Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Cases of mumps are reported in Lake City.
telephone company has been organized in
Duluth.
Burglars robbed restaurant in Winona the
other night of SIS.
Redwood has been short of fuel, and wood
advanced to So per cord.
The matter of establishing bank at Little
Falls is being considered.
Several thousand bushels of wheat in Patten
& Co.. s elevator, at LIE Sueur, has been ruined
by being wet.
The other day. the Touring mill at LIE Sueur
exchanged eighty-five barrels of flour for
farmers grist.
Wood stealing in this time of fuel scarcity is
being complained Of in many of the snow
blockaded towns.
No cemetery ground has yet been laid out in
the new village of Browns Valley. The mat
ter is being agitated.
The complaint is that groceries and provis-
ions are getting very scarce in many of the
western snow blockaded towns.
In Moscow, Freeborn county, the ice is
frozen so thick as TO cause the death of fish,
space and air both being deficient.
The house of August Marbach, of st.
George, Benton county, was recently destroyed
by fire, with nearly all its contents.
Houses for rent are in great demand in
Austin, and upper rooms and every available
place for housekeeping is eagerly engaged.
The Catholic church at Sank Center is said
to have a resident Catholic priest, and they
will eujoy religious services every Sabbath.
The blockade extends to matrimony as well
as snow in Nicollet county. The st. Peter
Tribune says no marriage license has been
issued in that county for three weeks.
Sheriff Casey, of Brown comfy, by a decision
at Judge Cox, has received reward of S2C0
from the State treasury, for the apprehension
and. conviction of w. c. Denton, the noted
horse thief.
The Standard says Mrs. William Hazleton,
of Albert Lea, was a schoolmate of DIR. Joseph
Cook, the famous Boston divine and lecturer.
She has in her possession poem written by
Mr.. Cook at the time he attended school with
her.
A gang of timber thieves have been discov-
cred in their depredations on the lands of non
resident land owners in the south part of Todd
county and the north part of Stearns county,
and measures are being taken to bring them to
justice.
A twelve year old daughter of Barney Deters,
of Winnebago, Houston county, was ac-
the wall fell down, and was discharged, the
contents being lodged in her body. She died
in an hour after the accident.
Robert Goddard, of Granite Falls, blew his
brains out with gun the other day. Domes-
tic trouble supposed to be the cause. He had
been heard to say that he believed it to be the
duty of man to take his own life if he could
not live happy with his family.
An organization, styled "The Lake Pepin
Farmers Institute and Horticultural society,""
has been perfected in Lake City, and duly
differed, and has secured at the outset men,
bership of twenty five. A very great interest
is manifested in the organization.
Recently two-year old son of B. L. Swarth-
out, of Mazeppa, told his parents he had put
button up his nose, As they could not "see
it," they let the little fellow run for about
week, finally they called in a doctor who adj
ministered chloroform and extracted the but
ton.
The other day Mrs. Martha Tourtillotte,
aged 70, was riding in sleigh between Elk
River and Otsego, when reckless driver of
another sleigh, in attempting to pass her, ran
into her sleigh, upsetting it, and inflicted in
juaies on the old lady that will probably prove
fatal. She had an arm broken and received
other injuries.
st. Peter Tribune: Engerbret E. Bake died
last week from exposure and strong drink
He was in town and had been drinking hard all
day. He started for home in the evening
uIunh, anu uleu from the e11ectS OF drinking
and cold combined in few minutes after
reaching home. Or in other words got drunk
and froze to death. He was the only support
of a crippled father and feeble and aged
mother, the latter now threatened with in
sanity from the shock incident to the sad death
of her son. He was also the only support of
two sisters, one of whom is insane and the
other has loved not wisely but too well.
Spirit Lake Beacon: One day last week
Henry Bibow brought one of his children to
town for medical treatment 1t had poked
button up its nose, and was suffering great
pain. The father and mother were quite
anxious, and sought the skill of Er. Brownell,
who at the time was attending patient in
town. Mrs. Bibow sat down in the drug store
and took the child on her lap and waited for
the doctor. As she sat there the chimney of a
lamp directly over her head cracked with a
loud report, and the broken pieces flew In all
directions. The child was scared, coughed
sneezed, and in so doing, expelled the button
from its nose. The doctor had not vet re-
turned; but nature had forestalled him, and
the parents, relieved of their anxiety, tarried
not, bidding the clerk to charge the usual
fee, went home rejoicing.