Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Hastings boasts of German speaking
negro.
The temperance ticket in Worthington was
defeated.
Otter Tail county has GO townships and but
SO postoffices.
The Baptist society in Hastings continues
without pastor.
Flocks of wild geese were noticed flying
northward last week.
March 23d the Zumbro river was over its
banks and steadily rising.
Pickerel in large numbers are being speared
in Rice lake, Scott county.
The reported fuel famine in Marshall, Lyon
county, was without foundation.
Kasson, Dodge county, has 1900 inhabi-
tants, six churches and three saloons.
A channel has been cut through the ice at
Red Wing, and the ferry boat is running.
Staples saloon, in Princeton, was destroyed
by fire the other night. Insurance 5000.
The Episcopal church at Benson, Swift
county, continues closed for want of rector.
The safe at the railroad depot in Henderson
was broken open the other night and $50
taken.
The charitable people of St. Cloud recently
shipped a lot of clothing to sufferers in
Kansas.
ciety in Mankato has been paid off by liberal
subscriptions.
A majority of the votes of Chippewa
county have decided not to build new court
hol Sc at present.
The Congregational society at Faribault
have raised over $500 to replcnish their Sab
bath school library.
The name of the Chippewa. Pope county,
postOtfice has been changed by the department.
to Terrace Doslotice.
In the third and fourth wards of the city of
WInona, hfty-three new dwellings are in
course Of construction.
The quantity of wheat received in the village
of New Prague, LIE Sueur County, during the
year fOOts up l5U,OUO bushels.
Trains are now running through from
Crookston to Hill City, which place is said to
be making rapid progress as a town.
The steam mill at Sank Center has again
started up. 1t stopped on account OF lack of
freight caused by the snow blockade.
Charles Coleman had one of his eyes de-
stroyed by a dry limb while chopping in the
woods near Pine Island, the other day.
One prairie schooner passed Litchfield the
other day bound West As the season ad-
vances large fleet is expected to follow.
The new Catholic church in Luverne, Rock
upon it, and it is rapidly progressing to CON-
pleton.
A Chicago man tells of an orchard, fifteen
miles out from that city, in which the snow
was so deep that you could only see the tops
of the trees.
Henry c. Wait, of st. Cloud, has been en-
gagged to write a history of Stearns county, for
work entitled "History of the Upper Missis-
sippl Valley"
An attempt was recently made by an incen-
diary to burn the house of John Lang, in St..
Martin, Stearns county. This was the third
attempt to burn his house.
Loren Holmes, of Lexington, LIE Sueur
county, was struck with paralysis the other
day, and there is slight hope OF his recovery.
He is between 20 and 70 years old.
William Hubbard of Tenhassen, Martin
county, has lost thirty head of cattle and one
horse during the past few weeks. Lack of
proper care and shelter the cause.
The new banking institution at Litchfeld is
now under full Roadway. Messrs. Hamlet
Stevens and II. Branhan are the proprietors,
and are prepared to do a general banking bust
ness.
A party supposed to he well posted says a
large number of English emigrants will settle
in and about Fairmont the present year, and
spend their money freely in building and I'M
proving the Country.
A large number of Indians and their squaws
are gathered at their old sugar camp at the
head of Otter Tail lake, preparatory to maple
sugar making, as soon as the frost is sutfici-
emily out OF the ground,
GeorgeJ J. Burr, of Mankato, who has been
deputy revenue collector at that place, is about
to take up his residence at Little Falls, Nor
rison county, and engage in the banking bust
ness with Mr.. Maxwell, late of Blue Earth
city.
The report that farmers in the wester por-
ton of Watonwan county have been burning
their plows, reapers, etc., for fuel, is pro-
Inconvenience, but all have got through COM
fortably.
Anew nights since W 8. Lowery, of WEIGH,
Goodhue county, going hOmeward with a load
of lumber had his load tipped over and falling
under it was instantly killed. He leaves a
wife and five children in almost destitute cir
cumstances.
The Pennington Press says L. J. Stevens,
residing in Poplar Grove, committed suicide
recently by shooting himself. He had been in
ill health for some time. He was married a
year ago and leaves wife and a young child.
His age was years.
A boy about II years old, the son of farm
er residing in Dane Prairie, Otter Tail county,
the other day, while in the act of taking a
loaded gun down from the wall where it was
hung, contrived to shoot himself in the ley,
which was so badly shattered as to make am
putatiOn necessary.
John Prentice attempted to commit suicide
at the city hall in Glencoe last week by taking
strychnine. Seasohable appliances admins
tered by physician saved him. He subse-
quently attempted 10 throw himself before a
moving railroad train but was prevented. He
was crazed by liquor.
Rev. DR.. Edward A. Washburn, late rector
of Calvary church in New York city, recently
deceased, by his will, with the exception Of
some requests of books from his library to his
personal friends, bequeathed the remainder of
his library to the Seabury Divinity school, at
Farlbault, Rice county.
The Glenwood Press says the other day Ole
O. Smedstad, while driving ne .r the outlet of
Lake Amelia, on the ice, had his team and
load of wheat plunged through the ice in six
feet of water. By great exertion the team was
saved, and the next day the wagon and water
soaked load were got out.
Benson, Swift county Times: An account has
reached us that an emigrant car filled with
household furniture, horses, cattle and bed
ding attached to the western bound freight
train, was recently ignited from sparks from
the locomotive, and was almost entirely con-
sumed. The horses and cattle are reported
badly scorched.
A woman shopping" in one of the principal
stores of Montevideo, contrived to steal two
of oh fvvo holm ckirfc chi1d)s