middletown, was BITTEN on
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swelled to fully four times it's natural size, an0
to be lanced to effect relief.
Small pox seems to be unusually prevalent
throughout the country. and people in towns,
villages and cities are taking the alarm, an
are earnestly urging or taking precautionary
measures to prevent its spread.
Two Mormon missionaries have been, of
late, operating in Rush City and vicinity
looking for new. recruits for Utah. It is
claimed that they are fond Of the Scandinavian
element of society from whom they obtain the
largest number of converts.
The house of George Barber, of Anoka Oily,
was destroyed bv fire last week. But little
furniture was saved. The house was partially
insured. A few days before the fire Mrs. Bar
her lost her wallet containing 1869. Adouble
misfortune rests upon the unfortunate family.
Recently steam threshing engine exploded
on Mrs. Murraay's farm. in Ravenna, Dakota
county, severely wonnding and scalding the
engineer and son of Mrs. Murray. The ex
ploson was caused by the engineer allowing
the boiler to get empty and red hot aud then
PUMPING cold water into it.
Pat Seymour, young man of st. Martin,
Stearns county, recently got his foot caught
in the cylinder of threshing machine, and il
was torn to shreds. By the criminal negli-
gence, says the Sank Centre Tribune, Of
O'hOl POisOdSs NC vas dLlOWcu W Ulccu 10
death.
Wells Advocate; The prospect as to fuel
| daily grows worse. Not a stick of wood is
to be had in the village at any price, and the
last lot of maple wood received cost 50 Der
cord by the car load. Add to this the cost Of
draying and saving the same, and it costs al
least $12 per cord.
10. Nesbit, of Red Wing, died last week
from the effects of pistol shot, received on
the last day of last October. The immediate
cause of his death was blood poisoning. Hi
life was sured for betx three and -four
thousand dollars. He leaves a wife and five
children, the youngest only two months old
Recently, William Ebert, living near Hector,
Renvlle county, when a threshing machine
was running on his farm, had the end of his
scarf which hewore around his neck, caught
by the tumbling rod, and he was carried
| around the rod two or three times. The scarf
broke and released him, and thus his life was
saved.l
T. E. Gates has just issued new paper,
six column folio, at Motley, Morrison county,.
In politics it is "Independent Republican,
Motley is remote from Little Falls, the couns
ty town. The paper is called "The Citizen
and says "the largest portion of Motley has
been built the past summer. Most of the peo-
pie came from Iowa.
Crookston Chronicle, Nov IS: A little
boy, 3 years of age, son of Godfrey Bennan,
| living near the brewery. was so badlv scaId-d